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Man Booker Prize Makes Its Big Screen Debut

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://youtu.be/T84ahPgVOJQ[/youtube] The Man Booker Prize for Fiction and Picturehouse Entertainment are teaming up on what seems to be a novel idea (pun intended). Literally (additional pun intended). Picturehouse will broadcast readings fr…

Arts Alliance Rethinks Its Alternative Content Strategy

How hard is it to find success with alternative content? The answer is; very. So many variables have to fall perfectly in place to find success, much less profit. No matter whether it’s sports, concerts or cultural events, there are rights clearances to obtain, theaters to secure and screening…

Direct From Broadway

Four Broadway Musicals Find New Life In Cinemas

After first being announced at CineEurope in Amsterdam last June, more details are emerging about the Direct From Broadway, an alternative content series aiming to bring musicals from The Great White Way to movie theaters around the world. New York based Broadway Worldwide, whose production of the B…

Apollo Gets More From Sony and Vista

Over the past week Apollo Cinemas has decided that more is… well, more. The United Kingdom’s sixth largest exhibition chain is partnering with Sony Digital Cinema to bring more 3D alternative content to its customers and they have selected Vista Cinema Software to increase their overall…

Prince William’s Royal Wedding May Be Broadcast In 3D

[/caption] When I first heard that Prince William and his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton had become engaged to be married I certainly never thought I’d be writing anything here about their wedding. But when it was announced that the couple wanted their royal wedding to be a “people…

Fathom Brings Los Angeles Philharmonic To Cinemas

[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbvI2n_1Pb0[/youtube] After turning the New York Metropolitan Opera into a poster child for alternative content over the past five years, NCM Fathom is hoping to have the same success with the Los Angeles Philha…

MTV Bringing Green Day Concert To European Cinemas

[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_vZbz7P1Sg[/youtube] MTV is partnering with Cinema Events and Arts Alliance Media (AAM) to bring their popular concert series “World Stage” to movie theatres throughout Europe. The first screening w…

Goooaal! Cinedigm Scores With 3D FIFA World Cup Final

[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfnXx4mBO4k[/youtube] This past Sunday Cinedigm, a leading North American digital cinema deployment entity, achieved another live event milestone and I was there to witness it first hand. As we reported back in…

Heavy Metal Heavy Weights Hit The Big Screen

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUrhJB0_j5Q[/youtube] If you’re into heavy metal music then you’ll be happy to hear that some of the world’s biggest head banging bands will be playing live at a theatre near you. On Tuesday, J…

Cinedigm’s Partnership For FIFA World Cup Makes Sensio

Last week Cinedigm announced a partnership with Sensio that will allow them to bring the FIFA World Cup Soccer Tournament being held in South Africa this month to theatres all over the world. What’s more, the matches will be shown live and in 3D. The press release sent around to promote the pa…