NATO’s Digital Cinema User Requirements, version 2.1 have been completed and approved. You can read them here.
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Movie Business Booms
WBTV 3 in Charlotte has Will Smith for the premiere of Seven Pounds, but first they want to tell you how the movie theater business is doing (They get the average ticket price wrong in the report; it’s really $7.20. The $7.97 figure is what a $2.23 average ticket in 1977 would cost today.):
Golden Globe Nominations
The Golden Globe nominations are out this morning. Read the list below and place your bets. And go see a movie. BEST FEATURE – DRAMA “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” – Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures “Frost/Nixon” – Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Studio Canal; Universal Pictures “The… Read more »
DCIP signs digital cinema agreement with five studios
Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP), a consortium of exhibitors Regal Entertainment Group, AMC Theatres and Cinemark, announced they have struck a deal with five Hollywood studios to support their digital cinema rollout. According to AP: Five Hollywood studios have agreed to help pay for a $1 billion-plus rollout of digital technology on about 20,000 movie… Read more »
Economic concerns don't inhibit moviegoing
Hot on the heels of Interpret LLC’s survey suggesting consumers are cutting back on moviegoing because of economic worries comes a report from the NPD Group asserting exactly the opposite. NPD’s “Entertainment Trends in America” reports that nearly 80 percent of frequent moviegoers plan to go to the theater the same amount or more often… Read more »