While organizations such as the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI)--the consortium made up primarily of the major studios and manufacturers--and SMPTE's DC28 Technology Committee for Digital Cinema are hammering out digital cinema standards, equipment manufacturers continue to improve their offerings....
Ah, quiet suburban life. That's what Bob Parr, the former Mr. Incredible, and his superhero family wanted, right? Not quite. In Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios' latest animated feature, Bob (voiced by Craig T. Nelson), his wife (Holly Hunter) and their three super-kids are brought back to active duty due
For five weeks in late 2002, everyone at London's Elstree Studios was seeing blue. The world the crew and actors were to inhabit existed, for the most part, only in the mind of filmmaker Kerry Conran.
The first-time director's landmark fantasy adventure, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Paramount...
Hit man Tom Cruise sits in the back of a taxi, driven by a frightened Jamie Foxx from appointment to appointment. But, in Michael Mann's newest thriller, Collateral (DreamWorks/Paramount), Cruise and Foxx are not the only characters on screen.
"Michael wanted a look for the film that would be unlike any other,"
Having traversed nearly every country on the planet, Globe Trekker can be called the world's most global travel show. Each episode is hosted by a lone traveler who tries to fulfill the show's mandate of bringing exotic destinations to life by "living as the locals do." This may...
For most of the history of television broadcasting, lip-sync was not a problem. Now there are some complaints. Will there be fewer or more in the future?
Eighty years ago, in 1926, John Logie Baird, in London, got the world's first license to transmit television. He didn't get to use it for a while.
On May 10, 1928,
The Panasonic AG-DVX100A has been around for a couple of years. An upgrade of the original DVX100 released in 2000, it does everything you want a Mini DV camcorder to do (especially 24p) and then some. Now there's an upgraded model, the AG-DVX100B, which lists for a little more money ($3,995)...
Thanks to actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus and CBS' The New Adventures of Old Christine, the dreaded "Seinfeld curse" may finally be broken. Following the massive success of that show, the Seinfeld supporting actors have attempted to launch themselves as title-role characters in their own sitcoms, only to watch their shows...
How do you create a TV series about saving the planet that won't preach to the choir, one that will reach out to those young people whose idea of environmental consciousness is to aspire to own the smaller rather than the larger Hummer?
For starters, you get Brad Pitt to narrate it. And then you shoot it in a hip,
As the HDV format works its way into the world of professional production, the "pro" part of the "prosumer" designation is being put to some real-world tests. Director of Photography Laura Merians uses three HDV camcorders-Canon XL H1 cameras, with three 1/3-inch native 16:9 CCDs, shooting 1080/24F-to capture the...
