Here, the BFI IMAX‘s IMAX Programme Manager Madeleine Mullett tells us a little about the use of their 70mm print of ‘Interstellar’ for its 10th. anniversary run. < There are only two copies of this print in the UK. Source: Dailymotion / The Independent
If you are not already familiar with them, media cartographer Evan Shapiro‘s regularly updated Media Universe Maps reflect the evolving relationships and power dynamics among the world’s media organisations. They show how companies from different sectors — TV, streaming, gaming, and social media — are vying for consumer attention and revenue in a rapidly changing […]
Those who follow The Beautiful Game will be very familiar with the ugly scenes, in stands, living rooms and pubs as well as on the pitch, when a contentious offside decision goes to VAR and some nonsense occurs. The Euros gave us hope, when we saw incontestable instant decision-making in top-flight football for the first […]
Judy Garland, Burt Reynolds, James Dean … Sir Laurence Olivier. Thanks to AI voice start-up ElevenLabs’ Reader app and its new Iconic Voices collection, they have new posthumous careers and no doubt new fans (of their voices at least) and their estates have a new source of income. Their voices are being popularly used to […]
Recording super slow motion video at high resolution has always been expensive, requiring specialist equipment and the results can be of low, jittery quality at more than 240fps. Using machine learning models like Google Research’s Frame Interpolation for Large Motion (FILM and the Amazon SageMaker cloud service, a new system from AWS “analyses motions between input […]
Streaming, the pandemic and inflation have shrunk cinema audiences and holed the traditional business model below the waterline. How can operators prevent the industry from sinking? In 2023, apart from Barbie, and Oppenheimer, nothing much got us off our sofas in sufficient numbers. Maybe it’s not the films themselves we should be focusing on? From executive […]