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Hoyts Expands With Acquisition Of AMC

Last week Hoyts Cinemas announced that it had reached an agreement for an undisclosed sum to purchase privately owned Australian Multiplex Cinemas (AMC). Based in Sydney, Hoyts presently operates 50 cinemas with 406 screens throughout Australia and New Zealand. After taking over the five multiplexes…

Czech Cinemas Post Record Box Office

North America wasn’t the only territory to break box office records in 2009. In reviewing the backlog of posts I’ve been wanting to get to, I came across an announcement from the Asociace Producentu V Audiovizi a.k.a. Czech Audiovisual Producer’s Association (APA) which reported th…

Rural Theatre Hopes Pepsi Can Help Fund Digital Conversion

It’s no secret that digital cinema equipment is expensive. Converting a single auditorium in a multiplex can cost more than USD $80,000. The cost is so high that movie studios are subsidizing conversions through virtual print fees (VPF). But for theatres that are too small to qualify for VPFs,…

Travis Reid Departs DCIP To Head Up Screenvision

[/caption] Last Thursday Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP) announced that Travis Reid, their CEO, had resigned. That same day on-screen advertising giant Screenvision announced that Shamrock Capital Advisors, a private equity fund founded by the late Roy Disney, had finalized the $160 mi…

Warner Bros. Scraps 3D For Next “Harry Potter”

After being heavily criticized for the poor 3D conversion on “Clash of the Titans” earlier this year, it seems Warner Bros. is being more cautious about making the same mistake on future blockbusters. The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday that the studio has scrapped plans to convert…

Samosa Shortage Hits Mumbai Theatres

[/caption] In many countries around the world it is hard to think of going to the movies without the smell of popcorn wafting through the air. The salty snack is a staple for millions of moviegoers, not to mention a high margin profit center for cinema owners. But it turns out popcorn does not topRe…

IBC Highlights Developments In Digital Cinema

[/caption] There is no question that the IBC conference, held annually in Amsterdam, is primarily aimed at broadcasters and those that supply or service them. After all, the B in IBC stands for broadcasters. However, the conference has always managed to find room for the motion picture industry in s…

AAM Topper Howard Kiedasch Discuss TMS Deal With Hoyts

It’s that time of year in the Northern Hemisphere where everyone wanders off on vacation at the end of summer. It’s very easy to let an important piece of news slip by without digesting it properly. So, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the announcement made early last week that Hoy…

YouTube Announces Support Of 4K Video

On July 9th the ongoing debate between 2K and 4K digital cinema picture resolution took an interesting turn when an unexpected player entered the fray. At VidCon 2010, a conference for online video professionals, came to a close, YouTube announced that they would begin supporting and streaming video…

Cinema Expo Thoughts: David Hancock of Screen Digest

The final entry in our series of posts presenting the comments of industry participants on last month’s Cinema Expo provides us with some valuable information. David Hancock’s name will sound familiar to anyone having worked in motion picture exhibition or digital cinema over the past decade. He is…