Cornbread.org has a comparison between DVD and the new High Definition format (not sure which one) using The Fellowship of the Ring. Mouseover the images to see the difference and it really is quite staggering.
I’m looking forward to HD, but I’m not going to rush out and grab the …
Malcolm Gladwell has written a very interesting piece for The New Yorker about his conversations with some people who are trying to develop/have developed a program that can predict a film’s box office potential.
An unusual bunch of film fans have analysed hundreds of movie scripts and are using an artificial …
I’m very lucky to live near a city with a fantastic art house cinema, Harbour Lights (in fact, it’s regularly voted the best art house cinema in the country). I was there at the weekend and spotted a novel idea they’re trying. They have launched a bad film …
I’m not entirely sure what George Lucas is thinking, maybe he’s hit his head, or there’s something funny in the water at Skywalker Ranch, because he’s announced Lucasfilm are to get out of making feature films (not that they’ve made many for anyone other than Lucas) and into TV.
Lucas told …
It’s not due out until late 2007, but information about the adaptation of Frank Miller’s (Sin City) graphic novel about the battle of Thermopylae where 300 Spartans (though technically there were 700 Thespians there too) fought to the death against a massive Persian army of over two million men, has …
The New York Times has an article claiming audiences are growing tired of CGI animated movies, especially those featuring animals (link via Kottke). The evidence appears to be the box office response to some recent releases like The Wild, The Ant Bully and Open Season.
Ironically, Wallace and Gromit: The …
