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Can technology level the field?

This BBC article asks: Can technology replace human actors?. It’s concerned with performance capture (motion capture with feelings). The short answer is no.
A more interesting question and one that may lend weight to Andy Serkis’ call for the UK to setup a studio dedicated to it is can …


Tom Cruise’s Declining Popularity

Tom Cruise’s supposed declining popularity as stated by The Guardian is completely ridiculous.
The reason his box office is failing is because he’s made some decision to star in crap movies. Where Inception got great review, Knight & Day got bad ones. Nobody gives a crap what he does …


The Internet is Reinvigorating Film

Having only read the other day about a short film that cost $5k is to be made into a Hollywood feature film after being an internet success this story by the Beeb that says the internet creates a window for aspiring young film makers is no real surprise.
Long ago I …


Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix a Flop?

Showing complete naivity in the movie business, The Guardian’s Ben Child wonders how any movie makes money if Harry Potter can’t.
A hint of the true extent of Hollywood’s current financial travails has emerged after it was claimed that a film which racked up almost $1bn at the worldwide box office …


The Film Council says Film is Saving the Economy

Apparently, anyway. So the summation by the BBC suggests. I tend to agree with them. Let’s face it, what they’re actually saying is that making subsidised cheap labour brings in revenue and maintains jobs. At the moment I don’t see that’s a bad thing, external investment …

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