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Storytelling Matters Most

Sun, 03/17/2013 - 21:56 -- Nick Dager

Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe winning producer Jon Landau will keynote the National Association of Broadcasters Show’s Technology Summit on Cinema on Sunday, April 7 in Las Vegas. The Summit is co-produced by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Landau, who has produced the two highest grossing movies of all-time, Avatar and Titanic, is likely to cover several topics – 3D, 4K, High Frame Rates, Motion Capture – but his key message will be that nothing is more important as good storytelling. As he says, “Technology has never made a bad movie good.”

The State of Independents

Thu, 03/14/2013 - 12:08 -- Nick Dager

To understand the current state of independent art house cinemas in the United States, a good place to start would be downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan, where within a stone’s throw of each other sit the majestic Michigan Theatre and the smaller State Theatre.

OptiTrack Launches Motive

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Motion capture provider OptiTrack has launched Motive a unified software platform designed to eliminate the complexities historically associated with motion capture workflows. The company says that Motive delivers cleaner motion data enables larger capture volumes and can be tailored to meet a full range of production studio needs. It provides a high-performance solution for data management and processing as well as skeleton solving.

Popcornflix Downloads Top 400 000 Mark

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Popcornflix has announced that the number of Popcornflix downloads on the number one streaming player Roku have exceeded 400 000. Roku recently launched in the United Kingdom and Canada. Popcornflix is now available on Roku in those countries as well. Roku offers hundreds of entertainment channels in the newly expanded markets including Popcornflix which gives Roku users a fast and easy way to view hundreds of theatrically released titles and indie films starring top actors like Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie Meryl Streep Charlize Theron and many more.

Screen Media Ventures Launches FrightPix

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Screen Media Ventures owner of Popcornflix has launched FrightPix the company’s second free ad-supported digital channel. FrightPix launches with more than 100 feature-length horror films and will be adding 30 additional films each month. Like Popcornflix FrightPix is ad supported and free to the viewer. The new channel boasts a wide range of horror genres including the Creature Feature Slasher Splatter Zombie Supernatural Creepy Cult Demon and Gothic categories. The company also announced the launch of a new horror label.

SMPTE Forms Study Group on Cinema Sound

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is establishing a group dedicated to cinema sound for the first time in over 30 years. The Technology Committee will be known as TC-25CSS and is one of a number of committees focused on digital cinema. The body has been established after a working group study identified wide differences in cinema sound.

Snackhaus Production Takes on Denim Fashion Video


Wed, 03/13/2013 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

When Snackhaus a creative content production company based in Los Angeles was putting together a video shoot for denim fashion brand Articles of Society director/cinematographer Chris Laughter realized there was a problem. The location an old house built in the 1920s up among the horse ranches near Santa Clarita California had a very poor electrical infrastructure and bringing in a large noisy generator was out of the question.

NEC Europe Launches NC900C Digital Cinema Projector

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

NEC Display Solutions Europe has launched the compact NC900C DCI-certified digital cinema projector.
 
The NC900C was the first projector to incorporate the new S2K chipset and use NSH lamps. Perfect for small cinema screens art houses and mobile and public cinemas the NC900C called for a lamp that was easy to implement and maintain lowered total cost of ownership and had unbeatable brightness color and reliability.
 
The NC900C runs with a 350W NSH Dual-Lamp system which uses almost half the power consumption of competitors.

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