Tag archive: Movie

Online piracy may not be as bad as Hollywood would like you to believe. A new study titled, “Reel Piracy: The Effect of Online Film Piracy on International Box Office Sales,” conducted by Brett Danaher, from the Department of Economics at Wellesley College, and Joel Waldfogel from the Department of Economics at University of Missouri, suggests little, if any, loss of revenue on U.S. box office sales after the release of BitTorrent. More… Read More

“What are you doing today? Something routine like cooking breakfast or taking the dog for a walk? Or is it something extraordinary like your child's first soccer game or your wedding day?” That’s the question YouTube’s Nate Weinstein asked users of the video streaming website in July last year. The idea was to create movie made entirely of user-generated clips submitted by anyone, living anywhere. On Monday, the 90-minute movie of a single… Read More

Sony Pictures is believed to be in final talks to acquire the movie rights to the forthcoming and eagerly awaited Steve Jobs biography. According to a report by Hollywood blog Deadline, the deal could be worth several million dollars. Sony had a big hit last year with another biopic, the Oscar-winning The Social Network, based on Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Steve Jobs biography, written by former CNN chairman and Time Magazine… Read More

If the slate of films coming out of Hollywood lately has taught us anything, it's that the industry's obsession with remaking classic properties tends to be an all-or-nothing gamble. In most cases, a film either succeeds at winning over the original fans and new audiences alike, or it manages to miss both audiences completely. Basically, for every “Star Trek,” there's also a “Land of the Lost.” So where does Marcus… Read More

When you put your mind to it, it’s amazing what you can do with a smartphone (together with a hundred or so volunteers, a patient actor and a large crane). Using the above, two directors working under the name of Sumo Science have just created the world’s largest stop-motion animation, shot entirely on a Nokia N8 smartphone. Nokia has promoted the N8 through a number of projects like this, notably Nokia Shorts, a recent movie competition… Read More

War photography is a serious thing – but not when it's tackled by workers at a Canadian camera store. An imaginatively directed promotional video made by employees of a Calgary camera store (called, not quite so imaginatively, The Camera Store) has gone viral. The 60-second shootout, entitled Battle at F-Stop Ridge, has clocked up more than 800,000 views in little more than a week after being uploaded. The entertaining production shows the… Read More

Google's YouTube is on the verge of launching a video-on-demand service, according to a report on the the entertainment website The Wrap. The report goes on to suggest that the service could be rolled out as early as this week, possibly next. The Wrap says that Hollywood heavyweights such as Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures (though notably not yet Paramount or Fox) have all done a deal with YouTube… Read More

It's one thing to have cheesy movie posters hanging on your walls in your teenage years, maybe even college, but your 1982 Blade Runner poster doesn't exactly belong in your grown-up house or apartment. It's a sad reality, we know, but grown-up living spaces deserve appropriate wall art and your typical movie poster just isn't going to cut it. Lucky for you, designer Viktor Hertz has reinterpreted some favorites with… Read More

Netflix, beware: Warner Bros. studio will begin renting movies directly through Facebook, starting with The Dark Knight, according to The Hollywood Reporter. To rent the movie, Facebook users need only visit the official Dark Knight Facebook page, where they can access the rental icon. Rentals will cost 30 Facebook credits, which equals $3. Renters will have 48 hours from the time of purchase to watch the movie before the rental expires. By… Read More

The movie Skyline has been flying a bit under the radar so far. An early trailer was attached to Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, but beyond that, there doesn’t seem to be much buzz about this story of alien invasion. As the November release date approaches, that may change, and trailers like this one should definitely help. Set in Los Angeles, Skyline follows a group of survivors following the introduction of a strange light that attracts people… Read More

Catfish is a difficult film to review, as the biggest moment in this documentary is also the one that can't be revealed without spoiling it for anyone that has yet to see it.  It is a documentary from filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman that focuses on Schulman’s 24-year old photographer brother, Yaniv “Nev” Schulman, as he experiences a shocking surprise stemming from a romance that began on Facebook.  If you have seen the trailers… Read More

A couple years ago, movie rental service Netflix offered up $1 million prize to a software developer who could come up with a better way to recommend new movies to its millions of subscribers. Netflix wasn't asking for much&mdah;just a 10 percent improvement—but to date the prize has gone unclaimed, despite more than 27,000 entries. (Although Netflix did give $50,000 to a team of researchers at AT&T who came up with an 8.5… Read More

Netflix is finally ending its double life as a movie rental service and purveyor of used DVDs. The company announced on Monday that it would shut the doors on its previously viewed movie biz on November 30. “As you know, our core business is delivering great movie rentals to you on DVD by mail and instantly to the computer and TV, so we’ve decided it makes sense for us to focus exclusively on that,” a company… Read More

The war between plasma and LCD flat-panel TVs rages on, and no doubt you’ve heard the propaganda from both camps. While LCD has traditionally been more expensive than plasma at the larger sizes, that gap is diminishing—making other factors such as performance and features more significant. Here, we’ll take you through the pros and cons of each technology to help you make the important decision: To buy a plasma or LCD… Read More