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Microsoft smartphone cinema

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 19 January 2015

Has Microsoft discovered a way to make smartphones less annoying in cinemas? For those who can’t bear to switch them off for a couple of hours, this could be the solution. A patent granted to Microsoft this week could automatically adjust the settings on your phone to make it less annoying in…
Major Studio Release Windows

Studios Find A Backdoor Into Shorter Theatrical Release Windows

History may remember this past summer’s blockbuster season more as the one when studios successfully shortened the theatrical window by three weeks, rather than as the one in which numerous $200 million tentpole films failed at the box office. Sure, the latter seems to be getting all the press…

Krugman & Cringley on Ballmer & Microsoft’s ‘Failure’

There is an apocryphal tale of Bill Gates giving a speech to assembled Hollywood executives when he was still head of Microsoft, which ends with him telling them “and I guess you guys also have a problem with piracy.” While software piracy may have trumped film-related piracy in the earl…

Halo 3 Bigger Than Spider-Man 3, But…

The Hollywood Reporter is not fooled by Microsoft’s PR spinners’ claim that first-day sales of ‘Halo 3‘ is “the biggest entertainment launch in history,” noting in the article (which it nevertheless made an e-mail bulletin of) that: “Halo” not only pas…
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