The International Cinema Technology Association has named Ellis Jacob, president and chief executive officer of Cineplex, the recipient of the Global Cinema Innovation Award. The award will be presented to Jacob at ICTA’s awards ceremony at Puro Beach, Hilton Diagonal, June 16 in Barcelona the day before CineEurope begins.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced today that the first-ever live-action Pokémon adventure, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, opening worldwide beginning May 10, is coming to select theaters in the ScreenX format.
Once principal photography began in Atlanta last summer for Universal Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ fantasy comedy Little the post-production workflow also began. The bi-coastal effort by FotoKem’s Atlanta and Burbank facilities supported the production from digital dailies all the way through a full Academy Color Encoding System finish.
Malaysian cinema chain Shah Alam has opened a new theatre, TGV Central i-City, that features the largest Samsung Onyx Cinema LED screen in Southeast Asia.
Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Frank Prinzi ASC chose Panasonic VariCam 4K cinema cameras to shoot The Enemy Within, a prime-time psychological thriller that recently premiered on NBC. The hour-long show follows the exploits of a former CIA operative serving a life sentence for treason who is freed by the FBI to help track down a dangerous and elusive criminal.
At the world premiere of the Avengers: Endgame on April 22 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Premiere guests enjoyed a stunning presentation of the film in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos sound using QSC loudspeakers, amplifiers, and signal processing featuring Q-SYS in a custom-built movie theater.
Taking the brand promise of Live the Movie to a new level, Inox has launched India’s first MX4D Theatre at the existing Inox multiplex at Inorbit Mall at Malad in Mumbai.
CJ 4DPlex has announced that the latest round of 4DX screens in Regal theatres in the U.S. will have opened across five cities by the end of April. The openings will bring the current count of Regal 4DX theaters to 17.
Samsung and Harman have installed one of the world’s largest Onyx Cinema LED screens in India’s tech capital Bengaluru at the iconic Swagath Cinemas, which will now be rechristened Swagath Onyx Theatre. The screen measures 14 meters. Globally, there are only two other 14-meter Onyx Cinema LED screens installed to date, in Malaysia and China.
Edge Content & Technology, one of Australia’s leading cinema technology integrators, has acquired 52 Christie RealLaser CP4325-RGB cinema projectors illumination for deployment into theatres.
