Grainne Peat Named New ECA Managing Director
The Event Cinema Association has named Grainne Peat to be its new managing director. She replaces ECA founder Melissa Cogavin who recently stepped down as managing director.
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Rising Sun Pictures in Adelaide Expands
Spurred by growth in international film production, improved local incentives and a strong pool of talent, Rising Sun Pictures has launched a major, new expansion effort. The visual effects studio is adding significant space and technical resources to its Adelaide production studio and expects to grow its staff by nearly one-third over the next few months.
July 27 Means Mission and Moviebill
On July 27 Tom Cruise returns for the sixth time as agent Ethan Hunt when Mission Impossible: Fallout opens in theatres around the country. And on that same opening weekend, patrons of Regal Cinemas will receive their free copies of the third installment of Moviebill, the marketing brainchild of Concourse Media principals Andrew Felts and Matthew Shreder.
AAM, Deluxe Technicolor Launch Industry’s First Fully Automated Theatrical KDM Service
Arts Alliance Media and Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema have collaborated to deliver the industry’s first truly automated key delivery message management service, representing a significant step towards the promise of fully automated cinema management.
Riverside Takes Minority Stake in Screenvision
The Riverside company has announced taking a minority stake in New York cinema advertising company Screenvision Media. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Mark Thorley Named Head of Mill Film in Australia
Technicolor's Academy Award winning VFX studio, Mill Film, has named Mark Thorley to head Mill Film in Australia. The announcement comes in the wake of the February launch of Mill Film in Adelaide, Australia.
CinemaNext Opens New Facilitites
CinemaNext has opened new facilities in Liège-Barchon, Paris-Asnières-sur-Seine and Düsseldorf. The result is an optimized, cost-effective and fully secured supply chain organization to support the sustainable organic growth of CinemaNext and its subsidiaries across Europe, North America, Africa, Middle East and Central Asia.
Sounds Like Superfly
Superfly is Columbia Pictures’ reimagining of Gordon Parks Jr.’s classic 1972 crime drama that defined its genre through its characters, look, sound and feel. Helmed by Director X and written by Alex Tse, the new movie transports the story of Priest (Trevor Jackson), from Harlem to modern-day Atlanta and reenergizes its vibe for a new generation. The movie’s sound team from Sony Pictures Post Production Services, led by supervising sound editor Steven Ticknor, supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Kevin O’Connell, re-recording mixer Greg Orloff and sound designer Tony Lamberti, was tasked with bringing the sonic elements of Priest’s world to life. That included everything from building intricate soundscapes for Atlanta’s neighborhoods and glitzy nightclubs to supplying the thunderous fireworks for gun battles and car chases.
SMPTE’s Hollywood Section Hosts Career Day
The Hollywood Section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers recently hosted students from colleges and universities across Southern California for Career Day, a day-long event focused on technology-oriented employment opportunities in the media and entertainment industry. The event included speeches, roundtables, and panel discussions from industry leaders on subjects ranging from job-seeking strategies to emerging technologies employed in cinema, broadcast, and virtual reality production.
EDCF Selects New Board Members
In its recent elections, the European Digital Cinema Forum selected several new board members, covering a wide range of the cinema business across many European countries. This breadth is good for the EDCF and is important for the group so that it can continue to take into account all members’ interests and provide real value to the industry as a whole
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