Netflix’s The Old Guard, a tale of immortal soldiers travelling through time to solve injustices, has already been watched by 72 million households in barely a month and looks likely to become a franchise hit. But that’s not the only success story worth mentioning. It is also notable for having a strong female presence behind the […]
Liverpool’s £54 million Littlewoods Film Studios complex has received a £17 million funding commitment from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Strategic Investment Fund. Some of the money will be used to erect temporary buildings on adjacent land which can be used while the complex is built, These pop-up spaces should become available to use […]
Oma Cinema is hoping to cause a stir by replacing the traditional stalls and circle auditorium configuration with a decidedly space-age room featuring vertically arranged pods each with 15 seats. The design’s elevated platforms will not only ensure excellent sound and picture for all audience members, it will also allow for a more upmarket movie-going […]
NVIDIA’s Ampere A100 GPU has been named the fastest graphics processor in the world after returning some impressive results in OctaneRender’s OctaneBench tests. The A100 posted an Octanebench score of 446 (standard Linux OB4 benchmark, RTX off, recompiled for CUDA11, ref. 980=102 OB), which is roughly 43% faster than #Turing, even with/ #RTX off! To […]
Congratulations are in order to the 2020 Prime Time Emmy Awards: nominees for Outstanding Special Visual Effects: Lost In Space (Netflix) The Mandalorian (Lucasfilm) Stranger Things (Netflix) Watchmen (HBO) Westworld (HBO) Click here for a full list of all this year’s Emmy nominations. We wish those who worked on all the nominated shows in all categories […]
In an historic move, the time a Universal or Focus Features movie can be seen only at a cinema has been reduced from nearly three months to a skinny three weeks In the US, AMC Theatres and Universal have signed a deal that will allow Universal and Focus Features releases to be made available on […]