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Recent Press Releases

2/18/10 Gary S. Klein Joins NATO as Vice President and General Counsel

1/15/10 UNIC Press Release: Cinema attendances in Europe reach highest level for many years

9/17/09 NATO Elects New Officers: First chosen under new board structure

8/25/09 NATO Hires Mitch Neuhauser as Convention Show Manager

5/28/09 Entertainment Ratings & Labeling Awareness Month Consumer Release

5/28/09 Entertainment Ratings & Labeling Awareness Month Trade Release

10/1/08 - NATO's Statement on the DCIP Digital Cinema Deal

CBG chooses AccessIT to equip more than 8,000 screens

John Fithian's State of the Industry Speech at ShoWest 2008

NATO ShoWest 2008 Talking Points

3/4/08 - NATO issues Digital Cinema System Requirements v2.0

11/16/07 - Cinema Buying Group RFP - Phase 2 narrows field to four qualified digital cinema system integrators

7/9/07 - Five movie thieves arrested for attempting to steal Transformers in New York, California, Florida,
Georgia and Illinois

6/21/07 - Motion picture industry unveils new anti-camcording posters for U.S. movie theaters. View the posters here.

5/31/07 - NATO commends Canada on anti-camcorder bill.

5/18/07 - Movie thieves tangled in Spider-man 3's web.

4/26/07 - NATO mourns Jack Valenti.

3/13/07 - John Fithian's State of the Industry speech at ShoWest

11/30/06 - Boxoffice Named NATO's Official Magazine

10/3/06 - NATO Elects New Officers

9/8/06 - NATO, international exhibitor associations issue letter calling for single d-cinema cerification standard. The letter is here.

5/30/06 - June is Ratings Awareness Month

3/14/06 - NATO President John Fithian's speech at ShoWest

3/13/06 - New website www.FightFilmTheft.org, offers web-based tips and training to theatre employees to combat camcorder film theft.  Press release is here.

3/6/06 - Major film industry figures go on the record about preserving the theatrical release window. (updated 12/1/2006)

3/2/06 - NATO congratulates the 2006 NATO/ShoWest Marketing Achievement Award Winners
Watch for a complete rundown of the winners and their entries in an upcoming issue of In Focus magazine.

2/27/06 - NATO releases Digital Cinema Requirements
Press release is here. Requirements are here

Press Release Archive