DSLR Filmmaking in India (Bollywood)!
Stanley Ka Dabba director Amol Gupte, for example, didn’t want to intimidate the child actors in his movie with big cameras and burning lights. So he used a small Canon 7D DSLR (5.8 x 4.4 x 2.9 inches...
How Drones Are Revolutionizing the Way Film and Television Is Made
Around the time Leonardo Da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa, he was also writing his Codex on the Flight of Birds, a roughly 35,000-word exploration of the ways in which man might take to the air. His illu...
Star Wars’: Prince William & Harry’s Cameos As Stormtroopers Revealed In Deleted Scene
Aw shucks! Prince William and Harry shot cameo roles as storm troopers in ‘The Last Jedi,’ but their appearance didn’t make the final cut. We’ve now got their deleted scene!
Prince William, 35, and bro...
Credit Jerry Lewis for Technical Advances in Cinema Art
Most of us remember the late Jerry Lewis (1926 - 2017) as a comic actor inhabiting worlds of film, television, stage, and radio. Millions of baby boomers recall the teaming of him and Dean Martin (1946–1956) ...
Philips takes on cinema piracy with new ambient light technology
Pirate "cam" copies of movies may one day be a thing of the past, thanks to a new patent.
Content creators and cinemas have tried everything from piracy-busting patrols to embedded watermarks, but nothing seem...
‘Rogue One’: Grand Moff Tarkin Actor Hopes the Technology Won’t Become “Commonplace”
No performance from 2016 was met with quite the fascination of Guy Henry’s turn in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — and he wasn’t even one of the few actors not involved in the film’s worldwide media blit...
‘Lion’ and ‘Snowden’: Two real-life tales of courage (and tech)
Dev Patel plays a man searching for his long-lost home on Google Earth in "Lion" (left), while Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Edward Snowden in "Snowden" (right).
Commentary: Two of this year's most powerful mov...
Fox’s ‘The Martian’ Virtual Reality Experience to Be Released for PlayStation VR, HTC Vive
It will list for $19.99.
Twentieth Century Fox’s Fox Innovation Lab with RSA Films and The Virtual Reality Company will release its interactive The Martian VR Experience on Tuesday for PlayStation VR and HTC...
James Cameron wants to make a 3D movie without 3D glasses
Promises major tech innovation for Avatar sequels
Avatar director James Cameron believes that when it comes to the future of film, the future is 4K, HDR-enabled films that run at 120 frames per second and supp...
Technology is eroding our ability to understand what’s real and what’s just an illusion
If we were to take a television back in time - to the Middle Ages, say - and show off a Blu-Ray film (our time machine has a power supply), we can imagine that those medieval viewers would have no idea how we c...