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D-Cinema Makes Recutting Current Releases Like “Sallinger” A Reality

We may look back at this past week as a noteworthy milestone in the motion picture business due to something that rarely, if ever, happens; a film already playing in theatres was significantly recut and re-distributed. The few media outlets that made hay over the occurrence focused mostly on the wha…

AMC Stubs Fallbrook 7 Promotion

AMC Promotes New Fallbrook 7 Through Its Rewards Program

AMC has found an interesting way to promote both the opening of a new theatre and, at the same time, its loyalty rewards program. In advance of opening the newly renovated AMC Fallbrook 7 complex, the cinema chain has invited members of its AMC Stubs program to attend an evening of free screenings a…

Honest Trailers Use Satire To Lampoon Blockbuster Movie Trailers

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cS5Fv5xIQ[/youtube] Earlier this year the National Association of Theatre Owners entered discussions with studios over the trailers being used to promote upcoming releases. Cinema operators were requesting th…

Is The Motion Picture Industry Discouraging The Next Ray Dolby?

[vimeo width=”550″ height=”309″]https://vimeo.com/67821349[/vimeo] Much has been written over the last several days about Ray Dolby, audio pioneer and inventor, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 80. Rather than add to the din of career-spanning obituaries of Dr. Dolby…

Time Lapse Video Documents Imax Renovation of TCL Chinese Theatre

[youtube width=”480″ height=”360″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guAhfPe9aPo&q6320319[/youtube] Earlier this year one of the most sacred cinema palaces in the world was closed for renovation. Each year an endless stream of tourists visit the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollyw…

Muvico's Groupon Deal

Groupon May Not Be Such A Great Deal For Exhibitors or Moviegoers

Every day I receive one or two emails from a company called Groupon, and at this point I’m not even sure why. Exhibitors must feel similarly since the number of Groupon campaigns I’ve received containing promotions for local cinemas has dwindled significantly over the past several years. Let me expl…

Honda Campaign Helps Drive-Ins Convert To Digital

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh2ULhXtqYU[/youtube] In film school I was taught how extremely effective a “ticking clock” can be in storytelling, especially when used in suspense movies. Now, this plot device is being employed to…

Bagdad Theater & Pub

LA Times Shines Spotlight On Portland’s Bagdad Theater & Pub

You know how sometimes when a brand new word enters your lexicon you wind up hearing the vocabulary word being used in all sorts of different situations? It leaves you wondering how you never noticed the word before, or if, unaware of its true meaning and definition, you had simply ignored it altoge…

Tim Richards of Vue Entertainment

Canadian Investors Double Down With Purchase of Vue Entertainment

There is an old proverb popularized by the 19th century English writer W. E. Hickson that states “If at first you don’t succeed, Try, try, try again.” It seems Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) and OMERS Private Equity – the investment division of Ontario Municipal…

Kodak 35mm Motion Picture Film

Kodak Claims ‘Film Is Not Dead’

With nearly 99,000 cinema screens (out of roughly 120,000 worldwide) having already converted to digital, combined with the number of film and television productions now shooting with high-end digital cameras, the need for 35mm film stock is dissolving rapidly. Agfa stopped manufacturing all of thei…