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A Step-by-Step Consumer Guide to Good Theater Projection
A Step-by-Step Consumer Guide to Good Theater Projection
A Step-by-Step Consumer Guide to Good Theater Projection
Rarely a week goes by these days without someone proclaiming movies dead or dying or zombified and feasting on the brains of their victims. (That’s what you get for turning your brain off at the theater!) Mainstream Hollywood has seen better days, but film as an art form is just fine; in a world where Moonlight, The Handmaiden, Arrival, and Loving are all competing for screen space, there’s still life left in movies yet. I’m more concerned about movie theaters, where the presentation of those films seems to get worse every single year.
AMC Now Says It Won’t Allow Texting in Its Theaters
AMC Now Says It Won’t Allow Texting in Its Theaters
AMC Now Says It Won’t Allow Texting in Its Theaters
Just days after confessing, in an interview with Variety, that he was open to the idea of allowing texting in some of his movie theaters, AMC CEO Adam Aron has reversed course. Non-texters, you can continue to patronize AMC; in a statement, Aron announced that “there will be NO TEXTING ALLOWED in any of the auditoriums at AMC Theatres. Not today, not tomorrow and not in the forseeable future.” And he was the one that put “NO TEXTING ALLOWED” in all caps so you know he means business.
AMC Theatres’ CEO Says He’s Open to Texting in Theaters, Which Is Still a Terrible Idea
AMC Theatres’ CEO Says He’s Open to Texting in Theaters, Which Is Still a Terrible Idea
AMC Theatres’ CEO Says He’s Open to Texting in Theaters, Which Is Still a Terrible Idea
Last month, I tried out the new 4DX theater at the Regal Cinemas in Manhattan’s Union Square. Seating in the theater is assigned and it was a packed house; by the time I bought my ticket, my only choice was in a solo seat wedged between two other parties. To my left, was a couple in their 30s. To my right, was a guy who looked to be in his early 20s. When the movie started, he took out his cell phone and began taking pictures of the screen. He snapped a photo of the title card; of Superman’s first appearance; of the debut of the new Batmobile.
Help Save the Graham Texas Drive-In by Voting for Them in Honda’s “Project Drive-In”
Help Save the Graham Texas Drive-In by Voting for Them in Honda’s “Project Drive-In”
Help Save the Graham Texas Drive-In by Voting for Them in Honda’s “Project Drive-In”
There is a cool project that the Honda corporation in sponsoring and it's to help save Drive-In's across the U.S. Since the movie industry is going from film to digital, expensive new equipment is needed and it's putting a lot of small town drive-ins out of business. If you remember we had this problem here in Abilene not long ago with our own Town and Country Drive-In. Ours was saved and now here
Weekend Box Office: ‘Green Lantern’ Dims in Theaters
Weekend Box Office: ‘Green Lantern’ Dims in Theaters
Weekend Box Office: ‘Green Lantern’ Dims in Theaters
As expected, ‘Green Lantern’ was the number one movie at the box office this weekend, taking in a slightly underwhelming $52.7 million, according to weekend estimates. That number marks the lowest opening for a superhero movie this summer, behind ‘Thor’ ($66 million) ‘X-Men: First Class’ ($56 million).