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Posted by Briefing Room on February 20, 2013 • Erlangen, Germany – Feb. 20, 2013 -- "The 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) rose its curtain on February 7 to bring filmmakers from all around the world together to show 890 films across a variety of categories to 250,000 film lovers. For the second year, Fraunhofer IIS’ Department of Moving Picture Technologies was selected as the go-to digital cinema technical expert for the events.
As the global tally of digital cinema rises, more and more festival entries are being submitted in the digital cinema film format. However, for smaller production companies in particular, producing these digital cinema packages (DCPs) is no easy task. To help, scientists from Fraunhofer IIS provided their expertise to the Berlinale to assist in technical quality control, so that every film submission could have its moment of glory on the big screen.
Experts from the Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen were involved in the 2012 Berlinale as well, helping the festival’s technical team behind the scenes to ensure that all the technology worked without a hitch. This successful collaboration between the Berlinale and Fraunhofer IIS continued in 2013. Fraunhofer experts were on hand since the start of the international film festival to offer immediate help in the event of any problems with the digital cinema packages, to correct any errors and to get films ready to be shown to eager audiences." ... BroadcastEngineering.com YouTube.com/user/easyDCPcom easyDCP.com
Via Thierry Saint-Paul
Posted by CreativeCow on February 21, 2013 • Los Angeles, California--February 21, 2013 "The 2013 Academy Award® best picture nominees include six movies that were shot on Kodak film: Argo, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Django Unchained, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Les Misérables.
In the 84-year history of Oscar®, no Academy Award®-winning best picture has ever been made without motion picture film.
"We congratulate all of the 2013 nominees for their remarkable achievements,” says Andrew Evenski, president and general manager of Kodak’s Entertainment and Commercial Films Group. “We are honored that so many talented filmmakers continue to choose Kodak technology to tell their stories and create extraordinary images." ... CreativeCow.net
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DPI's latest DLP projector goes up against a truck. It wins!
Via Jeff Gooch
Over the past few years, Islamism has become a recurrent topic in Moroccan films. Are we walking in the footsteps of Egypt, where it's rare to find works that do not evoke the Muslim Brotherhood? Let’s decipher this.
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Rave Cinemas Sold to Carmike Cinema GroupPatch.com"The addition of these 16 state-of-the-art theatres and 251 screens from Rave is a key, opportunistic development," said Carmike Cinema president and CEO David Passman.
Welcome to the Digital Age After 99 Years: the Metropol in Chemnitz Installs A ...DCinemaToday (press release)Right on time for the 99th birthday of the imposing METROPOL cinema in Chemnitz, Germany, Kinoton helped it enter the digital age: in late...
The lack of good manners among theatre visitors is a regular source of annoyance and it’s frequently discussed in the blogosphere. I believe the vast majority agree of us support the Wittert...
If you have 12000 square feet going spare in your house, US company Elite Home Theater Seating, based in Blaine, Washington, can install a luxurious 15-seat cinema. Comfy... but then for this price tag, it had better be (Copyright: EliteHTS).
Published on: 2012-08-06 11:58:27. We haven't posted a projection mapping event for a little while, so this timely piece from Gillette is perfect, combining a series of various projections onto buildings, walls and ultimately on ...
Historic Granada sells to well-known Lubbock businessmanKCBD-TVBuilt in the late 1920's the building is still thought of as a landmark in downtown Plainview. Holland said his grandfather was at one time a partner in the Granada.
This August Bank Holiday, the UK's primary pop party starter and alternative clubbing institution, Sean Rowley's Guilty Pleasures presents the Guilty Pleasures Cinema Party, a brand new cinema and party concept that brings the worlds of music, cinema,...
Cinema granted alcohol licenceWatford ObserverVue Watford, on Woodside Leisure Park, hopes to introduce alcoholic beverages to its counters by the end of the month after successfully securing a variation to their licence from Watford Borough Council.
WHILE writing Yeovil's Cinematic Screens (published by Amberley later this year), people asked what there could possibly be to say of interest about the cinemas of Yeovil, adding that they think there...
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Posted by Steve Dent on February 21, 2013 • "Along with a lot of publicity, Project Glass from Google has generated a bevy of approved patents and applications, but the latest one shows that the search giant's trying to wrap up the whole kit and kaboodle -- replete with detailed diagrams and descriptions to back it up. Specifically, Mountain View is claiming the design of the frame itself including the bridge, brow portion, transparent display, input device plus the means for affixing everything. There are detailed descriptions of how the device can be configured -- for instance, one claim states that the screen could be adjusted "normal to the focal center of the eye," and the position of the electronics placed "over a first side of the ear." It goes on to explain the need for a balancing weight "over the second side" of the same ear in the latter case, such that "a majority of the overall weight is applied" to one side, which certainly jibes with some of what we've seen. That's just for starters, though -- head after the break to see more diagrams and details." ... engadget.com
Via Thierry Saint-Paul
A workshop presented in November with Roberto Fazio and Joanie LeMercier
Via Jeff Gooch
Doremi Appointed Official Digital Cinema Partner for Berlinale 2013 DCinemaToday (press release) Doremi, a leader in digital cinema technology, has been confirmed as official supplier of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, the 'Berlinale'.
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Dutch cinemas become 100% digitalFilm JournalOut of the 789 screens in the Netherlands, 506 were converted to accommodate digital projection by Cinema Digitaal, in conjunction with integrator Arts Alliance Media; theatre chains Pathé, Utopolis,...
The last picture show?London Free PressProjectionist Victor Liorentas watches the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel through a small window in the projectionist booth at the Hyland Cinema in London, Ontario.
A FEUD over the fate of an historic cinema in Walthamstow that has been going on for almost a decade will be settled by councillors next month.
THE Regal Cinema is set to re-open after a long community fight to save the arthouse movie theatre.
Some of cinema's most iconic films are being shown this summer at a tucked-away Cambridge destination.
For a pop-up cinema experience like no other, head to St Martin's Courtyard for their two-day open air silent films. Enjoy gourmet popcorn while watching feel good comedy 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' (Wednesday) or ...
Screened at The Vintage Mobile Cinema, returning to the festival with all its vintage charm. Also including a popcorn machine!
Ocean City cinema goes digitalDelmarva Daily TimesOCEAN CITY -- Sun & Surf 8 Cinema completed the first phase of renovations with the installation of six new digital cinema systems.
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