MTI Film recently completed an all-new 4K restoration of director Lewis Milestone’s 1931 film The Front Page. The months-long project was conducted for The Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with MTI Film’s restoration team working under the direction of AFA director Michael Pogorzelski and film preservationist Heather Linville.
Ymagis Group has released its three-year strategic plan, Perform 2020. Following a build-up period that saw revenue quadruple since Ymagis’ initial public offering in 2013, the group is setting the framework for a new profitable growth phase based upon the rationalization of its organizational structure and services offer as well as innovation and international expansion.
In its commitment to offer the best technical solutions in terms of cinematic exhibition, Aqualon Cinemas in Huelva, Spain has installed new Sony 4K SRX-R515P projectors for six of its nine projections screens. “We want to offer our viewers the ideal image and sound conditions of a top category cinema like our,” said José Antonio Llorente, sales manager at Aqualon Cinemas.
Screenvision Media’s in-house creative content studio, 40 Foot Solutions, collected more than 30 creative awards throughout the 2016 awards season –including one Golden Trailer and 11 Telly Awards – in recognition of various branded content segments.
Hoyts Chadstone has become the first cineplex in Australia to install Christie’s groundbreaking RGB laser projection system. Located within the sprawling Chadstone Shopping Centre, Hoyts Chadstone has 13 auditoriums, including the 390-seat Xtremescreen premium auditorium fitted with a massive 24-meter wide screen – one of the biggest in Australia. The projection system here includes a Christie CP42LH 3DLP 4K RGB laser projector featuring enhanced wavelength diversification, connected via fiber optic to a laser rack housing nine laser modules that generate white light from multiple combinations of RGB primary color wavelengths to offer a spectacular 3D viewing experience on silver screens.
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has announced the keynote speakers for its annual technical conference and exhibition in Hollywood, California later this month.
Funimation Films is screening the Japanese kaiju film Shin Godzilla in 534 theaters across the U.S. and Canada during its limited theatrical engagement October 11-18. Shin Godzilla is the 29th film produced by Toho in the iconic science fiction monster franchise and is co-directed by Hideaki Anno (creator of Evangelion) and Shinji Higuchi (director of Toho's 2015 Attack on Titan live action movies).
Christie is showcasing its line cinema technologies at the 71st Australian International Movie Convention, taking place at the Pavilion Marquee, Jupiters Hotel & Casino in Gold Coast, Australia, October 9-13.
The New York Film Critics Series has partnered with the Film Institute at Montclair State University. The initial program will enable advanced film students at Montclair State University to work in a professional environment and learn how to produce short form content featuring NYFCS directors, writers, producers and actors. Students will create their own production company and perform as producers, directors and crew to create stylish documentary segments featuring stories about the best in the independent movie business today. The participants will gain hands on experience in research, interviewing, writing and editing the original programming.
The Guitammer Company has announced that it shipped equipment for a combined 17 new auditoriums totaling more than 3,700 ButtKicker-enabled seats for installations at movie theatres in the U.S. and China in the third quarter of 2016.
