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Dutch Cinemas To Go Digital By 2012

Less than a year after the formation of The Foundation for Digitizing Dutch Cinema (Stitchting Digitalisering Nederandse Cinema), the group has found some of the financing required to convert Netherlands’ cinemas to digital. The organization was formed in July of this year by the Dutch Associa…

Prince William’s Royal Wedding May Be Broadcast In 3D

[/caption] When I first heard that Prince William and his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton had become engaged to be married I certainly never thought I’d be writing anything here about their wedding. But when it was announced that the couple wanted their royal wedding to be a “people…

Odeon Selects Unique Digital’s Platform For Digital Rollout

Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group took another step forward in their digital cinema rollout this week by announcing their selection of Unique Digital’s software suite to help them manage digital content and equipment in converted theatres. With 1,802 screens spread across 202 venues in seven count…

Designer Brands Give 3D Glasses A Makeover

[/caption] Sometime last month I tagged a couple of blog posts about designer 3D glasses intending to write about them in the near future. After a Los Angeles Times story covered the subject yesterday, I figured it was about time to aggregate all the information into a post here. More than a year af…

Digital Domain Gets Dimensionalized With Acquisition Of In-Three

How important is 3D to the entertainment industry or is it just another fad? It’s a question that up until the release of “Avatar” was asked at every trade show and industry conference. But if anyone is still questioning the future of 3D in Hollywood, Thursday’s announcement…

Private Equity Firm Acquires U.K.’s Vue

Late last week Vue Entertainment, the United Kingdom’s third largest movie theatre chain, was sold to a private equity firm. Doughty Hanson & Co. will reportedly cough up GBP £450 million (USD $730 million) to take over the circuit. The news was picked up primarily by business and trade pu…

Fathom Brings Los Angeles Philharmonic To Cinemas

[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbvI2n_1Pb0[/youtube] After turning the New York Metropolitan Opera into a poster child for alternative content over the past five years, NCM Fathom is hoping to have the same success with the Los Angeles Philha…

Ballantyne Reports Strong Q3 Earnings, New CEO

Ballantyne Strong, Inc., a leading cinema equipment vendor and service provider, has been keeping their public relations staff busy this week with two important announcements. On Thursday the Omaha, Nebraska based company released their record breaking earnings for the third quarter of 2010. If you…

Barco Expands In Latin America and India

After launching their 4K projector at ShowEast, Belgium based Barco is ramping up their global sales effort with the announcement of two new deals. The first was a reseller partnership arrangement with Real Image in India, a country presently experiencing high growth in new multiplex openings. Real…

MTV Bringing Green Day Concert To European Cinemas

[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_vZbz7P1Sg[/youtube] MTV is partnering with Cinema Events and Arts Alliance Media (AAM) to bring their popular concert series “World Stage” to movie theatres throughout Europe. The first screening w…