Netflix seems to be looking at film streaming as its only future business model, but really tell me, are things that desperate? Making rare visits to video clubs in recent months, I discovered three weeks back that my local video club offers a program called freezz (sorry guys no Netflix over here in Greece). Basically [...]
We are talking serious Wall-E obsession here, who would dare eat such beautiful food? [Flickr via Gizmodo]
Last weekend I went to the cinema. The actually movie I enjoyed, the picture quality I didn’t. Despite film being superior to 2K projectors and still challenging 4K projectors, I think in many cases this quality potential is repeatedly ruined by operator behaviour and the quality of the film itself.
Specifically, operators can do serious focus [...]
Steven Spielberg walks the Cannes red carpet for the first time after 22 years for the occasion of the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And guess what! He considers digital cinema inevitable. Really? Here is what he said on digital or not digital:
“The film is being released digitally on a [...]
Nokia and famous director Spike Lee signed an agreement for the later to edit user generator cellphone videos and create a mini 3-part series of 5-minute episodes. That’s fine and Nokia does well to contract a big name of modern cinema to promote the video capabilities of its phones.
But stating that in five years’ time [...]
Having now watched Iron Man, I can express relief that it is a rare sample of a movie that is as good as the comic deserves. I believe that after the Batman Begins movie we have entered a new superhero cinema era and that from now on comic heroes will not be used just for [...]
Following the lead of music and software, movies might be the next thing that becomes more easily distributed, and more importantly, simply and cheaply produced. Wreck A Movie is the open-source Finnish platform that wishes to free creativity from the bounds of Hollywood and the studio system in general. Board member and entrepreneur Peter Vesterback [...]
Major Hollywood studios are going online to draw entries from filmmakers from all over the world. You do not have to be a big name any more, people that have the technique and imagination are given the chance and -equally importantly- the cash to make their projects real full feature films, documentaries, advertisements or series.
OK [...]
Red has made major announcements in NAB 2008, with three much awaited products that attracted much hype in the run-up to the show.
The Red Epic is a 5K HD camera that of course replaces the Red One as the company’s new flagship and has the following main features:
Full-frame S35mm Mysterium X sensor.
Shooting at up to [...]
I remember my first IMAX experience in Munich, Germany in 1995. Man it was awesome, huge screen and a sound system to die for… Thankfully, the magic is not going to disappear in analogue oblivion, as there is now concrete plans to move the IMAX experience to a 100% digital domain.
Source: CGSociety
If you love technology, gadgets and movies, it’s almost certain that you also love those movies that involve heavy 3D effects or even the complete computer 3D generation of the environments in which the scenario takes place.
Issue #100 of the popular 3D World magazine had as its main feature the 100 greatest 3D movies [...]
