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e-Update, April 2009
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The May issue of LF Examiner has just been published. Here is a summary:
Top Stories

Imax responds to digital controversy
   Imax Corporation CEO  Richard Gelfond says the company will take steps to identify its digital theaters to customers, after a controversy sparked by a comedian's blog generated two weeks of sometimes harsh criticism of the company from the media and the public. Read full article online...
 
Editorial: Imax's Welcome Change
   In agreeing to provide customers with information about the type of IMAX theater they are entering, Gelfond is finally doing what virtually everyone in the industry has been asking him to do for nearly a year. Read full article online...
 
Kodak's Colette Scott on the Future of Film
   LF Examiner spoke with Colette Scott, Eastman Kodak's North American sales and marketing manager for post production entertainment imaging, about the future of film for giant-screen producers and theaters.
 
The Biz (Headlines)
   Imax Corporation posts Q1 results
   Regal makes deal for 5,000 Sony 4K projectors
   Giant Screen Films to distribute Magic Journey to Africa
   Simpfendorfer makes distribution deals for Red Crabs
   White Oak Associates is keeping busy
   Barco and Kodak make digital cinema deal
   Future of Canada Place IMAX Theater unclear
   Science Center of Iowa names Paul Jennings CEO
   Mike Lutz promoted to Sr. VP of Business Development at MFF
   Amy Miles is new CEO of Regal Entertainment
   Nerea Rubio leaves Orbita Max
 
Shorts (Headlines)
   Night at the Museum 2 opens with $53.5 million
   Star Trek breaks opening weekend records
   Blue Man Group chooses David Russo to direct GS film
   GSCA film awards voting open until June 1
   California Science Center funding may be cut
   Baraka Blu-ray is landmark restoration effort
   Another IMAX theater robbed
 
Other features:
   Premiering next month:
      Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
  
   In Production: 24 films with credits and production updates
   April bookings: 1015 bookings of 95 films in 382 theaters
   Worldwide LF Theater Inventory: 485 screens
 
And much more!
Sincerely,
 
James Hyder
Editor/Publisher
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