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Does Re-Releasing Oscar Nominees in Cinemas Work?

The nominations for the 86th Academy Awards (Oscars, to you and me) have been announced, insta-shared, tweeted, analysed, commented and blogged. The front runners that were all released in the fall will not be out on DVD or Blu-ray for at least a month: Gravity (25 February), 12 Years a Slave (4 Mar…

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 16 January 2014

Croatia: The biggest trial in Croatia’s history, for a Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds, is taking place in a cinema. “With around 700 people taking part in the Forex trial, no courtroom in the country is bigger enough to accommodate those numbers, so it was decided to move the trial to a cinema…

How Cinema Dining Conquered the World (And Soon New York Too)

When Jeffrey Katzenberg is quoted as saying, “I am one hundred percent sure that these theaters are the future of movie-going,” you assume that he is talking about 3D, maybe with HFR and Immersive Audio. But in the case of this article in WSJ he is talking about another phenomenon that has gro…

Daily News Roundup – Wednesday 15 January 2014

Event Cinema: Orlando Bloom is coming to a cinema near you – as Romeo in the Broadway production of Shakespeare’s tragedy. “This February, national cinema advertising leader and alternative content provider Screenvision and newly formed company BroadwayHD bring the Broadway product…

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…

Arclight Hollywood and the Cinerama Dome

Arclight Cinemas Announces Sixth Southern California Multiplex

Last October we got wind that a new multiplex was being proposed for Santa Monica Place, a mall in Santa Monica, California. These plans were confirmed earlier today when Arclight Cinemas announced they had entered into an agreement with Macerich, the mall’s owner, to open a 14 screen cinema a…

Daily Cinema Roundup – Tuesday 14 January 2014

UK: BBC Magazine Monitor looks at “Ten annoying breaches of cinema etiquette”. “Bad behaviour at cinemas has reached a “new low”, the BBC’s Simon Mayo said on Friday. The incident that got the presenter’s back up? A woman looking at her phone. But this wasn’t a quick gl…

Has Auro Abandoned Cinema for the Home?

Auro Technologies surprised the cinema industry by announcing partnerships for bringing its immersive audio format to the home cinema market at the recently concluded CES. With only some 100 systems installed in cinemas around the world it would seem early for a switch of focus to the home. However,…

Mossfilm Monument

Russia To Introduce Quotas for Local Films in Cinemas

Russia’s Minister of Culture has announced plans to introduce a 20 per cent quota for domestic film in cinemas. Interviewed by Interfax and reported in German media (such as this Focus article) Vladimir Medinski is quoted as saying that: “Man muss die Quotierung für das russische Kino ei…

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…