Did the Independent Cinemas Association of Australia do the best deal available to its members? Lawyers for Digital Cinema Network are hammering ICAA board members with numbers that suggest the association did the worst deal, not the best. Also remarkable is the ICAA board’s refusal to accept the findings of the Federal Court.
In his cross-examinations of ICAA board members Nicholas Hayes (Dendy Cinemas) and Benjamin Zeccola (CEO of Palace Cinemas), Suresh Senathirajah, acting for DCN, introduced a matrix of numbers comparing the deals available to ICAA in 2010, with those it eventually signed up for.