Movies Not Filming In California Is Costing State $9.6 Billion And 50,000 Jobs
California's film and television tax credits generated $4.3 billion in economic activity and bolstered 22,300 jobs, according to a study released Thursday by the Southern California Association of...
View ArticleChristopher Nolan Is Already Worried About Your 'Interstellar' Theatrical...
Christopher Nolan was in Las Vegas today to show off his latest sci-fi epic to theater owners at CinemaCon. While those in attendance expected to find out something new about the movie, the director...
View Article9 Incredible Ways Drones Are Overcoming Their Bad Reputation
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> The drones are coming. We estimate that $10 billion in cumulative global spending on aerial drones...
View Article4D Theaters That Spray And Tickle Moviegoers Are Coming To California This...
It bucks, it mists, it hurtles. It smells.No this is not an amusement park ride and yes, the smells part is accurate. It's 4D, the latest effort by cinema owners to offer something on the big screen...
View ArticleHere's What Some Of Your Favorite Films Look Like When Reduced To One Color...
One /r/movies, redditor is giving us a new spin on cinema analysis, as user vvdr12 is creating color composites that boil entire features down to a single, all-telling frame. Using a Python script that...
View ArticleChase Shut Down The Bank Accounts Of Some Porn Stars And Didn't Tell Them Why
JPMorgan Chase shut down the bank accounts of a bunch of adult film industry workers and didn't tell them why."We recently reviewed your account and determined that we will be closing it on May 11,...
View ArticleThis Video Will Make You Fall In Love With NYC's Subway Dancers
Last September, 22-year-old Kingston University student Scott Carthy sat at his laptop in his London apartment and watched a YouTube video of New York City's subway dancers for the first time.In the...
View Article'Jersey Boys' Bombed — Here Are The 5 Highest-Grossing Broadway Film...
Clint Eastwood’s take on the Frankie Valli story opened in theaters this weekend to disappointing box office results. The film cost around $38 million to make and grossed an estimated $13.5 million...
View Article7 Seriously Unlucky Movie Sets
Many successful films are able to breeze through production and effortlessly become a blockbuster success.But others aren’t as lucky.In fact, some films are downright unlucky.Check out the cursed movie...
View ArticleThe Chinese Version Of Pixar Raised $20M While Making Its First 3D Movie
Light Chaser Animation Studios, a Beijing-based developer of animated films, raised $20 million in a Series B investment round led by GGV Capital and Chengwei Capital while working on its first 3D...
View ArticleThe War Hero And Olympian Who Inspired 'Unbroken' Has Died At 97
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Louis Zamperini, an American prisoner of war in World War Two and Olympic runner whose life inspired the book and upcoming feature film "Unbroken," has died at age 97.Zamperini...
View ArticleIndia's Recent Rocket Launch Cost Less Than The Film 'Gravity'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed India's low-cost space technology on Monday, saying a rocket which launched four foreign satellites into orbit had cost less to make than the Hollywood film...
View ArticleScenes From 'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' Were Directed Over Skype
"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" swings into theaters this Friday along with some of the most state of the art motion capture visual effects.While the film's technology allowed actors like Andy Serkis...
View ArticleWomen Are Already Underrepresented On Major Film Crews, And The Numbers Are...
Though female participation in the overall labor force has increased over the past two decades, Hollywood is still the boys' club it has always been.In fact, there are actually fewer women working on...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, And J.J. Abrams Are Saving Kodak Film...
Digital filmmaking has overtaken analog, but there are some directors who refuse to let film stock die out. And so Hollywood studios are stepping in to lend support to Kodak in its time of crisis....
View ArticleHere's How 12 Years Of Footage Was Stitched Into One Of The Year's Best Movies
Now that the mysterious, so-called “12 Year Project” has hit theaters under the name “Boyhood,” Richard Linklater is very deservedly receiving all the plaudits in the world for successfully shepherding...
View ArticleHow To Differentiate Good Acting From Bad Acting
"How do you differentiate good acting from bad acting?" appeared as a question on Quora. Below we are printing one of the top answers.If anyone tells you there are objective standards, they're full of...
View ArticleThis Map Shows The Most Famous Movie Set In Every State
There's no place like home.And the movies that take place there are as central to a state's subculture as its dialect, landmarks, and industries.We recently set out to name the most famous movie set in...
View ArticleThis Amazing Film Shows What Iraq Was Like In The 1950s
In April, the 20th-century film house British Pathé digitized more than 80,000 of its films and put them on YouTube."Ageless Iraq" is one of them, shot in the 1950s to introduce "a new country" to the...
View ArticleThe First Virtual Reality Documentary For The Oculus Rift Has Arrived
The Oculus Rift is still just a prototype, but it already has its own documentary, which was filmed specifically to be experienced in virtual reality."Zero Point" is the first 3D, 360-degree...
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