March 1, 2010 - Distribution & Exhibition

Feature Stories

Alternative Content
Boondock Saints Return

Ten years after emerging as a cult sensation, The Boondock Saints will be back on the big screen a special one-night performance, The Boondock Saints 10th Anniversary Event later this month.

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Guest Column
Year 11 and We’re Still Talking About Rollout

By Michael Karagosian

Eleven years have passed since the first public introduction of digital cinema at ShoWest.  The industry has since come a long way…and it has still a long way to go.  With nearly 100 percent worldwide digital screen growth in 2009, and with the three major circuits in the US set to rollout in 2010, one might get the sense that digital cinema is on a roll.  While the US is on track to convert approximately 50 percent of its screens, there is still the remaining 50 percent to think about, as well as the rest of the world.

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Systems Integration
Rebuilding the Noble Planetarium

The challenge for Visual Acuity was to provide architectural guidance and technology planning for the complete redesign of the Noble Planetarium at the Fort Worth Museum of Science & History in Forth Worth, Texas.  Under the direction of the Mexican architectural partnership Legorreta + Legorreta assisted by the locally based firm Gideon Toal, the museum was demolished and then completely reconstructed into a series of colorful, multi-dimensional buildings which celebrate the design traditions of Latin America and the south-western United States.

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Coming Soon

Catalyst Award

The winner of Digital Cinema Report’s first Catalyst Award will be named at ShoWest 2010.

Complete story in our next edition

News Stories

Times Square Cinema signs with Cinedigm

Times Square Cinema of Tyler, Texas and a member of the National Association of Theatre Owners Cinema Buying Group, has signed an agreement to deploy digital projection systems with Cinedigm.

SmartJog and Ymagis to Partner on Digital Distribution to Cinemas

SmartJog, a digital delivery service provider, and Ymagis, a digital cinema deployment company, have signed a non-exclusive partnership agreement to integrate their technologies to offer a full digital cinema solution to Ymagis cinema operator clients.

Severin Films Acquires Birdemic

Severin Films has acquired all worldwide rights to Birdemic: Shock and Terror, a feature from writer/producer/director James Nguyen.

ContentFilm International Acquires New Gabriel Range Film and Welcome to the Rileys

ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide rights to Gabriel Range’s new film, which also reunites Jeremy Brock and Andrea Calderwood, writer and producer of The Last King of Scotland.

2010 RAAM Awards Open the UK Awards Season

In what has become the opening UK and Irish cinema awards show the 2010 RAAM Awards honored director Danny Boyle; distributor Stewart Till of Icon Films, independent cinema operator David Williams of WTW cinemas and John Kelleher the recently retired director of the Irish Film Certification Board.

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