Tag: cinema
Did closure of piracy-haven Megaupload lead to a decrease in cinema ticket sales??
Megaupload was a haven for movie pirates before its closure at the beginning of the year. One would therefore expect that, following the authorities shutting the site down, ticket sales at cinemas would go up, right? Apparently not. A new…
Dolby Atmos: The future of cinema surround sound?
Since the jump was made from "talkies" to sound in movies, Dolby has been at the forefront of cinema sound. From their early work with noise reduction in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange onto the development of stereo, surround and…
Cineworld cinemas go 4D with D-BOX movement technology seats
If you pine for a traditional movie-going experience, away from the madness of 3D screenings, you may want to stop reading. Everyone else though, get excited; trips to the cinema are about to get a lot more immersive, as Cineworld…
Drive: The greatest Grand Theft Auto film there will never be
Every couple of months, rumours of an impending videogame-to-movie adaptation of the Grand Theft Auto series rears its head. And with good reason; taking their cues from iconic gangster flicks from the silver screen, RockStar Game's infamous crime sims…
Grab the Harry Potter Foursquare badge, get magical discounts
Foursquare-using Harry Potter fans are in for a treat this weekend. The location-based social network have teamed up with EA to offer an exclusive Deathly Hallows badge to Foursquare users. To grab the badge, Foursquare users merely have to check…
REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Xbox 360, PS3)
The Harry Potter wizarding saga is brought to a close this weekend with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in cinemas. As with every other Harry Potter movie, there's a game to accompany it too. But can the game conjure the same magic that its silver screen and paperback counterparts can?
Low cinema attendance figures: are 3D films to blame?
This summer saw US cinema attendance figures hit their lowest point in 5 years. Hollywood.com estimates that 552 million people hit theatres across the States, compared to the previous lowest point of 563.2 million back in 2005. What's thought to…
3D Aviator specs now available for the vain…ahem…"fashion conscious" at Cineworld
If headaches and poorly tagged on depth effects aren't bad enough, 3D cinema showings also rely on those horrible glasses that make you look like a cross between Roy Orbision and Dame Edna Everage. Thankfully, you're in a room full…
Video: Trailer for Facebook movie "The Social Network" looks surprisingly good. No, seriously…
When I first heard news of "The Social Network", a movie about Facebook, I certainly had my eyebrows raised. Sure, it's an unprecedented story of success, but come on, it's still just a website for crying out loud! However,…
Top 10 sci-fi movie gadgets that someone really should be making
Last week's Back to The Future hoax (in which evil internet fibbers said that we'd actually reached the date in the "future" that Marty McFly heads to) got me thinking. To be precise, it got me thinking "WHERE THE HELL…