Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies are bringing Warner Bros. classic film Casablanca back to the big screen to celebrate its 80th anniversary. The film will be screened on January 23 and 26 only.
The Madrid-based digital post-production company Twin Pines was responsible for the visual effects in La Fortuna, the new Movistar+ series directed by Alejandro Amenábar. Overall, the series contains around one thousand digitally retouched shots which called for a year’s work to recreate underwater scenes, an epic naval battle, and a road journey in the United States, among many other sequences.
Harkness Screens has announced a new pricing structure designed to simplify purchases by its global cinema customers.
Audiocastle has announced a partnership with One Thousand Birds. Audiocastle co-founders Adam Robl and Shawn Sutta were first introduced to One Thousand Birds in 2019 when the two companies worked on the score for the film Poser. Impressed with OTB’s creative approach to designing audio, they began talks with managing partner Andres Velasquez.
Trafalgar Releasing is bringing the high-kicking London cast of Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes to more than 700 cinema screens across the U.S. for two days — March 27 and March 30.
The Tragedy of Macbeth—written four centuries ago for the stage—has been translated to the screen throughout cinema history. Replete with medieval atmosphere, witches, and murder, the iconic tale has now been retold by director Joel Coen. Working with director of photography Bruno Delbonnel ASC, AFC, Coen developed a visual approach to the bloody proceedings that emphasizes Shakespeare’s matchless language and the faces of the actors delivering it.
The trade group Cinema Technology Community has given GDC Technology its Best New Auditorium Technology of the Year 2021 for the Espedeo Supra 5000 RGB plus laser phosphor cinema projector.
Digital Cinema Media is launching a new media program dedicated to branded entertainment, longer narratives, and engaging storytelling. Named DCM Studios Presents, the three-to-four-minute in-reel spot will allow brand and agency partners to maximize the uniqueness of the most compelling media environment possible by creating bespoke branded content stories for the big screen, with only a limited number of spaces on offer in 2022.
In celebration of Black History Month, Fathom Events will present a special encore screening of Terence Blanchard’s critically acclaimed opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones in cinemas nationwide on Saturday, February 12. The monumental production, which was presented live in cinemas on Saturday, October 23, 2021, as part of The Met: Live in HD series, marked the first opera by a Black composer ever performed by the Met.
Jens Heinze, who currently holds the position of director operations at CinemaxX Entertainment, will be joining the management board of Ecco Cine Supply and Service in Hilden as of March 1. With the appointment, Ecco will be strengthening its strategic and operational management and setting the course for sustainable future growth, the company said.
