As much as I love film for its ubiquity, permanence (when stored properly), and overall quality, it’s not a miracle drug. One cinematographer acts like it is and then has the misfortune of bringing video games into the argument. Oh, dear. That’s a bad idea when I’m around. Now you know my rant for this episode.
– Logitech Harmony can now control the PlayStation 4
– NVIDIA launches the Shield, its Android-powered set-top box
– HBO Now coming to Android in a few months
– Google Jump brings VR moviemaking to the masses
– GoPro is developing its own quadcopters (stop calling them “drones”!!)
– Showtime coming to cord cutters in July
– Use this UHD TV calculator to see if you will benefit from going to UHD
– Ultron crosses the $900M mark for international sales
– Studios sued for recycling film soundtracks too much
– Fox is rebooting League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
– Watching 3D movies might be good for your brain
– I love film, but one cinematographer gives film way too much credit
– The new Spider-Man has not been decided; comes down to six hopefuls
– Disney to adapt Night On Bald Mountain to a full-length, live-action movie
– Jaws returns to theaters for its 40th anniversary
– Disney cancels Tron 3…
– …but Olivia Wilde doesn’t mind
– Ron Perlman still really wants Hellboy III
– Furious 7‘s James Wan set to direct Aquaman
– WB’s film chief denies the long-rumored “no humor” policy
– Help to fight a lethal, childhood disease while taking a chance to win a walk-on role for TMNT 2
– A behind-the-scenes look at the visual effects for Mad Max: Fury Road
– Crowdfunding can now include “investing”
– “The Rock” to star and produce a remake of Big Trouble In Little China
– Lost Star Wars companion to get the full-length treatment
– Eddie Redmayne cast for the Harry Potter prequel
– Pizza Hut offers a “projector in a box”
– You, too, can use a 3D printer to make retractable Wolverine claws
– Kung Fury: an outrageous and amazing throwback to the 1980s