Muvix, Chile’s newest multiplex chain, has signed an agreement to equip 40 theatres throughout the country with Christie’s digital cinema projectors over the next three years. The Muvix brand is a new one belonging to the Syem Group, a family-run enterprise operating in the cinema exhibition sector in Chile under Cine Star, which has four multiplexes in Chile and is the country’s only chain owned by Chilean capital.
Cinépolis will install the 4DX immersive cinema experience in at least 12 additional auditoriums in the United States, India, Spain and across Latin America by the end of 2017. Five of these confirmed new sites will open in the U.S., Mexico, Spain and Chile by 2016. The two screens opening in the United States will be located in Carlsbad, north of San Diego, and Pico Rivera in Los Angeles, California.
The movie box office in Brazil increased by ten percent from January to the first week of August, according to regulatory agency Ancine. The audience grew from 113.9 million to 125.4 million in one year’s time, the agency said.
Village Cinemas, one of Argentina’s leading film theater chains, has completed its digitalization with the Christie Solaria Series. In the final phase of its digital roll out, Village Cinemas installed 38 Christie CP2220 projectors, making the majority of Village Cinemas’ 79 screens Christie installations.
GDC Technology has entered into virtual print fee agreements with six exhibitors in Argentina: Village Cines, CCA CinemaCenter, Cines Multiplex, Atlas Cines, CPM and Cinema la Plata Cinemas. The deal enables the company to manage a financial subsidy that assists with costs involved in the chains’ conversion to digital cinema.
