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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk poster

CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 21 October 2016

Great & Unwatchable Billy Lynn, AMC $1.4bn new debt, Helios expansion, THX sold (again), Indian cinema growth, UFO's theatres, Indian cinema violence threat and paraplegic attack, Unique's Rosetta Live, Cinépolis

CJ Interviews: Julian Pinn, Exec Producer, IBC Big Screen Experience

Celluloid Junkie interviews Julian Pinn about the IBC 2016 Big Screen Experience, including Ang Lee's 120fps HDR 4K "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" keynote and more.

YouTube Now Supports High Frame Rate Playback (Sort Of)

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L562H8a2Fs[/youtube] Back in 2010, as debate raged over whether 4K was really necessary in movie theatres (it depends) and if consumers would ever adopt 4K television sets (they’re starting to), YouTube…

SMPTE Symposium 2014 - What We Want To Do With More

CJ@SMPTE Conference – What We Want To Do With More

In an effort to provide updates on the proceedings of the 2014 SMPTE Technical Conference and Exhibition presently taking place in Los Angeles, CA, this post was written live, and in the present tense, during one of the event’s panel discussions. Comments attributed to panel members are paraph…

Imax China

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…

Graham Cinema NC

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…

Op-Ed: High Frame Rate (HFR) – A New Era in Cinema (Guest Column)

This article will look at how high frame rate (HFR) may effect cinema exhibition and why it is a very important development. HFR or “High Frame Rate” is a term that came into common use because of the introduction of 48-3D (96fps) and 60-3D (120fps) presentations to improve 3D by making fast moving…

CineAsia 2013

Hollywood Studios Embrace High Frame Rate For All Films (Sort Of)

It should come as no surprise that Warner Bros is showing off the trailer for “The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug” in high frame rate (HFR) at the current CineAsia trade show in Hong Kong. After all, that is how director Peter Jackson filmed it and wants audiences to see it. What is mor…