This is the back of the box of the Lego Back to the Future set, which I got last week. While I’m still disappointed with how they made the hood, it’s still a nice set. That car’s front is easily fixable if you get some extra pieces—and the third movie’s car actually looks nice.
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Yesterday, much ado was made
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Did you know that Netflix is cropping the hell out of movies? I didn’t. But even if you had noticed, it’s unlikely you realize just how bad it gets. A semi-new Tumblr called What Netflix Does has pointed out the extent of the trimming. And it’s atrocious.
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DreamWorks Animation is one of the most well-known movie animation studios around. Pixar might be a bit more popular, but DreamWorks has certainly come up with some classic hits recently. The company announced, alongside HP, that their latest film used HP workstations to render animations and create graphics for the movie “Turbo.”
Specifically, DreamWorks Animation used HP’s Z800 and Z820 Workstations, as well as the company’s DreamColor displays and printers. If you know anything about the level of animation that these movies contain, it’s quite impressive. A single frame in an animated film takes hours and hours to render based on the amount of detail in the frame, and HP’s workstations were put to the test doing just that.
HP claims that DreamWorks was able to execute tasks at twice the speed than previous workstations. During the evening, these workstations were put to use by running rendering jobs, and it took “75 million render hours” to render the entire Turbo film, according to HP. Of course, that’s over 8,500 years if DreamWorks was only using one workstation, so they undoubtedly had an army of workstations that worked together to render the film in a timely fashion.
Of course, this leads to a lot of files needing stored, and HP was obviously there to deal with the “230 terabytes of files” that it took to make the movie. It’s a good thing we have compression software, or else movies would come in 60,000-disc sets. HP and DreamWorks have actually been working together for quite some time, and we even took the chance a few years ago to check out the studios and get hands-on time with the HP workstations when they were working on Kung Fu Panda, as well as Monsters vs. Aliens.
If you haven’t heard about DreamWorks’ latest film, Turbo follows the story of a snail who gains magical powers and is able to run at blistering speeds. He eventually enters into the Indy 500, and the rest of the story you’ll have to find out by watching the movie in theaters starting today.
HP workstations used for DreamWorks’ latest Turbo animated film is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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DreamWorks has been working on its WikiLeaks film, The Fifth Estate, for a while now—and this trailer reveals that Benedict Cumberbatch plays a hugely convincing Julian Assange.
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Last year IMDb updated its mobile application to bring folks HD-quality movie trailers to aid in their cinematic decision making. Today, iOS and Android users living in the US can act on those decisions with the addition of in-app movie ticket purchases. Purchases themselves are processed through Fandango, but doing so merely requires navigating to a preferred movie in IMDb, then choosing your preferred theater and time. The updates are available now, so head on down to the source for the new digital goodies — Monday movie night awaits!
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile
Via: The Next Web
Source: Google Play, App Store
Illustrator Andrew DeGraff thinks about films differently to you and I: he sees them as giant maps of physical locations, just waiting to be explored. Can you work out which films these wonderful treasure maps drawn by DeGraff are supposed to represent?
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OK, so we’ve covered Star Wars Episode IV
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After a long-winded period of being up for sale with a few nibbles from big companies, Hulu has decided to exit the market and have its current share of owners maintain ownership once again. Instead, Disney, 21st Century Fox, and NBC Universal will invest $750 million in Hulu to keep it growing into the future.
For the past couple of months, it’s been rumored that several big companies were interested in buying Hulu, including Yahoo, DirecTV, and even private equity firms like KKR and Silver Lake. However, it seems these companies couldn’t come to a successful negotiation, and after what we can only suspect to be numerous failed negotiations, Hulu’s been taken off the market.
21st Century Fox President and COO Chase Carey said that Hulu’s owners had “meaningful conversations with a number of potential partners and buyers,” and he called He called the offers that Hulu received “impressive,” but it seems that ultimately there wasn’t a consensus as far as agreeing to a final price for the streaming video service.
However, Disney, Fox and NBC most likely found a future value with Hulu, and they might have realized that selling the service wouldn’t be the best option. Hulu certainly has a lot of potential, and we reckon that if another company did acquire Hulu, it might have spelled bad news for consumers as the new owners would clean house and completely change around the service.
As for what the extra $750 million will serve for Hulu, it’s just said that the money will help “to propel future growth.” So it’s a good bet that we’ll see even more content from Hulu in the future, and we’ll see the owners continue to work at growing Hulu’s user base. Now, if they could just get rid of ads for paying subscribers, then we have a deal.
Hulu no longer for sale as Disney, Fox, NBC maintain ownership is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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One of the most important things any great action movie needs is a lead actor who can deliver an absurd line and have it sound awesome. One who makes you cheer instead of laugh when he says something that is by all rights laughable. Pacific Rim doesn’t have one of those. But it still manages to be the best summer action movie since Independence Day.
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