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Dave Hollis Introduces Avengers at CinemaCon 2015

Dissecting the Dispute Between Disney and Cinema Owners Over Film Rental Terms

The recent news that exhibitors in North America and Germany were unhappy with the film rental terms Walt Disney Studios was offering for their release of “Avengers: Age of Ultron” provides a perfect opportunity to explain some longstanding industry practices associated with theatrical f…

CinemaCon The Three S

CinemaCon: The Three ‘S’ of the Immersive Cinema Experince: Sight, Sound and Seats

This CinemaCon panel got to grips with whatmakes for an immersive cinema experince, with the leading exhibitors from the Gulf and S.E. Asia.

Creative Intent by Richard Atkins

NAB 2015: Where Does Creative Intent Fit Into the Digital Landscape?

In a presentation at NAB’s Summit on Cinema, Robert Atkins of Dolby Laboratories’ Applied Vision Science Group showed a slide that was on the lips of everyone who saw it. As depicted above, the formula Atkins presented is an attempt to help understand the problem of utilising wider colour volu…

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CinemaCon: The True Value Proposition of a Cinema-Goer: It’s Time to Cultivate a Lifetime of Support

The first panel of CinemaCon 2015 looked at (declining) youth attendance and what could be done attract them back, with real-world examples from Kinepolis and Nordisk

CinemaCon: A True Partnership

CinemaCon: A True Partnership – Working Together To Drive the Cinematic Experience To New Heights

CinemaCon panel A New Partnership looks at how exhibitors and distributors could and should work together to boost cinema attendance in the digital age.

Techniluxe

Technicolor and Deluxe Joining Forces on Digital Cinema Spurs Industry Consensus

One of the biggest breaking news stories to come out of CinemaCon last week was the news that two of the world’s largest content service providers, Deluxe and Technicolor, have entered into an agreement to launch a joint venture focused solely on digital cinema. The announcement on Wednesday w…

CinemaCon Bill Alberti Generation Z

CinemaCon: Bill Alberti Looks At Cinema’s Generation Z Challenge

At CinemaCon 2015 Bill Alberti of Communispace looks at the challenges of making cinema relevant for today's always-on Generation Z.

Global Digital Cinema Progress - CinemaCon 2015 - David Hancock IHS

CinemaCon: David Hancock Delivers Digital Cinema Update

The very first CinemaCon was held in 2011 with the worldwide conversion to digital projection at movie theatres already underway. Maybe that’s why David Hancock of IHS Technology has been a regular speaker on the first day of the event since it’s inception, presenting an update on the gl…

CinemaCon ICTa Carolyn Giardina

CinemaCon: ICTA Presents – The Unintended Consequences of Digital Cinema

(“Motion seats will be the death of me.” – Un-Named Studio Executive at CinemaCon) Joe deMeo of Barco and President of the International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA) introduces the panel session with the question, “after the [digital cinema] roll out what are we looki…

Finixx

Alibaba Buys China Cinema Ticketing Company for $134m

The biggest financial cinema news of the week was not at the CinemaCon trade show in Las Vegas. Demonstrating instead the importance of China to the cinema business, e-commerce giant Alibaba paid 840 million yuan (USD $134 million) for cinema ticketing software company Yueke Software Engineering Com…