Hey look, it’s an actor looking at some computer code in a movie. He must be really smart! He must be a computer hacker! He must be able to take over the world with just his keyboard! Not quite. The code used in movies is usually nothing but some mumbo jumbo on WordPress or Wikipedia. No, seriously. That image above showing The Doctor looking at code is a SVG file of a light wave taken from Wikipedia.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan hit theaters way back in 1982, and the film’s tense space battles were realized by Industrial Light and Magic using models and old-school film effect techniques. So it was only fitting that ILM was called upon again to bring J.J. Abrams’ take on the clash between James T. Kirk and Khan Noonien Singh to life—but this time using modern computer graphics and digital compositing techniques.
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How do you top a couple that recreates movie scenes with their adorable baby? By recreating famous scenes with a dog. Yeah, it’s beautiful inspired work that should make us all want to grab our pet best friend in a warm embrace like Gosling did to McAdams.
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On the heels of Torrentfreak’s most-pirated TV shows of 2013
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Supposing you’re a Netflix user who only works with one single screen at a time, and have no love for the highest of definitions in displays, the company has made … Continue reading
Walmart’s Vudu online video store has added Intel’s “UltraViolet” (UV) content library to its own. The move will expand Vudu viewers’ selection to include titles by UV’s digital distribution model. … Continue reading
Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is free on iTunes today as part of its 12 Days of Gifts promo. That’s pretty great!
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This article was written on May 05, 2008 by CyberNet.
Last week we wrote about how iTunes was getting new movies and making them available to purchase the same day as the DVD release. This is a pretty big step for Apple, and now we’re learning that they’re actually losing money on these new movies. The Wall Street Journal reported that while Apple is selling newly released movies at $14.99, they’re actually paying the studios about $16 for each movie. This translates to about a one dollar loss on each movie sold which adds up over-time.
Why would Apple be willing to take a loss? Our guess is because they feel that the loss will eventually turn into big gains if they can get people to regularly buy movies from them. Clearly, they’ve been extremely successful selling music, but they haven’t experienced quite the same success in selling movies. This could help bring in new customers and new customers could provide sales in all areas of iTunes including music, movies (not just new releases), and TV shows.
Movie studios end-up benefiting from sales of the digital format as well because they save costs in distribution and returns. The WSJ says:
Apple hopes it can translate some of its music success to movies. If it works, studios could end up making more money, too. While the wholesale price that studios are getting is less than they make selling movies to traditional retailers, studios will end up with a bigger profit for each sale, executives say. Their savings will come from the elimination of expenses like distribution and returns, which don’t exist with online movies.
In the end, iTunes really isn’t the big money-maker for Apple anyways, the hardware is. New iTunes customers can help sell the hardware that brings in the money for Apple whether it’s a new iPod to play the music or movies, or an AppleTV for playing movie rentals and watching TV shows.
Sometimes it’s worth it to take a loss and make-up in gains elsewhere which is what Apple is doing here…
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Google Play is celebrating the end of 2013 by giving away a bunch of free stuff — including Kanye’s latest album Yeezus and CHVRCHES’ The Bones of What You Believe.
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Here’s a little something for the impatient Sherlock fans: via the Wrap, it’s our first image of Benedict Cumberbatch as computer pioneer Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. Nice suspenders, dude.
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