Cinema 21, the largest movie theater chain in Indonesia, has installed Southeast Asia’s first Christie Vive Audio cinema sound system in its state-of-the-art Auditorium 2 at the Epicentrum XXI complex in Central Jakarta.
National CineMedia presented its fourth annual upfront event at the AMC Lincoln Square Theatre in New York on Wednesday and branded itself America’s Movie Network. The company also announced that E! host Maria Menounos has signed an agreement to be the new face of America’s Movie Network as the host of NCM’s FirstLook pre-show program.
Cinemagoers in Antwerp, Belgium, will be treated to a free, immersive 4D experience this Friday and Saturday, as Warner Bros’ CineTransformer stops at the Kinepolis multiplex to promote the brand-new Warner Bros action-thriller San Andreas. The CineTransformer is equipped with a compact, DCI-complaint Barco DP2K-10S projector.
Christie has signed a new agreement to be technical partner of the Cannes Film Festival for a further three years. This means that for the ninth year running, the famous showcase, held May 13-24, will use Christie's solutions for all its movie screenings. The enduring relationship offers a fascinating insight behind the iconic red-carpet event and – beyond – to how the industry of cinema is evolving.
Italian cinema projector technology company, Cinemeccanica, and Euromax, the European Association for Giant Screen and Documentary Cinema, have announced a significant partnership and demonstration of Digital Laser Projection on the Giant Screen at the 2015 Euromax Meeting. This year’s event will be hosted by giant screen theatre venue, La Géode, Paris, from June 7-9 and will feature the European premiere of many new giant screen films. The annual Euromax meeting attracts professionals from the industries of Giant Screen Cinema, Technology, and 3D documentary cinema.
Digital Film Technology has launched its Wet-Gate technology for its latest Scanity HDR film scanner, which is designed to provide a real-time organic solution for the ingest and management of difficult to solve historical film transfer issues – such as dust and scratch removal.
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers made an impact at the 2015 NAB Show with broad representation across exhibition floors and conference sessions. During the show, 135 SMPTE member companies exhibited and more than 90 individual members served as speakers, contributing their expertise on topics ranging from the latest industry standards to the future of audio and moving images.
Accomplice Media’s directing team Sherpas Cinema collaborated with The Richards Group and Jeep on a new campaign launching the 2015 Jeep Renegade across North America. For the campaign’s 60-second launch spot, Sherpas Cinemas’ Eric Crosland captured the epic adventure of a band traveling America in search of musical stardom. Featuring Brooklyn indie rockers X Ambassadors and their original song Renegades, the spot debuted on the iHeartRadio Music Awards show.
Radiant Images will showcase its growing stable of customized virtual reality rigs, gimbal POV rigs and other one-of-a-kind filmmaking tools at the annual J.L. Fisher event on May 16 in Burbank.
Screenvision’s experiential upfront event, entitled Get into the Movies, took the company’s annual presentation out of the expected movie theater setting and into the transformed Skylight at Moynihan Station. To demonstrate the unrivaled impact that only cinema advertising can deliver, Screenvision invited audience members to physically become a part of the movies and interact with three working movie production sets filled with actors, directors, and crew. It was Screenvision’s first upfront since the government rejected National CinemaMedia’s attempt to merge the two companies and the mood was decidedly upbeat.
