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Do games work on the big screen?

Less than two dozen posts and we are fearlessly tackle the Big Questions About The Future OF Cinema in this blog, such as do games have a future in the multiplex. As games get more sophisticated in terms of graphics, plot and budget, attempts are being made to transplant them to the cinema environme…

Nobody wants to buy Vienna’s IMAX

While IMAX theatres are growing faster than bamboo in China, it appears that nobody is interested in acquiring the old IMAX cinema in the centre of Austrian capital Vienna. The large format (LF) cinema shut its doors two years ago and the property owners Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (ironically enou…

Leaded, unleaded or a cinema ticket?

Indian refinery company Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is branching out from petrol station – into forecourt cinemas. As income declines from retail petroleum products BPCL thinks that it can revive its fortunes by pumping out digital cinema features in halls all across India. Wit…

Surprise cinema (pay if you like the film) and ‘Lost’ on the big screen in Prague

The Czechs have come up with a new cinema concept, which is to screen a surprise movie at Prague’s largest arthouse cinema where patrons only pay afterwards depending on how much they like the film. From ABC Prague’s website: Aero cinema in Prague has chosen an interesting way, how to at…

Who wants to see canned concerts in cinemas?

At a time when more and more rock bands are re-forming (Led Zeppelin, Police and Sex Pistols), one rock band that can’t reform (RIP Freddy Mercury) is having one of its old concerts dusted off and projected onto the big screen. Queen’s 1981 concert in Montreal will be shown at Empire cin…

Sale of Hoyts Now A Two-Horse Race

The latest from Publishing & Broadcasting’s imminent sale of Australian cinema chain Hoyts is that the field of candidates is now down to two suitors. Sydney buyout firm Private Equity Partners is down to the wire against India’s Pyramid Saimira Theatre, as the offer prise has gone u…

Adopt-a-seat in world’s oldest interactive cinema

You can now adopt a seat in one of Prague’s oldest cinemas, Kino Svetozor, which is raising money for refurbishment through the innovative scheme. The idea and the background to the cinema is discussed in an article and broadcast by Radio Praha: Kino Svetozor is one of the oldest cinemas in th…

No Avatar vs. Monsters vs. Aliens at the BO

It was a battle of the titans at the box office that was destined not to be. Paramount and DreamsWorks Animation (DWA) have moved the release date of ‘Monsters vs. Aliens‘ significantly forward to avoid a clash with James Cameron’s ‘Avatar‘. Both films were set to be sh…

Does sport work in cinemas?

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MPAA Urges ISPs To Help Fight Piracy

The Motion Picture Association of America has been hinting for some time now that internet service providers should prevent copyrighted material such as movies and televisions shows from being distributed illegally through their high speed broadband networks. Back in July of this year, the MPAA file…