There’s not really 5,000 digital cinemas out there
DLP Cinema(R) Technology Surpasses 5,000 Screen Milestone
Rumour mill: Technicolor loses a studio while Arts Alliance gains one
Two items from the unsubstantiated-but-strong-rumour department. Technicolor is said to have lost one of their two large Hollywood studio clients for prints and lab work. That would mean that either Warner Bros or Disney have opted to go with Deluxe – and another nail in the coffin for Technic…
Katzenberg Sees The Future and It’s In 3D
As previously reported here the big buzz this year at ShowEast is definitely digital 3D. In case there were still any doubters here at ShowEast, DreamWorks Animation topper Jeffrey Katzenberg turned up on Tuesday morning to preach the 3D gospel to 1,000 or so attendees at a breakfast sponsored by Te…
Deluxe and Sony Digital Cinema Appointments
Deluxe and Sony have both announced senior management appointments in their digital cinema divisions. Deluxe has appointed former Loews Cineplex VP John Wolski to look after the exhibitor side of their digital cinema operation. From the press release: Deluxe Digital Cinema, a unit of Deluxe Entertai…
ShowEast 2007: Digital Cinema Goes International
Possibly in an attempt to wait for attendees to wake up and join the conference, it was the second panel discussion at the international day of ShowEast 2007 that was the most relevant to the what was on the minds of world wide exhibitors. Moderated by Bill Mead, the publisher of DCinema Today, the…
ShowEast deals round up – Day 1
As always, a raft of digital and cinema related deals were announced on the first day of ShowEast. Below are the key ones. AccessIT partners Sensio for live 3D streaming Digital cinema integrator AccessIT has announced a partnership with stereoscopic technology solutions provider Sensio to broadcast…
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…