India’s star in media and entertainment rises amid worldwide recession
MUMBAI, India –- As the global economy limps along, media and entertainment gliterrati jetted to Mumbai this week (Feb. 17-19) to celebrate India’s entrepreneurial spirit, the new era of multimedia and the worldwide growth of Indian industries.
It begs the question: Is the country be recession-proof? At the very least, the event showed how the global slump is viewed through a different prism in India’s emerging economy. Executives, policymakers and entertainers descended on the city’s ritzy… Continue Reading
Most watched Super Bowl ever means more people hate 3-D glasses
So, I have to beat the dead horse on the 3-D glasses again. Reports suggest that this was the most-watched Super Bowl ever, with 98.5 million viewers. I even watched a few of the plays as I zoomed through to catch all 35 of the commercials. I donned the 3-D glasses that Intel and DreamWorks gave out for the trailer of animated film Monsters vs. Aliens, and the subsequent 3-D ad for SoBe soft drinks.
The… Continue Reading
IDF: Katzenberg shows the future of 3D film
When DreamWorks Animation chief executive Jeffrey Katzenberg took the stage today at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) stating that he was about to show the “greatest innovation to occur in the movie business in 70 years,” I was skeptical. By the time he left the stage, I was sold.
This innovation is 3D filmmaking. But wait, “Wasn’t that around in the 1950s?,” you might say. “This is not your father’s 3D,” Katzenberg stated.
DreamWorks (as well as… Continue Reading