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Landmark Cinemas has selected Christie Solaria Series 4K-ready digital cinema projectors for installation in six multiplexes across Western Canada.  Landmark Cinemas is Canada’s largest regional movie exhibition circuit headquartered in Calgary Alberta.  Privately owned and operated since 1965 Landmark Cinemas currently operates 31 cinema complexes with a combined total of 108 screens in 27 locations throughout western Canada and the Yukon. The partners that make up the ownership group have strong roots to film exhibition.

The Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Association is calling for papers for its annual conference which will be held January 23-27 2011 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel just south of San Francisco California. Twenty-two other imaging conferences including three other 3D conferences share the symposium providing good synergy across the imaging community. The associations says it is looking for papers that describe recent results in stereoscopic display applications technologies systems cinema imaging human factors user interfaces or standards.

Starting with just a still photograph Filmworkers built a world-class soccer stadium and filled it with more than 30 000 screaming fans for a new Budweiser spot promoting parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev's global sponsorship of the World Cup in South Africa. The soccer scenes that open the spot are meant to suggest a final World Cup match but neither the stadium nor the fans are real.

Deluxe Digital Media Hollywood has acquired a DaVinci Resolve from Blackmagic to provide the ability to color correct in the 4K environment. The new system will be added to their existing suite of Resolve 2K systems. Resolve also handles real time grading of raw Red files. The addition of the new Resolve upgrade will allow Deluxe’s Sherman Oaks facility to improve workflow efficiency and productivity between projects working within different resolutions. “Our relationship with Blackmagic and their products has been excellent.