Fearing that the golden age of television will make the public overlook cinema’s charms, studios and their filmmakers are desperate to find ways to lure audiences into the theater. Much of their arsenal relies on technology, including immersive 3D, eye-popping visual effects, bone-shattering immersive sound — and now, 3D delivered at a super-high frame rate via Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.”
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In banking on Lee, new Sony chairman Tom Rothman believed lightning could strike twice. In 2012, as the chairman of 20th Century Fox, he introduced Lee’s 3D spectacle “Life of Pi” as a potential Oscar contender and game-changer. At CinemaCon 2016, Rothman launched Sony’s presentation with Lee’s true-life drama about an Iraq War vet (Joe Alwyn) who is celebrated as a hero. There was palpable excitement over the prospect...
Read More: At CinemaCon, the Studios Look Out Theatrical Windows and Say It’s Sunny
In banking on Lee, new Sony chairman Tom Rothman believed lightning could strike twice. In 2012, as the chairman of 20th Century Fox, he introduced Lee’s 3D spectacle “Life of Pi” as a potential Oscar contender and game-changer. At CinemaCon 2016, Rothman launched Sony’s presentation with Lee’s true-life drama about an Iraq War vet (Joe Alwyn) who is celebrated as a hero. There was palpable excitement over the prospect...
- 11/3/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
It's hard for Francelina Morillo to say which is a bigger deal -- the weight she lost or the love she found on "The Biggest Loser" Season 14. "That's a tough one," the Albany, N.Y. native tells Zap2it. "I think the best part is Jeff and I both found ourselves while finding each other."
Morillo is referring to Jeff Nichols, the runner-up to "The Biggest Loser's" latest grand prize winner. The pair found love while struggling to win each weigh-in at the Biggest Loser Ranch, but they kept their relationship low-key until after "Francy" was eliminated.
"We were there to lose the weight and not have a romance, if you will, or a 'showmance,'" Nichols told Zap2it at the time. But, he says, "When you see someone at their worst ... you see them grow day-by-day, week-by-week and become this better version of themselves, that's inspiring and that's powerful.
Morillo is referring to Jeff Nichols, the runner-up to "The Biggest Loser's" latest grand prize winner. The pair found love while struggling to win each weigh-in at the Biggest Loser Ranch, but they kept their relationship low-key until after "Francy" was eliminated.
"We were there to lose the weight and not have a romance, if you will, or a 'showmance,'" Nichols told Zap2it at the time. But, he says, "When you see someone at their worst ... you see them grow day-by-day, week-by-week and become this better version of themselves, that's inspiring and that's powerful.
- 1/8/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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