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ShowEast 2007: Internet Marketing Highlighted At International Day

Just when I think the motion picture exhibition and distribution industry is going to catch up to emerging technologies I was reminded just how far behind they may truly be. ShowEast 2007 kicked off this morning in Orlando, FL. with its international day. The first seminar in the program was entitle…

ShowEast – yet more digital and 3D

Attendees of ShowEast must be experiencing serious deja vu all over again. Digital Cinema and digital 3D are the big themes, Katzenberg is there to spread the digital/3D gospel and everyone still waits for DCIP to show its hand. So it’s just like CinemaExpo in June and ShoWest in March. OK, so…

Bomb in Indian cinema kills six, injures many

There are no ‘good’ places for bombs to go off, but to me there is something particularly despicable about bombings directed against places like temples, schools, nurseries – and cinemas. Six people were killed and 32 maimed and injured in a bombing of a cinema in the Shringar cine…

San Francisco State Holds Conference On Evolving Digital Cinema Aesthetics

If you are looking for signs as to whether digital cinema is being taken seriously by the cultural inteligencia (and why wouldn’t you be?), then you will be happy to hear that the Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association at San Francisco State University will be holding a two day conference…

Rise of Multiplexes in India Doom Single Screen Theatres

Picture the following sentence at the start of a news article: “With multiplex industry’s soaring business and ominous presence, can the single screen cinema halls sustain its business?” It wouldn’t be a far stretch to imagine this sentence being ripped from a newspaper or magazine article abo…

Pavarotti lives on – on the cinema screen

The big man of opera is getting a fitting tribute at a small cinema in the Austrian capital. Between October 4th and 28th you can catch a big screen tribute to the recently deceased Italian tenor in what is described as ‘Opern-Kino: In memoriam Pavarotti‘ (or Opera Cinema: Remembering Pa…

How multiplex arrival changed Bollywood

A very interesting Q&A with author Anupama Chopr about her book King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema over at the Freakonomics blog by Melissa Lafsky. It looks at how the Indian/Hindi film industry (a.k.a. Bollywood) has changed in the last decade-and-a-half,…

How to keep trouble (makers) from your cinema

Here is a fairly controversial way of keeping potential troublemakers from your cinema – ban under-17s from late night screenings on Fridays and Saturdays. That’s the what the chairman and CEO of Kerasotes Theatres has started doing after a shooting incident at one of his cinemas. The ar…

4K projectors coming to the home already

No sooner has Sony not succeeded in making the SXRD 4K the preferred projector standard for cinemas (unless you count Muvico and Norway) then Japanese rival JVC launches a 4Kx2K projector for the home at the CEATEC trade show in Japan: Victor Company of Japan Ltd. exhibited a projector with the disp…

What’s that sound? It’s the sound of problems with alternative content audio

A good article in Variety takes alternative content music events and cinema design to task for not being perfectly suited for each other. Particularly older cinemas might have to upgrade both the audio systems and the sound proofing to properly play alternative content music concerts such as the upc…