• AMC And Disney Strike Deal To Sell 'Iron Man 3' Tickets

    Briefly: In the past week or so we saw several reports about how theater chains were refusing to sell early tickets to Iron Man 3 because of a dispute over what percentage of their box-office take would have to be delivered to the studio. As you may know, there are a variety of deals to…

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  • Regal And AMC Halt 'Iron Man 3' Ticket Sales Due To Disney Dispute

    Marvel fans' plans to watch Iron Man 3 on opening weekend may be stymied by a dispute between Disney and the country's two biggest movie theater chains, AMC and Regal. The exhibitors have halted advance ticket sales of the Marvel Studios sequel in response to an argument over how box office revenue is split. If…

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  • Coming Soon: Subtitle Glasses Enhance The Cinema Experience For Hearing-Impaired Viewers

    For years there have been a variety of technologies used to provide closed captioning and subtitles in movie theaters -- less for foreign films and more to increase accessibility for the hard of hearing. Now Sony Entertainment and Regal Entertainment Group have partnered to present captions and subtitling via glasses. Access Glasses, as they're called,…

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  • AMC And Regal Pact To Acquire And Release Films

    Is this the first stage of the return of the old studio system? Once upon a time studios didn't just make films; they also distributed them in their own theaters. There's a reason some cities still have old Paramount and RKO theaters kicking around. But that system died (and, in part, was killed off by…

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