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CinemaCon ICTa Carolyn Giardina

CinemaCon: ICTA Presents – The Unintended Consequences of Digital Cinema

(“Motion seats will be the death of me.” – Un-Named Studio Executive at CinemaCon) Joe deMeo of Barco and President of the International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA) introduces the panel session with the question, “after the [digital cinema] roll out what are we looki…

Finixx

Alibaba Buys China Cinema Ticketing Company for $134m

The biggest financial cinema news of the week was not at the CinemaCon trade show in Las Vegas. Demonstrating instead the importance of China to the cinema business, e-commerce giant Alibaba paid 840 million yuan (USD $134 million) for cinema ticketing software company Yueke Software Engineering Com…

Barry Rebo Ymagis DCNA

CinemaCon: Interview With Ymagis/DCNA’s Barry Rebo

In the run-up to and during CinemaCon 2015 CJ is interviewing and profiling several leading companies, trade bodies and people to capture the mood of the cinema industry as it enters its post-digital era. Today we talk to Barry Rebo, newly appointed head of Ymagis’ just-launched division Direc…

CinemaCon: Barco Looks to Post-VPF Future

“VPFs are gone and they are not coming back,” was the stark message from Barco’s Todd Hoddick, delivered at Barco’s big CinemaCon press event on Tuesday. While this should not come as a surprise to any cinema industry insider, this message is also one that appears to guide Ba…

CinemaCon: Dave Hollis Delivers International Keynote Address

This is a live transcript of presentations at CinemaCon. As such it is likely to contain errors, spelling misstakes and misheard quotes. You have been warned. It is a strange dicotomy that international cinema now represents 72% of Hollywood’s box office takings, yet at CinemaCon the Internati…

Adam Gottlieb

CJ @ CinemaCon: Interview with Adam Gottlieb of Continental Concession Supplies Inc.

Many North American cinema operators probably associate Adam Gottlieb with candy, refreshments and a wide variety of cinema concessions. During the past 17 years Gottlieb has been the cinema industry liaison for Continental Concession Supplies Inc. (CCSI) helping exhibitors of all sizes improve thei…

Valmir Fernandes of Cinemark International

CJ @ CinemaCon: Interview with Valmir Fernandes of Cinemark International

There are only a handful of people working in the entertainment industry that can go solely by their first name and still have everyone know who is being referenced. Most of them are performers such as Beyoncé, Madonna, Prince, Cher and, more recently, Rihanna. Easily joining this list of mononymous…

Arts Alliance Eric Steven and Rich Philips

CJ @ CinemaCon: Q&A Interview with Arts Alliance Media

In the run-up to CinemaCon 2015 CJ is interviewing and profiling several leading companies, trade bodies and people to capture the mood of the cinema industry as it enters its post-digital era. Arts Alliance Media (AAM) was an early digital cinema pioneer with the UK Film Council’s DSN, as wel…

Bill Campbell in Sheridan Wyoming

CJ @ CinemaCon: Q&A Interview With Cinema Buying Group’s Bill Campbell

With the conversion to digital projection mostly complete at North American cinemas, it should come as no surprise that those who played a significant part in the adoption and rollout of the technology are now being recognized for their contribution. Bill Campbell, who will receive the Marquee Award…

Jean Mizrahi Ymagis

CJ @ CinemaCon: Q&A Interview With Ymagis’ Jean Mizrahi

In the run-up to CinemaCon 2015 CJ is interviewing and profiling several leading companies, trade bodies and people to capture the mood of the cinema industry as it enters its post-digital era. Today we talk to Jean Mizrahi, Co-Founder and CEO of Ymagis, the pan-European cinema services company whic…