CJ@IBC ‘Life of Pi’ in Christie 6P laser 14 ftL 3D with Dolby Atmos
Full brightness 3D projection using laser projectors and Dolby Atmos was demonstrated for Life of Pi at IBC Big Screen. CJ was there and in the projection booth.
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 5 September 2014
London’s luxury department store Selfridges (star of the ITV drama series about its eponymous American founder) will be one of the first stores in the world to have its own in-house cinema. We like the look of it so much that we even break our usual policy of only posting on photo per story to…
Daily Cinema Digest – Thursday 14 August 2014
Polas are increasingly turning their backs on multiplexes in favour of smaller cinemas – preferring cheaper tickets, fewer adverts and more varied programming – according to the latest data from the Polish Central Statistical Office. The share of the largest, multiplex cinemas has declin…
IBC 2014 Big Screen Experience – Q&A With Exec Producer Julian Pinn
With digital cinema conversion completed in most of the world, this year the IBC Big Screen Experience (running 12-15 September in Amsterdam’s RAI) has be re-vamped extensively to focus on the latest issues facing the industry. Sessions such as EDCF have been moved from their traditional slot…
Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 5 August 2014
USA – Carmike has released its quarterly figures and discussed them in a conference call. Overall the company claims to be weathering the downturn pretty well, despite a drop in profits of over 50%, with a strong recent focus on M&As. Here is what S. David Passman III, the company’s…
Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 22 July 2014
Imax – According to Wall Street Journal China, Imax is planning to open a further 19 screens in partnership with local companies ahead of listing its local operation. Interestingly Richard Gelfond’s Chinese name is Gail Fang. IMAX theater will open new cooperation with Chinese state-owne…
Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 3 June 2014
The fact that China’s box office is booming is taken as a given, but depending on how you look at the figures, some more troubling aspects shine through. Grace, vice president of Arts and Consulting Research told the “First Financial Daily” correspondent that although the theater b…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 16 May 2014
USA (NY) – National CineMedia has announced the details of its partnership with Shazam, to create audio-embedded links in its adverts for enhanced content. There are further partnerships with Disney’s Maker Studios and Idea United. National CineMedia revealed intriguing partnerships with…
Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 2 May 2014 (Bumper Issue!)
It is not often that we start with a ‘Digital Death Watch’-type of story, but the Graham is not just an amazingly resilient single-screen cinema in North Carolina. This is also example of terrific college journalism that incorporates video (below), photos, info-graphics, mapping and soci…
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…