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Royal Opera House’s Cinema Audience to Overtake Covent Garden’s

UK’s Royal Opera House (ROH) has announced its programme for the 2014/15 Season and with it the astonishing revelation that it expects its cinema audience numbers to overtake those watching it in person at its Covent Garden home this season. Despite ROH selling out 96% of all tickets to its Co…

Black coal, Thin Ice

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 2 April 2014

The emergence of China as the world’s second largest cinema territory after US comes as news to precisely no one. Interestingly recent Hollywood films like RoboCop and Need for Speed have earned more at the Chinese box office than in North America, helped in no small part by their 3D release.…

Kinoton Is Latest Victim of Switch to Digital Cinema

Venerable German cinema equipment manufacturer Kinoton is no more, becoming the latest victim of the switch to the digital projection of films. The company issued a press release on 31 March stating: We, the shareholders of Kinoton GmbH, have decided to dissolve the company and end its business oper…

Muppets most wanted

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 1 April 2014

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dWQS8OCPUo[/youtube] Celluloid Junkie can exclusively reveal that Christie Digital is planning to counter Barco’s tri-screen ‘Escape’ system, launched at CinemaCon, by resurrecting the ‘Polyvision‘ triptych format invented in the…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 31 March 2014

We’re back! With CinemaCon over, we resume normal service for the Daily. It was definitely an interesting show and in case anyone was wondering, yes, *we* saw 12 Years a Slave in the cinema. Apologies for those who were expecting to meet me in Vegas. Sperling flew the flag for Celluloid Junkie…

Ted Schilowitz

Ted Schilowitz and Barco Set To Announce New Secret Project at CinemaCon

Ask Ted Schilowitz whether he works in either technology or motion picture production or computer hardware or high resolution imaging or marketing, and the answer you’re most likely to receive is, “Yes”. The technologist was recently tapped by Barco, the cinema technology company,…

Audience Entertainment Is Helping Moviegoers Become A Part of the Story

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtQ9XMKW9FI[/youtube] Now that the worldwide digital cinema rollout is nearing completion, with most of North America and a majority of Europe and Asia converted, companies, business models and content will begi…

Nue multiplex Karachi

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday/Saturday 21-22 March 2014

Please note that there will be no Daily Cinema Digest next week during CinemaCon Cinema is enjoying a cautious renaissance in Pakistan, according to this long and detailed article in the WSJ. Squeezed as it is between the popularity of Bollywood from neighbouring India, which overshadows local film…

Hal Douglas and the Evolving Art Form of Movie Trailer Voice-Overs

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVDzuT0fXro[/youtube] It’s been a week since we learned about the passing of voice-over legend Hal Douglas at the age of 89. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, then you probably don’t work in th…

Wanda breaks RealD embargo

BREAKING NEWS: Wanda Breaks Embargo on Deal For 780 New RealD 3D Installations

CELLULOID JUNKIE EXCLUSIVE: It seems that China’s Wanda – the world’s biggest cinema operator and owner of American multiplex chain AMC – has broken its own embargo on an announcement for an expanded deal with 3D vendor RealD. It looks like this deal was set to be announced o…