CJ@ECA Conference: Keynote by Melissa Cogavin & Niels Swinkles
The second Event Cinema Association conference in London with live reporting by CJ from the event on the day. Opening with keynote from ECA's Melissa and Universal's Niels.
Early Release Of “Interstellar” On Film Is A Nostalgic Marketing Coup
A heated industry debate was sparked last week by the announcement that Paramount and Warner Bros. would release director Christopher Nolan’s next movie, “Interstellar”, on film. Many of you may recall film as the sprocketed acetate material used by the motion picture industry to s…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 3 October 2014
RealD shares debuted at USD $16 when the company first went public but are now languishing at less than ten dollars, so this unsolicited take-over bid should not come as a surprise. RealD Inc. (RLD), the supplier of 3-D technology to cinemas, received a $12-a-share takeover bid from Starboard Value…
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 1 October 2014
Event cinema has a new hero and his name is Billy Elliot, having grossed more on the day it beamed than The Equalizer, the highest grossing film. Universal’s live stream from London’s Victoria Palace Theatre last night [Sept 28] danced its way to an extraordinary $3.1m (£1.904m), setting a new recor…
China Special Cinema Digest – Thursday 25 September 2014
Today we catch up Chinese cinema news from the last couple of weeks, which I was unable to report while travelling. As always, the Google translation is not perfect, but as we do not have a journalist on staff who can translate perfectly from Mandarin (yet!), it will have to do. We are also savingRe…
Event Cinema Association Awards Nominations Out
One of the key feature of any cinema-related conference or event is the awards and recognitions of excellence in its field. So it is too for the Event Cinema Association, which kicked off with its inaugural conference and ECA Awards in London last year, where there was recognition for the likes of …
Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 24 September 2014
Barco is doubling down on its immersive audio efforts by hiring away IOSONO’s audio team and setting up what is now called Barco Audio Technologies [BAT?]. This could potentially mean moving away from a dependance on the Auro brand and Auro Technologies partnership, though the latter is quoted…
Barco Escape Gets First Real World Test With “Maze Runner”
This weekend’s North American debut of Twentieth Century Fox’s “Maze Runner” is enabling Barco to move forward with a new product initiative it first announced at CinemaCon earlier this year. Barco Escape is an immersive offering being developed by the digital cinema projector manufacturer that wrap…
CJ@IBC ‘Laser Projection part 1 – Seeing is Believing’
Peter Lude’ (now with Real D) dives straight into the deep end of the many questions buzzing about laser ILLUMINATED (his emphasis) projecton, ranging from safety to speckling. He even provides a quick Cliff Notes answers to those questions (see above). He then outlines the afternoon (in two…
CJ@IBC ‘Immersive Audio – from the big screen to the small screen’
Immersiva audio is seeing increased take up in cinemas and Atmos and Auro are now also being launched in the home. This panel questions industry experts on its ins, outs and future.