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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…

Jeffrey Katzenberg

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…