The Cinema Exhibitors' Association will establish a digital funding group to negotiate financial support for small & medium-sized UK cinema ops to convert to D-cinema....
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Tom Cruise’s son Connor to star in Red Dawn remake
MUMBAI: Tom Cruise’s son Connor Cruise, has landed a role in a remake of 1984 action war drama Red Dawn. While the original helped to launch the Hollywood careers of Patrick Swayze and Charlie...
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Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt come together after 16 years
MUMBAI: Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt have come together after almost 16 years with Inglourious Basterds, a film about a group of soldiers on a mission to take down Nazi soldiers. A Nazi propaganda...
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Shangri-La Pictures signs $100 million film fund deal
Shangri-La Pictures has signed a $100 million film fund deal to finance a slate of English language commercial films for global distribution over the next three years....
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Sony Pictures taps Warner Bros’ Stephens to further digital innovation
MUMBAI: In a move to expand a team of industry-leading technologists at Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio has hired industry-veteran Spencer Stephens as senior vice president of technical services. Stephens reports to Sony Pictures...
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Barco completes first Cinedigm Phase 2 deployment with Premiere Cinemas
MUMBAI: Barco has completed the first major rollout in Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp.’s Phase 2 with Texas-based Premiere Cinema Corp. Since 2007, Premiere has been working exclusively with Barco to provide digital cinema to...
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Facebook acquires FriendFeed.com for $50 million
MUMBAI: Facebook has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online for $50 million. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior...
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Emergent & Mixamo to simplify character animation in game development
MUMBAI: Raising the bar for fast, cost-effective and high-quality 3D game animation, Mixamo Inc. and Emergent Game Technologies announced that users of Gamebryo LightSpeed will now have a seamless integration of character animations when...
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Emagine enhances Michigan multiplex with Christie D-Cinema projectors
MUMBAI: Cinema chain Emagine Entertainment Inc. selected Christie CP2000-ZX digital cinema projectors to equip the chain’s new 10-screen theater in Woodhaven, Michigan. Voted the "Best in Michigan" by local cinema outlets, Emagine Theatres serve...
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Lionsgate revenues up 30 per cent $387.7 million
MUMBAI: Independent studio Lionsgate has reported first quarter revenues of $387.7 million, which is up 30 per cent as compared to $298.5 million in the previous year’s first quarter. This reflected growth in television...
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