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MPAA Agent Bob Hope Detains Man For Wearing Google Glass in Ohio Cinema

It was only two weeks ago that we predicted the day would come when people would be wearing Google Glass in cinemas and be able to record an entire movie. That future has already arrived sooner than we expected. Over the weekend of January 18th an un-named man went to see “Jack Ryan: Shadow Re…

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Third Time May Be The Ticket For MoviePass Unlimited Moviegoing Subscription

Over a year after MoviePass failed to launch its all-you-can-view subscription movie service, the company is back with a retooled offering that has a much better shot at surviving the inevitable pushback by cinema chains and studios. You might recall last June MoviePass announced a private beta with…

Did Sony Leak The Red-Band Trailer For ‘Dragon Tattoo’?

[youtube width=”560″ height=”349″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kOFGI0p6SM[/youtube] Over the weekend the Internet lit up with news about a pirated version of the red-band trailer for the English language remake of “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”. It wasn…

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CinemaCon 2011: Chris Dodd Makes Debut As MPAA Chairman

[/caption] Nine days into his new position as Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Senator Christopher Dodd showed up at CinemaCon yesterday to address more than 2,000 delegates from the exhibition and distribution industries in what he called “the first performance o…

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MPAA Selects Chris Dodd For Top Job And Huge Challenges

[/caption] All the rumors being reported by the mainstream press as a foregone conclusion were actually correct. This week the Motion Picture Association of America announced that Christopher Dodd, the former U.S. Senator from Connecticut, would become their chairman and chief executive beginning Ma…

Studios Are Fighting Movie Piracy On College Campuses

[/caption] It looks as if the MPAA may be spying on college students, or at the very least monitoring their file sharing activity. Last week on CNET’s daily tech news podcast Buzz Out Loud the hosts read an email from a listener named Chris who explained how the MPAA has been leaving notes for…

NATO Responds To ‘Twilight’ Pirate’s Lawsuit

Less than 24-hours after we posted a story on the lawsuit filed against Muvico by a 22-year-old for being arrested for filming inside a movie theatre an email arrived from Patrick Corcoran, the National Association of Theatre Owners’ Director of Media & Research. Corcoran not only provided a sta…

Accused “Twilight” Pirate Sues Movie Theatre

[/caption] Remember back in November of last year when the industry was abuzz about a 22-year-old woman who was arrested and jailed for using a video recorder inside a Chicago movie theatre during her sister’s birthday party? Well, she’s back in the news again. This time Samantha Tumpach…

MPAA’s Glickman, NATO’s Fithian Deliver Upbeat Industry Prognosis

[/caption] The National Association of Theatre Owners president, John Fithian, and the outgoing chairman of the Motion Picture Assn. of America, Dan Glickman, trumpeted 2009’s record breaking box office grosses as well as advances in piracy protection during their annual “State of the In…

The MPAA’s Motive In Upsetting Exhibitors Over Release Windows

Last Thursday when the Motion Picture Association of America made public an ex parte communication they sent to the FCC in defense of a waiver request it caused a flurry of headlines about studios going to war with exhibitors over release windows. To be sure, the letter sent by the MPAA’s lawy…