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Israel to get second Cinema City complex

Israel is set to get its second Cinema City complex in a $50m joint venture between Israeli company Gazit-Globe Israel and Portuguese company New Lineo Cinemas (NLC), which built the first Cinema City complex in Portugal. The article in Ynetnews.com reports that: The complex is expected to open in t…

Only two cinemas left in Baghdad

TimesNow.tv has an interesting though sad article and video from Reuters about one of the last cinemas left in Iraqi capital Baghdad (‘Iraq’s cinemas lost in violence‘), the Atlas cinema in the up-market Mansur district. Far from being a safe airconditioned refuge from the searing…

MovieTickets.com partners 100th cinema chain

Internet and telephone booking service MovieTickets.com has signed its 100th cinema chain partner, BowTie cinemas, which has 115 screens in 15 locations in Connecticut, New York, Maryland and Colorado. The announcement was made in a press release, which also highlighted the fact that it sales were u…

Garbage in cinema – charges filed at last

Someone has finally been charged for filling cinemas with pure garbage. No, it’s not the distributors filling the multiplexes with the usual post-summer derivative horror film re-makes. I this case it was a group of Australian teenagers rampaging in their local multiplex. This from an article…

Most trivial cinema-related story ever?

A woman in Scotland had her mobile phone stolen as she was going to a cinema in Edinburgh. And, erh, that’s it. But the BBC has seen fit to publish a new story about it on its online site. Either an example of Wired’s hyperlocal trend (or did I miss something there?) or that theRead More

Beaming directors to a cinema near you

Last week the London’s BFI Southbank (nee, NFT – the National Film Theatre) transmitted a live interview with director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty via satellite to nine cinemas across the UK, following a special screening of the pair’s latest film ‘It’s a Fr…

UK’s Cinema Exhib. Ass’n Gets Clapp

The trade body of the United Kingdom’s cinema industry has appointed former government film deputy secretary Phil Clapp as its new chief executive. Clapp thus replaces John Wilkinson, who stood down earlier this year (or was stood down?) , as head of the Cinema Exhibitors’ Association (C…

Full “Iron Man” Trailer Airs During “Daily Show”

Monday night the film industry may have figured out a way to combat a growing problem faced by most television advertisers; time shifting. Wikipedia, that bastion of all things completely true and accurate, defines “time shifting” as: “the recording of programming to a storage medi…

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