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Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 4 September

IBC is less than a week away and the IBC Big Screen Experience (free for all attendees!) will hear an urgent appeal for digital cinema manufacturers, exhibitors and others to resolve the vexing issue of software upgrades. John Hurst, co-founder and CTO of CineCert, LLC internationally recognized dev…

2014 Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival Overcomes Its Digital Dilemma

As the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival came to a close last week, artistic director Thierry Fremaux scheduled a last minute press conference so that journalists from around the world could speak with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. The director was visiting the festival for a 20th anniversary screenin…

Fox Theatre Walsenburg

How the Gates Family Foundation Saved Small Town Cinemas from Death-by-Digital

As the clock ticks down for the end of 35mm film prints, so the race is on to save the last few small town cinemas that cannot afford the switch to digital. We are now talking months, not years. In the United States funds typically come from one or a mixture of three sources, allRead More

Unique MovieTransit

Unique’s MovieTransit Scores Major Deals in Denmark and UK

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44131442[/vimeo] While satellite delivery was the talk of CinemaCon 2014, Unique Digital notched up two significant victories in Europe that point to fibre delivery playing a greater role for digital cinema in Europe. The deals with UK’s BT and The Danish Distributors A…

Black coal, Thin Ice

Daily Cinema Digest – Wednesday 2 April 2014

The emergence of China as the world’s second largest cinema territory after US comes as news to precisely no one. Interestingly recent Hollywood films like RoboCop and Need for Speed have earned more at the Chinese box office than in North America, helped in no small part by their 3D release.…

Kinoton Is Latest Victim of Switch to Digital Cinema

Venerable German cinema equipment manufacturer Kinoton is no more, becoming the latest victim of the switch to the digital projection of films. The company issued a press release on 31 March stating: We, the shareholders of Kinoton GmbH, have decided to dissolve the company and end its business oper…

Deluxe Laboratories Hollywood

Deluxe To Close Hollywood Film Lab

Well, we all knew it was coming. With the motion picture industry’s transition away from 35mm film to digital production and distribution it was only a matter of time before the need for film laboratories would disappear entirely. The industry took a step closer toward that end when on Tuesday…

How Kickstarter Helped Save Independent Cinemas from Digital Oblivion

Kickstarter has played a significant role in enabling small independently owned cinemas across the United States to make the transition to digital, a detailed analysis by CelluloidJunkie.com has uncovered. Reviewing 70 campaigns to raise funds to assist with upgrades to digital projection and associ…

35mm Film Platter

Paramount Reportedly Stops Delivery of Film Prints

Well, it may finally have happened. Everyone working in any capacity of the motion picture industry knew the day would come when Hollywood studios would stop distributing their releases on 35-millimeter film prints. If Saturday’s story in the Los Angeles Times is to be believed, that day may f…

Honda Extends Project Drive-In Campaign Due To Enormous Response

[youtube width=”575″ height=”431″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiKS6k6LOvw[/youtube] Here is a follow up to our story back in early-September about Honda’s Project Drive-In Campaign which was launched this past summer. What began as a way to help five of the roughly 150 out…