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Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 25 May 2015

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/128287560[/vimeo] USA (CA) – Disney’s “Tomorrowland” is the first film to have screened to the public in Dolby Vision HDR (high dynamic range). Cnet is impressed. “In the Dolby Cinema presentation of Disney’s “Tomorrowland,” fi…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 10 November 2014

Variety reports that Australian exhibitor Hoyts’ IPO has been called off. The flotation had been expected to value the company at up to A$900 million ($773 million) in a pre-Christmas sale handled by investment bank UBS. The sale process was triggered by majority shareholder Pacific Equity Par…

Zolten cinema Kiev fire

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 31 October 2014 (Halloween)

An apparent arson attack has destroyed the oldest cinema in Ukraine’s capital. While nobody was injured, this appears to be a despicable hate crime attack that could have had even more tragic consequences. The oldest movie theater in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev was seriously damaged as fire…

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 27 October 2014

Regal has escaped a major anti-trust lawsuit brought on by a small chain complaining about unfair film booking practices that favour larger cinema chains. Major implications in an age when 35mm scarcity is no longer a reason for denying smaller chains film “prints”. This is bad news for…

Small fire in UK cinema – no one died

A small fire in Showcase cinema near Bristol, UK broke out this afternoon. The BBC has a short article about it: About 50 people were in the Showcase Cinema in the St Phillips area, near the A4, when the fire began on Wednesday afternoon. No injuries have been reported. The fire broke out in aRead M…