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How Russia Became Europe’s No. 1 Cinema Market – An Insider’s Perspective

This is a Keynote Address delivered at KinoExpo International in St. Petersburg, Russia on 15 September, 2021 by Paul Heth, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Karo Group, reflecting on the re-emergence of the Russian cinema industry. Celluloid Junkie thanks Mr. Heth for the opportunit…

Kodak Finalizes Deal With Studios To Save Film

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyBw–M4OMY[/youtube] In news that is sure to make the likes of Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino rather happy, Kodak announced earlier today that they have finalized a deal to continue supplying fil…

Tired of Hearing Film Is Dead

Can Filmmakers Really Help Kodak Craft A New Image?

The long standing uncertainty over the future of 35mm motion picture film was finally laid to rest this past week by the Eastman Kodak Co. causing the industry to heave a huge sigh of relief. That’s one way to look at the company’s announcement of an agreement with what the Wall Street J…

The Cinema Theatre in Rochester goes digital

Daily Cinema Digest – Friday 9 May 2014

This small-single screen is one of the last in its area to make the switch to digital. So why aren’t we filing it away further down? Because the area is Rochester, home of Eastman Kodak, aka the Company That Digital Nearly Killed. The Cinema’s swap this week from film to digital projection mar…

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Celluloid Has Become A Rarity At The Sundance Film Festival

Few annual events have chronicled the movie industry’s transition from 35mm film to digital cinema quite like the Sundance Film Festival. There were times during this year’s festival, which concluded over the weekend, where it was hard not to be reminded of the art form’s long jour…

Kodak 35mm Motion Picture Film

Kodak Claims ‘Film Is Not Dead’

With nearly 99,000 cinema screens (out of roughly 120,000 worldwide) having already converted to digital, combined with the number of film and television productions now shooting with high-end digital cameras, the need for 35mm film stock is dissolving rapidly. Agfa stopped manufacturing all of thei…

Kodak Laser Projection System

Les Moore Discusses Kodak Laser Projection Technology

At the end of February when the FDA approved a variance clearing the way for Kodak to sell their laser projection technology to cinema exhibitors we ran a post which started out stating it was meant to be a competitor to Texas Instruments DLP chip. It didn’t take long for a commenter to point…

Kodak’s Losses Decline In Q3

Earlier today shares in the Eastman Kodak Company skyrocketed 12% after the company announced their third-quarter financial results had beaten Wall Street expectations. It wasn’t that Kodak had turned a huge profit, but rather it hadn’t lost as much money as had previously been forecast.…

Kodak Reaffirms Its Commitment To Film

Kodak restated an unwavering commitment to film this morning, with an announcement that it has added two new films to its Vision3 family. The stock additions include a medium-speed, tungsten-balanced color negative camera film, and a color intermediate designed for digital post workflows. “These new…

Sony Pictures VPF Deal With Regal & AMC Makes Warner Bros The Only Hold-Out Studio

Sony Pictures has become the next-to-last Hollywood studio to sign a virtual print fee (VPF) agreement with DCIP, the digital cinema integrator representing the three largest US cinema chains (AMC, Regal and Cinemark). This should help DCIP re-start the intended 3 1/2 year roll-out of digital cinem…

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