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Daily Cinema Digest – Saturday 18 January 2014

Cinema Opening/Closings UK: The fight is on to save on of the most historic cinemas in London’s West End. “Leading heritage groups are making last-minute protests against plans to tear down one of Leicester Square’s oldest cinemas. The Art Deco Odeon West End opened in 1930, survived bom…

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 17 January 2014

UK: The head of Odeon-UCI, europe’s largest cinema group is stepping down. “Sky News understands that Rupert Gavin, who has run the privately-owned group for eight years, is to leave a year after its owner abandoned its latest attempt to sell the company. Mr Gavin will be replaced by Paul Donovan, a…

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 16 January 2014

Croatia: The biggest trial in Croatia’s history, for a Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds, is taking place in a cinema. “With around 700 people taking part in the Forex trial, no courtroom in the country is bigger enough to accommodate those numbers, so it was decided to move the trial to a cinema…

How Cinema Dining Conquered the World (And Soon New York Too)

When Jeffrey Katzenberg is quoted as saying, “I am one hundred percent sure that these theaters are the future of movie-going,” you assume that he is talking about 3D, maybe with HFR and Immersive Audio. But in the case of this article in WSJ he is talking about another phenomenon that has gro…

Daily News Roundup – Wednesday 15 January 2014

Event Cinema: Orlando Bloom is coming to a cinema near you – as Romeo in the Broadway production of Shakespeare’s tragedy. “This February, national cinema advertising leader and alternative content provider Screenvision and newly formed company BroadwayHD bring the Broadway product…

Arclight Hollywood and the Cinerama Dome

Arclight Cinemas Announces Sixth Southern California Multiplex

Last October we got wind that a new multiplex was being proposed for Santa Monica Place, a mall in Santa Monica, California. These plans were confirmed earlier today when Arclight Cinemas announced they had entered into an agreement with Macerich, the mall’s owner, to open a 14 screen cinema a…

Daily Cinema Roundup – Tuesday 14 January 2014

UK: BBC Magazine Monitor looks at “Ten annoying breaches of cinema etiquette”. “Bad behaviour at cinemas has reached a “new low”, the BBC’s Simon Mayo said on Friday. The incident that got the presenter’s back up? A woman looking at her phone. But this wasn’t a quick gl…

Has Auro Abandoned Cinema for the Home?

Auro Technologies surprised the cinema industry by announcing partnerships for bringing its immersive audio format to the home cinema market at the recently concluded CES. With only some 100 systems installed in cinemas around the world it would seem early for a switch of focus to the home. However,…

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Daily Cinema Roundup – Monday 13 January 2014

USA: Popcorn business has been tough in 2013 as “prices for unpopped popcorn skyrocketed due to the 2012 drought that dried up thousands of acres of popcorn-growing fields throughout the Midwest.” Despite this “Americans consume 16 billion quarts of popped popcorn annually, or 51 q…

Cinemeccanica Brings Laser Projection to Europe

Italian projector manufacturer Cinemeccanica has announced a test bed installation of its Cinecloud™ Lux laser driven projector in Venezia Mestre, Italy. Calling it “Immersive Cinema” the manufacturer does not go easy on the hyperbole for the installation with IMG Cinema Multiplex: The M…