film

Film eulogises 80s arcade superstars

News Chasing Ghosts, a documentary set to screen next week at the Sundance Film Festival, takes a nostalgic look at the golden age of the arcade. Recognising the importance of business savvy in the filmmaking world, the close friends and 1999 graduates...

18 January 2007, 9:07

News.blog: Film contest spotlights handheld video

News The Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California, finished this weekend, but its independent filmmakers are starting to think smaller than the big screen. But because she created simple characters and kept the story short, her film is an...

13 March 2006, 10:14

News.blog: iPod film festival opens

News A film festival that bills itself as the first designed exclusively for the iPod has got underway. Entries to The Flux 2007 iPod Film Festival are available for download and viewing on iPods at theflux.tv, organisers said in a statement.

4 April 2007, 10:20

Free online 'Star Trek' spoof is top Finnish film

News Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a full-length feature film in Finnish, with English subtitles. It was made by a group of students and other amateur film makers with a bare-bones budget and a few home computers to create elaborate special effects.

23 November 2005, 9:07

News.blog: Digital film distribution in the limelight

News The clacking sound of celluloid scrolling through a film projector may be closer to becoming a thing of the past. Spurring the movie business on is a long-term effort to cut the costs of film distribution.

Tags: distribution, film, cinema, cinemas

7 March 2007, 10:11

Nikon dumps almost all film cameras

News Nikon has announced that it will be dropping a large part of its film photography products and focusing primarily on digital photography. Nikon will cease production on all of its large-format and enlarging lenses as well as most of its film camera...

13 January 2006, 9:21

News.blog: Google founders to fund film

News Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have invested in a low-budget, independent film written and directed by a friend of theirs from Stanford University, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle.

30 December 2005, 10:10

News.blog: 'Halo' film delayed

News Plans to produce Microsoft's videogame Halo as a feature film have stumbled with studios Universal and Fox. Universal and Fox were going to be co-financers of the estimated $145m Halo film, with Microsoft getting $5m upfront and 10 per cent of the...

23 October 2006, 11:13

BFI offers rare film footage to public

News The British Film Institute is using a ‘digital jukebox’ to give visitors access to rare film and TV titles at its new London venue. Film director and BFI chairman Anthony Minghella said: "They are giving us some hardware and some cash, and access...

23 February 2007, 9:13

BitTorrent to distribute top film and TV content

News Executives at BitTorrent say they plan to stand out from the pack by offering consumers the speediest way to download a film. Peer-to-peer company BitTorrent will begin distributing films and TV shows for top entertainment companies starting this...

29 November 2006, 10:03

Prison terms on tap for 'pre-release' film pirates

News The bill, approved by Congress on Tuesday, is written so broadly it could make a federal felon of anyone who has even one copy of a film, software program or music file in a shared folder and should have known the copyrighted work had not been...

25 April 2005, 14:34

Apple music videos hint at film ambitions

News Although the movie clips are free, the trailer page also sells film soundtracks and audio books. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is famously secretive when it comes to sharing plans for his company's future. To find clues, however, you need only look as far...

19 July 2005, 11:24

Comic book software promotes film

News By the time the new Jack Black movie Nacho Libre opens in the US on June 16, its fans will have had more than a week to create their own versions of stories based on the film. The value-add for a marketing company," said Politi, "is that they can...

7 June 2006, 11:32

Photos: The end of the classic film camera?

News View cameras were popularised by Ansel Adams and his photographs of the American west and use sheet film rather than rolls. The Cadet uses 100x130mm (4x5-inch) sheets of film, while Adams primarily used a camera that shot 200x254mm (8x10-inch...

26 May 2006, 11:09

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