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In an Age of Automation, Sweden’s SF Bio Welcomes You to Each Screening in Person

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDMT2I9vmE4[/youtube] I tend to travel to Sweden a few times each year, usually to visit family and/or on business. Even if I am there for just a few days I make an effort to visit the cinema and catch up on a S…

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 11 March 2014

It seems like most film fans in the Middle East will not get to see Noah, as the film has been banned in several markets there. CINEMA bosses in Bahrain have supported a decision not to show a movie depicting the Christian version of Noah’s Ark, despite screening a trailer to filmgoers last we…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 10 March 2014

Event Cinema The Telegraph (UK) has a long and detailed appreciation of what goes into the Met Live event cinema productions, both from an artistic and technical perspective. The technical proficiency is breathtaking. Each transmission uses 10 to 12 high-definition cameras (one of which is robotic,…

Daily Cinema Digest – Fri/Sat 7/8 March 2014

We don’t normally start with a Finally-type of story, but this one is just too amazing to leave to the end. A cinema built and abandoned in the Sinai desert, with a story that is worthy of a film by Werner Herzog or a scene from Lost. This extraordinary outdoor cinema was captured by Kaupo Kik…

12 Years A Slave With Subtitles

Digital Cinema is Still Failing Deaf Patrons

Who remembers Dolby’s ScreenTalk ? Ten years ago it was a revolutionary system whereby using a small projector subtitles could be projected onto the bottom of a screen showing 35mm film, or displayed through a reflective system mounted at the rear of the cinema, enabling deaf and hearing impai…

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Deluxe To Close Hollywood Film Lab

Well, we all knew it was coming. With the motion picture industry’s transition away from 35mm film to digital production and distribution it was only a matter of time before the need for film laboratories would disappear entirely. The industry took a step closer toward that end when on Tuesday…

Ireland’s Cinema Advertiser Shows the Way With Re-Branding and Focus on Youth

Ireland’s cinema advertiser Carlton Screen Advertising is rebranding as Wide Eye Media. More importantly, the company is determined to focus strongly on the youth segment of cinema goers, highlighting the need and challenge for cinemas and advertisers in most exhibition markets in the develope…

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 6 March 2014

UK: Cineworld Didsbury near Manchester has allegedly had some particularly unwelcome visitors recently: cockroaches. More worryingly, some staff claim the cinema is hushing up the issue: The M.E.N. [Manchester Evening News] was alerted by a concerned member of staff, who said cockroaches had been a…

How the British Museum’s ‘Vikings Live’ Is Set To Storm Event Cinema – An Interview With More2Screen

Den of Geeks recently posted an article titled ‘Why is cinema so obsessed with Vikings?‘ It listed everything from Kirk Douglas eponymous 1958 widescreen epic, to the recent Marvel/Disney films featuring Thor. But while mentioning upcoming titles The Berserkers and Vikingdom, it overlook…

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MoviePass Adjusts Pricing For Beta Subscribers

Just last week we wrote about how the unlimited moviegoing subscription service MoviePass benefited from being agile and developing their business in an iterative fashion. This week the company is proving just how willing they are to roll out changes to their service in an effort to build a lasting…