Distribution company Area 23a has announced that the animated feature film Silver Circle will open in Los Angeles on April 5th. After opening in New York on March 22 the film will continue to platform out to most major markets through traditional theatrical runs and special event screenings following the NYC premiere.
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is establishing a group dedicated to cinema sound for the first time in over 30 years. The Technology Committee will be known as TC-25CSS and is one of a number of committees focused on digital cinema. The body has been established after a working group study identified wide differences in cinema sound.
When Snackhaus a creative content production company based in Los Angeles was putting together a video shoot for denim fashion brand Articles of Society director/cinematographer Chris Laughter realized there was a problem. The location an old house built in the 1920s up among the horse ranches near Santa Clarita California had a very poor electrical infrastructure and bringing in a large noisy generator was out of the question.
Sony Digital Cinema is expanding the choice of 3D technology in European countries to include two Sony DCI-compliant 4K projectors: the SRX-R320SP and the SRX-R515P. Each of the projectors will work alongside a polarizing filter system (the LKRA-005) and Sony’s unique 3D dual lenses.
NEC Display Solutions Europe has launched the compact NC900C DCI-certified digital cinema projector. The NC900C was the first projector to incorporate the new S2K chipset and use NSH lamps. Perfect for small cinema screens art houses and mobile and public cinemas the NC900C called for a lamp that was easy to implement and maintain lowered total cost of ownership and had unbeatable brightness color and reliability. The NC900C runs with a 350W NSH Dual-Lamp system which uses almost half the power consumption of competitors.
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An Open Letter from Eric Roth Executive Director The Visual Effects Society [Editor’s Note: At the Oscars ceremony when Ang Lee and Claudio Miranda failed to acknowledge the incredible contribution that visual effects artists made to the creation of Life of Pi an issue that has been simmering for a long time finally boiled over.
A major portion of director Todd Robinson’s submarine thriller Phantom starring recent Golden Globe Award-winning actor Ed Harris was filmed in the confines of an actual Russian submarine. Blocking became extremely important for cinematographer Byron Werner and gaffer Steve Lundgren while down in the cramped sub. They had to have a very precise lighting approach. If an actor missed his mark by inches he would be out of his lighting.
