Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

Many naive people believe this. Of course, anyone with any knowledge of film can’t. But younger folks often have very limited experiences of films other than what they’ve seen in the last 6 or 7 years of their lives. If you’ve only ever read Harry Potter novels, then of course one of […]

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is starting a significant initiative that could help to propel the stereoscopic 3-D home entertainment industry forward. The international standards-setting body will create […]

The Dark Knight is a stellar example of how both the “old world” of film [photochemical] capture and the “new world” of digital finishes can combine creatively in service of the best imagery possible. Director Chris Nolan is on the record as a big fan of Imax films.

Cinematographer Wally Pfister (left) and director Christopher Nolan […]

By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A day after their counterproposal to major studios’ “final” contract offer was rebuffed, Screen Actors Guild leaders huddled on Friday to consider their next move in […]

With The Dark Knight, all the action sequences were shot in IMAX, and later intercut with 35mm film. This film also marks cinematographer Wally Pfister’s sixth collaboration with director Chris Nolan, which began with the indie hit Memento and was seen most recently in The Prestige.

Wally Pfister ASC, at the IMAX eyepiece with […]

Work in Hollywood already has ground nearly to a halt as film and TV producers wait to see if there will be another long work stoppage. By next week, there will be almost no films in production. At major studios, more than two dozen television shows for next season are already shooting, but if a […]

Company Pushes for a Texas Girl to Match Miley Cyrus’s Success With Young Fans
By PETER SANDERS
Wall Street Journal
June 17, 2008; Page B1
North Hollywood, Calif.
At a recording studio in this gritty neighborhood, Walt Disney Co. executives are putting the finishing touches on a project of pressing importance: grooming a 15-year-old Texas girl as a possible successor […]

Pope Benedict, in a May 23 address to participants in a meeting sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. explained that “if communication is to be effective it must be based on truth.”

“A communicator can attempt to inform, to educate, to entertain, to convince, to comfort; but the final worth of any communication lies […]

Keith Collea, co-writer and producer for The Gene Generation, also served as technical supervisor for the project. He used AJA’s Io HD as an integral part of a fully portable movie projection system that allowed the film to be projected on a Sony 4K digital cinema projector at the American Film Institute’s Mark Goodson Theater […]

The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating interview with David Mamet about his new martial arts film, RedBelt. Unlike some other American directors who have little first hand knowledge of martial arts, yet insist on directing martial arts films, Mamet has trained in the art of jiu-jitsu as well as traditional Western-style boxing and […]