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On-Demand Cinema Proves a Hit in Sweden and South Korea

Cinema-on-demand in an actual cinema is a wow, who knew? This ‘private cinema show of your own’ proves that the moviegoing tradition can stay alive even when there’s no new product to show. Despite having run out of audience for the older films it was showing while its cinemas remained uniquely open…

How Kino za Rogiem Reinvented the Neighbourhood Cinema

Poland has long been the fastest growing cinema market in Central Europe, if not the whole of Europe. Yet in the shadow of the multiplex majors Cinema City, Helios and Multikino a small cinema chain is carving out a different niche. Kino za Rogiem (Cinema Around the Corner), or KzR for short, is a n…

GoKino.ch

The Interesting Failure of Cinema-on-Demand

With Pathe and Cinérive terminating their trial with Gokino.ch the concept of cinema-on-demand is struggling to take off in the age of social media commerce.

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Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 19 May 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/VJWJMh1PmR4[/youtube] Could glasses-free stereoscopic 3D soon be a reality in cinemas? A research paper on ‘A Compressive Light Field Projection System’ from MIT seems to suggest so. Fascinating work if you can get your head around the science behind the screen,…

ArcLight Santa monica

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 9 April 2014

Normally we bury cinema openings further down in the Daily, but this merits top billing. Back in January we wrote about how premium cinema operator ArcLight had set its sights on Los Angeles’ Santa Monica market and whether this would create a screen glut. Now news reaches us that ArcLight is…

Has Brazil cracked cinema-on-demand concept?

While Tivos and iPod have liberated consumers from the tyranny of fixed TV schedules and pre-set playlist orders of songs, cinemas remain a viewing-by-appointment medium. So could digital technology end this and make it a more show-by-show consumer demand oriented medium? The Brazilians appear to be…