BigScreen Journal

On April 7th, 1933, audiences across the country were treated to Merian Cooper's presentation of "King Kong." The visual effects work of Willis O'Brien in bringing Kong to life stunned...

IMAX Corporation continues its expansion with a deal announced today with Regal Cinemas. According to their press release, the two companies have entered into a joint venture that will install 31...

The next installment of the highly successful "High School Musical" TV movie franchise is coming to theaters on October 24, 2008 and Disney announced today that it has added three young...

Sony Pictures has announced that they will be releasing two movies on the Blu-ray high definition disc format in April that will contain BD-Live functionality.On April 8th, Sony Pictures Home...

Back on January 23rd, I mentioned in my Journal article Some Ideas to Get HD DVD Owners to Help Blu-ray in Its Struggle Against DVD for Mainstream Acceptance that there was speculation floating...

Following the lead of how they are doing The Hobbit in two parts, Warner Bros. Pictures announced last week that they will be breaking up the final installment in the Harry Potter series, "Harry...

60 days before its release, showtimes are now available for the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which is being released in theaters on May 16th.You can also buy tickets online for...

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Regal Cinemas has notified movie studios that it will permit "red band" movie trailers, which contain material that might be offensive to certain...

As I mentioned in Tuesday's post, How and Where to See the First Trailer for "The Incredible Hulk", MTV.com now has the trailer available in both Flash and Quicktime HD formats.You can find...

The Journal Newspapers in Wayne, Michigan is reporting that the Showcase Cinemas Westland closed its doors on March 2, 2008:According to a written statement received Tuesday from National Amusements,...

Thanks for 20th Century Fox, we now have 35 photos from the movie Horton Hears a Who, which opens tomorrow, March 14, 2008. Kangaroo with son Rudy in her pouch lectures Horton on the...

The march towards Digital Cinema continues! Just in this past week there have been announcements from Arclight Cinemas and AccessIT, and now there is more news from Thomson regarding new...

Back in the early 1980's, George Lucas was disappointed with the state of movie theaters and was concerned about how his next movie "Return of the Jedi" would be seen. He decided that...

Dreamworks Animation SKG, Inc. and Paramount Pictures announced today the cast for Monsters vs. Aliens, the first movie produced with Dreamworks' Ultimate 3-D technology:Reese Witherspoon, Hugh...

One of the leaders in Digital Cinema Projection systems, AccessIT, announced today that it has commitments from four major movie studios to provide movies to up to 10,000 digital cinema systems in...

Independent movie studio Lionsgate announced yesterday that they will be including a digital copy on select DVD and Blu-ray releases of their upcoming movies.The debut releases of this new offering...

Ang Lee's rendition of the Marvel superhero "The Incredible Hulk" didn't strike a chord with audiences. Largely considered a critical failure, it's not surprising that someone else would...

I just finished adding some information for the upcoming romantic comedy Made of Honor, starring Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan, which is about two people who are friends but nothing more,...

Now that the server move has been done, I've been working on a list of projects that I've wanted to accomplish for some time.One of those projects is updating the Photo Galleries for theaters for...

National CineMedia, the company behind the NCM Fathom events, such as the Metropolitan Opera and Celine Dion's "A New Day" concert, has announced that they have entered into an agreement...