Warner Bros. has crossed the one-billion-dollar mark at the international box office, becoming the first studio to reach the milestone this year. At 15 weeks, this is also the fastest the Studio has topped one billion dollars overseas. Warner Bros.’ previous record was 17 weeks in 2018. Projections through Sunday are $1.040 billion.
The Lower East Side Film Festival has announced its feature film lineup and opening night events. The 14th annual LESFF runs May 2-6 at the Village East Cinema and DCTV Firehouse Cinema in New York City.
Qube Cinema has introduced WireLink to move digital cinema package files around the world securely and without a long-term commitment plan. The company says WireLink facilitates the delivery of digital cinema content to more theatres in more countries around the world. It says it is a convenient and secure way to deliver content to locations that are challenging to reach through existing physical, satellite, and electronic delivery methods.
With the addition of 13 new exhibitor partners, MetaMedia, which says it is the world’s first cloud-based platform for delivering movies, live events, targeted advertising, and other premium content to cinemas, now features 30 exhibitor partners across nearly 800 cinema locations, including cinemas from four of the top five largest U.S. cinema chains. In recent weeks, the MetaMedia platform has also securely, efficiently, and cost-effectively delivered more than 500 feature films to cinemas from major and independent studios as well as numerous live content events.
Pixelogic, a global provider of premium creative, localization, and distribution services for the media and entertainment industry, has acquired the Berlin, Germany-based content platform provider Mediafellows. Established in 2020, Mediafellows is a provider of business-to-business software as a service that enable media asset management, content marketing and sales, and cloud-based fulfillment services.
MetaMedia, the cloud-based platform for delivering movies, live events, targeted advertising, and other premium content to cinemas, today announced that its network now includes 500 cinemas and 5,000 screens across major cities in the U.S. and Canada. MetaMedia’s cinema customers also represent four out of the top five largest North American cinema chains.
The Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition has announced that 2023 was its highest performing year ever with 410,000 feature and event files, representing nearly 100 million gigabytes of data delivered to in-network theaters. The company said this volume far exceeds pre-pandemic levels from 2019 and more than made up for the reduced number of wide releases by increasing delivery of independent film releases by 87 percent.
Cinépolis is deploying Unique X’s MovieTransit network in Mexico. All 6,821 Cinépolis screens throughout Mexico will be connected. This multi-year agreement marks the roll out of Unique X’s electronic network for fast, efficient and reliable delivery of feature film and trailer content to all Cinépolis locations across Mexico, increasing the number of connected sites to nearly 800 in the territory and 3,500 worldwide.
CinecolorSat, the cinema distribution division for the Chilefilms group, has agreed to a multiyear agreement through 2028 to extend its collaboration with KenCast for delivering feature films and live events to theaters across the region.
The cinema software and content delivery company Unique X and Pixelogic, a provider of content localization and distribution services for the media and entertainment industry, have together launched KDMX, a fully managed key delivery message generation and fulfilment service for theatrical film releasing.
