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Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Can't We All Just Ge ... One of the more gripping moments at the Wall Street Journal's "All Things D" conference las... June 6, 2012 5 Comments
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RIAA Once Again Wins Battle, Loses War Congratulations, RIAA, for prevailing in a court case that will do nothing to stop piracy a... May 31, 2012 1 Comment
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China's Bid for AMC: The Elephant in the Theater Amidst all the news reporting about Dalian Wanda Group Corp.'s proposed $2.6 billion purcha... May 29, 2012 1 Comment
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Why Publishers Only Have Themselves to Blame ... All the hullabaloo about whether the Justice Dept. was justified in suing Apple and five pu... April 23, 2012 0 Comments
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Attack of the 3D Retread ... March 30, 2012 0 Comments
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tags archives: 3d
Attack of the 3D Retread
Is good 3D enough to save a bad movie? In what’s probably a first, the critically panned and three-dimensionally challenged 2010 movie “Wrath of the Titans” will be released this weekend with the 3D equivalent of a fresh coat of paint. The original 3D was so bad that even an executive for Prime Focus, the company [...]
Katzenberg: ‘Bloom is Off the Rose’ for 3D
Jeffrey Katzenberg may be the Billy Graham of 3D. But not bad 3D. And he’s seen a lot of bad 3D movies recently. The studios’ greed for profit – charging premium prices for poor-quality 3D movies – has dampened the public’s enthusiasm for 3D, he told attendees at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen. [...]
TV in 2020: Best Guesses
So where will television be in 2020? I posed the question last week at a panel I led during NAB with execs from DreamWorks, Sony Electronics, Starz, Nielsen and Technicolor. Of course, nobody really knows what TV will look like in two years, let alone most of a decade. But the panel took some educated guesses. To [...]
Nintendo 3DS, Even If It Flops, is a Game Changer
Whether or not the Nintendo 3DS takes off, it represents a seminal moment for 3D. The game player — rolled out for the U.S. market at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco today — is the first mass market hand-held device that shows 3D images without glasses. A swarm of other 3D devices, mostly phones, is expected to hit the market over the next few years.
From ‘Avatar’ to ‘Tron’: Year 2 at 3D Creative Arts Awards
In an inevitable letdown from last year’s “Avatar”, Disney’s ”Tron: Legacy” took the live action feature film award at the second annual International 3D Society’s 3D Creative Arts Awards, helping Disney dominate this year’s show with five statuettes and a People’s Choice award for “Toy Story 3″. DreamWorks was a close second, winning three “Lumiere” [...]
