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XDC Reaches Thousand-Screen Plateau in Europe

Fri, 05/13/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

XDC says it has deployed the 1000th digital screen contracted within its European VPF studio agreements. That installation is the Rio Cinema in Dalston London UK a member of the Digital Funding Partnership. This marks the first installation under the DFP/XDC deployment agreement. Serge Plasch XDC CEO says We are very excited to have reached this important step and especially with the Rio Cinema being a member of the DFP which we are very proud to be working with it's a double celebration.

AMC Opens a Green Theatre

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

AMC opened a new multiplex in suburban Chicago this weekend with all the fanfare that one would expect when a major entertainment center debuts in a major urban area. Among the opening-week festivities there were celebrity appearances contests and prizes. What should not be overlooked in all the excitement however is the fact that what AMC has also done is create a template for the environmentally friendly movie complex of the future.

Break Media Expands its Online 3D Presence

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Creative Lab the in-house production team for the online 3D channel Break Media is dramatically expanding its output to meet the growing demand for content.
 
 The company has made the Panasonic AG-3DA1 Full HD 3D camcorder its lead camera. Since launching its designated 3D channel in July 2010 the Creative Lab has shot more than 150 videos with the professional 3D camcorder.

FilmDistrict to Release The Rum Diary

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

FilmDistrict will release The Rum Diary based on the early Hunter S. Thompson novel that was ultimately published in 1998. The movie stars Johnny Depp and will be released on October 28. Bob Berney FilmDistrict’s president theatrical distribution made the announcement. The film is directed by Bruce Robinson (Withnail and I) from his own screenplay and also stars Aaron Eckhart Amber Heard Michael Rispoli Richard Jenkins and Giovanni Ribisi.  It was produced by Infinitum Nihil the production company headed by Depp and Christi Dembrowski along with Graham King and Tim Headington.

Integrating the Effects in Super

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Montreal's Modus FX recently completed visual effects for James Gunn’s Super an eccentric superhero-comedy film starring Rainn Wilson as Frank D’Arbo a.k.a. The Crimson Bolt. Frank is a bumbling everyman who fashions himself into a superhero with the hope of setting things right with his wife who has become involved with a drug dealer. Super premiered to rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival last September and is being rolled out now in US theatres.

Cinépolis Opens Multiplex in Bengaluru

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Cinépolis the world's fourth largest cinema chain and India's top international exhibitor has opened its newest multiplex at Bannerghatta Road in Bengaluru. The all-digital seven screen 1328 seat multiplex will feature a 3D screen and a macro screen. Cinépolis is launching the cinema with the much awaited movie of the year Dum Maaro Dum starring Abhishek Bachchan Deepika Padukone Bipasha Basu and Prateik Babba and nine other movie titles.

Creative Lab Expands 3D Production

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Creative Lab the in-house production team for the online 3D channel Break Media is dramatically expanding its output to meet the growing demand for content. The company has made the Panasonic AG-3DA1 Full HD 3D camcorder its lead camera. Since launching its designated 3D channel in July 2010 the Creative Lab has shot more than 150 videos with the professional 3D camcorder. Break is on track to create more than 1 000 original videos in 2011 and all 3D videos shot in-house will be filmed with the AG-3DA1.

Spice Shop Buys First Baselight 2 Control Surface

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Spice Shop Bangkok has become the first post-production facility worldwide to purchase the new Blackboard 2 control surface for Baselight. FilmLight debuted Blackboard 2 at last month’s NAB convention in Las Vegas. 
“When we saw Blackboard 2 we understood immediately the impact it would have on our business and our facility and we knew we had to have it ” says Spice Shop director of operations Matthew Szabo.

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