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UK Film Council’s Digital Screen Network – Looking Back 10 Years On

This month marks the 10th anniversary of the UK Film Council awarding the contract for the setting up and running of the Digital Screen Network (DSN) to Arts Alliance Media (AAM), following a competitive tender process. The DSN was arguably the first large-scale digital cinema roll-out that aspired…

Cinema Expo Thoughts: David Hancock of Screen Digest

The final entry in our series of posts presenting the comments of industry participants on last month’s Cinema Expo provides us with some valuable information. David Hancock’s name will sound familiar to anyone having worked in motion picture exhibition or digital cinema over the past decade. He is…

How digital cinema can make a difference (unleash your archive!)

The always readable Andreas Fuchs has an excelent piece in the latest issue of Film Journal International on the difference that the UK Film Council‘s Digital Screen Network has made. It was never intended to help the Hollywood blockbusters, though arguably it got the ball rolling in UK for di…

One screen per multiplex, or, How is AAM converting CGR to digital cinema?

A press release from Arts Alliance Media (AAM) about their deployment with France CGR Cinémas is more interesting for what it reveals unintentionally than what it tries to trumpet. The headline of the press release is ‘CGR Cinemas and Arts Alliance Media Install the First All-Digital Multiplex…

UK’s Cinema Exhib. Ass’n Gets Clapp

The trade body of the United Kingdom’s cinema industry has appointed former government film deputy secretary Phil Clapp as its new chief executive. Clapp thus replaces John Wilkinson, who stood down earlier this year (or was stood down?) , as head of the Cinema Exhibitors’ Association (C…