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Post Haste Sound Expands With Video Editing and Encoding Services

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Post Haste Sound Los Angeles has expanded its services to offer video editing mastering encoding quality control and more from a new video suite. The demand for services to support digital delivery and after-market opportunities has truly exploded says Post Haste co-founder Allan Falk. We make it easy for any production to come in and take care of all of their audio video mastering encoding and quality control in one place. And we've made it a very inviting creative and client-friendly place.

Screenvision Reaches New Agreement with Before The Movie

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Screenvision has reached a new agreement with Before The Movie a local cinema advertising company based in Vacaville California that represents three exhibitors within California Nevada Colorado and Idaho. The exhibitors include: Brenden Theatres Cinema West and Santa Rosa Entertainment Group. Before The Movie handles 33 locations representing 329 screens which includes 25 screens in the Los Angeles area 116 screens in the San Francisco area and 84 screens in the Sacramento area. Additional markets are Las Vegas Fresno Palm Springs and Eureka.

Slasher Films to Start Production on Nothing to Fear

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

New horror company Slasher Films which was recently launched by Academy-Award winning producer Michael Williams and Rob Eric (Session 9 The Fog of War) and iconic rocker Slash (Guns N’ Roses Velvet Revolver) has announced that its first film Nothing to Fear will begin principal photography late October in Louisiana. Director Anthony Leonardi III is making his feature debut.   “Our mission at Slasher Films has been to create genre films that defy the genre stereotypes ” says Slash.

Digital Effects Pioneer Scott Ross to Deliver SMPTE Keynote Address

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Digital media and visual effects pioneer Scott Ross will deliver the keynote address at the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers’ 2011 Annual Technical Conference & Exposition in Hollywood. Ross whose production teams won multiple Academy Awards for visual effects and founded and ran one of Hollywood’s premier digital production studios will discuss the current state of 2D-to-3D conversion as well as address the combined impact of globalization and technology trends on visual effects and the vital role of standards in this dynamic area of movie production.

Sony Envysion Form Theatre Surveillance Venture

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Sony's Security Systems Division and Envysion are teaming to provide video-based business intelligence services to movie theatres. This joint venture combines Sony's surveillance cameras and video analytics with Envysion's MVaaS technology to deliver instant and actionable business insights to a theatre's loss prevention operations marketing and human resources groups without straining the IT department or network. Envysion integrates video from Sony's cameras with an organization's business systems such as point of sale.

Spacenet Mexico Launches Satellite Network

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

VT iDirect has announced that Spacenet Communications Services de Mexico has launched an iDirect Evolution satellite network to distribute live HD content and digital movies to cinema complexes throughout Mexican cities. The network will provide connectivity from Spacenet Mexico's teleport where live content is down linked produced and then immediately redistributed to cinema complexes across the country. Spacenet Mexico purchased and installed an iDirect series 15100 universal satellite hub at its Mexico City-based teleport which complements its existing tier III+ teleport in Puebla.

SR Entertainment Group Installs 65 more Barco DLP Cinema Projectors

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

SR Entertainment Group has installed Barco DLP digital cinema projectors on 65 screens in rapid succession completing all installations in just five days in sites across California. The latest series of installations is part of a long-term VPF agreement with Cinedigm comprising 81 total screens located throughout California. SR Entertainment selected Barco as its digital cinema projector provider in July 2010 beginning with a novel theatre concept at its Blue Oaks Cinema in Rocklin.

NATO Thanks Universal for Tower Heist Decision

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

In response to Universal’s decision to cancel its planned release of Tower Heist to the home on video on demand just three weeks after its theatrical debut National Association of Theatre Owners president and CEO John Fithian said “NATO would like to thank Universal for responding to various theater owners' concerns and cancelling the PVOD test it was contemplating.” “They have been engaged with individual exhibitors on this test and while it was something that many theater owners could not ultimately support the open and collaborative nature of the dialogue is appreciated.

UFO Moviez India Announces Major Expansion Plans

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

UFO Moviez India has announced major expansion plans in India of Scrabble Entertainment Limited in which UFO Moviez has recently acquired a controlling stake. The company will fund the $150 million international roll out plans with international debt and further equity infusion. Kapil Agarwal joint managing director UFO Moviez says The UFO-Scrabble combine is the only alliance in the world that offers non DCI satellite based digital cinema solutions as well as DCI-compliant solutions with virtual print fee deals to the global and Indian film industry.

Ymagis Reaches Agreements with Baditri and Olwyn Films

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Ymagis has reached a non-exclusive agreement for digital cinema deployment in Spain with distributors Baditri and Olwyn Films. Ymagis has agreements in place with all six majors distributors. This new deal opens the door for Spanish independent distributors to participate in the deployment of digital cinema in Spain. Under these agreements both distributors will provide their content in digital format when programming films with Spanish exhibitors equipped with DCI-compliant digital cinema systems under agreements with Ymagis.

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