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Ted Sarandos at 2015 Cannes Film Festival

Ted Sarandos Tells Cannes Netflix Is Not Anti-Cinema

When the Marché du Film announced that Ted Sarandos would be making an appearance during the NEXT program at this year’s Cannes Film Market, the session instantly became one of its most anticipated events. The chief content officer at Netflix has a history of making controversial statements at…

Dave Hollis Introduces Avengers at CinemaCon 2015

Dissecting the Dispute Between Disney and Cinema Owners Over Film Rental Terms

The recent news that exhibitors in North America and Germany were unhappy with the film rental terms Walt Disney Studios was offering for their release of “Avengers: Age of Ultron” provides a perfect opportunity to explain some longstanding industry practices associated with theatrical f…

Fast and Furious 7

Digital Cinema Firm Tries to Block “Fast & Furious 7” India Release

UPDATE: 4:30am IST – KSS claims that the CCI has ruled in its favour. Details at the end of the story. Cinema service provider KSS (K Sera Sera) has filed an injunctive petition with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to block the release of “Fast and Furious 7” in India, a…

Beasts of No Nation

Though Major Exhibitors Still Boycott Simultaneous VOD Releases From Netflix, the Oscars Willingly Accept Them

On Monday of last week, Deadline broke the news that Netflix was making another move into feature films by acquiring “Beasts Of No Nation” for a reported USD $12 million. This was followed the trade publication Variety which published three stories on the same subject in quick succession…

Ted Hope

Amazon Enters Movie Business With Two Wise First Steps

In a twist of the old adage “give them an inch and they’ll take a mile”, just a week after winning a Golden Globe for television series, musical or comedy for their show “Transparent”, web giant Amazon has announced its intentions to enter the movie business by producin…

The Interview Premiere

Sony Hackers Crossed A Line By Threatening Movie Theatres

Though most of the entertainment industry and business world has been riveted to every breaking development of the Sony Pictures hack, we have purposely refrained from writing anything about it. That was until the perpetrators of the cybercrime threatened movie theatres showing an upcoming Sony film…

Nikki Rocco

Why We’ll Miss Nikki Rocco When She Retires As Universal’s Head of Distribution

Arriving at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas for my return flight from CinemaCon last month I was greeted at the gate by a potpourri of industry professionals, as was to be expected. There were engineers and sales reps from manufactures such as QSC and Volfoni, studio distribution executi…

Disney To Release Sing-Along Version of “Frozen” In Theatres

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://youtu.be/0HtACLaRDk0[/youtube] Walt Disney Studios may have struck upon an inventive way to squeeze more revenue from moviegoers who have already seen their latest animated feature, “Frozen”. Hoping to get fans of “Fr…

35mm Film Platter

Paramount Reportedly Stops Delivery of Film Prints

Well, it may finally have happened. Everyone working in any capacity of the motion picture industry knew the day would come when Hollywood studios would stop distributing their releases on 35-millimeter film prints. If Saturday’s story in the Los Angeles Times is to be believed, that day may f…

Universal Cancels “Tower Heist” Premium-VOD Test

[/caption] Well that didn’t take long. Facing stiff opposition from exhibitors Universal Pictures has decided to scrap its plan of releasing “Tower Heist” on premium-video-on-demand three weeks after its November 4th release. The move comes a week after the studio originally announced its inte…