News - Page 177 of 222 - Celluloid Junkie

NEWS

Is The Motion Picture Industry Discouraging The Next Ray Dolby?

[vimeo width=”550″ height=”309″]https://vimeo.com/67821349[/vimeo] Much has been written over the last several days about Ray Dolby, audio pioneer and inventor, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 80. Rather than add to the din of career-spanning obituaries of Dr. Dolby…

Time Lapse Video Documents Imax Renovation of TCL Chinese Theatre

[youtube width=”480″ height=”360″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guAhfPe9aPo&q6320319[/youtube] Earlier this year one of the most sacred cinema palaces in the world was closed for renovation. Each year an endless stream of tourists visit the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollyw…

Muvico's Groupon Deal

Groupon May Not Be Such A Great Deal For Exhibitors or Moviegoers

Every day I receive one or two emails from a company called Groupon, and at this point I’m not even sure why. Exhibitors must feel similarly since the number of Groupon campaigns I’ve received containing promotions for local cinemas has dwindled significantly over the past several years. Let me expl…

Major Studio Release Windows

Studios Find A Backdoor Into Shorter Theatrical Release Windows

History may remember this past summer’s blockbuster season more as the one when studios successfully shortened the theatrical window by three weeks, rather than as the one in which numerous $200 million tentpole films failed at the box office. Sure, the latter seems to be getting all the press…

Honda Campaign Helps Drive-Ins Convert To Digital

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh2ULhXtqYU[/youtube] In film school I was taught how extremely effective a “ticking clock” can be in storytelling, especially when used in suspense movies. Now, this plot device is being employed to…

Krugman & Cringley on Ballmer & Microsoft’s ‘Failure’

There is an apocryphal tale of Bill Gates giving a speech to assembled Hollywood executives when he was still head of Microsoft, which ends with him telling them “and I guess you guys also have a problem with piracy.” While software piracy may have trumped film-related piracy in the earl…

Bagdad Theater & Pub

LA Times Shines Spotlight On Portland’s Bagdad Theater & Pub

You know how sometimes when a brand new word enters your lexicon you wind up hearing the vocabulary word being used in all sorts of different situations? It leaves you wondering how you never noticed the word before, or if, unaware of its true meaning and definition, you had simply ignored it altoge…

Cinema Advertising Shows No Sign of Ageing at Cannes Lions

[youtube]http://youtu.be/PE_kqk8CXEM[/youtube] Cinema advertising celebrated its 60th year at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity by positioning itself as the “magical, mysterious and creative media platform” of choice. The well attended seminar on Monday the 17th of June at the Cann…

Luxe RealD

Can RealD Rival IMAX In The Premium Large Format (PLF) Market?

With Cinema Europe currently underway in Barcelona, two trends for premium cinema experiences that pull in opposite direction are hot topics for exhibitors gathering in Spain. The first is towards smaller, intimate venues that typically serve fine food and wine, as exemplified by The Electric in Lon…

Tim Richards of Vue Entertainment

Canadian Investors Double Down With Purchase of Vue Entertainment

There is an old proverb popularized by the 19th century English writer W. E. Hickson that states “If at first you don’t succeed, Try, try, try again.” It seems Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) and OMERS Private Equity – the investment division of Ontario Municipal…