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Mazzei Chooses OConnor to Support Goo Goo Dolls Video

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Cinematographer Marco Mazzei recently chose the OConnor 2575 to support his latest music video for the Goo Goo Dolls. Shot for Symphony 19 Productions and directed by Morgan Lawley the video is called Home. The song about being away from a loved one and the alienation that goes with that portrays the Goo Goo Dolls in a Japanese market and a restaurant. To highlight their sense of alienation the people surrounding them freeze in mid-action while they move normally.

Screenvision Expands Relationship with Belmont Capital

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Screenvision has extended its relationship with Belmont Capital by signing a new long-term exhibitor agreement. Through the deal Screenvision will continue to have exclusive rights to the on-screen preshow and will now also have exclusive third party selling rights of promotions as well as an additional minute of late preshow inventory.
  The deal with Belmont Capital further solidifies Screenvision’s presence in the Northeast territory as the exhibitor’s network extends from Maine to New York and features 176 screens across 29 theatres with over 50 percent of screens in Top 10 DMAs.

Sony Expands XDCam Line with PMW-500

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Sony is expanding its XDCam line of tapeless acquisition technologies with the introduction of the PMW-500 shoulder-mount professional camcorder. The new camcorder combines the picture quality and performance of Sony’s PDW-F800 optical disc camera with the operational flexibility of recording onto solidstate SxS memory cards.

Rifkin to Speak at TromaDance AFM Press Conference

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Independent filmmaker Adam Rifkin will join the panelists who will speak at the TromaDance Press Conference at the American Film Market on November 4th at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. Rifkin most recently wrote executive produced and directed all 11 episodes of Look The Series for Showtime. Based on his critically acclaimed and award-winning film of the same name Look is a controversial exploration of our camera-crazed and surveillance-based culture.

HPA to Honor Four Companies with Judges Award

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

During the HPA Awards ceremony on November 11 four companies will be recognized for their inventive thinking and execution of concept with a special honor the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production.  The companies – FotoKem Gradient Effects Light Iron Digital and Reliance MediaWorks – were chosen after a recent judging session by a blue-ribbon panel of judges.

Race Across the Sky

Thu, 10/07/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

NCM Fathom Citizen Pictures and Life Time Fitness take audiences for an all-new death-defying journey alongside some of the world’s greatest cyclists and runners for Race Across the Sky 2010 a special in-theatre Fathom event to be shown exclusively in more than 550 select movie theaters on Thursday November 4 with an encore presentation in select locations on Tuesday November 9.

Air Racers 3D in Production

Thu, 10/07/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

3D Entertainment Films will Air Racers 3D: Forces of Flight with the film’s original partners Pretend Entertainment and Stereoscope. Under this new joint venture Jean-Jacques Mantello (OceanWorld 3D 2009; Jean-Michel Cousteau’s 3D film trilogy 2003-2008) will direct. This follows last year’s announcement that 3D Entertainment Films’ distribution arm had acquired the all-media distribution rights to the project which is now scheduled for release at IMAX theatres in both 3D and 2D in the summer of 2011.

Ajay Theatres Standardizes on Barco Digital Cinema Projectors

Thu, 10/07/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Ajay Theatres has purchased 56 digital cinema projectors from Barco’s C-Series product line. The exhibitor will be placing a projector in every theatre in the chain from its smallest 100-seat venue to its largest which features a 40+-foot wide screen with seating for 350 moviegoers. All theatres will be equipped to show both 3D and 2D movies. 

In an effort to standardize Ajay's theatre platform and simplify operations the exhibitor elected to purchase 56 projectors including 53 DP2K-15C units and three Series 1 DP-1500 models acquired from Barco last year.

Digital Cinema Open System Alliance Announces Launch of Interoperability Effort

Thu, 10/07/2010 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Dolby Laboratories XDC and other companies have announced an alliance to promote greater interoperability within the digital cinema market. The companies joining in this collaborative effort referred to as the Digital Cinema Open System Alliance are working to establish open interface standards for core system components. Initial goals of the DCOSA are to develop common interface specifications between digital cinema servers and integrated media block products and to promote these specifications for use across the cinema market.

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