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Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 24 September 2014

Barco is doubling down on its immersive audio efforts by hiring away IOSONO’s audio team and setting up what is now called Barco Audio Technologies [BAT?]. This could potentially mean moving away from a dependance on the Auro brand and Auro Technologies partnership, though the latter is quoted…

Bud Mayo opportunist

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…

Ceasar's Palace Las Vegas

Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 20 March 2014

CinemaCon is just around the corner. The biggest annual get-together of cinema owners and operators from all over the world takes place 24-27 March and Celluloid Junkie will be there. Please note that there will be NO Daily Cinema Digest next week. Instead we will try to bring you breaking news and…

Is Cinedigm A Digital Cinema Bellwether?

The time before, during and after any motion picture industry trade show is one filled with an endless stream of press releases. Any journalist covering the space receives dozens, if not hundreds, of emails from marketing departments and publicists during these periods filled with press releases. At…

Chris McGurk

Chris McGurk Says Cinedigm’s Future Is In Software And Content

[/caption] Not sure if you noticed, but over the past week Cinedigm’s stock price jumped over 33% from USD $1.50 to USD $2.00. It closed Friday out at USD $1.88. The sudden price increase in Cinedigm’s stock is likely due to a number of factors, rather than a single reason. It has been a…

Chris McGurk

Why Cinedigm Hired Chris McGurk As CEO

[/caption] Okay, I admit that the headline of this post is pure click bait. But did you really want to read another story headlined “Chris McGurk Named Cinedigm CEO”? Truth is I wasn’t in Cinedigm’s board room when they offered Chris McGurk their Chairman and CEO positions, a…

Cinedigm Topper Adam Mizel Provides Industry and Company Update

As Show East got underway back in October North America’s largest digital cinema integrator, Cinedigm, published a press release that was meant to serve as an industry update on the digital rollout in the territory. According to Cinedigm there were 12,802 digital screens in North America out o…

Goooaal! Cinedigm Scores With 3D FIFA World Cup Final

[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfnXx4mBO4k[/youtube] This past Sunday Cinedigm, a leading North American digital cinema deployment entity, achieved another live event milestone and I was there to witness it first hand. As we reported back in…

Cinedigm and Unique Digital Release TMS Upgrades

[/caption] Timed to coincide with this year’s Cinema Expo conference being held in Amsterdam through Thursday two well known integrators have released enhanced versions of their theatre management systems (TMS). North American deployment entity Cinedigm has included centralized management feat…

Cinedigm’s Partnership For FIFA World Cup Makes Sensio

Last week Cinedigm announced a partnership with Sensio that will allow them to bring the FIFA World Cup Soccer Tournament being held in South Africa this month to theatres all over the world. What’s more, the matches will be shown live and in 3D. The press release sent around to promote the pa…