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Sony to Open Education Center for DPs in Los Angeles
Sony is set to open the Sony Digital Motion Picture Center (DMPC) on stage 7 of the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, CA. The Sony DMPC will offer training for cinematographers and other production and post personnel on …
Director Lance Kelleher Joins Saville Productions
Director Lance Kelleher, best known for automotive spots for clients including Toyota, Infiniti, Nissan, and BMW, is now represented for commercial work in the U.S. by Saville Productions in L.A. His first spot for Saville is “Members Helping Members” for …
Trent Reznor’s Home Studio Now Sports a SSL Duality SE
Composer Trent Reznor and his production and engineering collaborator Alan Moulder switched mixing consoles partway through their work on the soundtrack for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which Reznor wrote with Atticus Ross. For the previous Reznor/Ross film score …
Canon Releases 5D Mark III DSLR
In case you’ve been trapped under an ARRI BL and haven’t gotten the word, the DSLR has utterly and totally transformed the industry landscape, plowing its way like gangbusters through multiple market segments, from education and military to web journalism …
Hollywood Film Company to Distribute Fujifilm Stock
Fujifilm announced that the Hollywood Film Company in Sun Valley, CA, is once again distributing Fujifilm motion-picture negative. The companies positioned the news as an indicator of Fujifilm's commitment to cinematographers and the continued importance of negative movie film to …
Technicolor Buys French Post Facility Duboi
Expanding its digital filmmaking operations in Europe, Technicolor has purchased Paris digital post house Duboi.
Animated Hitch Serves Up Hitchcock's Films with a Twist
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "For me, cinema is not a slice of life but a piece of cake." This animated short takes that idea one step further, slicing up Hitchcock's oeuvre into motifs fit for a fictional cookbook.
Verari Systems Delivers Leading Storage Density Utilizing 2TB Hard Drives
Verari Systems, a premier developer of scale-out blade-based computing and storage platforms for the data center with the highest density, availability, and energy efficiency in the market, today announced that its award-winning FOREST Container now contains an increased storage capacity of 26PB, the highest containerized data center storage density available.
Aberdeen Qualifies 2 TB Drives, Doubling Storage Capacities
Aberdeen LLC unveils the 100TB AberNAS server with VMware Certification, featuring the 2 TB hard drive. With its qualification of the new 2 TB fully enterprise rated SATA drives, Aberdeen LLC retains its position as an industry leader in providing a complete array of scalable custom servers and storage.
DP Dante Spinotti on Public Enemies
Public Enemies, the John Dillinger biopic directed by Michael Mann and starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard, is one of the summer's most hotly anticipated films. The feature pairs Mann with his frequent collaborator, cinematographer Dante Spinotti. Spinotti shot this digitally, using the Sony CineAlta F23 camera system. Film & Video caught up with Spinotti in Australia, where he is prepping for another F23 project, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, directed by Michael Apted.