Campaigners hoping to reopen a derelict cinema in Bristol say their plans have been given a boost after a national cinema chain contacted them.

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The architectural symbol of the city is the Mole Antonelliana, a tall building with a superb 360-degree panorama, hosting the National Cinema Museum ( www.comune.torino.it).

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Companies include: The Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, DreamWorks Animation (DWA), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Pixar, ESPN, BSkyB, Panasonic, XpanD 3D, Dolby Laboratories, 3ality Technica, Masterimage 3D, RealD, IMAX, StereoD, National Geographic Cinema Ventures, CCTV China, Korea Telecomm, Intel, THX, Microsoft, Technicolor, Samsung, Sony Electronics, MobiTV, BluFocus, Walt Disney Studios, Eutelsat, Turner Broadcasting, Vizio and others.

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French kids with an entire national tradition of great cinema are instead obsessed with "South Park" (Eric Cartman's face is more ubiquitous in the French countryside than bitter, entitled-feeling farmers).

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Shari Redstone, National Amusements' president, originally planned to use the concert space as an add-on theater to its next-door Cinema de Lux, one of National's top theaters, but the daughter of the company's billionaire owner Sumner Redstone gambled on a different model.

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Adeeb acknowledges that in order to work internationally subject matter has to change to be, perhaps, less tuned in to local audiences in favour of wider ones -- but he is convinced cinema has the power to communicate over national borders.

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"One of the most intriguing results from the National's NT Live screenings is that, despite lower expectations, cinema audiences reported higher levels of emotional engagement with the production than theatre audiences, " the report said.

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Shari Redstone owns the other 20% of National Amusements, which in turn owns voting control of Viacom and CBS. The cinema chain operates more than 100 theaters in the U.S., Latin America, England and Russia.

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