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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 ...