The digital revolution is under way around the globe when it comes to making films. Digital filmmaking is allowing many filmmakers to chase their visions with less money and obstacles.
From mobile apps for zombie films to web-only prequels for documentaries, digital filmmaking is establishing itself as integral to both Hollywood blockbusters and small indie films.
At [...]

The TV show ‘House’ became the first prime time network show to be shot on the revolutionary HD DSLR Canon 5D camera.
After cinematographer Gale Tattersall read the script for this season’s finale of House, he knew he’d have to overcome some unique challenges in his approach to shooting. Much of the drama of the episode, entitled “Help Me,” [...]

Warner Brothers and IMAX have announced 20 new movies are coming to IMAX theaters over the next three-and-a-half years.
This begins on September 24 with the release of “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole.” Other future movies include “Harry Potter,” “The Hobbit,” “Batman” and “Superman.”
Since June 2003, Warner Brothers has released 25 movies in the IMAX [...]

It’s 7 p.m. on a recent Saturday and every seat in the 294-seat theater inside the AMC 16 Burbank is filled. The crowd isn’t there to watch “How to Train Your Dragon” or “Alice in Wonderland,” but a not-so-family-friendly kind of entertainment: mixed martial arts.
Tonight’s feature is a highly anticipated Ultimate Fighting Championship face-off between [...]

The new crop of 3-D movies hitting theaters are making some people sick — literally.
It’s not the alien creatures bleeding off the screen or half-eaten humans spit out in your direction by fierce dragons. It’s just the way 3-D plays tricks on your brain, mimicking symptoms of motion sickness.

The problem, if you have one, may lie [...]

Isn’t it curious in this age where more moving images get created and distributed digitally that there is this group of people who still call themselves “filmmakers”?  It seems a term that is so archaic, so analogue, so yesterday’s news. But is it any of these?
I think filmmakers look for three opportunities that truly define [...]

Motion picture equipment manufacturer ARRI is set to release its new high-end digital movie camera, known as the Alexa, and some people in the industry are calling it the final nail in film cinematography’s coffin. Sure, we’ve heard that prediction before but early hands-on reports of the Alexa seem to back it up. Final details have not [...]

Movies are evolving ever more into 3-D, a shake-up of the medium that has been compared to the advent of sound or color in motion pictures.
But if digital 3-D is so revolutionary, it will need to go beyond fantasy and animated blockbusters to drama and live action comedy. Explorations of Pandora may seem like the [...]

Bob Iger wasn’t bluffing.
The Disney CEO has been telling Wall Street for months that he’s going to have studio executives begin fiddling with traditional movie release windows, and it appears the time has arrived for the first grand experiment.
A day after the revelation that U.K. exhibitors are being asked to accept a tightened theatrical window on Disney’s [...]

Studio executives around town have been scrutinizing film slates for opportunities to expand forays into 3D releasing. Warners has been testing footage from its upcoming “Clash of the Titans” — converted into 3D by an outside vendor — and the tests have gone so well that the studio has decided to release not only “Titans” [...]