Warner Bros. Pictures International Partners with ODEON & UCI Cinemas Group

Warner Bros. Pictures International (WBPI) has entered into a comprehensive digital cinema deployment agreement directly with Digital Deployment Associates Limited to advance the conversion to digital cinema in ODEON sites throughout the UK.

Under the agreement, Warner Bros. will supply digital feature films to DCI-compliant digital projection systems installed at all ODEON sites, and the Studio will make financial contributions supporting the digital conversion. The announcement was made jointly by Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, President, Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures International (WBPI), and Rupert Gavin, CEO of ODEON and UCI Cinemas Group.

“ODEON and UCI Cinemas Group is pleased to work directly with Warner Bros. as together we pursue the advantages of digital to the widest audience possible,” said Gavin. “And while we are starting with them in the UK, this deal clearly presages deals we are now working on with our other European territories. We look forward to bringing fully digital cinemas to guests in all seven of the markets ODEON and UCI Cinemas Group serves by the end of 2010.”

Source: DCinemaToday