War Games Coming To Theatres For Encore Round

Cinemablend ^ | 7/18/08 | Katey Rich

[Sloth]

I don’t see the movie as all that anti-nuke. If anything, the computer comes to realize that mutually assured destruction is a real, effective deterrent.

[Vince Ferrer]

Fathom pushes these things from their harddrive (or where ever they’re running it) to the satellite feed which then gets picked up by the theaters.

Wasn't this pushed by George Lucas and ILM? I know they were wanting to push in that direction, and it will definitely cut the costs of distribution.

[Vince Ferrer]

Think of some of the movies you really want a chance to see on the big screen.

In the 80's they re-released 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70mm. It was an incredible experience to sit in a huge theater and watch the shuttle dock with the rotating space station. I want a chance to see that in IMAX.

[boogerbear]

Yeah, after George paid for his study of film handling and projection in the theater industry, the study that eventually lead to the curved screens. Basically once he quantified just how badly theaters were mishandling prints and how horribly they were scratching them in just a few days (I think his study declared most films unwatchable after 3 days) he proposed an electronic transmission to theaters largely to keep the films watchable into the second week of release. Of course at the time nobody thought terabyte harddrives would be purchasable at your nearest electronics store so the idea of storing movies on central harddrives for scheduled transmissions seemed silly. What a difference a couple decades make.

[Vince Ferrer]

I thought that he was shooting the new Star Wars movies with the intention of all digital all of the way to the screens. It would save a tremendous amount of money in the distribution side. For example, it probably cost 30-50 million just to print all of those copies of Dark Knight to release to 4000 theaters.

[Alas Babylon!]

With commendable speed, NORAD was able to contact PAVE PAWS early warning radar...

Yup, there I was....6th Missile Warning Squadron.

[boogerbear]

He might have been aiming for that but there weren’t enough all digital screens at the time to make it possible. Might be do-able for next month’s Clone Wars animated movie.