Art exhibit will get a cinemacast

Museums are becoming in to the digital cinema game, with "Leonardo Live," a glance at offered-out London exhibit "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter in the Court of Milan," being prepared for any global release in Feb. The documentary-cum-tour from the National Gallery's hot-ticket exhibit joins an increasing listing of fine arts choices making their method to movie screens, most conspicuously the job of legit and opera companies such as the Metropolitan Opera and London's National Theater. HD cinema broadcasts have proven effective not just at growing the brands of carrying out arts orgs but additionally at bringing in ticketbuying crowds of arts aficionados to special-event tests. Show collects seven from the painter's 14 making it through painting in addition to some 60 sketches, using the works concentrating on his tenure as court painter to Ludovico Maria Sforza within the late 15th century. The exhibit, which is open through early Feb and won't travel, has proven abnormally popular, with public reception compared towards the Gotham craze stirred through the Metropolitan Museum's Alexander McQueen exhibit captured. The 100-minute screen version from the experience is located by art historian Tim Marlow and Mariella Frostrup, with input using their company speaking heads also incorporated. "Leonardo Live" will be provided by BY Experience, the Gotham-based alt-content distributor also associated with the nation's Theater's NT Live and also the Met's Reside in HD series, with PhilGrabskyFilms.com, the cinema arm from the U.K.'s Seventh Art Prods. Worldwide tests within the U.S. and worldwide begin February. 16. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com