Twitnuuz: Digital cinema

Shane Hurlbut blogs about how to shoot an action sequence for a heating and cooling air conditioner unit. Read Shane Hurlbut’s full write up

Sadako3D is a Japanese horror movie released on May 12, 2012 in Japan: 13 years after the original Ring movie, Sadako returns to the big screen in 3D!  

Barco is deploying its new Auro 11.1 3D audio solution for Canada’s third-largest theatre circuit, Landmark Cinemas.

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading commercial LCD display and projector company, promoted president Pierre Richer to CEO.

XDC, FTT and Bewegte Bilder, leading digital-cinema service providers in Europe, have merged under a new common brand: dcinex™.

Georgia Theatre Company has broken ground on its new flagship location, the University Stadium 16 at Epps Bridge Centre, a 68-acre, 410,000-square-foot retail and entertainment project underway in Oconee County, Georgia, near Athens.

Qube Cinema will demo the high-frame-rate (HFR) and high-bit-rate (HBR) capabilities of the Qube XP-I server and Qube Xi Integrated Media Block (IMB) to the European audience at CineEurope, June 18-21 in Barcelona, Spain.

The NHK Super Hi-Vision system is not expected in people’s homes until 2020 at the earliest. But it is not just ultra-clear images the format offers. It could also finally make 3D entertainment truly compelling. Since its first demo in 2003, the Super…

New ITU Recommendations on 3DTV will provide the tools to evaluate, make and exchange 3D programs. The Recommendations will focus on the 720p and 1080i/p HDTV formats and concentrate on picture quality, depth and comfort levels.New ITU Recommendations…

My buddy Stu Maschwitz made a great comment recently on his blog that while he was passionate about his blog – he wasn’t necessarily running a blog that was out there to review the latest piece of equipment or to do side by side comparisons….

New Airbus A320 simulator is first Level D system to use new FL35 wqxga design Norway’s projectiondesign® is delighted to announce that British Airways (BA) has upgraded a fifth full-flight training simulator using the manufacturer’s latest ReaLED™…

‘Rock-o-Matic’ Heralds the Emmy Award-winning Band’s 2012 Nationwide Tour and The New Season Of Its Hit Series on the Disney Junior Network     When the Imagination Movers were ready to release “Rock-o-Matic,” their latest DVD of music…

Six Major Sequences and Over 320 Ground and Aerial Shots Captured by Top Previs House with Help of Popular Virtual Camera System CORVALLIS, Ore., June 1, 2012, Who is the fairest of them all? OptiTrack’s Insight VCS, according to preeminent previs house…

Cinedeck’s software-based architecture enables greater capability and faster development Cinedeck LLC (www.cinedeck.com), pioneering developer of capture systems for motion picture and broadcast production, continues to set new benchmarks in codec choice…

See the silly goofs on the set of the 2011’s “The Muppets” in the longest blooper reel ever (at least in Muppet History).

Keith Link runs through the memorable Title Sequences from David Fincher’s films. Filmmaker David Fincher has had a bit of a whirlwind career. From making movies on his super 8 mm as a child to landing a spot at ILM working on features like Star…

The common complaint of the indie filmmaker is the lack of something – but creative filmmaker will turn the tables and dance around the obstacles. or independent filmmakers, having is the rare luxury. Not having is rather the norm. From the required…

Olivia Speranza gives some tips about how to use a slider for creative shooting. For more info check out her write up at Oliviatech.com

Dunhuang is in an oasis amid the Gobi Desert and a former gateway to and from China on the ancient Silk Road. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the ‘Caves of the Thousand Buddhas’  and is made up of 492 Buddhist grotto…

The release of G.I. Joe: Retaliation has been moved from June 29, 2012 to March 29, 2013 by Paramount, even after forking lots on a Super Bowl commercial and already advertising it on TV and outdoor. Official reason: the movie has to be converted…

Tweet It’s important to realize that you have to spend a lot of money on accessories if you want to make your precious RED camera work. A burden many are willing to take for amazing image quality below $20K. Now would you spend that money on products…

Tweet cinema5D has been the “forum for DSLR filmmakers” for 3 and a half years. There’s no question cinema5D will always be cinema5D, but with so many new “large sensor” cameras that are or aren’t DSLR’s I think…

Before you stereoscopic fans jump out of your seats, Madonna is not planning a 3D movie yet. Nevertheless, today, as Madonna opened her hotly-anticipated MDNA 2012 world tour of some 30 countries in Tel Aviv, Israel, she used technologies that give a…

While 1080p has barely had time to establish itself as the standard for high definition video in the home, its replacement is already making its presence felt. Panasonic provided a glimpse of our ultra high resolution future with its 152-inch 4K resolution…