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Exhib niche players offer film-free choice
May 15, 2001 by S David Acuff
Filed under Around the Web, Headlines
(MAY 15, 2001) Carl Diorio of Variety Magazine reports on companies looking to exploit newest projection technology:
Exhib niche players offer film-free choice
(EXCERPT) Imagine a chain of movie theaters featuring projectors without film — and entertainment other than movies — and you get the idea behind the budding exhib niche loosely called “private cinema networks.”
A handful of such non-affiliated outfits, one featuring concerts and sports, another concentrating on digital films, and a third targeting sponsored fare, are looking to fill the programming needs of exhibitors, who find themselves with too many screens and too little revenue from conventional films to turn a comfortable profit.
