Daily Cinea Digest – Monday 8 December 2014
Today's cinema news: Cinemaxx-CineStar promo JV approved, K Sera Sera announces mini-plex expansion, German School Cinema, Russian IKEA bed cinema
Powell’s Finds Its Sweet Spot With Outdoor Movie Night
Summer break is shortly coming to an end for school children in the United States. Very soon this year’s trips to the beach, summer camp and the county fair will be but memories. For my two daughters, aged eight and nine (and-a-half) years old, that means it’s time for the annual August…
Giving the Simons IMAX Theatre at the New England Aquarium a Closer Look
Those of you who follow me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram are probably aware I’ve been in New England over the past two weeks. (Thus the lack of posts from me). Specifically, I was in Boston. While there I stumbled upon the Matthew and Marcia Simons IMAX Theatre at the New England Aquarium.…
GoWatchIt Is Making It Easier To Find Outdoor Movie Screenings
When it comes to movie release schedules, summer in the northern hemisphere seems to be starting earlier and earlier (think late April). In reality, summer 2014 is only 10 days old, and as GoWatchIt reminded me last week, there are still two whole months left to watch a wide array of films in outdoo…
Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 10 June 2014
MasterImage3D – The licence-free 3D company will be showcasing its new MI-HORIZON3D cinema system, which promises a 33% light efficiency and 0.8 throw ratio, at CineEurope 2014. Show your 3D movies in the best possible light. Our new MI-HORIZON3D cinema system takes 3D to new levels of brightn…
GUEST COLUMN: Review – The Lounge at Whiteleys by Sally Hurst
As both an ardent foodie and lover of film, this trend towards fine dining at the cinema, and I mean served right in your seat during the film, intrigued me. Quite often I find myself tempted to wait until a film hits Netflix so I can curl up on my couch with my favorite bowlRead More
Discourse On The State of Movies Is a Hot New Trend
Every few years a notable film critic will take a step back and assess where motion pictures finds themselves in the changing nexus of art, technology and commerce. Notable recent ones are New York Press critic’s Godfrey Cheshire’s “The Death of Film/The Decay of Cinema” (19…
Future Cinema: How to Get 100,000 People to Pay £35 ($50) to Watch an Old Film
You wouldn’t expect UK’s most successful cinema innovator to have a tag-line of ‘Tell no-one’, keep audiences in the dark about which film they will get to see and then charge them double what a ticket costs in Leicester square to show them an old film readily available on DVD. Appropria…
Tampa Cinema Shooting – Sign of More Cinema Smartphone Rage to Come?
A retired police officer in Tampa, Florida has been arrested after an argument over cell phone use in a multiplex escalated into a shooting, leaving a man dead and his wife injured. The incident happened Monday 1:30pm at the Cobb Cinema Grove 16 and CineBistro in Wesley Chapel near Tampa, Florida du…
For Your iConsideration (UPDATE): the Nominees
With the nominations announced for the BAFTA awards, it is worth re-visiting the issue of DVD and on-line screeners to analyse what if any impact they had on the films that made the shortlist. The usual caveat applies that BAFTA members watch and vote on films, documentaries, foreign language films…