CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 29 April 2016
Ex-Centris bankrupt - MK2 looks elsewhere in Montreal, Regal Q1 figures, Ymagis buys ST'501, goodbye popcorn - hello intermission, lots of cinema openings and artist's impressions.
Cinema of the Month: PVR Icon, Mumbai, India
Mumbai's first PVR Icon is our Cinema of the Month for April. See what a five-star luxury screen in the heart of Bollywood looks like.
CJ Cinema Digest – Wednesday 27 April 2016
Hotels embrace in-house cinemas, India ticket policing, cockroaches in Cinestar, Rudolph Buet fetted, Cranston's cinema closes, Pathe renovation, Noida to double screen count and keeping it reel.
CJ @ CinemaCon: “Adapting Our Organizations and Tools to Succeed in a Digital World,” Julien Marcel, CEO, Webedia US
Webedia's Julien Marcel gave a a terrific overview at CinemaCon of digital disruption and how cinemas can use collaboration tools to succeed.
CJ Cinema Digest – Monday 25 April 2016
CGV mulls divests, VPF transparency call, Helios expansion, Prince in cinema, Saudi Arabia cinema, Marathi films mandated, "Deadpool" alcohol raid, Japan's 1st dine-in cinema and more
CJ @ CinemaCon: International Keynotes Highlight Growing Global Industry
Each year before CinemaCon officially gets underway, the show’s organizers hold a day of seminars and panels focused on the international marketplace. Appropriately dubbed International Day, in the five years since the annual convention first started being held, the international keynote addre…
CJ @ NAB: Universal First Studio to Embrace ACES Fully
AMPAS' Andy Maltz provided an update on ACES at NAB 2016 and Universal will be first studio to embrace the system fully by 2018.
CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 22 April 2016
Spanish cinema tragedy, CinemaCon updates (teens, texting, ticket prices & DCDC), Inox limit, 28 Days review, Toyota cinema seats, Live Cinema cons, blind cinema patron in Germany, Imax subtitling for deaf, new cinema plans and Scottish cinema Wurlitzer.
Ang Lee Just Invented a New Form of Cinema
NAB2016 saw a demo "Billy Flynn's Long Halftime Walk" in 120fps 3D 4K. It was like nothing witnessed before. Afterwards the film's director Ang Lee spoke about pushing the limits of cinema.
CJ @ Cinemacon: ‘Cinema: Experience is Everything’, David Hancock, IHS
IHS's David Hancock looks at how the experiential nature of cinema going is changing in the post-digital age.