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CANNES-Well, it went over better than "The Da Vinci Code." Indycannes_2 Nobody in the Grand Lumiere Theatre, the grandest of the venues in the Palais des Festivals, heckled or chortled or whistled (which is French for booing) during Sunday's very, very, veryveryvery sold-out Cannes Film Festival world premiere screening of the fourth Indiana Jones picture, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the ... [link]

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Spielberg Concedes He May One Day Have to Shoot Digitally...
Published 5/19/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Scott Kirsner) at CinemaTech
...but he hopes it isn't soon. From some Chicago Tribune Cannes coverage: "Making a film on celluloid," [Spielberg] said, is a threatened mode of expression. "Digital cinema is inevitable. It's right around the corner. And someday," said Spielberg, "even I will have to convert." The official Cannes site has a slightly longer Spielberg quote that offers some more nuance: "The film is being released digitally on a lot of screens, about 300. Making a film digitally and releasing a film in the same digital process gives a ...

Movie Marketing Madness: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Published 5/21/2008 by Chris at Movie Marketing Madness
... Angeles or New York. That brought out a lot of skeptics who believed it would suffer from the critics there for serious films who were just waiting with sharpened knives for a popcorn action movie that they could savage. Mostly it was compared to The DaVinci Code since it made the same move a couple years ago, getting savaged by critics before going on to make $300 million-plus at the box-office. Reaction after the screening, though, seemed to be mostly positive, with many of the critics giving it props for being fun and ...

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