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DreamWorks Dumps Universal And Shacks Up With Disney

Sometimes rebound relationships can really pay off. At least that’s what Walt Disney Studios is hoping now that it has agreed to enter a long-term agreement with DreamWorks to distribute upwards of six films a year starting in 2010. The deal was put together very quietly over the last severa…

Active 3D Glasses Are Still Going Strong In Europe

One of the messages emerging from the recently concluded iDIFF conference in Paris – other than the fact that French penchant for strikes remains undiminished in the current economic downturn – is that active 3D glasses are still going strong in continental Europe, which is holding out a…

Dolby Sheds Jobs From UK Cinema Manufacturing Division

As if the recent quarterly earnings reports from Warner Bros, Walt Disney and News Corp were not proof enough that the entertainment industry is far from recession proof, news is out that Dolby Laboratories will be closing down its UK manufacturing operation. Some 60 people will lose their jobs from…

The Dutch Go Digital With Arts Alliance

These days, with the global financial meltdown in full swing, any announcement about a rollout of digital cinema installations is big news. Just ask Arts Alliance Media. The U.K. based integrator had a press release picked up by several trade publications that announced an agreement to install and…

Billion Dollar Box Office Seems Recession Proof In January

As the entire world continues to experience a global economic meltdown, those of us living in North America have apparently decided to throw some financial support behind one of our leading exports; movies. Box office tracker Media By Numbers is reporting that January’s box office figures top…

Dreamworks’ 3D Super Bowl Stunt Gets Mixed Reviews

[youtube width=”480″ height=”295″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNK3vdyYdGw[/youtube] From the moment Dreamworks Animation first announced that it would run a 3D trailer for it’s March release “Monsters. vs. Aliens” during Super Bowl XLIII everyone working in the enter…

NATO Reviews D-Cinema Requirements With Vendors

After the positive response the National Association of Theatre Owners received from their meeting last June with manufacturers and service providers to review their Digital Cinema System Requirements, they decided to hold another meeting last Friday in Burbank, CA to go over version 2.1. Brigitte…

Tom Ortenberg Moves To Weinstein Company

[/caption] Tom Ortenberg, president of theatrical films at Lionsgate, is ditching the studio he’s spent 12-years at for a similar title and position at The Weinstein Company. In his new role, Ortenberg will take on some of the same responsibilities at TWC that he oversaw at Lionsgate, includi…

India Welcomes “Slumdog” With Protests And Piracy

[/caption] Less than 24-hours after “Slumdog Millionaire” picked up 10 Oscar nominations on Thursday, filmmaker Danny Boyle’s rags-to-riches movie about a teenage boy from the slums of Mumbai opened on Friday in India stirring up a bit of resentment and controversy. In fact, rather than being…

Paramount Goes Direct-To-Exhibitors With D-Cinema Deal

On the eve of the National Association of Theatre Owners’ meeting with equipment vendors to review digital cinema requirements on Friday, Paramount Pictures has thrown the exhibition industry a curve ball in the hopes of resuscitating the stalled rollout of the technology. Rather than work so…