Technicolor

Analysis: Blockbuster, CinemaNow, Devices and Desires

Authored by Paul Sweeting on April 15, 2008 - 6:49am.

It's probably not enough to rescue Blockbuster's share price from the shellacking it's taken since announcing its unsolicited bid for Circuit City, but you can hear an echo of Blockbuster's logic in the deal being announced today between online movie service CinemaNow and Technicolor's Electronic Distribution Services unit. Under the deal, Technicolor will provide the "digital supply chain" for CinemaNow's strategy of embedding its virtual storefront on consumer electronics devices.

Thomson's Technicolor to Convert Mann Theatres to Digital

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 23, 2006 - 1:46pm.

Burbank, Calif. - French electronics firm Thomson announced on Monday that its Burbank, Calif.-based Technicolor Digital Cinema unit has installed digital projection systems in several Mann Theatres locations in Los Angeles, as part of its North America beta test of digital cinema equipment. The test includes projectors at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and Mann Chinese 6 in Hollywood, as well as the Village, Bruin, Criterion 6 and Marketplace 4 theaters. Thomson aims to install digital projection systems in up to 5,000 screens over the next 3-4 years, and at least 15,000 screens in the U.S. and Canada over the next 10 years.

Technicolor Partners With Three Studios on Digital Cinema Rollout

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 12, 2005 - 10:21am.

Los Angeles -- Three Hollywood studios -- Disney, Warner Bros. and Sony -- have partnered with French media equipment maker Thomson's Technicolor Digital Cinema unit to accelerate the rollout of digital cinema equipment in movie theaters, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Both Technicolor and the studios declined comment on the deal, but sources said the studios will help bankroll an initial deployment of digital projectors for 3,000 movie theater screens, at a cost of about $200 million -- making up their investment in cost savings on traditional celluloid film prints. The Technicolor deployments will comply with standards set by the Digital Cinema Initiative, a trade group of the seven major movie studios established to create technical specifications for digital cinema. Joe Berchtold, president of Technicolor Electronic Content Distribution Services, is expected to manage the three studios' digital cinema efforts.

tags: Deal | Digital Cinema Rollout | Technicolor | Three Studios |