By Roy Choi |
From barbecues to crowd funding to raffle tickets, small town theaters are doing what they can to raise funds to convert theaters from film to digital projection systems. The movie-industry started making the change to digital about five years ago, and while most U.S. theaters…
By Adriana Lee |
Why this wasn’t called Google Crashers is beyond me, but even so, the new Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn flick still looks like fun. Take two aging salesmen, stick them on the Mountain View campus among young, hotshot tech wizards, and watch the wackiness ensue. The premise…
By Adriana Lee |
Actors sometimes do some crazy things to prepare for their roles on the big screen. Some so thoroughly inhabit their characters, they can’t (or won’t) shut them off even off-camera, like Daniel Day-Lewis. Others pork up or whittle way, way down, like Bridget Jones’s Diary’s…
By Todd Haselton |
Kodak has struggled to keep its head above water and now it’s about to sell the business that made the company a household name. Kodak announced recently that it plans to sell its “personalized imaging” and “document imaging” film businesses. “We have to make tough…
By Joey Davidson |
In college, I landed a job as a student technician at my university’s Student Center. That building housed the only movie theater on campus. The theater was stocked with two 40 year old 35mm projectors. The projectors ran on the classic reel-to-reel system and showed…
By Adriana Lee |
Could you survive for a month on Craigslist alone? That’s likely to be the question on viewers’ minds when they get a peep at the new flick from producer Zach Galifianakis. This time, The Hangover star dives into reality entertainment, taking it to a strange new…
By Adriana Lee |
This summer’s Total Recall reboot got some juice when the full-length trailer went live across the webs this week. This version swaps Arnold Schwarzenegger for Colin Farrell as Douglas Quaid, Sharon Stone for Kate Beckinsale as evil fake wife Lori Quaid, and Rachel Ticotin for…
By Mike Perlman |
Today is a sad day in the photography world. Legendary film maker Kodak has officially bitten the financial dust by filing Chapter 11 today. The company plans a 2013 resurrection and is hedging its bet on a $950 million backing from Citigroup. Kodak has obtained…
By Emily Price |
It looks like Kodak may be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Kodak is currently in talks with lenders for close to $1 billion, money that would keep the company afloat during bankruptcy proceedings. According to people…
By Mike Perlman |
Olive is the first feature film shot with a smartphone (and with a wildly expensive 35mm lens to achieve that shallow depth of field, of course). But the fact that the new independent film was shot entirely using a Nokia N8 is quite impressive, and…
By Sean P. Aune |
Netflix has won a symbolic victory by announcing that it has won pay TV windows rights for DreamWorks Animation films from HBO. Announced this morning, starting in 2013 Netflix Watch Instantly customers will be seeing DreamWorks Animation movies on their account before they head to…
By Sean P. Aune |
If you were looking forward to getting in on the beta test of MoviePass this weekend, we’re sorry to say that you need to lower your expectations. The other day we brought you the news that a new service called MoviePass was going to launch…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that someone has determined that the key to the success of services such as Netflix has been the concept of one price for an unlimited number of uses. Now a new service named MoviePass is going to bring that same concept to the…
By Emily Price |
Hulu has signed a multi-year agreement with Miramax so show its films on the Internet streaming service. Starting today, Miramax films such as Good Will Hunting, Clerks and Pulp Fiction will be available to Hulu Plus subscribers. Hulu will also rotate 15 Miramax films per…
By Emily Price |
Netflix has struck a deal with Miramax, and will begin streaming movies from the studio in June of this year. The multi-year agreement includes hundreds of Miramax films, with new films added on a rotating basis. Miramax’s deal with Netflix is the first time that…
By Noah Kravitz |
I told you Amazon’s really the one Apple had better look out for this year. They might just be prepping an Android tablet to go toe-to-toe with iPad on its own turf: Content. The pieces are falling into place like so many iDucks in an…
By Tom Moccia |
Cell phones could soon help in the production of movies where people follow pre-determined paths, all the while filming their actions with their phones. A few weeks ago a friend of mine attended the Sundance Film Festival and saw some amazing films, even some with…
By Tom Moccia |
In case you missed it with all the New Year hoopla and CES coverage, the photography industry has seen an era come to an end. Kodachrome, the first commercially successful color film which was created by Kodak all the way back in 1935, will no…
By polrid |
There’s little doubt that Hollywood capitalizes on success by recycling formats known to please audiences but has recent research uncovered a more clinical, mathematical approach to film-making?…
