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Canada opts for e-cinema ghetto for regions

The National Film Board of Canada has launched digital distribution of movies to remote areas of the country, but opted for a lower end e-cinema system over full fledged digital cinema. This means that only local and art house films will be able to screen, rather than also showing US and Canadian ma…

NFL Goes After ODS Wisconsin Cinemas

As far as show down goes, this is a David v Goliath that puts the might NFL (National Football League) against a small band of cinemas in Wisconsin who plan to show games featuring the state’s Green Bay Packers team on the big screen. Some cinemas, such as Marcus Corp. and the Fox Bay CinemaRe…

Complain more at your local multiplex

One of the reason that the exhibition industry has problems promoting digital cinema is because to laud the visual quality improvement that digital offers is tantamount to admitting that analogue projection in most cinemas is appalling. Typically the picture is all too often dim, scratched, out of f…

As Petula Clark almost sang about the cinema

An article about an Irish man falling asleep during a screening at Arklow’s Gaiety Cinema Group Multiplex only to wake up to find himself locked in, during the Christmas holiday season no less, leaves out the most important detail. Which film was playing that proved a snooze fest for at least…

Kinepolis blames 2007 downturn on films

An interesting difference between perceptions of cinema in Europe and US is that the success of a film or cinema year is that admissions are counted by number of admissions in most European countries but in the US bucks at the box office is the only measure. Hence, 2007 was recently hailed as a grow…

Casper, WY To Get 10-Plex, Wal-Mart style

Movie Palaces Inc. are expanding their five theatre empire in Casper, Wyoming with one more ten-screen multiplex on the east side of town. The Casper Star Tribune reveals that because of parking and building size issues downtown the multiplex has to be situated at the east side of town. Randy Pride,…

7/10 of IMAX’s China screens to be digital

Large format (LF) film company Imax has recycled an old press release about a ten-screen deal with China’s Wanda Cinemas first reported here back in September 2007. The only major thing different about the new press release appears to be that seven of the ten deployments will be the as-yet unt…

Cinema is a good place for violence – official

Or, freakonomic goes to the movies. Economists experts have come up with a finding that won’t please those who consider the cinema a ‘family friendly‘ place or those advocating more U/PG films (that’s you, Mr Fithian) – showing violent films in cinemas doesn’t inc…

NY Times’ Pogue Upset With Movie Trailers

David Pogue, the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times, is taking Hollywood studios to task for putting content in their movie trailers that doesn’t actually appear in their movies. On Thursday, Pogue wrote a post in his blog on the Times’ website blasting the trailer for…

Indian Box Office Is Booming

Thanks to lurid exposes like the one which appeared in the December 22nd issue of The Economist most westerners probably think of India as a crowded and impoverished country filled with 1.1 billion people living in slums and working for miniscule wages. What they might find hard to believe, despite…