Los Angeles - RealD, a provider of digital 3D movie theater projection systems, announced on Tuesday that movie exhibitor Cinemark Holdings will add up to 1,500 RealD 3D screens to its circuit. Cinemark operates 408 theaters and over 4,600 screen in 38 states and 12 countries including Mexico. RealD said the deal will put it past the 5,000 screen installation mark worldwide.

Basking Ridge, N.J. - Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) announced on Thursday that it has partnered with Screenvision to test a new text messaging promotion that will interact with moviegoers in theaters before the show begins. Scheduled to debut this month in 10 U.S. markets, the program will poll moviegoers on their music preferences and ask them to text their responses, with audience results then displayed on the movie screen. Screenvision's cinema advertising network currently reaches 14,000 screens across 2,300 U.S. theaters.

Morristown, N.J. - Access Integrated Technologies, a provider of digital cinema services, said on Monday that it plans to install 150 of its CineLive systems throughout the U.S., which enable live broadcast of 2D and 3D content into movie theaters via satellite. The company's The Bigger Picture unit is expected to manage distribution of live events enabled by the network.

Stratham, N.H. - Laser Light Engines, a company that says it is developing "an innovative digital light source to upgrade the future cinema experience," has landed a $5 million first round of financing, PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing.

Los Angeles - Real D, a provider of digital 3D cinema projection systems, has signed a deal to equip 1,500 screens operated by Regal Entertainment Group, the nation's largest movie theater chain, CNET News.com reported. The deal will make Regal the leading provider of digital 3D screens, and bring Real D's total deployment to over 3,500 screens.

Los Angeles - Dolby Laboratories' (NYSE: DLB) Digital Cinema unit this week announced a deal with Germany's Infitec to develop and market a digital 3D cinema delivery system for theaters, Variety reported. The company hopes its system, which will compete with offerings from Real D and In-Three, will be available for deployment by next spring.

Burbank, Calif. - Disney's (NYSE: DIS) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group announced on Thursday that it has promoted Jason Brenek to the newly created position of SVP, worldwide digital cinema and cinema programming. Brenek will be responsible for developing and overseeing any non-movie content, including 3D or live events, delivered to theaters enabled by digital cinema, as well as setting the company's worldwide digital cinema strategy and negotiating deployment deals around the world. Disney has taken to releasing more films in digital 3D format, such as "Chicken Little" and "Meet the Robinsons," and also beamed digital 3D Hannah Montana concerts into theaters.

Morristown, N.J. - Access Integrated Technologies (Access IT) (NASD: AIXD), a provider of digital cinema projection systems for movie theaters, announced on Tuesday a massive deal with four major movies studios, to provide movies to up to 10,000 digital cinema systems in the U.S. and Canada.

Paris - Thomson (NYSE: TMS) said on Friday that its Technicolor Digital Cinema unit has signed an agreement to provide digital cinema systems for ArcLight Cinemas. The deal includes ArcLight Hollywood and the Cinerama Dome theater in Hollywood.

Hollywood - Kodak (NYSE: EK) announced on Friday that San Antonio-based Santikos Theatres will install Kodak Digital Cinema systems at 126 of its screens. The theater chain is the first to select Kodak for a circuit-wide digital cinema deployment.

Los Angeles - Real D, a provider of digital cinema 3D projection systems, has raised $20 million in its fourth round of venture capital financing, led by Pequot Capital, PEHub.com reported.

Columbus, Ga. - Carmike Cinemas, which owns or operates 270 theaters in 37 states, announced on Wednesday that it will screen "U2's Vertigo World Concert Tour" in digital 3D format at 191 of its theaters beginning on Feb. 5. The multi-million dollar film had its premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival.

Los Angeles - Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) Warner Bros. on Tuesday announced an agreement with National CineMedia (NCM), the operator of an in-theater digital ad and entertainment network, whereby Warner will provide original, exclusive behind-the-scenes looks at upcoming films for display before films in theaters served by NCM. The NCM Digital Content Network currently is seen on around 13,500 screens in 164 U.S. markets.

New York - IMAX (NASD: IMAX), the large-format theater company, announced on Friday that it has partnered with movie theater owner AMC Entertainment, to install 100 IMAX digital projectors at AMC locations in 33 U.S. markets, effectively doubling IMAX's current footprint in North America.

Paris - Thomson's (NYSE: TMS) Technicolor Digital Cinema unit said on Tuesday that it has signed agreements to install digital projection systems for theater owners Clearview Cinemas, iPic Entertainment and Cinemaworld. Thomson intends to complete its first rollout of digital projection systems in up to 5,000 screens over the next three to four years, with 15,000 screens in the United States and Canada planned over the next 10 years.

Morristown, N.J. - Access Integrated Technologies (NASD: AIXD), a provider of digital cinema systems, announced on Wednesday plans to provide up to an additional 10,000 of its systems to exhibitors in the U.S. and Canada, following the first phase of its roll-out to 3,750 screens. The second phase of AccessIT's deployment is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2008 and continue for three years.

Washington - National Geographic Cinema Ventures has announced that it will release the first 3D concert film, "U2 3D," in late January 2008 in various 3D formatted theaters worldwide. Captured by executive producers 3ality Digital on the band's Vertigo Tour stadium shows in South America, the film will be screened in Real D, IMAX 3D and other digital 3D formats.

Burbank, Calif. - Disney said on Thursday that it will host digital 3D screenings of a concert from its "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour" in movie theaters in the U.S. and Canada in February, expanding to several international markets in the spring of 2008. The concert film will be presented in the Disney Digital 3D format during its week-long run.

Morristown, N.J. - Access Integrated Technologies (AccessIT), a provider of digital cinema projection systems for movie theaters, on Monday introduced CineLive, a new product that will deliver 2D and 3D live content to movie theaters equipped with its systems. Developed for AccessIT by International Datacasting Corporation (IDC) and Sensio Technologies, the technology allows live 3D and regular content to be converted from satellite feeds into theatrical entertainment.

Morristown, N.J. - Access Integrated Technologies, a provider of digital cinema projection systems for movie theaters, said this week that Allen Theaters has tapped the company to convert 87 of its screens in 14 locations to digital cinema. Allen Theaters, which operates primarily out of New Mexico, is the thirteenth exhibitor to sign with AccessIT for digital cinema conversion.