Will the local family-owned single screen cinema flourish, freed from the shackles of a handful of screenings of Spider Man and able to play cult movies from midnight to dawn without paying a cent for film prints?

In the face of exciting developments, digital is encroaching on more of 35mm film’s territory, but as Lemac’s Bowring says "Are Mr and Mrs Smith at a cinema in Parramatta going to be watching for artifacts? No, they’re going to be there for the story."

A historic experiment in film and media was all ready to take place before a battle erupted between producers and the union. Drew Turney finds out more. One of the observations Naomi Klein makes in her seminal anti-globalisation work No Logo is that the big corporations have got out of the ‘making’ business and into […]