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Month: May 2022

Spain’s Animayo Ventures Into the Metaverse

Variety

Animayo Gran Canaria, Spain’s foremost Canary Islands-based animation festival, is venturing deep into the metaverse with experts in artificial intelligence, virtual reality and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) joining leading voices in animation from major studios, including DreamWorks, Walt Disney, Skydance, Sony Pictures and Platige Image. Some 23 guests will be participating across 14 master classes, three debate panels, three workshops, 10 recruitment sessions and other events at the in-person 17th edition held over May 4-7 in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.  An online edition is slated to launch in October. “This year the…

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As Streaming Peaks, Sony, Universal & Others Prove The Lucrative Power Of Theatrical Windows

Deadline

With the box office rebounding just as 5K attendees are reconvening at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, exhibitors and studios can rest easy knowing that there’s a return to a theatrical window. For most studios with tentpole fare, that’s 45 days, and for those titles with less commercial appeal or aimed at specialty audiences, it’s 17 days. With a summer box office that’s loaded with such window-respecting movies as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Top Gun: Maverick, Thor: Love & Thunder, Jurassic World: Dominion, Lightyear, Elvis, Nope, Bullet Train, and more, it’s…

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Cinema construction well underway at Northgate Yard in Bridgwater

Bridgwater Mercury

A £16M complex in the heart of Bridgwater has reached a ‘landmark moment’ for the development. Northgate Yard, a new leisure and dining hub, is due to be completed by autumn 2022. The first terraced seating structure for the seven screen Scott Cinema has now been installed. The pre-cast concrete for the seating has been manufactured offsite by the development’s supply chain partners, Cornish Concrete Products, based in Bissoe, West Cornwall. As well as the cinema, Northgate Yard will also feature an eight-lane bowling alley, a sports bar and multiple…

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