ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA SCORES WITH
50TH MOVIE ON UKFC DIGITAL SCREEN NETWORK
LONDON, 7th July 2006 - Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe’s leading provider of digital film distribution services, announces Momentum Pictures’ District 13, opening in the UK today, as the 50th feature title they have digitally prepared (encoded and encrypted), delivered to and shown on the UK Film Council’s Digital Screen Network (DSN), Europe’s first and largest 2K digital cinema network.
Fiona Deans, AAM’s Director of Digital Cinema said, “This digital cinema landmark reflects the growing popularity of the UK Digital Screen Network and the proven reliability of our digital content preparation and distribution. We will continue to push the envelope and create new and better ways of servicing and supporting content owners and exhibitors.”
AAM subsidiary Arts Alliance Digital Cinema (AADC) was selected to rollout the the UK Film Council DSN, a $20m contract to install and operate 240 digital screens, Europe’s largest 2k digital cinema network, in February 2005. To date, AAM have installed 56 UK screens with 2K digital projection systems. Since the beginning of the rollout in October 2005, over 11,000 digital shows have been played on the network.
Recent titles shown on the DSN include: The Wild (Buena Vista), Hard Candy (Lionsgate), Over the Hedge (UIP), Cave of the Yellow Dog (Tartan Films), A Throw of the Dice (BFI), Adrift (Pathé), Walmart – The High Cost of Low Price (Tartan), Time to Leave/Le Temps Qui Reste (Artificial Eye), Wah-Wah (Lionsgate), 36 Quai des Orfévres (Tartan Films) and Love and Hate (Verve Pictures). Upcoming titles include Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Buena Vista), Viva Zapatero (Dogwoof Pictures) and Awesome; I F**kin’ Shot That! (Revolver).
In April 2006, AAM expanded its digital cinema network into continental Europe, beginning with a 10-screen trial rollout in Norway.
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Gemma Richardson, Arts Alliance Media 0207 751 7466
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About Arts Alliance Media:
Arts Alliance Media (AAM), based in London, is Europe's leading provider of digital film distribution services, dedicated to building a European digital network to deliver film to the cinema, to the home and between industry players.
For digital cinema, AAM provides end-to-end digital cinema solutions encompassing equipment selection, financing and integration, operator training, installation and support, and content management and delivery.
For Video-on-Demand and Download-To-Own, AAM provides ISP's, media companies and e-tailers with turn key solutions for acquiring rights and securely distributing digital video content over the internet to their audiences.
AAM founded LOVEFiLM, one of Europe’s largest online DVD rental companies and the first player to expand into Europe with the acquisition of Swedish online DVD rental company Boxman (www.lovefilm.se) and also operates as LOVEFiLM in Denmark (www.lovefilm.dk). In December 2005 LOVEFiLM and Arts Alliance Media launched the first UK mass market movie download service to its UK subscriber base in addition to its download-to-rent service to AOL UK customers. LOVEFiLM also launched Europe’s first download-to-own service, in partnership with NBC Universal, for the release of King Kong on April 10th 2006.
LOVEFiLM and Video Island, the owner of ScreenSelect.co.uk, merged in April 2006. AAM remains the largest shareholder of LOVEFiLM and serves as its digital content aggregator.
AAM is part of the Arts Alliance group of companies. Arts Alliance focuses on technology-enabled service and media companies and supports a growing network of entrepreneurs in Europe. Past investments include Lastminute.com (sold to Travelocity) and Spinner (sold to Time Warner). Current companies include Smartjog, Atom Entertainnment, Prepay Technologies, Player X and Servista.
For more information, visit: www.artsalliancemedia.com