New Films International has acquired the worldwide rights to Christopher B. Landon's Burning Palms which features an ensemble cast including Zoe Saldana Dylan McDermott Paz Vega and Rosamund Pike. Burning Palms is a dark comedy that interlaces five stories set in different Los Angeles neighborhoods where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate.
Arts Alliance Media and partners Arqiva Satellite and Media have announced a deal to equip all of the Odeon and UCI Cinemas Group screens in mainland Europe with satellite service. The deal covers over 1 000 screens across 100 sites in five territories – Austria Germany Italy Portugal and Spain.
The OptiTrack S250e motion capture camera is now available. The company says the S250e is the first full-featured Ethernet motion capture camera in the world for under $2 000. OptiTrack has always offered the most affordable motion capture technology on the market says Jim Richardson NaturalPoint co-founder and lead engineer for the OptiTrack motion capture line. With the release of the S250e we are reshaping the CG production landscape coupling that aggressive pricing strategy with a continued investment in core optics and image processing technology.
Lord David Puttnam award-winning producer and president of the UK Film Distributors’ Association has been chosen to receive RAAM 2011 International Award. The award recognizes an individual or individuals whose body of work in the film industry celebrates significant international achievements and contributions to the British cinema industry.
Wanda International Cinema the largest cinema company in China has secured a partnership with Harman Professional’s Chinese distributor Advanced Communications Equipment to equip 20 new cinemas with JBL speakers and Crown amplifiers. In total 183 cinemas will be completed with JBL 4732/3732 3-way line arrays JBL 8340 cinema surround speakers and JBL 4642A/4645C subwoofers all powered by Crown DSi 1000 2000 and 4000 series amplifiers by the end of 2010.
WestMidWest Productions announced today that it will premiere the trailer of its new movie Revenge of the Electric Car exclusively on Facebook as soon as its Facebook Fan page acquires its 10 000th fan. The company produced the 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? Revenge of the Electric Car is the new feature documentary about electric cars by director Chris Paine.
UK exhibitor Reel Cinemas and digital cinema service company XDC have agreed on the terms for a deployment of 57 digital cinema systems at 15 cinemas. K.C. Suri managing partner of Reel Cinemas says We made the decision for XDC because they offered the most comprehensive solution available today on the market: simple and efficient financing structure clear and transparent business model keen technological expertise.
Arts Alliance Media has reached non-exclusive long-term agreements with two distributors for digital cinema rollout in France. MK2 Distribution and DistriB Films have become the first French independent distributors to support the DCI-compliant rollout by signing up to 10 year commitments. Both distributors will provide feature films in digital format and will make provisional contributions towards the digital cinema deployment costs of AAM-deployed screens.
The 2010 American Film Market ended last week and reported that overall attendance had increased by six percent – 7 695 to 7 246 – over the previous year. Buying companies increased by one percent 664 compared with 658 last year. Buying executives remained nearly on par with last year at 1 417 versus 1 419.
As the conversion of theaters to digital infrastructures grows globally the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has released two digital cinema products designed to standardize workflows and ensure a consistent movie-going experience: the Digital Leader product for post-production and the Digital Projection Verifier product for theatres. The products both are based on the SMPTE RP 428-6-2009 recommended practice standard. “As the digital cinema rollout accelerates there is a critical need for standardized workflows ” says Barbara Lange executive director of SMPTE.
