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ECA Conference 2015

Event Cinema Association Set For Third Annual Conference

Time is quickly running out for those wishing to secure tickets to this year’s ECA Conference on October 19th at Picturehouse Central in London’s posh West End. For its third annual conference the Event Cinema Association (ECA) has put together a day-long program specifically for motion…

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IHS Technology: Event Cinema Develops Into a Global Sector

IHS and Rentrak provide analysis of Event Cinema revenues in eight territories. The Event Cinema sector has been around for many years, with experiments taking place as soon as digital projection was a workable reality. Digital conversion has acted as the main driver for Event Cinema. In both Franc…

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Metropolitan Opera Announces “Live in HD” Series For 2015-16 Season

The annual announcement of The Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming season is always certain to spur a bit of highbrow cultural reportage among media outlets that go for that sort of thing. Such was the case today when The Met revealed the list of productions being planned for their 2015-16 season. W…

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Discovering How The ECA Uses Trailers To Promote Event Cinema

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVQV44qRNM[/youtube] Rather than simply being a service that continuously clogs your inbox with email updates, it turns out LinkedIn, the popular social network, can be rather useful for discovering certain bi…

CJ@ECA Conference: Practicalities of Live Cinema Delivery

The afternoon break out session No. 1 looked at technical issues, such as delivery of live events to cinemas. Fabrice Testa of DSat gave a presentatio earlier over lunch (which they sponsored) of the company and its network 1,300 cinemas, showing 50 events and 400 hours of content last year. Isabell…

CJ@ECA Conference: Farsight Blueprint of the Future – Discussion Session

Christine Costello from More2screen introduces the session looking ahead by quoting Bill Gates about over/under estimating change in the short/long term, as well as getting it wrong (as Bill Gates and Microsfto did with the Internet). There is no panel, but an opportunity for discussion between Chri…

CJ@IBC ‘Event Cinema – more than just TV on the Big Screen’

Event cinema is about to become a billion dollar busisness. Leading practitioners assembled to share their experience of events such as Doctor Who and Met Opera on the big screen around the world.

Howard Kiedaisch

Howard Kiedaisch Departs Arts Alliance On His Own Terms

Late last night (or early this morning) before finally closing my laptop and logging off, I sent Howard Kiedaisch a hasty email to see if he wanted to have a quick conversation to catch up before CineEurope. When I had spoken with the CEO of Arts Alliance Media at the end of May he hadRead More

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Opera Screenings Do Not Drive Actual Opera Attendance, Study Finds

A UK study just released has found that screening opera in cinemas is not boosting the interest to attend performances in actual opera venues. The research would seem to provide ammunition to those who claim that event cinema screenings of Met and Royal Opera House productions is cannibalizing audie…

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The Real Reason That Carmike Bought Digiplex

Is A. Dale (“Bud”) Mayo the savviest man in US exhibition? One thing is for sure, after Carmike’s acquisition of Digiplex he is one of the country’s richest cinema entrepreneurs, with a hat-trick of deals in the last 15 years. So what lies behind this merger and what were the…