Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel, Dune, recently garnered a total of ten Oscar nominations at the 94th Academy Awards. Yet, prior to the film’s success, Frank Herbert’s novel was notorious for being impossible to adapt to the big screen. Of all the previous attempts to adapt Dune, […]
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The Importance of Film Restoration
Recently, Paramount Pictures announced the release of the 4K Ultra HD restoration of the cinematic classic, The Godfather, for its 50th anniversary. Similarly in 2020, Warner Bros. released the 4K Ultra HD version of Peter Jackson’s 20-year-old fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and its prequel, The Hobbit […]
The Rise and Impact of Streaming
Started as a DVD rental company in 1997, Netflix evolved into one of the pioneers of online streaming services and went on to generate $24.9 billion of revenue and garner more than 200 million subscribers in 2020. In 2013, the release of the episodic drama series House of Cards marked […]
Large Format: Digital, IMAX, and the Glorious 70mm
In the 1940s, the invention of televisions caused a panic across the movie industry. With motion pictures now accessible for people at home, film studios were forced to innovate in order to draw audiences back to the theater, and Hollywood’s solution was developing the 70mm format. For fifty years, movies […]
Three Most Celebrated Film Composers in Cinematic History
Where words fail, music speaks, but in the world of cinema, where pictures fail, music speaks. Film scores elevate themes and touch the audience in unimaginable ways. It is the music that echoes in people’s hearts long after they leave the cinema. Among those artists responsible for such a crucial […]