With a California startup getting $7 million in funding to produce virtual-reality films, the number of companies clamoring to make VR movies is growing.
The company is breaking records with straight-to-DVD fairy movies, managed by John Lasseter, that fueled the pre-tween girl frenzy for “Frozen.”
How does moviemaking change when the audience becomes part of the action? Jaunt just scored $6.8 million in funding for its camera that can make movies for the virtual reality Oculus Rift headset. Using the Oculus Rift dev kit–which the company purchased off of Craigslist!–Jaunt has created the algorithms necessary to give viewers the feeling of being inside a movie.
Every musician should be in Moby’s position to be able to decide whether or not they want to tour without it being too much of a financial hit. Not many musicians are in such a position, but Moby has exercised this right on his last album, Innocents , for which he only performed three dates October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 2013, all of them in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, at the city’s famed …
Against Hollywood wisdom, a new survey reveals that movies with better gender equality don’t lose money compared to male-oriented fare Cinema programmers beware: feminist films can flunk the Bechdel test Movies which pass the “Bechdel test” are just as likely to be profitable than those which do not, contrary to received thinking in Hollywood, according to a comprehensive new survey .
Despite Hollywood’s love for testosterone-dominated movies, a recent study has found that movies with a strong female component actually perform better at the box office and cost less to make. Nate Silver’s ESPN blog FiveThirtyEight used the Bechdel test, a barometer of gender equity invented by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, to scrutinize 1,615 films released between 1990 and 2013. It compared the …
With Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla arriving in theaters next month, it is time for the tie-ins…
Highly Recommended The Movie: When I was in high school, I had a history teacher who was a big movie buff. He helped organize an after-school cinema club, where a dedicated pocket of burgeoning film fans would watch mostly old movies
Disney movies are as well-known for the songs included in them as they are for the animation and voice talent. The truth is, Disney movies feature some of the best songs ever written.