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Third Time May Be The Ticket For MoviePass Unlimited Moviegoing Subscription

Over a year after MoviePass failed to launch its all-you-can-view subscription movie service, the company is back with a retooled offering that has a much better shot at surviving the inevitable pushback by cinema chains and studios. You might recall last June MoviePass announced a private beta with…

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Sundance Cinemas Brings Its Art House Mentality To Los Angeles

The opening of the first Sundance Cinemas in Los Angeles seems a perfect way to bring summer to a close. The new theatre opened in the space once occupied by the Sunset 5 which Laemmle Theatres operated for two decades before it was shuttered last December. The new venue has been named Sundance Suns…

Industry Trust Deploys “Battleship” In U.K. Anti-Piracy Campaign

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0QRoGozJlg[/youtube] Universal Pictures has teamed up with the trade group Industry Trust for Intellectual Property Awareness in the United Kingdom to produce an anti-piracy advertisement which incorporates foo…

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Sundance Goes Digital With Assistance From Barco

When Barco emailed a press release last Thursday with the subject “Sundance Film Festival expands digital cinema footprint with Barco projectors” I initially figured it must be an error. Sundance is held in Park City, Utah and takes place in January each year. If Barco was looking to get…

No More Silver Screens In France

By 8:00 am Friday morning I had three voicemails and five emails all either trying to pass along or confirm the same implausible news. Rumor was spreading fast that France’s Le Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, otherwise known as the CNC, had banned silver screens throughou…

Arts Alliance Rethinks Its Alternative Content Strategy

How hard is it to find success with alternative content? The answer is; very. So many variables have to fall perfectly in place to find success, much less profit. No matter whether it’s sports, concerts or cultural events, there are rights clearances to obtain, theaters to secure and screening…

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NATO Reports Declining Ticket Prices

In Technorati Media’s “State of the Blogosphere 2011” report it is noted that the number one influencer of bloggers, whether professionals or hobbyists, is other blogs. Over 60% of all bloggers surveyed say they look to other blogs to find topics and subjects to write about. All th…

CineEurope Makes The Move To Barcelona In 2012

Having changed its name from Cinema Expo to CineEurope this year upon teaming up with the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), now another change is in store for Europe’s largest motion picture exhibitor trade show; its location. After being held at the Rai in Amsterdam for the past 15 years…

Mexico’s Cinepolis Heads North Of The Border

Not sure how I missed this. None of the gazillion Google alerts I’ve set up to track all things exhibition and distribution informed me that National Public Radio broadcast a story on Cinépolis back on August 12th. Nor did I hear the piece on Morning Edition, the NPR program my alarm clock bla…

Universal Cancels “Tower Heist” Premium-VOD Test

[/caption] Well that didn’t take long. Facing stiff opposition from exhibitors Universal Pictures has decided to scrap its plan of releasing “Tower Heist” on premium-video-on-demand three weeks after its November 4th release. The move comes a week after the studio originally announced its inte…