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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…

2007 – the Year of Opera at the Movies

If there was one true surprise in the digital cinema industry this year it was that people were prepared to pay a premium for a night at the opera at their local multiplex. It was the New York Metropolitan Opera (The Met) that kicked it off in the early days of the new year withRead More

No ‘Welcome’ For ‘Sweeney’ At multiplex

Marcus Theatres has pulled “Sweeney Todd” from showing on any of its 49 cinemas as they thought Paramount was asking for too much. From Variety: “Unfortunately, as a result of the negotiations with Paramount reaching an impasse, Marcus Theaters will not be showing ‘Sweeney To…

Arclight Comes To Sherman Oaks

Can a movie theater make movies better? That was the question residents of the San Fernando Valley found waiting for them at the end of their driveway last Thursday. At least those residents who subscribe to home delivery of the Los Angeles Times. The question was posed on an insert folded into Thur…

No, no, no – Internet distribution WON’T kill cinemas

Print and on-line media have been getting WAY over excited about the straight-out-on-Internet release of Paramount’s Jackass 2.5 (less so about Hammer Horror’s return to production with the S-o-o-I release of Beyond the Rave). For a film that came across in its first outing (Jackass 1.0?…

Screenvision’s Loss Is XDCs Gain

Pan-European digital cinema integrator XDC has poached the Benelux head of pan-European cinema advertiser Screenvision to head up its virtual print fee effort as the company get a 7.5m euro cash injection. Serge Plasch is replacing Laurent Minguet as head and will go head to head with the likes of A…

Was this really the worst movie trailer of 2007?

While most newspapers and magazines devote December to the Best Films of 2007 (and sometimes the worst too), the LA Times has gone one step further and polled its contributors on the highlights and misses when it comes to the 60 second Cliff notes version of the film meant to entice the masses to th…

Is this how MDA persuaded Technicolor to set up shop in Singapore?

As previously reported Singapore has been working for several years to turn the country into the digital hub of Asia. Earlier this month the Technicolor announced that it would set up a facility in Singapore to service digital cinema needs throughout Asia. The Media Development Authority of Singapor…

Hollywood Rules India (For One Weekend)

For one weekend out of 52, Indian cinemas look like those in almost every other non-US territory dominated by Hollywood films. There were no less than five studio titles opening this past Friday: I Am Legend, 30 Days of Nights, 1408, The Heartbreak Kid and Air Buddies, with just one Hindi film (Hitc…