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Bridging the gap: cinema enters the digital age
'This a time of huge opportunity but also of great fear,' Stephen Moore, head of features and COO of Aardman told Screen International Digital Rights conference.It may not sound like a big shift from the vague predictions over the last few years that a digital future represented threats and ...
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Vivendi and Canal Plus launch new pay-TV venture
Vivendi and Canal Plus Group have announced the creation of Canal Plus France following their take over of rival platform TPS. The deal, which had previously been announced, was made official on Friday and sees the combining of two rival groups who have led a bloody battle over film and ...
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Paramount launches mobile phone portal
Paramount Pictures has launched a mobile phone portal totransmit content to mobile devices and promote theatrical and DVD releases.Visitors to the mobile film sites can buy tickets, take part inpromotions and opt in to receive studio alerts.'Paramount Pictures will now have a direct-to-consumerrelationship to deliver revenue-generating content, innovative mobilecampaigns, tailored ...
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Rotterdam to screen first feature shot on mobile phone
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 24 january - February 4) is to premiere a 70-minute feature shot on mobile phone.Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad In Afghanistan was filmed by Dutch filmmaker Cyrus Frisch using Sharp 902 and 903 mobile phone camera.It is the ...
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Leading Finnish and Baltics exhibitor enters digital age
Finland's and the Baltics' leading exhibitor Finnkino has entered the digital era with Finnish director Raimo O Niemi's family feature Mystery Of The Wolf.The film was shown on a Barco 2K projector at Helsinki's Tennispalatsi, the company's 14-screener in the capital centre. The theatre's second-largest auditorium, with 360 seats, has ...
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AFC outlines plans for digital cinema network
The Australian FilmCommission (AFC), which has been planning a digital cinema network in regional Australia for quite some time, has at last gone public withits plans. Eight independently-ownedregional cinemas - one in each state and two in New South Wales - will receivedigital equipment on loan and in exchange will ...
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Clickstar signs distribution deals with Sony, Universal, Warner
ClickStar, the US broadband entertainment company founded byMorgan Freeman and Lori McCreary's Revelations Entertainment along with IntelCorporation, has announced digital distribution agreements with several leadingstudios.Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios HomeEntertainment and Warner Bros Home Entertainment have agredd to provide contentahead of ClickStar's launch this week as a purveyor of ...
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Micosoft's Broes hired at Paramount Digital Entertainment
Derek Broes has been hired as senior vice president of worldwidebusiness development at Paramount Digital Entertainment. In the newly created position Broes will be responsible foridentifying new business opportunities across broadband and mobile platforms.He reports directly to Paramount Digital Entertainment presidentThomas Lesinski.Broes arrives from Microsoft Corporation where he served as ...
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Warner UK signs digital download deal with AAM
Warner Bros Entertainment UKhas signed an electronic sell-through deal for Arts Alliance Media to offer digitaldownloads of Warner Bros movies and TV series.The first DVD title underthe new service is Superman Returns,which was available as of Dec 4 in the UK. The pact will cover Warnernew and catalogue products, including ...
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China's digital loop stymied by lack of US product
Chinese cinema proprietorsspoke of the difficulty of securing enough product to make the expansion ofdigital cinema a profitable business, on the first day of the CineAsia conventionand trade show in Beijing. China's State Administrationof Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has recently reiterated its goal to rollout a nationwide network of ...
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Gaumont goes digital with XDC France
French major Gaumont hassigned a deal with digital developer XDC to offer its upcoming features in adigital format for cinemas equipped with the necessary projection systems. Themove makes Gaumont the first French producer/distributor to make its filmsavailable digitally. The newly created XDCFrance, a subsidiary of XDC International, proposes technical ...
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German home entertainment market doubles over five years
Turnover in the German home entertainment market has more than doubled since 1999, when DVDs firstregistered significant business in Germany, according to figures compiled byGfK Panel Services Consumer Research for the video trade association BVV.Revenues from sell-throughand rental videos and DVDs increased by 103% from 1999’s Euros 860m to a ...