Posts Tagged ‘Movies’

Epix now is in high-def

Friday, October 30, 2009 8:39 By NARUTO

The success of Hulu as an alternative site for online television has awakened the interest of three major Hollywood studios, which ended up seeing a positive view of the market for Internet videos. Lionsgate, Paramount and MGM have joined to launch a similar service, called Epix HD, specifically about movies. This means that you can [...]

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Walt Disney to Dunk DVD Sales Model

Friday, October 23, 2009 10:52 By Radhika

Walt Disney Company will soon release technology that helps entertainment firms alter their business models to a new model – where consumers rely on computers and cell phones instead of DVD players and TVs.
Keychest, as it called, is meant to redefine ownership as access rights, not physically possessing a copy.
It would allow consumers to pay [...]

Disney anounces a “pay-per-streaming” service

Friday, October 23, 2009 7:59 By NARUTO

Disney is preparing a system, called Keychest, which will allow consumers to watch any movie on TV, smart phone or cable TV. According to the site TGDaily the content will not be “downloaded”, but instead, it will be stored in the content provider, operator of cable TV or Telephone Company.
When the product is purchased, the [...]

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The physics of ‘Angels and Demons’: anything is possible in movies

Thursday, September 24, 2009 20:51 By GSerrano

The plot is action-suspense formula: some stolen antimatter from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and a threat to use that antimatter to blow up the Vatican during Conclave, by the Illuminati or some scientists driven underground during the 17th century and who are now going to make the Vatican pay by killing thousands of innocent people.
‘Angels [...]

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The True Musical Humanist Story of The Soloist

Friday, September 18, 2009 19:51 By Madhuri Katti

The latest Hollywood release The Soloist is based on a real life story of a homeless violin player, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers of Los Angeles and columnist Steve Lopez. Steve Lopez saw this violinist lost in his music on a pavement in Los Angeles. A chance pause and conversation between the two changed the life of [...]

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YouTube wants partnership with major studios

Thursday, September 3, 2009 10:59 By NARUTO

Unlike many should think, YouTube doesn’t generate so many profits for Google, actually it generates more expenses. Therefore recently, it has been moving more aggressive publicity plans, as some announcements of Adsense that appear in the videos, or then music sale through iTunes. They say that this is not enough, and isn’t competitive like Hulu, [...]

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New film by Luc Besson debuts simultaneously in theaters and YouTube

Saturday, July 4, 2009 10:20 By NARUTO

The site of videos YouTube was chosen to debute the new movie from director Luc Besson to both internet and cinemas, reports a news agency Bloomberg on last Thursday.
The movie “Home” which opens in cinemas and on You Tube yesterday is the most recent work of Besson, who directed films like “The Fifth Element,” “Nikita” [...]

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List out the Oscar for best film will increase to 10 in 2010

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 23:25 By NARUTO

The organizers of the Oscar announced Wednesday a plan to expand the list of Oscar given to the best movie, increasing the basis of candidates to the prize of the most important world cinema for ten movies.

The “Academy”, based in Beverly Hills every year gives the Oscar awards for the best films, actors, actresses, directors [...]

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Voyeurism of Poverty

Thursday, February 26, 2009 20:26 By GSerrano

To me, it seemed that the filmmakers behind Slumdog Millionaire started out with the concept of the great pipe dream via a contest where millions of cash are at stake. The word ‘millionaire’ just has to be in the very title of the game show that will be used. Since drama is all about conflict, [...]

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Journey into the Self and ‘Into the Wild’

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 14:44 By Madhuri Katti

Sean Pean’s film ‘Into the Wild’ (2007) is based on the book (same name) about life of a young adventurous student Christopher Mc Candless who undertook a journey to discover self by living alone in Alaska and tragically could not retrace his steps back to civilized world.
The film essentially explores darkness in the soul of [...]

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