After months of speculation, there is now an official name for Barco’s joint venture with Appotronix and China Film Company announced late last year: Cinionic. The company will focus on a combination of innovative cinema solutions, flexible financing and a comprehensive service model enabling exhibitors to focus on engagement with their moviegoers while simplifying their technology and operations.
Nagra, a Kudelski Group company, and the Entertainment Technology Center, a think tank and research center within the USC School of Cinematic Arts, have partnered to map Fandom Genomics. This data science study is being conducted to support the launch of myCinema, a new broadband-based in-theatre platform system, which offers a large catalog of alternative content titles to theatre circuits of all sizes and locations. myCinema is being launched for the first time at Cinemacon 2018.
Cinema Park and Formula Kino, Russia’s largest cinema chain with more than 25 million visitors per year, decided to launch dynamic pricing at the three sites: Cinema Park Metropolis, Cinema Park Global City and Cinema Park Mega Belaya Dacha.
Dolby today announced an upgraded line of multichannel amplifiers that allows users to replace up to 16 stereo amplifiers, while saving space, reducing heat and lowering overall costs. Available in either 16, 24 or 32 channel configurations, with the 16 channel configuration now available with enhanced power handling for lower impedance loudspeakers, the changes allow the amplifier to work in traditional 5.1/7.1 multichannel audio rooms as well as continuing to provide amplification for Dolby Atmos surround channels and screen channels.
MoviePass and iHeartRadio, the all-in-one digital music, podcasting, on demand and live streaming radio service, today announced a new three-month subscription offer. Available for a limited time for $29.95, it offers new subscribers to both platforms a limited MoviePass membership to see four 2D movies a month for three months and includes a three-month free trial of the iHeartRadio’s All Access on demand feature.
CinemaNext today announced the signing of two separate global agreements with Malaysian and Chinese seating manufacturers, Ferco Seating Systems and Guangzhou Leadcom Seating, respectively. These new agreements recognize CinemaNext as an official international distributor of their cinema seating products in select markets, including Europe, Middle East and Africa. It follows the agreement with European seating manufacturer Ezcaray announced in February.
The monster-sized action adventure Rampage is coming to theaters in the 4DX and ScreenX formats. The film, headlined by action superstar Dwayne Johnson, will be released worldwide April 13 from Warner Bros. Pictures.
Warner Bros. Pictures and TheaterEars announced today that the upcoming release of New Line Cinema’s action adventure Rampage will be made available on the TheaterEars app, which uses the Spanish-dialogue version to playout with the film for those audiences who wish to experience the film in Spanish.
Deluxe has launched Deluxe One, a platform that unifies every stage of the content ecosystem — from creation to viewer experience — in one cloud-based interface. An open platform, Deluxe One is designed to integrate with any vendor or customer system, allowing users to succeed in an age where the lines between creator and distributor are becoming increasingly blurred.
Cineworld Group, the second largest cinema group in Europe, has selected Volfoni for a 3D cinema systems rollout across multiple cities and countries in Europe.
