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Galaxy Cinema Demolition

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 23 January 2014

When the local art house cinema in Carey, North Carolina was torn down to make way for a grocery store, Indian expats had nowhere to see Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films. So they approached the local multiplex about screening Indian films. “Yanamadala approached Carmike about a year and a half ag…

Movie Hopping Planner

Movie-Hopping – The Lesser Discussed Form of Film Piracy

Film piracy or ‘movie theft’ is a well covered subject in exhibition industry circles. The fight is against people recoding films on video cameras in cinemas and uploading them to the internet or selling them on discs is one that unites multiplex operators, film studios, trade bodies lik…

Klip Collective’s Projection Mapping Impresses Sundance Film Festival Audiences

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/84063773[/vimeo] Before every film screened at the Sundance Film Festival, presently taking place in Park City, Utah, a pre-roll trailer is shown. This has been going for as long as anyone can remember. The trailers, often referred to as “festival bumpers”, are cr…

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 22 January 2014

Japan: How to tackle piracy? With action figures! “It’s a well-known fact that, when faced with public relations or marketing dilemmas, 99.99% of Japanese companies create a cute mascot to solve the problem. So naturally, this is how the Japan Motion Picture Association tackled the issue of film pir…

Support Your Local Cinema – Communities Rally In the Face of Digital Death

With close to 90 per cent of cinemas in the US digitised, the question about what would happen to the last stragglers loomed large even before Paramount announced that it had (reportedly) ended 35mm print distribution. The problem is that while one in ten screens is still reliant on film prints, the…

Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 21 January 2014

Planning issues for Odeon in London and Vue in Brighton… a cinema rebuilt from the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina… Happy (Feet) ending for one cinema in Australia but not for 2nd… autism-friendly screenings and Empire worried about its loans… Giselle and Goldfrapp both in cine…

MPAA Agent Bob Hope Detains Man For Wearing Google Glass in Ohio Cinema

It was only two weeks ago that we predicted the day would come when people would be wearing Google Glass in cinemas and be able to record an entire movie. That future has already arrived sooner than we expected. Over the weekend of January 18th an un-named man went to see “Jack Ryan: Shadow Re…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 20 January 2014

UK: It might not have the most obvious climate, but a pop-up drive-in cinema concept is taking hold in Scotland. “Film goers will be able to drive into the scenery under innovative plans for drive-in screenings at some of Scotland’s most dramatic movie backdrops. US-style outdoor cinema shows are pr…

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India’s New Censor Board CEO Faces Industry Revolt

The role of a censor/certifier is not an easy one in any country. It is a tightrope walk between filmmakers and demanding audiences seeking freedom of artistic expression and right to view age-appropriate content on one hand, and concerned parents and moral guardians on the other worried about the i…

35mm Film Platter

Paramount Reportedly Stops Delivery of Film Prints

Well, it may finally have happened. Everyone working in any capacity of the motion picture industry knew the day would come when Hollywood studios would stop distributing their releases on 35-millimeter film prints. If Saturday’s story in the Los Angeles Times is to be believed, that day may f…