dcinput daily for Mon 10th April, 2006
DCinemaToday: “Twentieth Century Fox International, chose Nordisk Film’s digital screens for their first ever international release in JPEG2000. A dubbed and a subtitled master of “Ice Age 2” were prepared and distributed by Deluxe in conjunction with Éclair Digital Cinema. The film opened successfully on 3 digital screens today, including, the Imperial, the largest venue in Scandinavia (1100 seats)”.
More coverage of the same event on Digital Cinema Matters and The Hollywood Reporter.
Cinematical reports that the court cases against The Da Vinci Code might not be entirely finished as religious groups in Korea have filed an injunction against the film’s release there saying that it “may disparage and insult the divinity of Jesus Christ,” and could also lead to confusion if viewers “believe that [the] fictional tale is historical fact”.
BBC News: “Shares in Walt Disney have risen on news the US entertainment group plans to offer some of its most popular TV shows online for free”.
Many on the web react to the news with aprehension as the topic makes the top of memeorandum.
Steve Jobs can’t be too happy about losing out on the sales of these downloads he’s recently been getting. In the words of a certain Disney majority shareholder as he looked at the market “you win some, you lose some”.