Arts Alliance Media has reconfirmed its commitment to Yorck Kinogruppe, Germany’s largest network of arthouse cinemas, by enabling Screenwriter to manage all content and scheduling at the Arte Sommerkino Kulturforum, a summer open-air cinema in Berlin, Germany.
Arts Alliance Media has announced a new Lifeguard partnership with Total Cinema Solutions, a United States-based cinema technology integrator for small and independent exhibitors, to enable full integration with their popular TechSelect service.
GDC Technology has signed an agreement with Classic Cinemas to be the exclusive provider of digital cinema media servers. Classic Cinemas operates 137 screens at 16 sites in the Chicagoland area.
Arts Alliance Media and Microcine, an Italian cinema technology integrator, have announced the first deployment of AAM’s Screenlighter theatre management system in Europe at Tivoli Cinema in Bologna, Italy.
On June 17, digital cinema pioneer Arts Alliance Media will celebrate its 20th anniversary. The company was founded in 2003 by Thomas Hoegh and Arts Alliance Ventures, and initiated the first global digital cinema rollout, replacing 35mm projectors with digital upgrades for the UK’s Digital Screen Network. A short time later, AAM became the founding investor of Lovefilm and Picturehouse Cinemas, which were eventually sold to Amazon and Cineworld respectively. In 2007, AAM negotiated financing agreements with the Hollywood studios and that same year launched its first theatre management system. In 2008 AAM completed the first virtual print fee deal in Europe with the French cinema chain CGR.
The EVO Entertainment Group is installing GDC Technology’s cinema enterprise software, including the TMS theatre management system, CMS central management enterprise software and network operation center.
Digital Cinema United, a leading technical content services company specializing in feature and trailer digital cinema package mastering and delivery services, has announced the addition of more than 100 new exhibitors to the company’s DCU Connect electronic delivery network across the Americas.
Leading UK independent cinema group, Everyman Media Group, has signed an agreement to use Vista Group’s cloud platform Vista Digital.
Unique X has upgraded the RosettaBridge Eco theatre management system. The new version of its feature rich TMS now includes an array of autonomous power management tools to reduce cinemas’ energy consumption.
Arts Alliance Media has unveiled its Screenlighter theatre management system designed exclusively for small and independent cinema. Screenlighter, designed to solely meet the operational requirements of independent and one-four screen cinemas, is now market-ready and successfully being operated following the completion of a robust pilot program.
