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Springsteen, Emerging Pictures Team Up For Art House Cinemas and Cancer Research

Emerging Pictures will be offering non-profit art houses an interesting way to make a few extra dollars this June. The company, which runs the largest digital alternative content theatre network in the United States, is making a special version of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s co…

Daily Cinema Roundup-Monday 18 May

–Sony and Regal released a press release this morning, officially announcing that Regal will install the Sony 4K digital projections systems across its entire circuit. (See Celluloid Junkie’s Friday post below on this news). According to the release, the installation of the systems is ex…

Digital Hollywood: Credit Market Starting to Recover

A group of 3D industry leaders shared varying opinions on the future of 3D—as well as their latest impressions of the credit market–during a panel yesterday at the Digital Hollywood confab in Los Angeles. “The market has recovered a little since December,” said James Dix, analyst at Wedbush Mo…

‘Monsters’ Continues to Influence Box Office

Dreamworks Animation’s debut stereoscopic 3D title “Monsters Vs. Aliens” raked in another $8.5 million at the US box office this weekend, helping bring its domestic gross to $174.8 million and allowing its international box office to cross the $300 million mark. The film opened March 27 in the US an…

Front Row Report: Beer Wars – A Live NCM World Premier

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-Bg5Odi0M[/youtube] This report just in from our friend and colleague Jerry Pierce: Beer Wars – A Live NCM World Premier Jerry Pierce April 17, 2009 National Cinemedia (NCM) that runs “Fathom” a “live” to the theater network for single play events. The…

Opera Industry Voices Concern Over Movie Theatre Broadcasts

[youtube width=”480″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdUzNYGxcJ8[/youtube] Many who know me are aware what a big opera buff I am. I’ve held a subscription to the Los Angeles Opera‘s annual season for at least the past five years, and when I travel I m…

Cinedigm Scores Big With Live 3D Broadcast of NBA All-Star Event

On Satruday evening Cinedigm continued its ongoing effort to bring popular sporting events in 3D to North American movie theatres by broadcasting the NBA All-Star Saturday Night to more than 80 venues in the U.S. and Canada. Since this type of alternative content is all the rage these days I decide…

AccessIT To Beam Live 3-D Events To Theatres

Having announced their CineLive offering at ShowEast in October of 2007, and with the success of the live 3-D broadcast of a Dallas Maverick’s basketball game, AccessIt announced on Monday that it would be beaming live events in 3-D to 150 cinemas throughout the United States. The offering wil…

Sony US follows Sony Japan in alternative content

Sony Pictures has woken up to the fact that the big screen real estate will not be occupied 100 per cent by feature films in the future and that third party operators like AccessIT and Arts Alliance Media are getting in on the game. That is why they have launched their own division for alternativeRe…

NYT Wakes Up To Alternative Content As Royal Opera House and Sony Reveal Plans

The New York times gets in on the non-film digital shows in cinemas (ODS? alternative content?) with the in-depth article: At Cineplexes, Sports, Opera, Maybe a Movie (with the tag line: ‘As ticket sales slow, theaters are turning to the Mets and the Met.’ – arf, arf!). Main messag…