Pr. 4. maj 2012
CinemaCon 2012: Fox Will Stop U.S. 35mm Film Distribution Within Two Years
Twentieth Century Fox has become the first major Hollywood studio to officially notify theater owners that it will distribute all of its films domestically in a digital format within the next year or two, bringing an end to 35mm film prints.
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Danish films take 1.7 million admissions in four months in best result since 2005
This Life (aka The Hvidsten Group) and Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair brought spring to Denmark with Danish films’ best results in the past seven years.
During the first four months of 2012, local fare sold 1,737,000 tickets, to control more than a third of the market, only matched by 2005 when the Danish Film Institute started publishing annual statistics.
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Box Office Shocker: 'Avengers' Pacing to Fly Past $500 Mil Globally by Sunday
Joss Whedon's superhero pic continues to do bang-up business overseas, where its total through Monday was already $218 million; the tentpole opens in North America at midnight Thursday.
Disney and Marvel Studios appear to have a runaway hit on their hands.
The Avengers, which only began rolling out at the international box office late last week, is easily on track to become the most successful title produced in-house by Marvel Studios, besting the $623 million worldwide gross of 2010's Iron Man 2.
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PirateEye Is Watching You, So Illegal Camcorders Beware
With $5 million in funding from the major studios, the surveillance company with the Orwellian undertones hopes to help theaters crack down on piracy.
It installs five-inch cameras weighing as little 14.5 pounds in movie theaters that send out beams of light to capture three to six seats at a time on film.
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New Products at CinemaCon 2012
The CinemaCon trade show runs from 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 24, through 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 26. Here are select new products and technologies which will be on display at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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In future, movies may come to theaters by satellite
An initiative to beam movies into thousands of U.S. theaters by satellite is one of several technological leaps unveiled at the CinemaCon convention this week that will bring traditional movie distribution fully into the digital age.
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