July 15, 2010
The Big PictureRevitalizing the Vinton Palace TheatreBy Nick Dager Vinton, Iowa is a town of some 5,000 people located on the Cedar River in the northern part of the state. In a story repeated in small towns all across the country, Vinton flourished through much of the 20th century but over the years as the importance of the family farm diminished the town began to fall on hard times. Businesses failed, people moved away and in the early 1970s, in a story also repeated in too many small towns across the country the Vinton Palace Theatre closed its doors. Today, thanks to the tireless efforts of a lot of people in the community, the theatre is a viable business again and this month it successfully premiered its first digital 3D movie. Read More >>>Feature StoriesProduction & Post Production
Industry Renaissance in Poland
With a heritage as a film factory for world-famous directors and cinematographers Wroclaw, Poland is reasserting its potential for homegrown and foreign film production and post. The city is now attracting significant projects in digital animation and post from around the world. This renaissance has inspired Divizion to open a film factory of its own, providing in-house production resources, a clutch of Red One cameras, with Red Epic Stage 2, editing and Assimilate’s Scratch Digital Finishing Solution for the VFX and digital intermediates. Exhibition
Striving to be China’s First All-Digital Theatre Chain
Dadi Digital Cinema, a subsidiary of Dadi Culture & Media Group is China’s first fully digital cinema chain. The company has built approximately 70 cinema complexes in the Chinese Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and Bohai Rim regions, with a current total of 266 screens. Within one year, Barco will deploy 600 Series 2 digital cinema projectors in Dadi Digital Cinema complexes. Coming Soon
Rethinking the CineplexToday, largely thanks to digital cinema technology, movie theatres are evolving into community centers. How is that changing movie theatre design? Complete story in our next edition |
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Nominations Open for Second Annual Catalyst Award
Beijing SunWah Orders 60 NEC Projectors from Ballantyne Strong
Beijing SunWah World Management in China has placed an order with Ballantyne Strong for 60 NEC digital cinema projectors for theatres located throughout the People's Republic of China.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret in Production with Arri Alexa
Principal photography is underway on the forthcoming 3D motion picture The Invention of Hugo Cabret, directed by Martin Scorsese. Robert Richardson is the cinematographer.
Deluxe Claims Industry 2K Digital First
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group says it has achieved an industry breakthrough with the first of its kind 2K real time uncompressed data file transfer from Los Angeles to London via Deluxe Express, Deluxe's new private, secure global data service. The entire two-hour uncompressed 2K data file of 20th Century Fox's A-Team was transferred SAN to SAN from EFilm Hollywood to Deluxe Digital London in just two hours.
National Amusements Installing Sony 4K Systems
Sony Professional has signed an agreement to provide its digital cinema 4K-projection systems to National Amusements, which operates more than 950 screens across the UK, US and Latin America.
China’s Wanda Cinema Line Adds Imax Theatres in time for Aftershock
Wanda Cinema Line in China has announced an agreement to expand their relationship with the installation of three additional Imax systems in the cities of Quanzhou, Wuhan and Dalian. Shows / ConferencesStereoscopic Displays & Applications Conference
January 23-27, 2010
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel
Createasphere
September 21-22, 2010 The New Yorker Hotel |
Nominations are now open for the second annual Catalyst Award to be presented during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, which will take place March 28-31, 2011 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. As the motion picture exhibition industry moves further into the second decade of adopting digital technology, Digital Cinema Report created the Catalyst Award to honor the independent exhibitor who best demonstrates the full capability, flexibility and promise of digital cinema. Anyone in the industry is eligible to make a nomination.