ShoWest update. Andrew Sriubas, Managing Director, JP Morgan Media Investment Banking, says deployment funds could be available as early as July. Paramount and Fox publicly agree to disagree on how to approach direct VPFs to the
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Archives for March 2009
ShoWest Update
Box office may be doing well, but attendance at ShoWest was reportedly 30% down this year. If it wasn’t for the bad economy, one might have thought it was part of a devilish scheme to encourage Nielsen to step aside for when NATO gets back
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Texas Instruments
Technology execs from AMC, Cinemark, Marcus, and Regal met with Texas Instruments to introduce themselves to Kent Novak, new SVP of DLP at TI. With the economic downturn, TI has made strategic internal changes that will lead it to become
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RealD and Fox
Fox chose ShoWest to announce that it would not pay for Real D glasses with the release of Ice Age in June. This has caused tremendous backlash from exhibitors, particularly Regal. The implicit agreement for using Real D was that exhibitors
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Sony 4K
Sony announced its long-awaited “agreement in principle” to supply digital cinema systems to 4600 AMC screens. For Sony Electronics, this is a significant breakthrough. Not announced was how the higher priced Sony projectors would be paid
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