Television Series Made Into Movies

Often times television shows are made into movies.. here is a preview for the television show Sex and The City made into a movie..

Superbad

Trailer from a present day comedy..

iPhones MINI Projector

iPod is famous for the amount of atatchments and gizmos that can be purchased for thier products. They also have what is debatably the hottest phone on the market right now, the iPhone. It was only a matter of time befor their gizmo and gadget department got thier hands on the iPhone and this is what we get. The iPhone is capable of playing movies that are stored in it or they can even stream movies off of the internet. This little projector will solve the problem that arises when 10 people are all trying to look at a little iPhone screen. Instead of jaming into every nook and cranny behind the phone, you can tell your friends to just look at that wall. Individual movie projection is a wave of the future and its here today. Enjoy!http://http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/06/iphone_mini_projector_concept.html

Crystal clear images thru Blu-Ray

In recent years the quality of the movies we watch has sky-rocketed. With the advent of Blu-Ray players, like the ones built into the PS3s, people can see and hear exactly what the director was trying to get across.

The wide dispersion of Sony's PS3 has made the movie industry try to catch up. We are seeing many of the classics that we grew up with coming out in HD.

If you have any questions about the PS3 or other Blu-Ray Disc players visit: http://http://www.pcworld.com/article/127892/burning_questions_ps3the_bluray_movie_experience.html

Twilight -- Special Effects

Special effects are used in almost every movie today.. Here is a clip that uses special effects from the movie Twilight..

Portable DVD Players

Now you can watch DVDs wherever you go! On a plane, in the car, at school, or anywhere you want with a portable DVD players. They are great for the kids on a long trip, or for yourself when your on a long plane or bus ride.

Special Effects

Movies wouldnt be movies without special effects. Special effects can include makeup, which can make someone who is 19 look like the are 70, or make a human into an alien. Special effects makeup can also creat the illusion that somebody is cut and bleeding. Special effects can create the illusion that someone is flying by using wires. Special effects can also create illusions of things that arent actually there by using what is called a green screen. A green screen is used to place actors against a different background. Special effects can also include creating wind, rain, snow, and fog; blowing up a building, and breaking through a "brick wall."







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effects

3D M0ViES iN THEATERS...

Jeffrey Katzenberg must be breaking out the champagne. Hollywood's new obsession with 3D has finally ended a prolonged staredown between studios and movie theater owners over who would foot the bill for theaters converting to digital projection. You can't show 3D movies in theaters without digital equipment, which is a key reason why five film studios announced agreements yesterday with the nation's top theater chains to help cover the costs of converting roughly 14,000 screens to digital projection over the next three years. According to Variety, the five studios -- 20th Century Fox, Disney, Paramount, Universal and Lionsgate -- will pay a "virtual" print fee to help exhibitors defray their conversion costs.


SEE M0RE @ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2008/10/3d-movies-get-b.html

iMAX THEATERS....

iMAX THEATERS ARE THE NEW THiNG T0 WATCH M0ViES...
IMAX (short for Image MAXimum)
iT iS A SCREEN THAT G0ES 180 DEGREES AR0UND.
As of March 2007, there were 280 IMAX theatres in 38 countries (60% of them are located in the US and Canada)
The largest rectangular IMAX screen in the world is located at IMAX Theatre Sydney

Blue Ray

The alternative to DVD's are Blue Ray Discs.

"The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience.

While current optical disc technologies such as DVD, DVD±R, DVD±RW, and DVD-RAM rely on a red laser to read and write data, the new format uses a blue-violet laser instead, hence the name Blu-ray. Despite the different type of lasers used, Blu-ray products can easily be made backwards compatible with CDs and DVDs through the use of a BD/DVD/CD compatible optical pickup unit. The benefit of using a blue-violet laser (405nm) is that it has a shorter wavelength than a red laser (650nm), which makes it possible to focus the laser spot with even greater precision. This allows data to be packed more tightly and stored in less space, so it's possible to fit more data on the disc even though it's the same size as a CD/DVD."

http://www.blu-ray.com/info/


What do you think, Will they catch on?

Books into Movies

Books make the best movies. There are many movies that you might not even know were books before they were feature films.. Some you might recognize are..
Da vinci Code
Twilight
Marley and Me
Moulin Rouge
Requiem For A Dream
and this website lists many many more!! http://www.ocl.net/bookinfo/if/movies.shtml

Internet Movie Database

IMDB is a great website where you can view the entire cast of a movie and their bios, find out what movies are in store for the future and what actors/actresses will be in them, chat with other people about movies and television shows, and watch trailers for upcoming movies! Check it out.. WWW.IMDB.COM

Top 10 F/X Scenes in Movie History

Erin McCarthy of Popular Mechanics came up with the Top 10 F/X scences in Movie History and here is the list:
1. STAR WARS (1977)
Motion-control photography, in which a computer is used to control a long, complex series of camera movements, made possible the spaceship battles in Star Wars. It would have taken too long to film the scenes manually, says Anne Thompson, deputy film editor at The Hollywood Reporter.

2. TRON (1982)
It wasn't the first film to use computer-generated (CG) graphics (and many effects were hand-drawn) but the sci-fi video-game fantasy flick Tron was the first to use computer imagery to create a 3D world, making it one of the pioneering CGI films. "Effects people said, 'Let's see what the computer can do,'" says Harry Knowles, movie critic at Ain't It Cool News.

3. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
"Morphing" was first used in Willow (1988), but in T2 the effect was "jaw-dropping," Knowles says. The liquid-metal robot's humanoid texture, which was layered onto a CG model, looked frighteningly real.

4. CLIFFHANGER (1993)
Faux alpinist Sly Stallone was held up by wires that were later digitally removed. The ability to erase wires changed how stunts are done: Now stars and stuntmen can be put in real-world environments as well as in front of green screens.

5. JURASSIC PARK (1993)
Although they enjoyed only about 6 minutes of screen time, Jurassic Park's digital dinos were a revelation: They introduced CGI live animals with realistic movements, and believably textured muscles and skin. The photorealisitic digital elements were intercut with animatronic dinosaurs.

6. FORREST GUMP (1994)
While most filmmakers in the early '90s used digital effects to create fantasy, the creators of Forrest Gump altered history. Using Kodak's Cineon system, they digitized archival footage, and composited Tom Hanks's character into historical clips.

7. THE PERFECT STORM (2000)
Although much previous work had been done to make CGI water look real, The Perfect Storm's monster wave scene set a new benchmark. "Water is an organic thing that's hard to create in software," says Andy Maltz of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. "To make it look believable was a big thing."

8. LORD OF THE RINGS (2001)
For the huge battle scenes in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the filmmakers created Massive, a computer program that generates crowds of artificially intelligent individuals "who make their own decisions based on behavior patterns," Knowles says. This makes for more realistic battles.

9. THE POLAR EXPRESS (2004)
Director Robert Zemeckis used a large motion-capture stage and up to 200 cameras to gather data from the performance of Tom Hanks and other actors. This data was used to help animators create digital versions of the actors while maintaining their performances.

10. THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004)
The creators of the film about worldwide climatic disaster took more than 50,000 photos of New York City and scanned them into a computer, providing "a 3D, photorealistic model of the city," Thompson says. After that, destroying the metropolis with a giant digital wave was a piece of cake.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4206967.html

IMAX

Many movies can now be viewed in IMAX, or Image Maximum Theaters. IMAX Theaters first started in Canada. IMAX Theaters show movies on a much larger screen than a standard movie theater screen, giving you a much more intense movie expirence. There are 280 worldwide and more than half of them are in Canada. Standard IMAX screens are 72 feet wide and 53 feet wide. There are 3 types of IMAX Theaters.. IMAX Dome, which is displayed on a dome screen, IMAX Digital, and IMAX 3D.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#IMAX_Dome_.2F_OMNIMAX