As more indie filmmakers forgo traditional theatrical distribution in favor of VOD, the Sundance Institute is joining forces with Rainbow Media to present several films debuting at this month’s Sundance festival as simultaneous cable on-demand offerings through the new Sundance Selects label. Sundance Selects, a sister to Rainbow’s IFC that[…]
Giant-screen pioneer Imax on Thursday unveiled plans to build and launch a 3D digital camera to take movie and TV content to a new dimension. The announcement of a next-generation 3D camera, planned for a 2011 rollout after a prototype is completed this year, follows news this week that Toronto-based Imax is to partner with Discovery Communications and Sony Corp. to launch a cable TV network devoted to 3D content.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The science-fiction blockbuster “Avatar” has earned James Cameron his latest nomination for the top honor from the Directors Guild of America. Cameron won the guild prize 12 years ago for “Titanic.” Also nominated are Kathryn Bigelow for the Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker,” Lee Daniels[…]
Pressed by affiliates and shrinking ratings, NBC has a plan in the works to radically alter its late-night television lineup, restoring Jay Leno to his old spot at 11:35 each weeknight, while pushing the man who replaced him, Conan O’Brien, to a starting time of 12:05 a.m. NBC executives held extensive discussions with Mr. Leno and Mr. O’Brien on Thursday about the future of the network’s late-night lineup.
Some 20 feature-length movies and seemingly countless radio and television series centering on Sherlock Holmes have been filmed since the first eight-minute, black-and-white reel about the fictional detective was produced in 1908. And yet Philippe Rousselot, the cinematographer behind the latest — Guy Ritchie’s amped-up take on the Arthur Conan Doyle creation, “Sherlock Holmes” — made it a point to avoid seeing any of them. I read books about Sherlock Holmes when I was in my teens, but I don’t recall seeing any movies or television series,” says the Oscar-winning director of photography (“A River Runs Through It”). “I usually don’t look at DVDs of franchise-type movies because I don’t want to be influenced by what has been done before, but I watched every film that Guy Ritchie has directed.”
As more indie filmmakers forgo traditional theatrical distribution in favor of VOD, the Sundance Institute is joining forces with Rainbow Media to present several films debuting at this month’s Sundance festival as simultaneous cable on-demand offerings through the new Sundance Selects label. Sundance Selects, a sister to Rainbow’s IFC that[…]
Giant-screen pioneer Imax on Thursday unveiled plans to build and launch a 3D digital camera to take movie and TV content to a new dimension. The announcement of a next-generation 3D camera, planned for a 2011 rollout after a prototype is completed this year, follows news this week that Toronto-based Imax is to partner with Discovery Communications and Sony Corp. to launch a cable TV network devoted to 3D content.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The science-fiction blockbuster “Avatar” has earned James Cameron his latest nomination for the top honor from the Directors Guild of America. Cameron won the guild prize 12 years ago for “Titanic.” Also nominated are Kathryn Bigelow for the Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker,” Lee Daniels[…]
Pressed by affiliates and shrinking ratings, NBC has a plan in the works to radically alter its late-night television lineup, restoring Jay Leno to his old spot at 11:35 each weeknight, while pushing the man who replaced him, Conan O’Brien, to a starting time of 12:05 a.m. NBC executives held extensive discussions with Mr. Leno and Mr. O’Brien on Thursday about the future of the network’s late-night lineup.
Some 20 feature-length movies and seemingly countless radio and television series centering on Sherlock Holmes have been filmed since the first eight-minute, black-and-white reel about the fictional detective was produced in 1908. And yet Philippe Rousselot, the cinematographer behind the latest — Guy Ritchie’s amped-up take on the Arthur Conan Doyle creation, “Sherlock Holmes” — made it a point to avoid seeing any of them. I read books about Sherlock Holmes when I was in my teens, but I don’t recall seeing any movies or television series,” says the Oscar-winning director of photography (“A River Runs Through It”). “I usually don’t look at DVDs of franchise-type movies because I don’t want to be influenced by what has been done before, but I watched every film that Guy Ritchie has directed.”
As more indie filmmakers forgo traditional theatrical distribution in favor of VOD, the Sundance Institute is joining forces with Rainbow Media to present several films debuting at this month’s Sundance festival as simultaneous cable on-demand offerings through the new Sundance Selects label. Sundance Selects, a sister to Rainbow’s IFC that[…]
Giant-screen pioneer Imax on Thursday unveiled plans to build and launch a 3D digital camera to take movie and TV content to a new dimension. The announcement of a next-generation 3D camera, planned for a 2011 rollout after a prototype is completed this year, follows news this week that Toronto-based Imax is to partner with Discovery Communications and Sony Corp. to launch a cable TV network devoted to 3D content.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The science-fiction blockbuster “Avatar” has earned James Cameron his latest nomination for the top honor from the Directors Guild of America. Cameron won the guild prize 12 years ago for “Titanic.” Also nominated are Kathryn Bigelow for the Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker,” Lee Daniels[…]
Pressed by affiliates and shrinking ratings, NBC has a plan in the works to radically alter its late-night television lineup, restoring Jay Leno to his old spot at 11:35 each weeknight, while pushing the man who replaced him, Conan O’Brien, to a starting time of 12:05 a.m. NBC executives held extensive discussions with Mr. Leno and Mr. O’Brien on Thursday about the future of the network’s late-night lineup.
Some 20 feature-length movies and seemingly countless radio and television series centering on Sherlock Holmes have been filmed since the first eight-minute, black-and-white reel about the fictional detective was produced in 1908. And yet Philippe Rousselot, the cinematographer behind the latest — Guy Ritchie’s amped-up take on the Arthur Conan Doyle creation, “Sherlock Holmes” — made it a point to avoid seeing any of them. I read books about Sherlock Holmes when I was in my teens, but I don’t recall seeing any movies or television series,” says the Oscar-winning director of photography (“A River Runs Through It”). “I usually don’t look at DVDs of franchise-type movies because I don’t want to be influenced by what has been done before, but I watched every film that Guy Ritchie has directed.”