Nominations for the 27th Annual Webby Awards were announced today by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, with this year’s nominees including entertainment organizations such as Amazon, Apple, Audible, CNN, Disney, ESPN, HBO, MTV, Netflix and Paramount, as well as such personalities as Selena Gomez, Harry Styles, Doja Cat, Lizzo, RuPaul and others.
“The Webbys is in a unique position–every year we have the opportunity to see pivotal industry trends play out through our Nominees,” said Ciel VanderVeen, Managing Director of The Webby Awards. “This year was no exception; not only were we blown away by the creativity and quality of the work, but we were inspired by the teams that created new innovations with AI technologies, built new responsible products, and so much more.”
Media organizations in contention for Webby Media Company of the Year, an honor presented to the media company that performs best across all Webby Awards categories,...
“The Webbys is in a unique position–every year we have the opportunity to see pivotal industry trends play out through our Nominees,” said Ciel VanderVeen, Managing Director of The Webby Awards. “This year was no exception; not only were we blown away by the creativity and quality of the work, but we were inspired by the teams that created new innovations with AI technologies, built new responsible products, and so much more.”
Media organizations in contention for Webby Media Company of the Year, an honor presented to the media company that performs best across all Webby Awards categories,...
- 4/4/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Washington, March 2 (Ians) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 1,200-pound NASA spacecraft called Dart, the US space agency said on Thursday.
After 10 months of flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) — the world’s first planetary defence technology demonstration — on September 26 last year successfully hit asteroid Dimorphos.
The asteroid moonlet Dimorphos is a small body just 160 metres in diameter. It orbits a larger, 780-metre asteroid called Didymos.
Though neither Didymos nor Dimorphos poses any threat to Earth, data from the mission can help researchers how to potentially divert an asteroid’s path away from Earth, if ever necessary.
Hubble’s time-lapse movie of the aftermath of Dart’s collision, detailed in the journal Nature, reveals surprising and remarkable, hour-by-hour changes as dust and chunks of debris were flung into space.
Smashing head...
After 10 months of flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) — the world’s first planetary defence technology demonstration — on September 26 last year successfully hit asteroid Dimorphos.
The asteroid moonlet Dimorphos is a small body just 160 metres in diameter. It orbits a larger, 780-metre asteroid called Didymos.
Though neither Didymos nor Dimorphos poses any threat to Earth, data from the mission can help researchers how to potentially divert an asteroid’s path away from Earth, if ever necessary.
Hubble’s time-lapse movie of the aftermath of Dart’s collision, detailed in the journal Nature, reveals surprising and remarkable, hour-by-hour changes as dust and chunks of debris were flung into space.
Smashing head...
- 3/2/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Graeme Ferguson, the Canadian filmmaker who co-founded Imax, died on Saturday at the age of 91.
Ferguson had reportedly been battling cancer, passing away at his home in Norway Point, Ontario.
Imax took to Twitter today to confirm the news. “We mourn the passing of Graeme Ferguson, visionary IMAX Co-Founder and iconic filmmaker,” they said. “Thank you and rest in peace, Graeme.”
Ferguson founded the Imax Corporation in 1967, with filmmaker Roman Kroitor, businessman Robert Kerr, and engineer William Shaw. His latter two collaborators had been friends of his since high school.
The initial impetus for Imax was Polar Life, an experimental film that Ferguson directed for Expo ’67 in Montreal. In collaboration with Kroitor, Kerr and Shaw, he would develop a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, projectors and theaters which would bring a new sense of immersion and scope to the cinematic experience.
A writer, director, producer and cinematographer, Ferguson...
Ferguson had reportedly been battling cancer, passing away at his home in Norway Point, Ontario.
Imax took to Twitter today to confirm the news. “We mourn the passing of Graeme Ferguson, visionary IMAX Co-Founder and iconic filmmaker,” they said. “Thank you and rest in peace, Graeme.”
Ferguson founded the Imax Corporation in 1967, with filmmaker Roman Kroitor, businessman Robert Kerr, and engineer William Shaw. His latter two collaborators had been friends of his since high school.
The initial impetus for Imax was Polar Life, an experimental film that Ferguson directed for Expo ’67 in Montreal. In collaboration with Kroitor, Kerr and Shaw, he would develop a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, projectors and theaters which would bring a new sense of immersion and scope to the cinematic experience.
A writer, director, producer and cinematographer, Ferguson...
- 5/11/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Astrophysical Journal Letters last week reported on a real-life flare that makes the fictional plot developments look like firecrackers
(Warning: This post contains spoilers to Netflix’s “Stowaway” and the Season 2 premiere of Apple’s “For All Mankind”).
Conventional wisdom tells us that the radiation a stellar flare shoots through space stands as an untenable obstacle for human life absent the protection of Earth’s atmosphere or another appropriate barrier.
Viewers of Netflix’s “Stowaway” — and there are a lot, according to the streamer’s top-10 list — know this, thanks to the havoc a “solar storm” wreaks on Anna Kendrick’s lead character. If there were any hopes left before Dr. Zoe Levenson exits the Mts-42 and enters space amid the aftermath of the blast, the unwinnable stakes become apparent as the skin on Kendrick’s helmet-covered face is slowly scorched (the gall!).
Apple’s “For All Mankind” also...
(Warning: This post contains spoilers to Netflix’s “Stowaway” and the Season 2 premiere of Apple’s “For All Mankind”).
Conventional wisdom tells us that the radiation a stellar flare shoots through space stands as an untenable obstacle for human life absent the protection of Earth’s atmosphere or another appropriate barrier.
Viewers of Netflix’s “Stowaway” — and there are a lot, according to the streamer’s top-10 list — know this, thanks to the havoc a “solar storm” wreaks on Anna Kendrick’s lead character. If there were any hopes left before Dr. Zoe Levenson exits the Mts-42 and enters space amid the aftermath of the blast, the unwinnable stakes become apparent as the skin on Kendrick’s helmet-covered face is slowly scorched (the gall!).
Apple’s “For All Mankind” also...
- 4/30/2021
- by Jeremy Bailey
- The Wrap
Imax galaxy quest reveals life in orbit and a breathtaking perspective on our planet’s landmasses, with a little over-earnest narration by Jennifer Lawrence
With such Imax credits as writer of Mission to Mir and director of Hubble 3D to her name, Toni Myers is doing as much as any film-maker to map the galaxy’s outer reaches. Her latest large-format eye-opener achieves a breathtaking new perspective on Earthly life by floating cameras among astronauts aboard the International Space Station (Iss). Tim Peake’s Twitter feed: mere dilettantism in comparison.
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With such Imax credits as writer of Mission to Mir and director of Hubble 3D to her name, Toni Myers is doing as much as any film-maker to map the galaxy’s outer reaches. Her latest large-format eye-opener achieves a breathtaking new perspective on Earthly life by floating cameras among astronauts aboard the International Space Station (Iss). Tim Peake’s Twitter feed: mere dilettantism in comparison.
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- 5/26/2016
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Consider this pair of trailers a yin-yang situation — speaking for their focuses and scale of production, and hopefully not at all of quality. Entering a limited release this month is A Space Program, a title described by one (very positive) review as a “mockumentary / performance piece [that’s] sci-fi by way of Wes Anderson.” The cinematic condensing of Van Neistat and Tom Sachs‘ New York installation earned some good buzz upon hitting SXSW last year, and its trailer (via Apple) does a fine job of raising questions as to where, exactly, the line between reality and presentation rests.
Also entering a limited release this spring, albeit on a much bigger scale (ar ar ar), is A Beautiful Planet, the IMAX-presented, Jennifer Lawrence-narrated documentary that looks upon the earth with footage captured by the International Space Station. It might turn out to be little more than space porn — but if seen in an optimal IMAX 3D presentation,...
Also entering a limited release this spring, albeit on a much bigger scale (ar ar ar), is A Beautiful Planet, the IMAX-presented, Jennifer Lawrence-narrated documentary that looks upon the earth with footage captured by the International Space Station. It might turn out to be little more than space porn — but if seen in an optimal IMAX 3D presentation,...
- 3/3/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
“A Beautiful Planet,” a 3D documentary from filmmaker Toni Myers, will make its domestic debut in IMAX theaters on Apr. 29 next year, Disney announced on Thursday. Produced in cooperation with Nasa, the film features stunning footage of Earth from space, shot by the astronauts or cameras mounted on the International Space Station (photo top). Also Read: 'Everest' Venice Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Company Find Some Thrills But Mostly Thin Air Myers has been editing, writing, producing and directing films specifically tailored for IMAX since 1971. Her most recent documentary feature film, 2010’s “Hubble 3D,” has grossed nearly $70 million. “A Beautiful Planet” will be presented.
- 9/3/2015
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
A lot of Best Picture hopefuls each year have documentary counterparts. It makes sense, because biopics and other true stories are great fodder for Oscar bait. Some are as easy as Monster and Milk being linked to Nick Broomfield’s Aileen Wuornos films and The Times of Harvey Milk, respectively, in part because the dramas were directly influenced by their doc predecessors. Others, like Dallas Buyers Club and How to Survive a Plague and Captain Phillips and Stolen Seas are not as officially linked but certainly go together by being about the same real-life subject matter. Occasionally even the fictional contenders are informed by docs, as was Gravity heavily modeled after footage from the IMAX movie Hubble 3D. Lately I’ve noticed a phenomenon where a lot of the 2014 Best Picture candidates are not just easily tied to past documentaries but specifically correspond quite perfectly with docs that are also in contention for Academy Awards this year...
- 11/21/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Academy has announced the new class of invited members for 2014 and, as is typical, many of which are among last year's nominees, which includes Barkhad Abdi, Michael Fassbender, Sally Hawkins, Mads Mikkelsen, Lupita Nyong'o and June Squibb in the Actors branch not to mention curious additions such as Josh Hutcherson, Rob Riggle and Jason Statham, but, okay. The Directors branch adds Jay and Mark Duplass along with Jean-Marc Vallee, Denis Villeneuve and Thomas Vinterberg. I didn't do an immediate tally of male to female additions or other demographics, but at first glance it seems to be a wide spread batch of new additions on all fronts. The Academy is also clearly attempting to aggressively bump up the demographics as this is the second year in a row where they have added a large number of new members, well over the average of 133 new members from 2004 to 2012. As far as...
- 6/26/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 271 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.
Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2014.
“This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”
The 2014 invitees are:
Actors
Barkhad Abdi – “Captain Phillips”
Clancy Brown – “The Hurricane,” “The Shawshank Redeption”
Paul Dano – “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners”
Michael Fassbender – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”
Ben Foster – “Lone Survivor,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
Beth Grant – “The Artist,” “No Country for Old Men”
Clark Gregg – “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine,...
Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2014.
“This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”
The 2014 invitees are:
Actors
Barkhad Abdi – “Captain Phillips”
Clancy Brown – “The Hurricane,” “The Shawshank Redeption”
Paul Dano – “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners”
Michael Fassbender – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”
Ben Foster – “Lone Survivor,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
Beth Grant – “The Artist,” “No Country for Old Men”
Clark Gregg – “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine,...
- 6/26/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o of 12 Years a Slave were two of the 271 artists and industry leaders invited to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which determines nominations and winners at the annual Oscars. The entire list of Academy membership—which numbers about 6,000—isn’t public information so the annual invitation list is often the best indication of the artists involved in the prestigious awards process. It’s worth noting that invitations need to be accepted in order for artists to become members; some artists, like two-time Best Actor winner Sean Penn, have declined membership over the years.
- 6/26/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Pop quiz: What do Chris Rock, Claire Denis, Eddie Vedder and Josh Hutcherson all have in common? Answer: They could all be Oscar voters very soon. The annual Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences invitation list always makes for interesting reading, shedding light on just how large and far-reaching the group's membership is -- or could be, depending on who accepts their invitations. This year, 271 individuals have been asked to join AMPAS, meaning every one of them could contribute to next year's Academy Awards balloting -- and it's as diverse a list as they've ever assembled. Think the Academy consists entirely of fusty retired white dudes? Not if recent Best Original Song nominee Pharrell Williams takes them up on their offer. Think it's all just a Hollywood insiders' game? Not if French arthouse titans Chantal Akerman and Olivier Assayas join the party. It's a list that subverts expectation at every turn.
- 6/26/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Time to take a look at IMAX's shiny new toy. Today, IMAX has announced and unveiled first official photos and a video featurette for their new IMAX 3D Digital Camera, a new camera system designed to capture 3D footage at IMAX-resolution. The camera was already used on Michael Bay's TF4, or Transformers: Age of Extinction, and gets some extra time in the featurette focused on that; it was also used on the Island of Lemurs: Madagascar and Hubble 3D docs. It's kind of small, looks versatile, and shoots at 4K in 3D. "IMAX’s fully integrated dual 65mm 4K digital large-format 3D camera delivers stunning image quality and is smaller, lighter and easier to use than other 3D digital camera systems on the market." Check this out. It may be a bit painful to hear "digital" being included in the name of this camera, but that's the age we're in.
- 6/13/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A first teaser poster is here for Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar." While not much is known about the film, we do know it launches into theaters on November 7, and stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. This already ridiculously top-drawer cast is rounded out by Wes Bentley, Topher Grace, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, David Oyelowo, Bill Irwin and more. Folks watching the "Hubble 3D" presentation at the Smithsonian's Air & Space Museum in DC, however, know a lot more than we do, because they were treated to the trailer premiere for the upcoming sci-fi adventure film (full report here). The film was shot on 70mm and IMAX film, per Nolan's commitment to the medium. Here's the tagline: "Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here." The trailer's exclusive run will continue until at least May 16 at the A&S Museum. Cinema Blend...
- 5/6/2014
- by Beth Hanna and Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Earlier today, those that attended the showing of “Hubble 3D” at the IMAX theater in the National Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC), were lucky enough to witness the new trailer for Christopher Nolan's upcoming film, Interstellar. Why did it makes debut there? As you know, Nolan has shunned digital, and the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater is one of the few theaters that still uses film. If you happen to live in the area, there's good news, the trailer will play before each IMAX film for the foreseeable future. If you're not nearby, check out this brief description of it. “After a brief announcement, the trailer unspooled to show Matthew McConaughey driving his truck through corn fields while a lush orchestral score swelled in the background. Later, the fields had caught fire, an ominous dust cloud could be seen looming over a baseball game, and McConaughey (playing a character...
- 5/5/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
I'm not a fan of 3D. With pretty much every 3D film I've ever seen I think I can honestly say it would have been just as good in 2D barring a couple exceptions such as Hubble 3D. This isn't to say there aren't a few moments here and there in films where the 3D visuals may "wow" me, but for the most part I'm there for the story and the here-and-there wows are nice when they arrive, but not essential to the experience in most cases. That, of course, doesn't mean some of the behind-the-scenes processes aren't interesting, such as the continual attempts to master post-conversion 3D and in the video below Prime Focus World's Richard Baker (Creative Director, View-d) and Matthew Bristowe (Svp, Production) detail the process of converting a scene from Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity. Or, as the description says, take us "on a step by...
- 11/11/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
“This is not a documentary,” Alfonso Cuaron said of his new movie Gravity to CollectSpace.com. No kidding. Nobody in a documentary talks the way George Clooney and Sandra Bullock do in this spectacular yet sometimes silly space-set thriller. But I’d love for it to be a gateway to some great documentaries about astronauts and Nasa missions and the like, so I’ve compiled a list of favorites that are relevant to the plot. Sure, I could have opened this week’s Movies to Watch list to fiction films, too, but there is less need for me to highlight obvious movies like Apollo 13 and Space Buddies. Also, I’d like to use this opportunity to give a shout out to Dan Schindel’s Doc Option column over at our sister site Nonfics. This week he chose to recommend two true stories for your listening pleasure that relate to Gravity because they involve spacewalks gone wrong...
- 10/5/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Watching these TV spots for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is always a nail biter for me. Luckily these TV spots are short as I have little nails left to be biting after all the awesome media released for this movie starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Check them out below!
Following the TV spots is a great featurette that discusses the visual inspiration provided by the IMAX Hubble 3D documentary, and makes the case for seeing the movie in IMAX format. The featurette contains interviews with Alfonso Cuarón’s, Nasa astronaut and consultant for Gravity Dr. Cady Coleman, and Nasa astronaut Dr. Mike Massimino.
TV Spot: Gravity – #5
TV Spot: Gravity – #6
Featurette: Gravity – IMAX
Just four more days!
Gravity directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney is slated to hit theaters on October 4, 2013 in 3D and IMAX.
Following the TV spots is a great featurette that discusses the visual inspiration provided by the IMAX Hubble 3D documentary, and makes the case for seeing the movie in IMAX format. The featurette contains interviews with Alfonso Cuarón’s, Nasa astronaut and consultant for Gravity Dr. Cady Coleman, and Nasa astronaut Dr. Mike Massimino.
TV Spot: Gravity – #5
TV Spot: Gravity – #6
Featurette: Gravity – IMAX
Just four more days!
Gravity directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney is slated to hit theaters on October 4, 2013 in 3D and IMAX.
- 9/30/2013
- by Jess Orso
- ScifiMafia
“We wanted it to be an immersive experience, as if you’re sitting in the theatre but you feel as if you’re floating in space. There’s no other format as immersive as IMAX.” – Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón
In this IMAX Behind the Frame, Director Alfonso Cuarón and Nasa astronauts discuss the intense and raw cinematic experience of Gravity and the preparation that went into delivering a true-to-life space exploration.
Gravity plunges audiences into a shuttle mission that goes disastrously wrong; and combines a chilling and suspenseful story with stunning imagery drawn from actual space footage from the IMAX documentary, Hubble 3D.
Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (Clooney) in command. But on a seemingly routine mission, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone—tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.
In this IMAX Behind the Frame, Director Alfonso Cuarón and Nasa astronauts discuss the intense and raw cinematic experience of Gravity and the preparation that went into delivering a true-to-life space exploration.
Gravity plunges audiences into a shuttle mission that goes disastrously wrong; and combines a chilling and suspenseful story with stunning imagery drawn from actual space footage from the IMAX documentary, Hubble 3D.
Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (Clooney) in command. But on a seemingly routine mission, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone—tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.
- 9/28/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
George Clooney and Sandra Bullock play two astronauts stuck in space in director Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity,” and according to two real astronauts, everyone involved in the production did an appropriate amount of research. “Somebody did their homework,” Nasa astronaut Dr. Mike Massimino says in a new featurette for the upcoming IMAX release of the Warner Bros. film. “Everything is exactly what it was like on our mission.” Also read: A Real-Life Astronaut Reviews ‘Gravity’ – ‘I Want to Fly With Sandra Bullock’ Massimino was one of the astronauts featured in the documentary “IMAX Hubble 3D,” which Cuarón says was the “bible” for the fictional.
- 9/27/2013
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
Warner Bros. Pictures has released an IMAX Behind the Frame featurette, which includes a discussion with director Alfonso Cuarón and Nasa astronauts discuss the intense and raw cinematic experience of Gravity and the preparation that went into delivering a true-to-life space exploration. Gravity plunges audiences into a shuttle mission that goes disastrously wrong; and combines a chilling and suspenseful story with stunning imagery drawn from actual space footage from the IMAX documentary, Hubble 3D.
Gravity follows Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone–tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue.
Gravity follows Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone–tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue.
- 9/27/2013
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
In this IMAX Behind the Frame featurette for Gravity , director Alfonso Cuarón and Nasa astronauts discuss the intense and raw cinematic experience of the film and the preparation that went into delivering a true-to-life space exploration. Gravity plunges audiences into a shuttle mission that goes disastrously wrong and combines a chilling and suspenseful story with stunning imagery drawn from actual space footage from the IMAX documentary, Hubble 3D. "We wanted it to be an immersive experience, as if you're sitting in the theatre but you feel as if you're floating in space. There's no other format as immersive as IMAX," said Cuarón. Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (Clooney)...
- 9/27/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Before going into The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones earlier this week I searched all over to find out if it was in 3D. It wasn't, but why wouldn't it bec It costs just a few million extra to post-convert and then you can price gouge the consumer under the lie 3D makes the experience better when in fact it just makes the picture blurry and requires special glasses to make sure it's in focus. I've seen only a few films where I can say the 3D had any effect on the viewing experience. Hubble 3D in IMAX was amazing, the 3D animation in Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole was impressive even though the movie stunk, I actually thought some of the helicopter shots in World War Z were quite impressive and Avatar had its moments. Overall, though, you could get rid of 3D...
- 8/22/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
This Earth Day, there'll be no cuddly animal movie to go see (or should I say, no movie where you fall in love with a cuddly animal and then He Dies) because Disneynature is taking a break this year. These nature docs take some serious time to make! But, Disney documentaries are being made.
Next year, Disneynature will release Bears which will show what life is really like for brown bears living in Alaska. Then, in 2015, Walt Disney studios are teaming up with Nasa, IMAX and Toni Myers (Hubble 3D) to make a documentary about we Earthlings place in space and the universe (it hasn't been announced if this is an Earth Day movie).
But this Earth Day, we can explore space the Tom Cruise way. His movie Oblivion opens the weekend prior to April 22 - that's about a repairman sent back to postapocolyptic Earth to extract a vital resource but discovers that life exists.
Next year, Disneynature will release Bears which will show what life is really like for brown bears living in Alaska. Then, in 2015, Walt Disney studios are teaming up with Nasa, IMAX and Toni Myers (Hubble 3D) to make a documentary about we Earthlings place in space and the universe (it hasn't been announced if this is an Earth Day movie).
But this Earth Day, we can explore space the Tom Cruise way. His movie Oblivion opens the weekend prior to April 22 - that's about a repairman sent back to postapocolyptic Earth to extract a vital resource but discovers that life exists.
- 3/20/2013
- by tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
- kidspickflicks
IMAX and The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company today announced an agreement to produce and distribute the latest IMAX® 3D cinematic space spectacle from acclaimed filmmaker Toni Myers, who has been crafting mind-blowing movie experiences for IMAX audiences for more than 40 years.
This marks the first time IMAX and The Walt Disney Studios are jointly producing a film together. The companies have previously collaborated on the distribution of numerous films from the groundbreaking release of Fantasia 2000 to the recent successful opening of Oz The Great and Powerful.
Myers’ upcoming 3D film, which is still untitled, will use IMAX’s extremely high-resolution photography and videography to offer breathtaking, illuminating views of our home planet from space, exploring the astonishing changes that have occurred on Earth in just the past several decades.
Made in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), the film will...
This marks the first time IMAX and The Walt Disney Studios are jointly producing a film together. The companies have previously collaborated on the distribution of numerous films from the groundbreaking release of Fantasia 2000 to the recent successful opening of Oz The Great and Powerful.
Myers’ upcoming 3D film, which is still untitled, will use IMAX’s extremely high-resolution photography and videography to offer breathtaking, illuminating views of our home planet from space, exploring the astonishing changes that have occurred on Earth in just the past several decades.
Made in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), the film will...
- 3/20/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“What’s anything without a trip to Mars?,” asked Nasa’s Eric De Jong Tuesday night on stage at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. No one in the audience seemed inclined to disagree, but many no doubt felt “Why stop at Mars?”The panelists were happy to oblige, taking the audience to the limits of the observable Universe. Hosted by producer Frank Marshall, the event showcased the relationship between Nasa animation and Hollywood in such films as Transformers: Dark of the Moon (complete with a clip of Shia Labeouf) and Hubble 3D.
On stage were Nasa personnel and consultants and such Hollywood veterans as producer Tom Jacobson and visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar, while the audience included Buzz Aldrin, the second person to set foot on the moon, and June Lockhart, the co-star of Lost in Space.Details: The Hollywood Reporter.
Check out “Hollywood on Strike!,” available...
On stage were Nasa personnel and consultants and such Hollywood veterans as producer Tom Jacobson and visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar, while the audience included Buzz Aldrin, the second person to set foot on the moon, and June Lockhart, the co-star of Lost in Space.Details: The Hollywood Reporter.
Check out “Hollywood on Strike!,” available...
- 7/12/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Handel)
credit: Jpl/Nasa/Caltech
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Nasa will explore cutting-edge film techniques and virtual voyages using animation on Tuesday, July 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Hosted by five-time Oscar®-nominated producer Frank Marshall, “Capturing the Final Frontier” will feature film clips and conversations with such filmmakers as Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar and leading Nasa animators and scientists (see complete list on www.oscars.org).
Presented by the Academy.s Science and Technology Council, the event will take a journey through the space program.s breakthroughs in animation with Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory.s Eric De Jong, who began his career creating Voyager animations. The evening features a look at Mars rover Curiosity graphics in anticipation of its landing on the Red Planet in August 2012.
credit: Jpl/Nasa/Caltech
Nasa animators and image specialists regularly...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Nasa will explore cutting-edge film techniques and virtual voyages using animation on Tuesday, July 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Hosted by five-time Oscar®-nominated producer Frank Marshall, “Capturing the Final Frontier” will feature film clips and conversations with such filmmakers as Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar and leading Nasa animators and scientists (see complete list on www.oscars.org).
Presented by the Academy.s Science and Technology Council, the event will take a journey through the space program.s breakthroughs in animation with Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory.s Eric De Jong, who began his career creating Voyager animations. The evening features a look at Mars rover Curiosity graphics in anticipation of its landing on the Red Planet in August 2012.
credit: Jpl/Nasa/Caltech
Nasa animators and image specialists regularly...
- 6/21/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The IMAX feature “Hubble 3D” will screen as the final installment in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 30th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, December 7, at 7 p.m. at the California Science Center IMAX Theater in Exposition Park. Admission to the screening is free; parking at the Science Center is $10 (cash only).
Directed and produced by Toni Myers, “Hubble 3D” explores the far reaches of the universe and brings audiences alongside space-walking astronauts as they repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Cinematographer James Neihouse will be present to take questions from the audience following the screening.
This screening concludes Part One of the 30th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series, showcasing feature-length and short documentaries drawn from the 2010 Academy Award® nominations, including the winners, as well as other important and innovative films considered by the Academy that year. Part Two of the series will begin in March 2012.
The California Science...
Directed and produced by Toni Myers, “Hubble 3D” explores the far reaches of the universe and brings audiences alongside space-walking astronauts as they repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Cinematographer James Neihouse will be present to take questions from the audience following the screening.
This screening concludes Part One of the 30th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series, showcasing feature-length and short documentaries drawn from the 2010 Academy Award® nominations, including the winners, as well as other important and innovative films considered by the Academy that year. Part Two of the series will begin in March 2012.
The California Science...
- 12/5/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
(Culver City, Calif.) — 3net,the joint venture 24/7 3D network from Sony, Discovery and IMAX will debut three all-new original programs and feature the world broadcast premiere of two hit theatricals during the month of October, it was announced today by Tom Cosgrove, President & CEO of 3net. The diverse premiere lineup includes the original “docu-fable” adult drama series Scary Tales, the original lost civilization series The Ancient Life* and the 3net original program Indy 500: The Inside Line, the world’s first 3D look at America’s Greatest Race. October’s premiere schedule also includes several additional world television premieres: the Sony hit animated theatrical release Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, the IMAX space journey Hubble 3D, hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio, and the sophisticated travelogue series World Cities 3D. “We are continuing to break new ground by creating smart, revealing original series that feature a brave new way to tell stories,...
- 10/5/2011
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
With the Space Shuttle program readying to hang up its hat, the time is right to start feeling nostalgic for the great American space program.
Our scientists and astronauts will continue to work, but for a good decade or so we'll be hitching a ride on dirty, rotten, commie Soyuz rockets. It's a good thing Sam Shepherd isn't alive to see all this. (There's about four different facts wrong in that last sentence, but let's move on.)
Putting all that aside, let's celebrate the movie IMAX: Hubble 3D - a film I absolutely loved and is now available on DVD, download and, if you can get your butt to Best Buy for an exclusive, on Blu-ray.
In this clip you can see Mike Massimino (better known as @Astro_Mike on Twitter) showing off one of the shuttle's simulators.
Our scientists and astronauts will continue to work, but for a good decade or so we'll be hitching a ride on dirty, rotten, commie Soyuz rockets. It's a good thing Sam Shepherd isn't alive to see all this. (There's about four different facts wrong in that last sentence, but let's move on.)
Putting all that aside, let's celebrate the movie IMAX: Hubble 3D - a film I absolutely loved and is now available on DVD, download and, if you can get your butt to Best Buy for an exclusive, on Blu-ray.
In this clip you can see Mike Massimino (better known as @Astro_Mike on Twitter) showing off one of the shuttle's simulators.
- 4/5/2011
- UGO Movies
In a race to repair the Hubble Space Telescope that was carried into orbit twenty years ago which has provided us with legendary images of Earth and space, seven Nasa astronauts depart on a journey of a lifetime in IMAX: Hubble 3D (2010). With an IMAX camera in toe, Nasa prepares to send a skilled team up to make the final fixes to the Hubble Telescope. If these damages are not repaired, we will forever lose the Hubble that has provided us a continual window into space. 3D films have become very popular, and like the other popular ones, IMAX: Hubble 3D (2010) offers viewers a chance to see something never seen before. The brilliant James Cameron created a magical world in the record breaking film Avatar (2009) that allowed movie goers to escape into an alternative universe. What makes IMAX: Hubble 3D (2010) so outstanding is that everything that is showcased throughout the film exists in our world.
- 4/4/2010
- by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- ScreenStar
In a race to repair the Hubble Space Telescope that was carried into orbit twenty years ago which has provided us with legendary images of Earth and space, seven Nasa astronauts depart on a journey of a lifetime in IMAX: Hubble 3D (2010). With an IMAX camera in toe, Nasa prepares to send a skilled team up to make the final fixes to the Hubble Telescope. If these damages are not repaired, we will forever lose the Hubble that has provided us a continual window into space. 3D films have become very popular, and like the other popular ones, IMAX: Hubble 3D (2010) offers viewers a chance to see something never seen before. The brilliant James Cameron created a magical world in the record breaking film Avatar (2009) that allowed movie goers to escape into an alternative universe. What makes IMAX: Hubble 3D (2010) so outstanding is that everything that is showcased throughout the film exists in our world.
- 4/4/2010
- by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- ScreenStar
They sent a big-ass camera into space, and now we get to see some pretty pictures in IMAX: Hubble 3D (opens in the U.S. and Canada on March 19; no U.K. release date has been announced). Apparently the astronauts also fixed the Hubble Space Telescope while they were up there -- they didn’t just goof around with that IMAX camera. Leonardo DiCaprio narrates. Will we hear him shout, “I’m king of the world”? Cuz that works even better from orbit, I bet. Matt Damon hunts down Saddam Hussein or something in Green Zone (opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on March 12). I predict he’s all conflicted and shit while he’s being badass for America.
- 3/9/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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