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Glitches and mixups happen everywhere, including Down Under
The recent incident in which a screening of Inception was stopped at a Los Angeles cinema attended by the film’s director Christopher Nolan reminded me of several cinema disasters Down Under. More »
Independent cinemas in Australia and New Zealand join forces
Independent cinema groups in Australia and New Zealand have combined in a historic trans-Tasman pact. The Independent Cinemas Association of Australia (ICAA) has joined up with Kiwi independent cinema group New Zealand Motion Picture Exhibitors Association (NZMPEA). More »
'Boy' becomes New Zealand's highest-grossing movie
A comedy inspired by writer-director Taika Waititi's Oscar-nominated short Two Cars, One Night and his own childhood in Waihau Bay has just become the highest-grossing New Zealand film of all time. More »
Hoyts Corporation buys Berkeley Cinema Group
The first three items in this month's column come from New Zealand, land of four million people and 40 million sheep. More »
Get ready for 'Ben Hur—The Stadium Spectacular'
The worldwide popularity of films is such that they have a life long after their initial release. DVD sales and TV screenings continue for decades. Films have also been adapted into games, Broadway musicals, ice spectaculars, comic books and much more. More »
National Trust seeks rebirth of two Sydney cinema treasures
The National Trust is campaigning to reopen two of Sydney's most architecturally spectacular cinemas, the Roxy in Parramatta and the Hub in Newtown. More »
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Metropolitan Opera HD series adds 300 theatres
“The Met: Live in HD,” the Metropolitan Opera’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series of live performance transmissions into movie theatres around the world, will expand in its fifth season to 1,500 theatres (an increase of 300 theatres), while adding Egypt, Portugal and Spain to its network of now 46 participating countries. More »
DLP ships 4K chips to licensees
Texas Instruments (TI) began shipping DLP Cinema® Enhanced 4K chips to its licensees, Barco, Christie Digital and NEC. Projectors with the DLP Cinema 4K chip are expected to be installed in Q1 2011 and several industry demos are anticipated before then by DLP Cinema licensees. More »
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