film

Is Apple prepping an iPod film service?

News Apple could already be well on its way towards creating a movie download service. According to AppleInsider -- an Apple gossip site with a track record for calling the company's next move -- Apple or a potential partner is undertaking market...

6 March 2006, 10:47

Teen film boosts Logitech's Webcams

News Sales of Logitech cameras appear to be climbing, at least at Amazon, in the wake of enormous attention paid to a video clip by a 17-year-old girl. Breakup, a 75-second clip that appeared on video-upload site YouTube.com a week ago, has logged more...

28 March 2006, 10:07

A film projector in a mobile phone?

News A few years from now, you might be able to carry a home cinema system in your pocket. Finland's Upstream Engineering is working on an LED projection system that potentially could, because of its small size and relatively low cost, allow...

16 November 2005, 9:39

Tech university kicks off a multimedia Halloween

News This Halloween, there's a multimedia mashup at one California university that includes an interactive film depicting a scary future of technology. The film, named Specflic after the science-fiction genre known as speculative fiction, will be acted...

24 October 2005, 10:22

Google's 'Da Vinci' codes

News Google and Sony Pictures Entertainment have partnered to promote the film of The Da Vinci Code and Google Homepage through a time-sensitive interactive contest. Beginning on Monday at 6pm BST, Google will release one Da Vinci Code-style puzzle or...

18 April 2006, 8:52

Sundance puts mobiles in the spotlight

News Actor and filmmaker Robert Redford announced on Wednesday that his independent film organisation is teaming with a global trade association for mobile operators to launch a new project that will showcase five short films specifically designed for...

9 November 2006, 10:00

Games set for high-profile UK awards

News The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced two major sponsors for the 2006 British Academy Video Games Awards. Speaking at the launch event, the chairman of BAFTA, Hilary Bevan-Jones, said that the expansion of the videogame...

5 September 2006, 9:49

Sundance looks to future of small screen

News As thousands of Sundance Film Festival-goers lined up on Saturday to see independent films on the big screen, a couple of hundred piled into a room to talk about the little screen. But many wonder whether such devices will become conventional...

23 January 2006, 10:58

New 'Kong' monkeys with videogame industry

News When Peter Jackson's new film King Kong opens nationally today, fans of the original 1933 movie won't be the only ones with an advance sense of the story line. Whereas film-based games used to be little more than marketing vehicles for movies, that...

15 December 2005, 10:55

Cinema piracy law snags first victim

News A new US federal law aimed at discouraging camcorder-equipped film pirates has caught its first celluloid buccaneer. One section of the law stipulates that any person who uses an "audiovisual recording device" to record a film in a cinema can be...

28 September 2005, 8:59

Web tech splices filmmakers' global divide

News Behind the making of the upcoming animated film Happy Feet is a tale of two film producers struggling to work together from different continents. A small group of engineers in San Francisco is developing a Web browsing tool for use over a high...

6 November 2006, 10:57

Sundance gives tech supporting role

News It's the filmmakers who will play the starring roles at the annual Sundance Film Festival, the 10-day independent film showcase that opens tonight in Park City, Utah. Sundance from your homeMost notably -- at least for those interested in film but...

19 January 2006, 10:25

'Madagascar' pushes tech limits

News The new animated film Madagascar, DreamWorks Animation's follow-up to the smash hit Shrek 2, could be described as a hairy technology challenge played out onscreen. With a cast of zoo animals and hundreds of furry lemurs on the film's namesake...

25 May 2005, 9:07

Photos: Iron Man suits up in CGI

News Paramount's forthcoming film, Iron Man, which is scheduled to be released on Friday, uses a mixture of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and real costume design to craft the suit worn by Robert Downey Jr in the film.

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2 May 2008, 9:23

Tiny-screen video gets its own Sundance

News The explosive growth in small-screen video -- think mobile phones, iPods and cameras -- is triggering its own new set of mini-film festivals. For those with bigger cameras, but a similar flair for the miniature, indie film site TheFlux.TV is...

9 January 2006, 9:25