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Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback, the new feature-length documentary about the making of the television special that revitalized Elvis Presley’s career and influenced music, television, and pop culture for decades to come, will play on more than 800 movie screens worldwide beginning July 30 for special one-day-only presentations.

Sphere Entertainment has unveiled Sphere Immersive Sound, powered by HoloPlot, which the company says is the world’s most advanced audio system. According to the company, HoloPlot provides individualized sound to every seat in Sphere, scheduled to open in Las Vegas this fall.

The Film Heritage Foundation has announced a special ceremony to present the inaugural lifetime achievement award for cinema projection "to honor film projectionists who have dedicated their lives to showcasing films on the big screen." Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, founder of FHF, said the Mumbai-based foundation will honor three projectionists at the event, to be held on Wednesday at the city's heritage Regal Cinema here. The foundation will screen Kamal Amrohi's 1949 classic Mahal on 35 mm vintage print to celebrate the analog-era legacy of cinema at Regal Cinema, a single-screen theatre.

Led by the films Barbie and Oppenheimer, this past weekend was expected to see more than $300 million in domestic box office revenue to become the fourth biggest earning weekend in U.S. history. The worldwide box office topped half a billion dollars. Barbie earned roughly $155 million while Oppenheimer grossed approximately $80 million.