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Financials of Met Simulcasts Revealed

It’s no secret that with the success of the Metropolitan Opera’s high definition simulcasts into movie theatres, first rate opera companies around the world have jumped on the alternative content bandwagon and struck deals to have their performances beamed to cinemas around the world. Th…

3D Makes Impact At Sundance

Last week at the Sundance Film Festival one of the hottest tickets in Park City, the Utah mining town cum ski resort in which the festival is held, was to the premiere of the concert film “U2 3D”. Like at the Cannes Film Festival, all four members of the Irish rock group U2 showed upRead…

Real D Raises $20 Million In Funding

Fresh off the hype surrounding the release of “U2 3D” it appears Real D, the leading provider of digital 3D exhibition technology, has raised an additional $20 million in their fourth round of venture capital financing. PEHub.com is reporting that Pequot Capital led the most recent round…

DDCinema Beams Opera To European Cinemas

On Sunday January 27th, Distribution Digital Cinema (DDCinema), the joint venture between XDC, Qubo and Dynamic, jump started their operations by broadcasting a live performance of composer Arrigo Boito’s opera “Mefistofele” from the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Italy to 19 screens l…

Pyramid Scoops Up Gaming Company Aurona

Pyramid Saimira continues to play in the merges and acquisitions pool, this time buying a majority stake in the U.K. gaming company, Aurona Technologies. While there are no details as to the amount Pyramid spent, VC Circle reports it was an all cash deal. At first glance, Aurona Technologies may not…

“Toy Story” Movies To Be Released In 3-D

Walt Disney Studios announced today that it will be reworking both of their blockbuster “Toy Story” films, creating Disney Digital 3-D versions which will be released theatrically before “Toy Story 3”, which is presently being produced as a 3-D movie with a June 18, 2010 laun…

Moore Wants Documentaries In Multiplexes

After starting his career as a documentary filmmaker taking on corporate behemoths like General Motors, Michael Moore turned his attentions to, respectively, the Columbine massacre, the presidency of George W. Bush and the U.S. health care system. Now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Moore want…

Warner Bros. Goes With Kodak Pre-show In Italy

Kodak Digital Cinema is notching a win in its belt after Warner Bros. International Cinemas selected them to run digital pre-show in their theatres throughout Italy. Kodak will install pre-show systems on 172 in 17 venues throughout the country starting in late January. Over the past several years,…

XDC Teams Up With FTT For Digital Instalations

As European digital cinema integrator XDC continues to negotiate potential virtual print fee (VPF) deals with Hollywood studios they are definitely signaling to the industry that they want to be prepared to move fast once such deals close. In a press release dated January 14, 2008, XDC announced tha…

NY Times’ Pogue Upset With Movie Trailers

David Pogue, the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times, is taking Hollywood studios to task for putting content in their movie trailers that doesn’t actually appear in their movies. On Thursday, Pogue wrote a post in his blog on the Times’ website blasting the trailer for…