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DDCinema Beams Opera To European Cinemas

On Sunday January 27th, Distribution Digital Cinema (DDCinema), the joint venture between XDC, Qubo and Dynamic, jump started their operations by broadcasting a live performance of composer Arrigo Boito’s opera “Mefistofele” from the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Italy to 19 screens l…

Pyramid Scoops Up Gaming Company Aurona

Pyramid Saimira continues to play in the merges and acquisitions pool, this time buying a majority stake in the U.K. gaming company, Aurona Technologies. While there are no details as to the amount Pyramid spent, VC Circle reports it was an all cash deal. At first glance, Aurona Technologies may not…

“Toy Story” Movies To Be Released In 3-D

Walt Disney Studios announced today that it will be reworking both of their blockbuster “Toy Story” films, creating Disney Digital 3-D versions which will be released theatrically before “Toy Story 3”, which is presently being produced as a 3-D movie with a June 18, 2010 laun…

Moore Wants Documentaries In Multiplexes

After starting his career as a documentary filmmaker taking on corporate behemoths like General Motors, Michael Moore turned his attentions to, respectively, the Columbine massacre, the presidency of George W. Bush and the U.S. health care system. Now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Moore want…

Warner Bros. Goes With Kodak Pre-show In Italy

Kodak Digital Cinema is notching a win in its belt after Warner Bros. International Cinemas selected them to run digital pre-show in their theatres throughout Italy. Kodak will install pre-show systems on 172 in 17 venues throughout the country starting in late January. Over the past several years,…

XDC Teams Up With FTT For Digital Instalations

As European digital cinema integrator XDC continues to negotiate potential virtual print fee (VPF) deals with Hollywood studios they are definitely signaling to the industry that they want to be prepared to move fast once such deals close. In a press release dated January 14, 2008, XDC announced tha…

Mexican Cinemas Show TV and Concerts

Mexican exhibitor Cinepolis has begun screening recorded music concerts and plans to show operas and popular television shows on the big screen. The music push came as a result of a deal with Warner Music Mexico to show pre-recorded (high def?) concerts of the likes of Mexican rock band Mana, Pearl…

Korean exhibitors guilty of price collusion

South Korea’s four largest exhibitors have been found guilty of a number of unfair business practices by the country’s Fair Trade Commission. CJ CGV, Lotte Cinema, Megabox and Primus Cinema, which between them account for more than half of the country’s cinemas screens and over 70…

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…