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NCM-Screenvision Call Off Merger – Winners and Losers

Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War, I-26 The proposed merger between US cinema advertising majors National CineMedia (NCM) and Screenvi…

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NCM Surrenders Lobby Ad Selling to Focus on Big Screen

Cinema advertising major National CineMedia has together with Cinema Scene entered a joint-selling agreement with Adspace Networks for a major digital place-based network that will dominate movie theater lobbies in the United States. The move will create economies of scale and free up NCM to focus o…

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Fathom Events New CEO John Rubey Provides Both Experience and Leadership

When National CineMedia (NCM) spun off its alternative content division, NCM Fathom Events, into a completely separate business entity at the end of 2013, it did not identify a chief executive officer for the newly formed company. Kurt Hall, the chairman and CEO of NCM, stayed with the cinema advert…

Travis Reid Departs DCIP To Head Up Screenvision

[/caption] Last Thursday Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP) announced that Travis Reid, their CEO, had resigned. That same day on-screen advertising giant Screenvision announced that Shamrock Capital Advisors, a private equity fund founded by the late Roy Disney, had finalized the $160 mi…

Screenvision and National CineMedia In Merger Talks

Less than a week after denying bankruptcy rumors that caused the stock price of French conglomerate Thomson SA to plummet 15%, the company has moved aggressively to sell off its cinema advertising unit Screenvision. Industry chatter that the Thomson subsidiary has entered talks to merge with its ch…

Daily Cinema Roundup – Wed 13 May – “Going forward it will look different after the 3D screens are in place.”

– For those that decry Imax Digital’s 2x2K imaging technology, perhaps we can interest you in JVC’s new 8K projector? (pictured above) From CrunchGear, “8K content is pretty much…impossible to find right now. Unless you were to make a motion-JPEG movie out of full-size shots…

Regal Numbers Are Down For 2007

While the latest financial results from Regal showed a healthy profit, the underlying numbers paint a far less comforting picture. From The Hollywood Reporter: The company earned $23.2 million in the fourth quarter, down 21% from a year ago. But on a per-share basis, the company earned 15 cents, whi…

DDCinema Beams Opera To European Cinemas

On Sunday January 27th, Distribution Digital Cinema (DDCinema), the joint venture between XDC, Qubo and Dynamic, jump started their operations by broadcasting a live performance of composer Arrigo Boito’s opera “Mefistofele” from the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Italy to 19 screens l…

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U2’s digital 3D Release Dates Announced

Normally better known for distributing animal documentaries, National Geographics will be bringing U2 3D to digital stereoscopic cinemas in January 2008 world wide. (Cue the inevitable jokes about showcasing mammoth films about aging rock dinosaurs). Anyone who attended this year’s ShoWest, Ca…