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Snapchat ticket X-men Apocalypse.

CJ Cinema Digest – Friday 27 May 2016

X-Men Snapchat tickets, PVR halts expansion, Odeon to expand, BFI to expand, Cineworld grows in H1, Indonesian cinema set for growth, Rio strike, Deptford appeal, FNE's CotM is Romuva, Arcadia's Meyer Leopard sound, Almeida Richard III event cinema, Branagh's Bard broadcast, QBIC opening, ShowCase r…

The Exhibition and Distribution Collaboration Panel at CinemaCon 2016

CJ @ CinemaCon: Exhibition and Distribution – Collaborating and Partnering for the Greater Cause

At this year’s CinemaCon, if the keynote addresses given on International Day were noteworthy for reporting on the health and well being of the industry as a whole, then the panel discussion on collaboration between exhibition and distribution may have been the most informative session in term…

Maze Runner In Barco Escape

Barco Escape Gets First Real World Test With “Maze Runner”

This weekend’s North American debut of Twentieth Century Fox’s “Maze Runner” is enabling Barco to move forward with a new product initiative it first announced at CinemaCon earlier this year. Barco Escape is an immersive offering being developed by the digital cinema projector manufacturer that wrap…

Ted Schilowitz

Ted Schilowitz and Barco Set To Announce New Secret Project at CinemaCon

Ask Ted Schilowitz whether he works in either technology or motion picture production or computer hardware or high resolution imaging or marketing, and the answer you’re most likely to receive is, “Yes”. The technologist was recently tapped by Barco, the cinema technology company,…

Son of God and Veronica Mars

Multiplexes Set to Feast on Television Leftovers

Two movies hitting North American cinemas over the next three weeks are primed to do blockbuster business. Unlike most blockbusters however, they aren’t being released with the support of multi-million dollar marketing campaigns. Both are derived from properties that originated from a source cinema…

Fox Comes Up Blank For “Book Thief” Advertisement

If you happened to pick up today’s print issue of the New York Times you may have been thrown by what looked like a printing error; pages 9 and 10 of the main A section were blank. These were not, however, pages that slipped past the printing press untouched. Rather the blank pages were purpos…

SmartJog Continues Partnership Spree With XDC and Fox

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that SmartJog has been on a roll lately when it comes to partnerships? After announcing an agreement with Ymagis in February, they formed a partnership with XDC just before ShoWest and earlier this week entered into a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to deliv…

Germany Experiences A Digital Hiccup With “Avatar”

[/caption] It was bound to happen. With James Cameron’s 3D epic “Avatar” being released on more than 16,000 screens in 122 countries on December 18th, surely there would be a few snafus. One Deluxe insider claimed “Avatar” marked the first movie title for which they shi…

Box Office Review-Sunday 10 May

The Star Trek franchise had its biggest opening yet, as Paramount’s relaunched “Star Trek” topped the North American box office this weekend with an estimated $72.5 million, giving the film a domestic total of $76.5 million (with its Thursday opening night). “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”—which la…

Heavyweights Debate Self-Financing Of Digital Rollout At ShoWest

[/caption] Las Vegas is a city known for its many spectacles; bright lights, showgirls, casinos, fancy restaurants and prize fights are all just some of the attractions. So, it should come as no surprise that ShoWest, the annual gathering of motion picture exhibitors and distributors in Las Vegas,…