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Personal posts on cinema events
Huddersfield is to get its first town centre cinema since the old Tudor closed 20 years ago. Source: Huddersfield to get first cinema in town centre for decades – Examiner Live
Councillors have rejected a petition with more than 3,000 signatures to turn a former Odeon cinema in Ashford into a theatre. Source: Kent councillors reject petition to turn former Odeon into theatre | News | The Stage
An outdoor cinema company, which professes to be the largest in the UK, cancelled a number of festive film screenings at short notice and has so far allegedly failed to refund customers. Source: A cinema company cancelled all its film … Continued
Children and young people in Rutland are being offered the chance to take part in a brand new community cinema project which aims to screen films at locations around the county in 2019. Source: Young people offered chance to take … Continued
French admissions fell by 4.3% in 2018 to 200.5m, against 209.4m in 2017, but the country remained one of Europe’s leading cinema markets, according to preliminary figures released by the National Cinema Centre (CNC) on Dec 31. Source: France admissions … Continued
We kick-start 2019 with a celebration of the architecture and design of cinema buildings. The BFI Reuben Library holds a rich and varied collection about the past, present and future of cinemas, from the picture palace to the multiplex. We … Continued
Dolby’s audio technologies have had a home in movie theatres since the mid-1970s, its stereo and surround formats laying the foundations for the movie-going experience ever since. Source: Inside the UK’s first Dolby Cinema: 400 speakers, Dolby Atmos and a … Continued
[A version of this appeared in the December 2018 edition of Cinema Technology Magazine] I bet that my idea of a great cinema experience may be different to yours. But I bet that my idea of a great car, day … Continued
As 2018 comes to an end, and now with over 17,000 stories on the website, I thought that I would make a video blog as a one-off experiment to see what the response was. If it is successful then I … Continued
[A version of this article appeared in the December 2018 edition of Cinema Technology Magazine] I went to experience ScreenX at the Cineworld, O2 and see what this new to the UK format was all about. Introduction As … Continued