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NewsReview: Power To The Pixel
Power To The Pixel, the UK-based outfit which helps independent film-makers make the most of the opportunities offered by the new-media world, last week hosted a digital distribution and film innovation forum as part of TheTimes BFI London Film Festival.
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IMAX expands theatre deal with Ukraine's Triumph
IMAX Corp. and Kyiv-based media company Triumph have added a third cinema to its giant-screen roll-out in the Ukraine. Triumph's exhibition arm, Kinokompaniya Triumf, will now have theatres in Kiev, Odessa and Kharkov. The Kiev site was installed last month, while the Odessa site is expected to be operational by ...
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Film-makers need direct relationship with audience, says LFF conference
The creation and nurturing of direct relationships with audiences is critical to the digital future, delegates to the Power To The Pixel conference were told yesterday. The event, which was held as part ofThe Times BFI London Film Festival, was streamed live on ScreenDaily yesterday.Audiences are becoming fragmented as they ...
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Magnolia claims YouTube success with Wayne Wang's Princess
Magnolia Pictures' The Princess Of Nebraska from Wayne Wang drew more than 165,000 hits in its first two days following its launch on YouTube on October 18. The free release was launched on YouTube's Screening Room, a new channel dedicated to premium film content, and explores the bonds of ...
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ScreenDaily to host live webcast of digital conference
ScreenDaily will carry a live webcast of the Power To The Pixel conference in London - one of the world's leading events on digital distribution.The two-day event, which begins tomorrow, is one of the industry highlights of the Times BFI London Film Festival.The conference of industry experts will address ...
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Amsterdam Filmmuseum and Thought Equity Motion in $40m project
The Amsterdam Filmmuseum has entered into a partnership with US company, Thought Equity Motion.The move is part of the Netherlands' hugely ambitious 'Images For The Future' project to digitise the country's entire film, radio and TV holdings. The Filmmuseum has around $40m (Euros 30 m) to spend on its digitisation ...
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MIPCOM: YouTube boss reaches out to content owners
YouTube founder and CEO Chad Hurley reached out to content owners at MIPCOM claiming the difference between old media and new media is 'semantics; we are all confronting the same challenges.' The comments echoed those of many at the annual conference at Cannes where the refrain has been one variation ...
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Content remains king, Michael Eisner tells MIPCOM
'What we all have in common is that we worship at the altar of creativity,' said Michael Eisner as he began his keynote speech on day two of the MIPCOM TV market.The former Disney CEO and founder of new media company Tornante, whose 40-year career has spanned pretty much every ...
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In Focus: Groundbreaking indie film My Suicide
Independent movie My Suicide is unlike anything you have ever seen. Ostensibly the story of a 17-year-old boy who announces he will commit suicide on camera for his school project, the story is told from the point of view of the boy (newcomer Gabriel Sunday) as a visual stream of ...
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Ymagis and Universal agree D-cinema deal
Universal Pictures has signed a deal with European digital cinema services provider Ymagis to supply films to theatres equipped by Ymagis. Universal will also pay digital print fees under a long-term agreement.The arrangement mirrors earlier deals Ymagis has concluded with Paramount, Disney and Fox. To date Ymagis has signed contracts ...
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Screen opinion: The D-cinema dilemma
The word 'mutuality' comes across now as a rather dated concept. It's a term which, for those of a certain age, will conjure up images of bicycles on cobbled streets, ration books and powdered eggs. The self-help mutual funds and building societies it once described have often been gobbled up ...
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In Focus: Criterion puts classics on Blu-ray
The first time Joseph Cotton's war correspondent Holly Martins discovers his presumed dead friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles), in postwar Vienna, the moment packs a powerful punch.'Wait until you see the sequence in pristine high-definition video,' says Peter Becker.Carol Reed's 1949 classic The Third Man is one of five titles ...
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90% of digital screens not adequate for 3D experience, film-maker claims
Only one-in-10 of digital screens is adequate for 3D screenings, claims pioneering 3D film-maker Ben Stassen.Stassen is CEO of Brussels-based nWave which has been behing a series of successful IMAX projects and this year released 3D animation Fly Me To The Moon. But although he claims 3D is the 'second ...
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Japan's Avex and Docomo establish mobile contents company
Avex Group film subsidiary Avex Entertainment and mobile communications giant NTT Docomo have partnered to establish a company to create mobile contents. Under the name Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc, the company will incorporate next February and begin operations in March. Avex will contribute 70% and Docomo 30% of start-up ...
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China's Voole.com launches legal film streaming network
Beijing-based Voole.com has launched an online film distribution network, which will stream around 1,500 films from the US, Hong Kong and Korea. Shao Yiding, CEO of Voole, announced at the China Internet Conference that Voole has signed digital distribution deals with Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers Pictures, Koreanbroadcaster MBC and Hong ...
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Vue to host one-night Arctic Monkeys film screening
Vue and other independent cinemas in the UK will host a special one-night presentation on Oct 14 of Arctic Monkey At The Apollo, a Warp Films Production presented by Warp Films, Domino and Bang Bang.Vue will host the night in 33 venues across the UK, alongside other cinemas including the ...
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LoveFilm UK strikes marketing deal for Lionsgate UK titles
Online DVD rental company and entertainment website LoveFilm has struck a multi-title marketing partnership with Lionsgate UK.The pact kicks off with Righteous Kill, the new thriller starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.The six-month media deal continues into 2009 for titles also including I've Love You So Long, Midnight Meat ...
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Met Film starts distribution services arm for self-distribution
Met Film has launched Met Film Distribution, which will work with independent film-makers who want to self-distribute their films.The first proejct for the new distribution outfit will be Heavy Load, also a Met Film production, a documentary about a punk band with disabilities.The co-production with the BBC, IFC and ITVS, ...
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NewsLFF's Power To The Pixel to host new innovative Forum
The Times BFI London Film Festival will again partner for Power To The Pixel, The Digital Distribution and Film Innovation Forum.
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Europa Cinemas to debate dangers of D-cinema switchover
Europa Cinemas will examine the potential threat posed to cinemas across Europe by digital switchover at its 13th annual conference in Paris in November.Growing concerns that the cost of the digital switch will be beyond the reach of independent and arthouse cinemas have recently been highlighted in Screen International.The Europa ...