Blu-Ray hasn’t sold as much as expected. There wasn’t enough of a qualitative difference between the picture offered by an upconverted DVD and that of a Blu-ray disc. Sure, analysts and reviewers can tell the difference (most of the time), but it isn’t a significant enough difference to make viewers sit up and take notice. [...]
photo credit: photog2009 Well, the thing Cameron should realize is that on every train, plane and back seats of automobiles people watch movies on multimedia devices with screens of 20″ or less. Portable multimedia is here to stay and it increases the amount of time customers can enjoy movies. More people are likely to watch [...]
The movie biz that it is. On male and female directors being held to different standards, as Dargis suggested in comparing Bigelow [the director of Hurt Locker who is female] and Michael Mann in her piece: Do you think that a woman would have been able to get forty million dollars to make a puppet [...]