Wednesday 24 / April / 2024
New release: Dunkirk
This much anticipated war film, written, co-produced and directed by Christopher Nolan, is a historic film set during World War II and focuses on the famous Dunkirk evacuation that took place in 1940. After the last rescue boats left Dunkirk in France, the Germans had captured some 40,000 French troops and 40,000 British soldiers too. This film has been narrated from three angle—the land, sea, and air. Having been extensively shot in Dunkirk, France, and also in Los Angeles it is said that apart from the special effects the film has used original planes and boats pertaining to that period for a realistic look.
Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Running at: City Cinemas, Vox Oman
Film talk: What is 4K for Digital Cinema?
If you’ve watched any of the high grade movies off late, chances are that you’ve been watching a 4K digital movie. The Hobbit and Avatar are two such movies that readily come to mind and they must have given you the thrill of your life due to their sharpness and detail, not to mention the stories themselves which were more than above par. So what exactly is 4K? Let’s examine in detail:
What is digital cinema?
Digital cinema means using digital tech to either distribute or project motion pictures (animated or non-animated) in contrast to using the traditional 35mm film reels. The old reels had to be shipped from production houses to the movie theatres. But digital movies can be distributed in a variety of ways; via satellites, through the internet, or by using storage devices like hard drives, DVD’s, and Blu-ray discs. However there’s a difference between digital cinema and 4K digital cinema.
The Difference
You must have seen high definition television. These shows on TV use 2K resolution which means a horizontal count of 2048 X 1080 i.e. 2.2 megapixels. When you see a 4K movie in theatres, you’re treated to an immersive experience of 4096 X 2160 megapixels. And that’s a whopping pixel count.
4K Resolution
When we speak of 4K resolution, it has to have a horizontal pixel count of at least 4000 pixels. There are a whole bunch of 4K resolutionsavailable and you can find them everywhere. For example,Digital Cinema Initiatives or DCI is dominant in the field of film making, while for consumer shows and television, the standard is normally 4K UHD or UHD-1.
Negative scanning and its positive side
When you have your film ready and ready to be scanned, it’s always preferable to go in for negative scanning. When you film negative scanning, the benefits are enormous. Firstly, scanning the negatives will yield you a greater part of the actual image that you shot on your film camera because the question of cropping does not arise. You can check out the difference by sending in your film to us for 4K negative scanning. The results will let you judge with your own eyes the level of detail and colour that 4K negative scanning yields. This is the second difference between traditional film scanning and 4K negative scanning.
Traditional film scanning versus 4K film scanning:
When you’ve put in your blood, sweat and tears (not to mention valuable time) into a film that could make or break you, it makes better sense to go for 4K digital scanning. The film will digitise better at 4K than at 2K. And you’ll have the benefit of timelessness to the film which generations after you can watch in enjoyment due to high detail and colour. — Artipot
Movie Buzz
James Bond is returning to movie theatres in November 2019, producers said recently, but they did not say who will play Britain’s most famous fictional spy. Meanwhile, actors such as Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston and Tom Hardy have all been named as potential candidates to step into the fast cars and sharply tailored suits of Bond, MI6’s secret agent 007. The new film will be written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.
Canadian director Denis Villeneuve had fended off numerous requests to direct big-budget sequels until he was approached to make a follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 neo-noir sci-fi film Blade Runner. “I accepted to do Blade Runner because it was meaningful,” Villeneuve, the director of last year’s cerebral alien sci-fi film Arrival, told Reuters.
Thor has lost his invincible hammer and Black Panther shoulders the responsibility of being a new king, in exclusive scenes shown from Disney’s Marvel studios’ upcoming superhero movies at San Diego’s Comic-Con. One of the most high-profile draws of the annual convention for pop and nerd culture fans, Marvel’s star-studded panel session on Saturday kicked off with Thor: Ragnarok, due in theatres in November.
Jay-Z ruled the Billboard 200 album chart for a second straight week with his confessional album 4:44, while California alt-rock band surged back into the Top 20 after the suicide last week of frontman Chester Bennington. Jay-Z’s 4:44, in which he admits and regrets cheating on his wife Beyonce, sold another 86,000 copies, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan.
‘Game of Thrones’ author teases two possible new books in 2018. Author George R.R. Martin has hinted at the possibility of not one but two new Game of Thrones books in 2018, whetting the appetites of fans who have been waiting for the next installment of the epic saga since 2011. Martin, whose A Song of Ice and Fire novels were adapted into HBO’s hit medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones, currently is working on the sixth installment, Winds of Winter.
After shaking a leg with Shah Rukh Khan in Raees, actress Sunny Leone will be doing a special number for Sanjay Dutt’s comeback film Bhoomi. Sunny will be shooting for the song titled Trippy Trippy next month. The song has been composed by music director duo Sachin-Jigar with lyrics penned by Priya Saraiya. Ganesh Acharya will choreograph the dance number. “I have been working on it with director Omung Kumar sir and Ganesh sir.”
