Director James Cameron’s upcoming “Avatar” must rank as one of the most anticipated film projects in recent memory. His first narrative film since making the No. 1 box office hit of all time, 1997’s “Titanic,” “Avatar” will be the realization of Cameron’s long-held dream of melding digital 3-D stereo with epic bigscreen storytelling. Variety’s David […]

 
Now is the time to put on your glasses. 
Once known as a headache-inducing screen gimmick of the 1950s, 3D is roaring back into movie theaters - thanks to new digital-cinema technology and Hollywood studios eager to exploit the format. 
“It’s a force that cannot be ignored,” actor Brendan Fraser told reporters during ShoWest, the convention of […]

 
The marquee topic was 3-D on Tuesday at the movie industry’s ShoWest conference, as DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg teased exhibitors with footage from next year’s “Monsters vs. Aliens” and four studios announced deals that could enable 10,000 more theaters to show films in the format.
“It is nothing less than the greatest […]

 
Sony and Warner Bros. this week plan to start streaming films online in Gaia, a popular teen virtual world.
On Gaia, a 2D Japanese anime-like world with about 2.5 million monthly users, people can hang out in virtual movie theaters, which offer movie screenings at set times. They can watch the film with others, chat about […]

Half of worldwide screens will be digital by 2013, according to a report by cinema analysts Dodona Research.
This year has seen an explosion in digital conversion with 4,627 screens, 5% of the global total, switched to digital up to September.
Penetration is deepest in the U.S., home to 78% of the world’s digital screens. The U.K. […]

On the surface, it’s fairly straightforward: European and Asian movie theater owners, like their counterparts in North America, pretty much agree that it’s about time to scrap traditional celluloid and switch to digital projectors. 
But nothing is that straightforward. 
Although digital projection is beginning to grow in Europe — and about to boom in Asia as […]

It’s not often that actors find their craft upended by movie technology. After all, though styles have changed, actors have been a constant since the beginning of movies. True, the film camera itself revolutionized acting, forcing thesps to shrink the big gestures (and at first, silence the big voices) of 19th-century legit.
Then came sound, […]

 
Star Wars fans can connect with the Force in ways they’ve only imagined beginning Friday, May 25, when StarWars.com launches a completely redesigned website that empowers fans to “mash-up” their homemade videos with hundreds of scenes from Star Wars movies; watch hundreds of fan-made Star Wars videos; and interact with Star Wars enthusiasts from around […]

 
Director Christopher Nolan has made an inventive decision to film four sequences of “The Dark Knight” with Imax cameras. The next installment of Warner Bros. Pictures’ Batman franchise, which again will star Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne, is scheduled for a July 18, 2008, day-and-date theatrical release with Imax theaters. 
(Source: Hollywood Reporter)

Digital cinema is on a roll as more theaters add digital projectors to their screens. This weekend marks another milestone for digital projection as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End becomes the first motion picture to be released on over 1,000 digital cinema screens.   “At World’s End” will be the first feature to […]