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Telford Town Centre to Get New Multiplex Cinema An 11-screen multiplex cinema will be built in Telford town centre after a deal was agreed by developers. Telford & Wrekin Council and developer Citygrove Securities PLC said Cineworld would build a cinema on the new Southwater Square development. The town currently has a 10-screen Odeon cinema in Forgegate. Developers said the cinema was the first in what was expected to be a series of announcements of major leisure operators taking up sites. Earlier this summer, Telford & Wrekin Council appointed Citygrove as its preferred developer for the £250m planned mixed use leisure scheme in Southwater. The development also includes an 80-bedroom hotel and seven bars and restaurants. Telford & Wrekin Council and Citygrove will be submitting a joint planning application for the cinema, hotel, bars, restaurants and a 600space multi-storey car park towards the end of the year. Construction is expected to start in summer 2012. Councillor Charles Smith, cabinet member for housing, regeneration and economic development, said despite the recession the council had confidence in the development.
centre, shopping centre and the fantastic Telford Town Park through the Southwater development. “We are confident that it will be a big success to ensure the future viability of the town centre.” The Southwater development is a partnership between Telford & Wrekin Council and the Homes and Communities Agency, in conjunction with private sector partners including Southwater Event Group.
CinemaxX Denmark Holds World’s First 4K Film Festival CinemaxX’s movie theatres in Copenhagen, Odense and Aarhus held the world’s first 4K Film Festival at the end of September, entitled “Past film classics in future format”. The movies were all true classics, shown using Sony Digital Cinema 4K projection systems.
chosen based on criteria for both technical and artistic quality. Prior to selection, the movies were restored and transferred to 4K digital media. This allows them to appear on today’s big screens using Sony’s Digital Cinema 4K SXRD projectors, with a resolution four times the traditional 2K format, thus providing the optimal modern cinema experience. ”I was very impressed with the nine selected films, which manage to stay relevant in their own ways, despite their age. And I have great respect for CinemaxX, which has taken the initiative to bring together film enthusiasts by combining old movies with the latest technology,” said Oliver Pasch, Head of Professional Digital Cinema at Sony Professional. Pasch, along with RikartKøbke, Head of Films at CinemaxX Denmark and the chain’s Technical Director JesperHelbo, took part in a workshop for the 4K film Festival, held for the Danish media. This enabled the assembled journalists to experience Sony Digital Cinema 4K, compare it to 35 mm film and see examples of the possibilities of the new format. The journalists also got to see stateof-the-art 4K camera footage shot by the recently announced Sony F65 camera – manifesting that Sony can now provide a gapless 4K workflow, from lens to the big screen.
He said: “The Southwater development has already generated significant interest from the commercial sector and the news about Cineworld is just the first of what will be a number of announcements in relation to the leisure complex.
In September 2011, the Danish arm of the European cinema chain CinemaxX held the world’s first film festival in which all the movies were screened exclusively in prestigious Sony Digital Cinema 4K ultra-high resolution at the chain’s cinemas in Copenhagen, Odense and Aarhus.
The European cinema chain CinemaxX and Sony Professional have a close and long-standing relationship. They plan to continue the roll-out of Sony Digital Cinema 4K in CinemaxX cinemas, allowing the format to be experienced in all of the chain’s 292 screens in 31 theatres in Germany, in addition to the three in Denmark.
“These companies want to invest in Telford because we have a growing, vibrant and dynamic town with big plans to bring together the conference
CinemaxX selected nine classic films that continue to thrill and move cinema audiences. The films were
Film classics shown at the world’s first 4K Film Festival in CinemaxX in Denmark:
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