CJ @ NAB: Universal First Studio to Embrace ACES Fully
AMPAS' Andy Maltz provided an update on ACES at NAB 2016 and Universal will be first studio to embrace the system fully by 2018.
And the Oscar Goes to… Digital Cinema! (Specifically TI)
Last year the Motion Picture Academy’s Science and Technology branch effectively closed the book on film as a distribution medium for motion pictures by awarding the Academy Award of Merit (Oscar Statuette) to every single film processing lab in the world. So it is perhaps fitting and symmetri…
CJ@SMPTE Conference – Bringing It Home: The Future of More Delivery
In an effort to provide updates on the proceedings of the 2014 SMPTE Technical Conference and Exhibition presently taking place in Los Angeles, CA, this post was written live, and in the present tense, during one of the event’s panel discussions. Comments attributed to panel members are paraph…
CJ@IBC EDCF Global Update
EDCF provides an annual overview of the latest developments in digital cinema as part of the IBC Big Screen. CJ was there to take note.
AMPAS and BAFTA Get On The Tribute Poster Bandwagon
Ever since they first started appearing back in the mid-2000’s, I’ve been a big fan of what has come to be known as “tribute posters”. The trend seems to have been started by the Mondo Gallery in Austin Texas, a subsidiary of Alamo Drafthouse, the independent spirited cinema…
Digital Faces Critical (Archiving) Dilemma
“The Digital Dilemma”—a 2007 report from AMPAS’ SciTech Council that examines the challenges of archiving and accessing digital motion picture materials—was the subject of the SMPTE’s Hollywood Section May meeting, held at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood. The report concludes that th…