Europe’s film agencies, the lead organisations for film in Europe, have released a joint statement this week offering their support to the European Commission in looking at ways of stimulating the uptake of digital cinema in Europe.In their common declaration on digital cinema, the chain of national film agencies across Europe which includes the UK Film Council state:“The directors of Europe’s national film agencies (the EFADs) consider that digital cinema represents a major challenge for ...
SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL 2006SYMPOSIUM The Updates of Digital Cinema regarding the distribution and screening over the worldThe standardization of digital cinema by the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) is nearly complete, and digital cinema projects are currently being developed around the world. In this symposium, panelists from Japan and abroad will present the latest news on digital cinema distribution. The future of the digital cinema business o...
Founded in 2002, Rain Network is a Brazilian company that has created a solution for independent cinema market by interconnecting theaters in a digital network. With offices in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York and London, the company currently transmits, by satellite, films in digital format to more than 120 screens.
In December 2005, Rain Network has joined forces with Emerging Pictures (www.emergingpictures.com), to form Rain US, a collaborative venture for digital distribution and exhi...
Friday, June 16----The new frontiers in distribution of documentary films has been a running theme at the SILVERDOCS International Documentary Conference. While other topics such as film financing, working with non-profits and foundations, and producing for public television are rather evergreen and non-changing from years past, the arena of distribution is on fire, with a number of panels pointing to incredible new opportunities for documentary filmmakers to reach wider audiences.
On Thursday ...
What is changing in the cinema with the advent of digital? And what are the effects on exhibition? The second day of the exhibitors’ training course “DigiTraining Plus: New Technologies for European Cinemas”, taking place at the moment in Kuurne, Belgium, goes right to the heart of the matter. The exhibitors’ voices, with their questions and their expectations, were heard thanks to Jan Van Dommelen, representing Unic (the federation of national exhibitors’ associations) and Enrico Chie...
DigiTraining Plus courses: New Technologies for European CinemasThird Edition: Kuurne, Belgium, 5 – 9 April 2006MEDIA Salles has prepared a 5-day course offering a full overview of the financial, business and technical issues surrounding digital transition: Change to digital: why? Will I be able to increase my cinema’s potential? What problems will I encounter and who will help me solve them?Unique opportunity to exchange opinions with other exhibitors in an international setting, bring your...
Editorial by Elisabetta Brunella, Secretary General of MEDIA SallesAt the Berlin Film Festival, MEDIA Salles kept its appointment with the cinema community that pays the closest attention to economic and technological developments in the sector, presenting the 2005 final edition of the “European Cinema Yearbook”.As well as the first previews of the overall results of cinema-going in Europe in 2005, the prominent data in the Yearbook includes the situation of screens equipped with DLP CinemaT...
For the first time MEDIA Salles anticipates the publication of data on cinema-going in Europe in 2005 at the Berlin Film Festival, including it in the “2005 final edition” of the “European Cinema Yearbook”.The interpretation of this data shows that the last few months of 2005 – which saw a general recovery in cinema-going – proved unable to change the fate of a year marked by negative results. Throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Rim there was a decided decrease in audiences. On a...
Movie theater audiences have steadily shrunk over the past 50 years. This brings a very important concern to the forefront: will movie theaters continue to exist among all the new media and technology? With so many different ways to distribute a film, it is a matter of sociology as to why one would want to go into a dark movie theater and experience a film with a group of strangers or even alone in the dark.Several of these topics were addressed at a recent Sundance Film Festival panel I attende...
MEDIA Salles, the initiative on behalf of European cinemas, with the support of the MEDIA Programme and the Italian Government, is promoting the third edition of the exhibitor training course:“DigiTraining Plus: New Technologies for European Cinemas”Kuurne, Belgium5 - 9 April 2006in collaboration with BARCO,to be held at Barco headquartersMain topics:The present state of the European and international market for digital screeningOverview of technologiesExhibition and DistributionDigital Cine...
Thomson through its Technicolor Digital Cinema business, announced it has reached a strategic understanding with Century Theatres, Inc., one of America’s largest national theatre circuits, to install DCI-compliant digital projection systems in Century-owned and operated screens. Under the terms of the understanding, Technicolor Digital Cinema will install digital projection equipment beginning with a beta-test deployment of 90-120 screens in the first quarter of 2006. It is Thomson’s intent...
The HDFEST 2005 World Tour concluded this past weekend in Los Angeles after HD festival events this year in London, Helsinki, Hameenlinna, New York, and South Florida. This past weekend's festival took place at the ETC Digital Cinema Lab at the Hollywood Pacific Theatre and Dolby Laboratories Larry Umlang Presentation Theatre II in Burbank. HDFEST's Los Angeles Event was presented by Intel and included HD movie screenings, panels, seminars on HD filmmaking and digital technology, parties, and th...
The schedule for HDFEST, the world's only high definition film festival, was released today. Staged at the ETC Digital Cinema Lab at the Hollywood Pacific Theatre and the Dolby Laboratories' Larry Umlang Presentation Theatre II in Burbank, the festival will include screenings of High-Def movies, panels on High-Def filmmaking, festival parties and the HDFEST 2005 Deffie Award Ceremony.HDFEST Los Angeles is the final event in the 2005 HDFEST World Tour, which included previous events this year in ...
While an astonishing number of American independent features and documentaries are receiving at least a token theatrical distribution in US theaters, there are many deserving films that are falling through the cracks. These films may have won a slew of awards at prestigious festivals, been invited all over the world to screen outside their home country, and even secured enthusiastic reviews in the trade press, but in the end, they go undistributed.A group of six of these “Festival orphans” a...
The 90th anniversary edition of Glorious Technicolor: The Movies’ Magic Rainbow is a 280-page, coffee-table-size, hard-cover volume offering an insightful, behind-the-scenes glimpse into nearly a century of entertainment history. The book is written by Basten, who has spent the last three decades of his career following the intriguing accomplishments of Technicolor and its founder, Dr. Herbert Kalmus.In 1915, Kalmus invented the first commercially-viable color motion picture film camera and p...
Fox has signed a deal to provide its films for Christie/AIX, the joint venture between Christie and AccessIT.Disney was the first studio to cut a similar deal with Christie.In its first long-term commitment to digital cinema, Twentieth Century Fox (“Fox”) has reached an agreement to supply its feature films to digital cinema projection systems deployed by Christie/AIX, a unit of Access Integrated Technologies (“AccessIT”) (AMEX:AIX). For Fox, this “first-of-a-kind” distribution arran...
Resfest, one of the world's most important festival dedicated to the vanguard of digital cinema and to pushing the boundaries of technological innovation and creativity, comes to Italy for the first time. It will be in Turin from October 28 to 30, at the National Museum of Cinema's Cinema Massimo and at Lumiq Studios, thanks to the new Artistic Director of Turin's VIRTUALITY CONFERENCE, Maria Elena Gutierrez. This traveling event tours over 35 cities on six continents and, in Italy, it precedes ...
The Walt Disney Studios' distribution arm Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (BVPD) and Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. ("AccessIT") (AMEX: AIX) Christie/AIX unit have entered into a groundbreaking non-exclusive agreement to supply feature films from Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures to DCI-compliant digital projection systems to be deployed by Christie/AIX. Christie/AIX will install between 2,500 and 4,000 systems throughout the United States and Canada over the next two years.Ju...
Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI)venture was formed in March 2002. The purpose of DCI is to establish and document specifications for an open architecture for Digital Cinema components that ensures a uniform and high level of technical performance, reliability and quality control.DCI members include Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros. Studios. Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI) has completed the final overall system requirements and specifi...
DOLBY CHOOSES CHRISTIE 2K DIGITAL CINEMA PROJECTORS TO INSTALL IN SELECT THEATRES NATIONWIDE WITH DOLBY DIGITAL CINEMA SERVERSChristie, first in DLP Cinema™ projection, announced that Dolby Laboratories has selected the Christie CP2000 2K resolution DLP Cinema projectors for more than 50 specially selected theatres in the U.S. market. Alongside Dolby® Digital Cinema servers, Christie’s projectors will enhance the movie-going experience by bringing more light to screens for brighter and clea...
International Digital Conference at the Montreal World Film FestivalThe Montreal International Digital Market will hold a series of conferences on digital distribution and exhibition August 29 -30 during the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival.The International Digital Conference will sum up the state of digital distribution and exhibition, examine experiences of distributors and exhibitors worldwide and will look at the different strategies to be implemented in the coming year.The International D...
CINEMA EXPO, less than three weeks away, is to be held from June 27-30, 2005 in Amsterdam. Always a must-attend event for all members of the motion picture cinema industry, this year's convention promises to be an exciting forum that will once again allow exhibitors and distributors the chance to network and focus on the future state of the industry and the all-important upcoming releases. Cinema Expo 2005 highlights: Screenings A terrific line-up of diverse films includes:"War of the Worlds" (...
CHRISTIE KEY PROJECTION PARTNER IN WORLD'S LARGEST DIGITAL CINEMA ROLL-OUTArts Alliance Selects a Series of Christie CP2000 Digital Cinema Projectors in Groundbreaking United Kingdom InitiativeChristie, a leading provider of visual solutions for business, entertainment and industry, announced that the company's CP2000 series 2K resolution Digital Cinema projector has been chosen by Arts Alliance Digital Cinema (AADC), the pioneer provider of Digital Cinema services, to be an integral part of the...
The 7th Annual Digital Days comes to the Marjorie Luke Theater in Santa Barbara, Saturday, February 26 and Sunday, February 27, 2005. Since 1998, the two-day festival has celebrated the cutting edge of digital filmmaking and technology. From the cameras used to make films, to the computers used to edit and distribute the finished product, Digital Days will again be screening spectacular Hi-Definition digital films, while award-winning professionals and filmmakers teach the tools. Come see why ...
MEDIA Salles, the initiative on behalf of European cinemas, with the support of the MEDIA Programme and the Italian Government, is promoting the second edition of the exhibitor training course:“DigiTraining Plus: New Technologies for European Cinemas”Kuurne, Belgium6-10 April 2005in collaboration with BARCO to be held at Barco headquartersMain topicsThe present state of the European and international market for digital screeningOverview of technologiesExhibition and DistributionDigital Cinem...
