Leading Indonesian exhibitor Flix Cinema has opened a new, 10-screen cinema complex at the Mall of Indonesia in Jakarta. Flix Cinema is a brand of Agung Sedayu Group, one of Indonesia’s premier development corporations. Its first venue was at the Pik Avenue mall, in the Pantai Indah Kapuk district of north Jakarta.
The Strong Entertainment Group subsidiary of Ballantyne Strong has filed for an initial public offering that will spin it out of its parent as a separate company. The filing does not price the stock nor say how many shares will be sold. That will be disclosed in later amendments. The new company is to be named Strong Global Entertainment and is intended to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SGE.
Unique X today announced a resale partnership with France’s newest cinema integrator La Cabinerie. Based in Lyons, La Cabinerie will offer Unique X’s RosettaBridge TMS, RosettaNet CMS and BaseKey KDM services to the French Exhibitor market.
Metropolitan Theatres has opened its latest 10-screen location at Outlets at San Clemente in San Clemente, California.
Christie cinema RGB laser projectors will be used for the first time at the Malaga Film Festival, one of Spain’s biggest film events, to be held from March 18-22. marking its silver anniversary. The Christie partner Sercine, an official festival collaborator, is looking after the integration and support for the event’s projection.
London's Rio Cinema was transformed over the weekend into a three-day Gotham City-inspired experience that involved live actors, and interactive performance, free cookies, and the long-awaited premiere of The Batman. Digital Cinema Media teamed up with Oreo to deliver the immersive cinematic experience.
Moving Image Technologies has appointed Francois Godfrey as vice president, business development, sales. He will report to Joe Delgado, executive vice president, marketing, and sales.
Strong Technical Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ballantyne Strong completed the sale and installation of 38 projection systems for Showplace Entertainment at Evansville North 9, Newburgh 10, and Evansville East 20. The work was completed in January.
Ukraine’s Most Kino is installing CinemaNext’s Sphera premium cinema concept at its theatre in the Most Shopping Mall in Dnipro. Scheduled to open this summer, Sphera at Most Kino will boast a 26-meter-wide wall-to-wall screen, making it the largest screen ever built in Ukraine and the biggest Sphera auditorium designed to date.
For decades, the Delphi Filmpalast theatre has been among the venues of the Berlin International Film Festival, or Berlinale, one of the largest public film festivals in the world. With a 673-seat capacity, the iconic cinema, located in a historic theater building just steps away from Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station, in the heart of West Berlin, is considered Germany’s biggest independent screen and one of Berlin’s most important premiere venues.
