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Norwegian Media Disects Arts Alliance Finances

[/caption] Anyone who has been following the motion picture exhibition industry for the past few years should know that digital cinema is not for the faint of heart nor light of wallet. Just ask Thomas Høegh, the founder and CEO of London based Arts Alliance, the parent company of Arts Alliance Medi…

Springsteen, Emerging Pictures Team Up For Art House Cinemas and Cancer Research

Emerging Pictures will be offering non-profit art houses an interesting way to make a few extra dollars this June. The company, which runs the largest digital alternative content theatre network in the United States, is making a special version of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s co…

Director’s Fortnight Highlights Digital Divide

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNwO3HtACkw[/youtube] Last night I had the privilege of attending the opening night of the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. The film being shown was “Benda Bilili” a fantastic…

Will “Clash” Unleash A Titanic Backlash Against 3D?

“Release the Kraken,” Liam Neeson’s Zeus commands in the WB’s “Clash of the Titans” re-make, but Hollywood should be more concerned that the film itself might release a backlash against the 3D format. There are several indicators that point to a perfect storm brew…

Why U.S. Exhibitors Are Raising 3D Ticket Prices

Sooner or later it was bound to happen. After all, 3D movies have topped the North American box office for nine out of 13 weeks this year. And 3D films like “Avatar” and “Alice In Wonderland” have generated record breaking grosses, far beyond industry expectations. With more…

India’s Reliance MediaWorks Takes Over UFO’s E-Cinema Operation

This past week the digital cinema pipeline into movie theatres in India became a little more narrow – figuratively, not literally or technically. On Thursday Reliance MediaWorks (formerly Adlabs), one of India’s largest entertainment services companies announced a “strategic allian…

If Saul Bass Had Done The “Tron” Title Sequence

Here is an interesting video titled Tron vs. Saul Bass from Hexagonall on Vimeo. Let us know what you think in the comments section.

Texas Instruments On Track With 4K

Both at ShoWest and in the weeks leading up to the conference, I was able to speak with some of the folks over at Texas Instruments working on the company’s digital cinema offerings. They were happy to report that development of their 4K chip was right on schedule and some of the first 4K DLPR…

SmartJog Continues Partnership Spree With XDC and Fox

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that SmartJog has been on a roll lately when it comes to partnerships? After announcing an agreement with Ymagis in February, they formed a partnership with XDC just before ShoWest and earlier this week entered into a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to deliv…

L.A. Times’ Patrick Goldstein Debates Release Windows

[/caption] If you’ve never read Patrick Goldstein in the Los Angeles Times, you’re really missing out. Especially this past Tuesday when the subject of his weekly column, The Big Picture, was none other than release windows. Goldstein has been writing his column for as long as I can reme…