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London, 9th February 2012 - Arts Alliance Media appoints Eric Stevens as the company's new Commercial Director.

London, 20th January 2012 – Arts Alliance Media (AAM), the London-based digital cinema company, and Molinare, one of the UK’s most respected post-production facilities, have entered into an agreement to partner in offering Arts Alliance Media’s digital cinema services to Molinare’s post-production clients. The move will see producers being offered a seamless end-to-end service from preproduction through to theatrical release.

London, January 16th 2012 – City Screen, the leading independent cinema operator in the UK and owner of Picturehouse Cinemas, has become the latest exhibitor to sign up to a digital cinema deal with Arts Alliance Media (AAM). City Screen, which operates 20 sites across the UK, will benefit from AAM’s digital cinema maintenance and support services for their 58 screens, 100% of which are already digitised. The sites will also be equipped with AAM’s Theatre Management System, to manage all digital content, scheduling and security keys, and larger sites will also receive AAM’s Library Management Server (LMS). Under the agreement, Virtual Print Fees (VPFs) will be payable across selected sites in the City Screen network.

First Brazilian installation of AAM Theatre Management System with Cinemais

London and São Paulo, January 6th 2012 – Arts Alliance Media (AAM) and Cinevise have agreed to a partnership to bring AAM’s market leading Theatre Management System (TMS) to exhibitors in Brazil and across Latin America. Based in Miami and São Paulo, Cinevise provides monitoring and support for digital cinema equipment, and through this agreement will begin licensing AAM’s TMS to interested customers.

November 17th 2011, London, UK – Odeon& UCI Cinemas Group has announced that it has signed Arts Alliance Media (AAM) to be its Theatre Management System supplier across Germany, Austria and Italy. AAM will supply all sites with a Theatre Management System (TMS) and a Library Management Server (LMS) to manage all equipment and content across each cinema. The deal covers 65 sites and 661 screens across the three countries.

Fourth largest exhibitor in the world adds to AAM’s rapidly expanding roster of software clients

Miami, October 26th 2011– Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe’s leading digital cinema company, and Cinépolis, Mexico’s largest cinema chain, have announced a software licensing deal for a suite of digital cinema products including AAM’s Theater Management System (TMS), circuit management system (known as Director), and Back Office and remote monitoring solution.

The deal represents AAM’s first foray into Latin America – a region which will be an important growth area for the company’s future development.

Miami, October 24th 2011 – Arts Alliance Media (AAM) and Christie have announced a collaboration for digital cinema software, encompassing both Theatre Management System (TMS) and Virtual Print Fee (VPF) software tools.

Christie, which recently announced the launch of its own VPF program in North America backed by all six Hollywood studios, will use Arts Alliance Media’s Back Office VPF tools to manage the rollout, and AAM’s TMS software, rebranded and customized for licensing to customers worldwide.

Miami, October 24th 2011 – Arts Alliance Media (AAM) introduces an innovative new software product for theater operators to manage their entire circuit from one location. This circuit management system, called Director, interacts with playout equipment at multiple sites and directs all digital cinema operations from a central location.

The technology behind Director enables an entire organisation to securely manage their business areas, from content delivery to programming, scheduling and operations - all from a single point with a few mouse clicks.

London, October 14th 2011 – Marking another European digital cinema milestone, Yelmo Cines, Spain's leading exhibitor, has become the first in the country to become 100% digital. Following last year's announcement that Arts Alliance Media (AAM) were to digitise Yelmo's entire circuit, all 402 screens in 34 sites across Spain are now equipped with DCI compliant digital equipment, including 193 screens outfitted with RealD 3D screens.

London, September 12 2011 – Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe's leading digital cinema company, has announced that it has acquired a controlling interest in Nordic Digital Alliance (NDA), the joint venture established by AAM and a consortium of Norwegian businesses to roll out digital cinema in Norway and develop cinema advertising solutions. AAM had been the largest shareholder in the company, which has installed 76 D-Cinema screens in Norway and developed Cadien, the market leading campaign management software for the cinema advertising business. NDA has installed and controls more than 540 E-Cinema screens and foyer displays in Norway and Denmark with Cadien today.

El Caso Farewell becomes first title delivered via satellite to Yelmo sites across Spain

London, 12th August 2011 – Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe's leading digital cinema company, has announced that it has signed a deal with A Contracorriente Films to provide digital cinema content and distribution services for A Contracorriente's theatrical releases in Spain. Under the agreement, AAM has also achieved a digital cinema first by distributing the film El Caso Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) via satellite to Yelmo cinema screens across Spain.