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Odeon/UCI Inks Deal with Real D for 500 3D Screens

During a presentation at ShowEast on Wednesday to demonstrate their industry leading 3D digital cinema technology, Real D announced that it had reached an agreement with Odeon/UCI, the largest exhibitor in the United Kingdom, to install upwards of 500 3D digital screens. The 3D systems will be deplo…

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Katzenberg Sees The Future and It’s In 3D

As previously reported here the big buzz this year at ShowEast is definitely digital 3D. In case there were still any doubters here at ShowEast, DreamWorks Animation topper Jeffrey Katzenberg turned up on Tuesday morning to preach the 3D gospel to 1,000 or so attendees at a breakfast sponsored by Te…

ShowEast 2007: Digital Cinema Goes International

Possibly in an attempt to wait for attendees to wake up and join the conference, it was the second panel discussion at the international day of ShowEast 2007 that was the most relevant to the what was on the minds of world wide exhibitors. Moderated by Bill Mead, the publisher of DCinema Today, the…

ShowEast 2007: Internet Marketing Highlighted At International Day

Just when I think the motion picture exhibition and distribution industry is going to catch up to emerging technologies I was reminded just how far behind they may truly be. ShowEast 2007 kicked off this morning in Orlando, FL. with its international day. The first seminar in the program was entitle…

San Francisco State Holds Conference On Evolving Digital Cinema Aesthetics

If you are looking for signs as to whether digital cinema is being taken seriously by the cultural inteligencia (and why wouldn’t you be?), then you will be happy to hear that the Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association at San Francisco State University will be holding a two day conference…

Rise of Multiplexes in India Doom Single Screen Theatres

Picture the following sentence at the start of a news article: “With multiplex industry’s soaring business and ominous presence, can the single screen cinema halls sustain its business?” It wouldn’t be a far stretch to imagine this sentence being ripped from a newspaper or magazine article abo…

Cineworld Goes 3D with Real D

Cineworld Group PLC announced on Tuesday that it has signed a deal with Real D and that the 3D technology will initially be deployed in 30 of its 72 theater locations, starting with the November 16th release of ‘Beowulf‘. In their press release announcing the agreement, Cineworld also hi…

MPAA Urges ISPs To Help Fight Piracy

The Motion Picture Association of America has been hinting for some time now that internet service providers should prevent copyrighted material such as movies and televisions shows from being distributed illegally through their high speed broadband networks. Back in July of this year, the MPAA file…

Full “Iron Man” Trailer Airs During “Daily Show”

Monday night the film industry may have figured out a way to combat a growing problem faced by most television advertisers; time shifting. Wikipedia, that bastion of all things completely true and accurate, defines “time shifting” as: “the recording of programming to a storage medi…