BoxOffice® Pro - May 2012

INDUSTRY BRIEFS
able seats. Carmike’s Beverly 18 will continue
to serve the Champaign area during development
of the new entertainment complex. Said
Carmike President and CEO David Passman,
“We are very pleased to forge this new relationship
with the Entertainment Properties Trust
team for our recently announced Carmike 13
entertainment complex in Champaign, IL.
Carmike is transitioning to a growth mode,
focused on further expanding our circuit and
geographical footprint in both existing and new
markets. We are also actively seeking accretive
acquisition opportunities.”
FANDANGO HAS LAUNCHED a new collaboration
with Yahoo! to make Fandango the
online and mobile movie ticketer for Yahoo!
Movies, with more than 30 million U.S. users.
As a result, millions of moviegoers will receive
increased access to Fandango’s comprehensive
ticketing capabilities for nearly 20,000 screens
across the country. Yahoo! users will be able
to get Fandango showtimes and ticketing opportunities
on their mobile devices and tablets
as well. “We are excited about this relationship
with Yahoo!, which helps deliver consumer
benefits to an even broader audience, giving
moviegoers more convenient options to buy
tickets and find up-to-the-minute movie information
anywhere, anytime,” said Rick Butler,
executive vice president and general manager
of Fandango. “Moviegoers on Yahoo! will now
have access to Fandango’s many innovations,
including the paperless Mobile Ticket program
and reserved seating at a growing number of
locations.”
QSC IS UNDERWAY with its planned series
of global Cinema Training Seminars. The first
event at the company’s offices in Hong Kong
covered such topics such as General Cinema
Design and Product Applications, Guidelines
for Cinema Installation, System Equalization
and the specifics of QSC Digital Cinema
Processors. “This first Cinema Training Seminar
at the QSC Hong Kong Office was very well
attended by our dealers as well as technical
heads of many cinema chains, with especially
good participation from India,” said Sushil
John, country head for QSC. “This training
was of great benefit to the attendees and will
help ensure that QSC advanced cinema solutions
and performance standards will continue
to deliver a gratifying audio experience for
cinemagoers in the future.” Future training
seminars are planned, with the next upcoming
Cinema Training scheduled for June 16th in
Barcelona, Spain, one day before the Cinema
Europe Convention. For more information
contact cinema@qscaudio.com.
THE FIRST COMMERCIAL INSTALLATION
OF QUBE CINEMA’S SINGLE-SERVER 4K
3D SYSTEM has been completed at the
Houston Museum of Natural Science. Using
a single Qube XP-I server, the new configuration
streams 4K image data to two Barco
4K projectors each with its own Qube Xi
4K Integrated Media Block. “Giant screen
theaters have been anticipating 4K 3D for
years. We’re very pleased to have partnered
with Qube to finally make it happen,” said
Derek Threinen, vice president, business development
at D3D Cinema, which designed
and integrated the new theater system. “The
Houston Museum of Natural Science is one
of the most prestigious giant-screen venues
in the world. To see full 4K content on the
giant screen at HMNS is an important milestone
for the industry.”
IMAX CORPORATION AND THE WALT
DISNEY STUDIOS WILL DIGITALLY REMAS-
TER Tim Burton’s stop-motion animated film
Frankenweenie into the immersive IMAX
3D format to be released in IMAX digital
theaters worldwide day-and-date on Oct. 5,
2012. The fi lm marks the first black-andwhite
Hollywood feature and first stopmotion
animated movie to be presented in
IMAX. The fi lm is a remake of the live-action
short directed by Tim Burton in 1984 and
features the voices of Catherine O’Hara,
Martin Short and Winona Ryder. “IMAX has
a long-standing relationship with Tim Burton,
whose unique artistic vision and brilliant
storytelling has captured the imagination
of audiences around the world,” said Greg
Foster, chairman and president of IMAX
Filmed Entertainment. “We’re excited to add
Frankenweenie as the second Tim Burton feature
in our 2012 film slate, providing IMAX
audiences a distinctive new way to experience
animation.”
VISTA ENTERTAINMENT SOLUTIONS, a
global software developer with a specialty
in simplifying ticketing and concessions,
was presented with the International Business
Award at the New Zealand Trade and
Enterprise business awards in Auckland. The
awards celebrate New Zealand companies
that have excelled in exports, job creation
and the development of new skills and technologies.
Vista Entertainment Solutions Ltd.
has offi ces in Auckland, London, Los Angeles
and Shanghai, and has installed its software
in more than 2000 cinemas across 200
customers in more than 50 countries. Said
CEO Murray Holdaway, “It’s a great win for
us! We believe we’re the best in the world at
what we do, but this is another pat on the
back to let us know that both nationally and
internationally, we’re at the top of our game
and climbing.”
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