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NFL Goes After ODS Wisconsin Cinemas

As far as show down goes, this is a David v Goliath that puts the might NFL (National Football League) against a small band of cinemas in Wisconsin who plan to show games featuring the state’s Green Bay Packers team on the big screen. Some cinemas, such as Marcus Corp. and the Fox Bay CinemaRe…

2007 – the Year of Opera at the Movies

If there was one true surprise in the digital cinema industry this year it was that people were prepared to pay a premium for a night at the opera at their local multiplex. It was the New York Metropolitan Opera (The Met) that kicked it off in the early days of the new year withRead More

Tutus and Popcorn Served Up In Australia

Last Friday evening the Australian Film Commission, through their regional digital screen network (RDSN), beamed a performance of ‘The Nutcracker’ live via satellite from Sydney Opera House towns across the country including Port Augusta, South Australia; Yarram, Victoria; Devonport, Tas…

Japanese all-women theatre via fibre optics in cinemas

Of all the alternative content that has been tried in cinemas, theatrical plays is one of the smallest of sub-categories. With the exception of the recent Swedish Strindberg play beamed in HD to local cinemas, the closest we have come to this is the musicals of Broadway TV Network. But it is operas…

The Beyonce Experience (not the least bit) LIVE!

Sometimes digital cinema operators should be slapped very hard with the Trade Descriptions Act, or whatever the US equivalent is. Particularly ones that advertise a ‘LIVE!’ concert (capital letters, exclamation mark and all) of Beyonce, which is actually a recording of her shaking her bo…

Emerging Pictures bring live Italian opera to US

US digital inde cinema pioneer Emerging Pictures will be bringing live opera from Italy’s most famous opera house, La Scala, to cinemas and other venues all over the US starting this December. It is a major coup for the indie digital veteran and should prove a boon for its business in targetin…

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U2’s digital 3D Release Dates Announced

Normally better known for distributing animal documentaries, National Geographics will be bringing U2 3D to digital stereoscopic cinemas in January 2008 world wide. (Cue the inevitable jokes about showcasing mammoth films about aging rock dinosaurs). Anyone who attended this year’s ShoWest, Ca…

Ballet beamed by satellite in Oz

Cinema goers in remote part of Australia will soon be able to watch live ballet from the Sydney Opera house at their local multiplex. It is the latest in the snowballing alternative content market for cinemas that truly began with the Metropolitan Opera’s live transmissions worldwide. The arti…

Pearl Jam concert ‘exclusively’ in digital cimema

Apparently Seattle grunge rockers Pearl Jam are still around and will be appearing on a screen near you, at least if you live in one of a handful of US or UK cities, on 24 and 25 September. They are the latest act whose concert has been recorded in high definition an 5.1 surround soundRead More

Who wants to see canned concerts in cinemas?

At a time when more and more rock bands are re-forming (Led Zeppelin, Police and Sex Pistols), one rock band that can’t reform (RIP Freddy Mercury) is having one of its old concerts dusted off and projected onto the big screen. Queen’s 1981 concert in Montreal will be shown at Empire cin…