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Indian Box Office Is Booming

Thanks to lurid exposes like the one which appeared in the December 22nd issue of The Economist most westerners probably think of India as a crowded and impoverished country filled with 1.1 billion people living in slums and working for miniscule wages. What they might find hard to believe, despite…

Sony’s 4K finds home in Singapore’s Cathay

Slowly-slowly Sony is starting to make inroads into multiplexes with its 4K digital cinema projector. It hasn’t been helped by the recent Beowulf 3D near-hysteria, which was strictly 2K (and Imax), but we should see some more deployments before the end of the year. In time for CineAsia comes t…

China to get 5 Star cinema

Anybody who has traveled to a developing country, be it Brazil, Russia, Turkey or India, and visited a new cinema can attest that the emerging middle classes demand no less luxury than their Western counterparts (even Ethiopians, as you can see from the item below). Yet the self-styled ‘Five S…

Barco/GDC China Network To Grow Significantly

Mentioned in passing in the Hollywood Reporter’s round-up of Day 1 of CineAsia, the big news appears to have been the Chinese digital cinema network powered by Barco (projectors) and GDC (servers) from 7,00 to 2,000. In a questionably headlined article (‘CineAsia hosts digital revolution…

Technicolor’s Digital Cinema Hub In Singapore Is Not The News It Seems

Timed to coincide with CineAsia, news goes out that Technicolor is to set up a digital cinema hub in Singapore. This announcement is a great success for the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), which together with the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), has been working for…

French Servers For French D-Cinema

Much to no-one’s surprise, French cinema chain CGR will use Doremi servers for their digital cinema deployment with Arts Alliance Media (AAM). This has less to do with both companies being French (though it doesn’t exactly hurt) than with AAM’s new found love for Doremi after the c…

Kids urinating in cinema – problem in Dubai

Next time you curse stepping on a sticky patch at your cinema, consider yourself lucky that you are not living in Dubai. It could be something a lot less pleasant than some old soda spill. That seems to be the view of this female cinema patron from Dubai, despite the fact that the country isRead Mor…

Korean cinema rivals unite for digital

In the first international example of digital cinema bringing together exhibitor adversaries, South Korea’s CJ-CGV and Lotte Cinema have pacted for a digital cinema deployment venture. The two cinema majors have formed a 50/50 joint venture to accelerate digital cinema deployment in a country…

South Korean cinema industry sings the blues

All is not well in the South Korean film and cinema industry, or rather, not as well as it had been for the past few years. South Korea has recently been on of those rare territories where local films outperformed Hollywood imports. But now things are in decline and the slump is based on illegalRead…

UK cinema tickets under the spotlight

Consumer magazine/analysts Which? has taken a long and hard look at UK cinemas and ticket prices – and found a low to be un-satisfied about. From Chanel 4 news’ website: Cinema tickets can cost anything from £3.50 to more than £12 per adult, a new report has found. The facilities, cleanl…