R.I.P. James Horner
With the sudden death of James Horner on Monday, Hollywood has lost one of its most prolific and successful film composers for blockbuster movies. How will Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman ever pick up all the slack he’s left be...
With the sudden death of James Horner on Monday, Hollywood has lost one of its most prolific and successful film composers for blockbuster movies. How will Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman ever pick up all the slack he’s left be...
As a follow-up to yesterday’s poll about the fading fortunes of 3D video, it appears that even famed 3D enthusiast James Cameron is now willing to admit that the format has lost some of its luster.
In an odd quirk of fate, this week’s Blu-ray release slate brings us one of the best films of the year, as well as one (or more) of the worst. Choose wisely.
As Ridley Scott returns to the ‘Alien’ franchise today with his sort-of-prequel ‘Prometheus’, this got us thinking about other movies that have yet to be given the prequel treatment. A few of the ideas we...
James Cameron made a bold and unexpected announcement this week. The director of the two highest-grossing movies of all time, as well as several more extremely popular and beloved films, will from this point forward devote the rem...
It’s been over two years since the rollout of the new generation of 3D home theater, yet 3D fans still suffer a relative lack of content to play on their 3D HDTVs and projectors. New Blu-ray 3D releases seem to trickle out a...
With 3D TV sales for the year falling short of expectations, the consumer electronics industry has already begun playing the blame game. Analysts typically cite the high prices and viewers’ reluctance to wear 3D glasses as m...
While motion capture (“mocap”) has its uses, I don’t think that fully motion-captured animated features should be one of them. Do you agree?
[Editor’s Note: With this post, The Bonus View is pleased to welcome our newest contributor, Luke Hickman. Luke will be joining us to weigh in on various movie- and TV-related topics. For his first post, he takes a look at t...
Having already raised the bar for 3D technology with the first ‘Avatar‘, James Cameron has set his sights on a new mission for the upcoming sequels. He wants to increase the photographic frame rate from the 24 fps stan...
Whether you’re a hardcore two-dimension traditionalist or a 3D defender, you have to admit that 3D filming techniques still aren’t quite there yet. With the help of Mr. Josh Zyber and a few friends, I’ve created a list...
2010 was supposed to be the year of 3-D. More 3-D movies were released to more 3-D theaters than ever before, and the home theater industry rolled out brand new, high quality 3-D televisions, Blu-ray players, and Blu-ray discs. Wh...