Paramount was the first to completely refuse film

The Paramount Pictures studio is becoming the first big film company Hollywood to completely switched to the digital format, reports The Los Angeles Times .

The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street) studio nominated at the Oscars) Martin Scaporal in the main role entered the cinemas only in digital format.

The film studio notified the distributors that the last film of the studio, released on a 35-mm film, was the comedy "TV presenter: and Hello again" (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) directed by Adam Macakey with Will Ferrell and Steve Karell in the main roles. The world premiere of the picture took place in November 2013.

The main reason for the film refusal is that the number of cinemas, where analog rental, was sharply reduced in the United States. According to the publication, only 8% of the country's cinemas preserved equipment for watching a 35 mm film. In addition, it is more profitable for distributors to purchase digital copies than analog: the former cost about $ 100 apiece, and the latter - almost 2 thousand.

It is noted that Paramount will still continue to produce film copies of films for foreign rental, in particular, for the countries of Latin America and Asia, where digital rental is not too common.

Other studios also announced an imminent transition to a digital format. In particular, 20th Century Fox in 2011 stated that she would stop distributing film copies within a year or two.