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CinemaCon 2021: Industry Think Tank Debates How To Bring The Big Screen Back

For the most part, the filmmaker lunch at each year’s CinemaCon is a fairly straightforward affair. Don’t get us wrong; show organizers always manage to get big names to turn out for an hour long conversation. In 2012 directors Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee took the stage to banter about filmmaking,…

Minions Los Angeles Times Masthead

‘Minions’ LA Times Promotion Stirs Up (Planned?) Controversy

While “Minions” may not commence their invasion of the North American box office until tomorrow (July 10th), you’d have to be living a fairly hermetic life to be completely unaware of the latest animated release from Universal Pictures. The film’s marketing blitz has seen its…

Cinemark Playa Vista at The Runway

Cinemark Expands Premium Concept With Upscale Theatre In Silicon Beach

Cinemark, the third largest cinema chain in the United States, can add nine more screens this evening to the more than 5,700 it operates throughout the country. This weekend marks the grand opening of the Cinemark Playa Vista and XD, the ninth and latest of the circuit’s NextGen multiplex venu…

Michigan’s Rialto Theater Calls Attention to the Endangered Future of Small Town Cinemas

[advanced_iframe securitykey=”da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709″ src=”https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/205072480/restore-the-rialto-theater/widget/video.html” width=”590″ height=”443″ marginheight=”500″] On Wednesday the Los Ange…

Bagdad Theater & Pub

LA Times Shines Spotlight On Portland’s Bagdad Theater & Pub

You know how sometimes when a brand new word enters your lexicon you wind up hearing the vocabulary word being used in all sorts of different situations? It leaves you wondering how you never noticed the word before, or if, unaware of its true meaning and definition, you had simply ignored it altoge…

Tower Heist

Universal Hopes “Tower Heist” Will Pass The Premium-VOD Test

In what the Los Angeles Times called “an audacious move” earlier this week, Universal Pictures announced earlier this week that it would allow the Eddie Murphy action comedy “Tower Heist” to be shown via premium-video-on-demand three weeks after its November 4th release date.…

L.A. Times’ Patrick Goldstein Debates Release Windows

[/caption] If you’ve never read Patrick Goldstein in the Los Angeles Times, you’re really missing out. Especially this past Tuesday when the subject of his weekly column, The Big Picture, was none other than release windows. Goldstein has been writing his column for as long as I can reme…

JPMorgan Finds $700 Million For DCIP

That collective sigh of relief you may have heard over this past weekend no doubt came from the North American motion picture exhibition and distribution industries. The Los Angeles Times report that investment bank JPMorgan was finally able to round up roughly USD $700 million for Digital Cinema Im…

“New Moon” Breaks Records For Internet Buzz and Midnight Box Office

Already one of the most anticipated film releases of 2009, it should come as no surprise that “Twilight Saga: New Moon” is setting all sorts of records, both at the box office and on Internet social networking sites. According to Variety, the second installment in the “Twilight…

Katzenberg Gets Journalistic Spanking By LA Times

Jeffrey Katzenberg may be the Moses trying to lead the industry to the Promised 3D Digital Land, but judging by this article from the LA Times (Jeffrey Katzenberg in 3-D: Hollywood is rolling its eyes), his leadership may be in question. Patrick Goldstein, the articles author, takes Katzenberg to t…