- Digital Cinema Equipment as Collateral? The roll of the deployment entity has changed, and the risks the exhibitor faces have changed along with it.
- DCIP. Rumors abound that Blackstone Group is preparing a private equity investment.
- ISDCF TDL update. One studio encourages adoption of an obsolete format.
- SMPTE update. Five documents, included two closed caption standards, pass ballot, with comments to be resolved. Michael Karagosian takes over the chairman role for 21DC-30 Exhibition Working Group.
- 3-D for Film? Technicolor announces its 3-D film program. But Technicolor is only one of three such entries, all incompatible.
- CEA in the UK announced its intent to organize a buying group for its independent theatre owner members.
- Time Andaeus engages in rollout in China. Estimates predict 50% digital cinema penetration by end of 2009.
- Sony and RealD score sales in Germany.
- NATO hires Mitch Neuhauser for its 2011 trade show.
- Arts Alliance Media prepares for its Norwegian bid, with the merger of Nordic Digital Alliance and cinema advertising aggregator Intellinet.
- Warner Bros and Viacom put Chinese Mann on the block…again.