Cinema History
The motion picture industry and show business have been cooperating more and more tightly – engineers from the leading production companies apply hi-tech solutions, which only a few years ago seemed to be fantastic. Thus fiction becomes a part of our daily routine.
Walt Disney Studios is officially buying 21st Century Fox’s film and TV assets for an approximate $52.4 billion in stock, giving Disney a massive share of the entire film industry. Considering that two major film studios haven’t merged in decades, the question on everyone’s lips is how does this deal shift the filmmaking industry’s landscape?
Digital Cinema Initiatives, (DCI) was created in March 2002, and is a joint venture of Hollywood’s leading film studios such as Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros Studios. After DCI’s inception, most of the cinema equipment, including film projectors need mandatory certification of compliance with DCI standards. Modern digital projectors that met DCI standards use 2 types of technologies:
Hong Kong, 14 December 2017 - At a reception at the end of the 23rd edition of CineAsia 2017 in Hong Kong, key players in the cinema industry were awarded for significant contributions over the previous year. Barco was saluted as the Technology Innovator of the Year.
Autumn 2017, viewers will be presented with a joint venture of IMAX Corporation with Marvel Television, Disney, and ABC Television Group – “Superhumans" (Marvel's “Inhumans"). Let us remind ourselves that IMAX has unique cinema facilities worldwide including, but not limited to, huge screen sizes, perfectly tuned audio systems, special geometry of the hall and ideal ambience for movie entertainment. Main feature of IMAX Cinema Halls is patented geometry of the hall furnished with standard screening equipment which is provided by the company itself making them the best in the world.
“Superhumans" is an interesting new project and a series wherein first two episodes are shot on IMAX cameras and within two weeks, it will be exclusively available for IMAX Cinemas around the world. ABC will release the series on its own platform, after exclusive shows on IMAX.
We offer you to watch trailer of the series. We will definitely go, what about you?
