Was it good news for film lovers everywhere that Cinedigm, a company that provides smaller theaters with digital projection, said it helped arrange funding to save 3,000 screens from extinction when studios phase out film prints of movies?
Early this month I wrote about how Independent Exhibition & Distribution In The US Is Seriously Threatened by the conversion to digital. If only it was simple as putting in the digital projectors and servers. Don’t get me wrong, that’s a great leap forward… in some ways.
Virtual Print Fees (VPFs) may provide a way for exhibitors to afford the equipment to go digital, but they indirectly, but severely, limit the type of films that can play theatrically. The answer to
