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Arclight Comes To Sherman Oaks

Can a movie theater make movies better? That was the question residents of the San Fernando Valley found waiting for them at the end of their driveway last Thursday. At least those residents who subscribe to home delivery of the Los Angeles Times. The question was posed on an insert folded into Thur…

Tucson Goes Independent With Tower Theatres

Apparently the opening of a new multiplex is big news in Tucson, Arizona. Just ask Kent Edwards, a managing partner in Tower Theatres, a new independently owned 12 screen multiplex that opened at Arizona Pavilions in Marana on December 7th. The day before the grand opening the Arizona Daily Star pub…

Tutus and Popcorn Served Up In Australia

Last Friday evening the Australian Film Commission, through their regional digital screen network (RDSN), beamed a performance of ‘The Nutcracker’ live via satellite from Sydney Opera House towns across the country including Port Augusta, South Australia; Yarram, Victoria; Devonport, Tas…

India’s Cinemax Crosses 50 Screen Milestone

Whoever is handling public relations for Cinemax India, Ltd. deserves a wee bit of a raise after last week. The circuit’s press release announcing the opening of their new four screen multiplex in Gandhinagar managed to be picked up by every major media outlet in India and quite a few outside…

Hollywood Takes Spanish Lessons On NPR

Anyone who has had to distribute or exhibit American motion pictures in Latin America for any length of time has their opinion of dubbed versus subtitled prints. More often than not comedies and action movies are dubbed from English into Spanish. Of course all animated films are dubbed since childre…

Adlabs Expands Into U.S. With 200 Screens

The stereotype of the immigrant Indian convenience store worker that has kept Apu employed at the Kwik-E-Mart for the past 17 years on ‘The Simpsons‘ may soon have to be changed to that of the immigrant Indian concession stand employee. Recently, the Indian cinema chain Pyramid Saimira T…

LA Times: ‘Golden Compass’ South of Blockbuster Status

In their weekly box office prognositaction column today, Movie Projector, the Los Angeles Times is predicting that the holiday season’s first tent pole release, ‘The Golden Compass‘, will finish its opening weekend in less than blockbuster condition. They may not be far from wrong…

Ethiopia’s First Multiplex Theatre Opens

This past Friday a three screen movie theatre officially opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital city, marking the first multiplex theatre in the country’s history. The theater resides in the eight story Edna Mall complex and was built by one of the countries largest real estate develo…

On DVD In A Theater Near Auckland, New Zealand

An article on the differences between E-Cinema and D-Cinema that appeared in the New Zealand Herald back on November 19th has slowly been making its way around the Internet being referenced mostly be bloggers. In the piece, Anthony Doesburg, a technology writer based in Auckland, goes on a bit of a…

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…