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High-tech morphing indie films
News Other filmmakers are already finding that 3-D graphics make it a lot easier, and less expensive, to make films that delve into the strange world of the imagination. Having created two of the top-selling games of all time, Miller has now turned to...
[May 20, 1999, 9:54]
Nuggets: Huge Sony party screen for films and games
News Fancy having a life-size Lara bouncing across your lounge? Or how about seeing if the Blair Witch Project can actually be scary when its happening on the walls of your own home? Sony Broadcast & Professional has released a funky new video projector...
[October 29, 1999, 11:28]
Hitachi multi-layer DVD holds 200 films
News Japan-based electronics giant Hitachi has developed a technology which allows 200 movies to be packed into a single DVD disc. This is achieved by stacking multiple data-storing layers on a disc to allow reading and writing of a vast amount of data...
[May 20, 2003, 8:35]
Film Trivia
Downloads Take the film trivia challenge with unique questions on an eclectic mix of films, from Casablanca and early horror films to the latest future releases! Compete with your fellow players in the Hall of Directors and watch your scores soar!
[December 1, 2008, 7:22]
It might be 2008, but guess who's stuck in 1988? DVD retailers! Yay!
Blog Films. Thirty films! Clueless. Clueless. I'm in HMV. I'm looking to buy, at retail, actual physical product. Clueless. On DVD. You may remember this ancestral custom or rite (hence the saying, the custom-er is always rite), which involves handing...
[January 2, 2008, 19:25]
CinePaint
Downloads CinePaint is an open source painting program used by motion picture studios to retouch images in 35mm films. It has been used in a dozen feature films including Harry Potter, Scooby-Doo, and the Fast & the Furious.
[November 2, 2006, 6:00]
Hollywood, software firms aim at pirates
News Two major trade groups on Thursday filed a slew of civil lawsuits against people they claim were selling pirated copies of films and software via online auction sites. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Hollywood's chief trade...
[February 28, 2003, 7:56]
Heavyweights back DVD, ink deal
News It will include Toshiba's SD2109B DVD player, 3 Warner DVD films -- Lethal Weapon 4, US Marshals and Contact -- along with 10 free DVD rentals from Blockbuster. Blockbuster Video, which has been steadily increasing the number of its stores offering...
[August 24, 1999, 16:29]
High-definition video hits the Net
News AtomShockwave's AtomFilms began reeling short films in high-definition format on Tuesday, in one of the industry's first demonstrations of the technology online. AtomFilms, a hub for independent films and animations, has launched AtomFilms Hi-Def...
[January 21, 2004, 13:50]
Leonard Maltin Movie Guide 2008
Downloads Think of all the time you have spent watching films that haven't lived up to the studio hype. The Leonard Maltin Movie Guide places essential facts for over 21,000 films at your fingertips including ratings and capsule reviews summarizing plot...
[December 27, 2008, 5:43]
Atempo Time Navigator Archives Digitized Hollywood Movies at EFILM
White Papers EFILM is the market leader in digitizing blockbuster Hollywood films, with most of the major studios relying on them to convert and edit their films in digital format. With more than 250 terabytes of online disk storage, EFILM has a large amount of...
[November 4, 2008, 0:01]
UK man threatened with BitTorrent lawsuit
Talkback Whilst I sympathise with the large media company that the copying of music and films is a problem, one has to wonder what the reason behind why people want to infringe, is it because we are all inherantly criminal minded, or is it that most people...
[March 21, 2005, 11:05]
Wallace and Gromit hit the Web
News Nick Park, creator of the feature film "Chicken Run," is reviving his original characters Wallace and Gromit in 12 short films to be released online later this year. The series features a spacey English inventor named Wallace and his dog Gromit...
[January 18, 2002, 11:01]
DVD sales to soar - analysts
News Sales of DVD films are set to soar in the US and Europe, with DVD players becoming widespread by 2005, according to a report from analyst firm Strategy Analytics. Differing attitudes to the purchase of pre-recorded films between the UK and US...
[September 8, 1999, 11:29]
Hollywood shuts down video-on-demand site
News Hollywood dodged a second bullet in a burgeoning battle over online film distribution Thursday, quickly shutting down an Iran-based Web site that had sold access to copyrighted films over the Internet for $1 (70 pence) apiece.
[June 7, 2002, 8:44]
Leonard Maltin 2007 Movie Guide
Downloads Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers; The masterworks of Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock; The timeless comedy of Buster Keaton; The animated classics of Walt Disney; The greatest foreign films ever made.
[December 5, 2007, 6:00]
Hollywood's brave new virtual world
News In the old Godzilla films, you had to really make a leap to believe that that was going on," said John Mellor, vice president of product marketing at Viewpoint Digital, which created digital character models for such films as Godzilla and Antz.
[May 20, 1999, 9:46]
spynova
Talkback whilst on the subject of councils[the people at the top] i,d like comment from other idiots like me who paid our dues and constanly get ripped off downloading half baked films duds and idiot message type films saying go here for a bug player or...
[August 29, 2009, 22:21]
HD-DVD explodes on the launchpad
Blog Comment Chris, my advice to you is; unless you need a games console, its ok to wait, my bet is 2 years from now we'll see a £50 Blue-Ray player in Asda.by then, even the films will be realistically priced. In the mean time, i believe the studios will...
[February 19, 2008, 17:05]
Net piracy presents paradox to entertainers
News However, Internet distribution of pirated films is becoming an increasing problem, the studios say, with Web sites such as Dupecheck offering detailed lists of the purloined material that is available online.
[August 2, 1999, 11:42]
