DVDs: Why discs haven't lost their shine
DVD was one new technology the electronics industry got right.
August 30, 2013
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DVD was one new technology the electronics industry got right.
Sometimes, in the midst of a year of great entertainment and high-profile movies, a small film comes out of nowhere to stop you in your tracks and makes you feel so deeply, that you realize your emotional experiences with the other films were nothing but shadows of what true cinematic emotional experience is really like. When that happens, you can’t help but wonder how you’ve walked around …
Last weekend, we had two movies that brought in more than $25 million but as we get to the middle of August and the end of summer, we’ll be lucky if we get any that gross more than $20 million over the weekend. Between people going on vacation and some schools starting up early, the rest of the summer is generally a bit of a wash, although the studios aren’t going to give up that summer box …
I spend a lot of time in the air, and I watch a lot of movies on planes in my iPad. About three years ago I was headed to Las Vegas, and since I usually try to watch something thematically tied to my destination, I decided it would be a good time to finally see The Hangover.
Studios do not love movies that cost $75 million to make. They require tens of millions in marketing costs, which means they have to do pretty well at the box office, and they tend to have very little sequel or spin-off potential
Autodesk’s animation and visual effects software was used to help create efforts for all five Academy Award nominated films for best visual effects and all five nominees for best animation.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but Lego Batman: The Movie is something that I should have already seen. I purchased Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes just under a year ago. It’s a testament to how little time I’ve had to play video games that I haven’t worked my way through it enough to even notice that the film I was watching two days ago is merely a re-purposed version of that game’s cut scenes …
China, and its 1 billion consumers, is the profitable new frontier for every industry, including Hollywood.
Auraeus Solito’s “Busong†will get an international DVD release on May 1.
Zero Dark Thirty was a must-see motion picture in 2012.