The Wall Street Journal looks at new 3D projection technology at the movie theatre and a group of Independent theatres efforts to keep up with the $50K to $70K investment that is required
The Cinema Buying Group LLC, which represents 643 small-theater owners in the U.S. and Canada with some 8,000 screens, said it planned to [...]
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3D In The Movie Theatres
05-Sep-08Wireless Microphones - Beware 700 MHz
05-Sep-08If you’re in the market for a Wireless microphone, be aware of what you are buying.
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is considering kicking all wireless microphones from the 700 MHz spectrum. Turns out, many of the wireless microphones are illegally operating in the spectrum in the first place.
According to an article last month [...]
From the Wall Street Journal
Shot entirely in front of a green screen, “Division” stars actress Rosario Dawson (”Sin City”) as a vice cop who becomes involved with the mysterious titular organization after she discovers her perfect boyfriend is actually an artificial life form known as a SIM. Consisting of 50 “webisodes,” which average around three [...]
Garrett Brown Gives You a ‘God’s Eye’ View of the Olympics
When seven-time gold medal winner Michael Phelps slices through the water in the Olympic Games next week, he’ll be followed by a torpedolike underwater HD camera that will capture his every move.
That camera, dubbed Mobycam, is just one of a half-dozen clever contraptions invented by [...]
Paula Felix-Didier of the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina, discovered more than 20 minutes of missing film footage from the classic science fiction silent movie Metropolis in her museum’s archives. German filmmaker Fritz Lang directed the film, and three reels have been missing almost since its premiere in 1927.
Felix-Didier, the museum’s director, talks [...]
New York Reality TV School Seminar
20-Jul-08What would I do without the Wall Street Journal to keep me up-to-date on reality TV?
The New York Reality TV School, which offers a three-hour course for $139, opened its doors last month to a variety of aspiring wannabes: contestants in reality shows who need coaching, actors wanting to make a career move, mere amateurs, [...]
From Indiewire, by Eugene Hernandez (June 9, 2008)
Hoping to launch a viable new revenue stream for a wide swath of independent films and filmmakers, the Tribeca Film Institute has unveiled Reframe, a curated online outlet with its sights set on filtering some 10,000 films and videos via the Internet. Opening its digital doors today, Reframe [...]
AFTRA Approves New Contract
10-Jun-08Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Leaders of Hollywood’s second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that grants actors more money for Internet work — an issue that sparked a crippling writers strike this year.
The board of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists approved the three-year deal late Friday, and it will go [...]
CANNES, France — The French film “The Class,” a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.
Directed by Laurent Cantet, “The Class” was the first French film to win the main prize, the Palme d’Or, at Cannes since “Under [...]
AFTRA Tentative Settlement Announced
28-May-08LOS ANGELES (AP) — The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists says it has agreed to a tentative deal with Hollywood studios on a new three-year contract.
The union said early Wednesday that the deal establishes fees for content streamed and downloaded over the Internet and preserves actors’ rights of consent on the use of [...]
