Exhibition

Brings the Chain’s Total of Large Screens to a Dozen

Marcus Theatres opened its new 70-foot-wide UltraScreen at the Orland Park Cinema last month in time for the holiday season. The Orland Park UltraScreen is a completely new 400-seat auditorium designed and built from the ground up as a state-of-the-art showcase for moviegoers in the Chicago suburb of Orland Park and the surrounding areas. This is the company's twelfth UltraScreen.

QSC Introduces Two New Cinema Loudspeaker Systems

Built expressly to meet the needs of professional motion picture playback in smaller theatres, QSC’s new SC-2150 loudspeaker is one of two new members of the DCS (Digital Cinema Speaker) series.

A New Generation of Moviegoers Discovers the Value of the Drive-in

By Wendy Carlson

When Thomas Intrier searched the Internet for an outdoor movie theatre, he came across the Pleasant Valley Drive-In. Just a bend-in-the road in the state’s northwest corner it was a two-hour drive from his Greenwich, Connecticut home. But for Intrier, 49, the trek was worth it to share a slice of Americana with his children.

Carmike Cinema Leads the Way

Christie Digital Systems has surpassed the 5,000 digital cinema milestone, posting a record 5,197 completed installations worldwide just three years after launching its digital cinema deployment plan. Nearly half of those screens, 2300, are in Carmike Cinema theatres, which is the first major chain to go all digital.

Entre Les Murs First to Hit European Digital Cinemas Electronically

Palme D’Or winner Entre Les Murs (The Class), a Laurent Cantet film released in France on September 24th, is the first film in Europe to be exclusively delivered to digital cinemas via an electronic network.