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The Enormous Secret Weapons Depot Hidden Underneath Manhattan

4:00PM Yesterday | Sam Biddle

Manhattan’s SoHo neighbourhood is mostly filled with bored models and stupid-expensive boutiques. But on one grimy, absolutely ignorable corner is the entrance to a cavern stuffed with guns, rockets, cocaine and riot shields. This is where Hollywood locks and loads. More »


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Movie Posters From A Parallel Universe

3:00AM January 17, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

Imagine if your favourite films were written and acted during a different period of time: the actors and director would be different, the style it was shot in completely alien. These film posters by Peter Stults are an amazing glimpse into how Hollywood could’ve been. More »


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Amazon And Samsung First To UltraViolet Party

4:00PM January 11, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

The UltraViolet Initiative hasn’t exactly been the iTunes-killer Hollywood had hoped for. The File-Locker system launched late last year has floundered in its first few months with poor reviews, unhappy customers and little support from the rest of the industry. That changed today with Amazon and Samsung announcing their backing of the fledgling format. More »


Cameras

Canon C300: A Digital Killer Cam For The Hollywood Set

11:50AM November 4, 2011 | Adrian Covert

RED has their Epic camera. Alli has their Alexa camera. And now Canon has the CX300, a digital video camera that’s soley intended for professional film production, promising accurate colour reproduction and awesome low and natural light performance. More »


Entertainment

Apple Wants You To Stream Movies To Your iPad

2:00AM October 14, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Apple put its iTunes music in the cloud and soon it may be doing something similar with its movies. A rumour from the Wall Street Journal suggests the company is in talks with Hollywood about a movie streaming service. More »


Entertainment

Alan Turing’s Biopic Might Get Leonardo DiCaprio

11:26AM October 13, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Alan Turing, the venerable WWII-era nerd icon who helped crack the Nazi Enigma machines and came up with the robot sentience-checking Turing Test, is the subject of a new biopic, and apparently Leonardo DiCaprio “has the inside track” to play him. More »


Entertainment

Feature: The CIA Really Wants To Make Hollywood’s Next Blockbuster

7:00AM September 18, 2011 | Mark Riffee - Wired

Are you an aspiring filmmaker who wants to produce a spy thriller? Well, you’re in luck because the CIA has a pile of script ideas lying around. More »


Entertainment

WarGames Getting The Remake Treatment

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11:00AM August 23, 2011 | Alex Kidman

This smells like a bad idea. Wouldn’t you prefer a nice game of chess… or would that now be Minecraft? More »


Computing

Not One, But Two Amazon Tablets Coming This Year?

7:51AM May 17, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Boy Genius Report has sources telling them that two Amazon tablets are on the way this year, in two different sizes and configurations. More »


Entertainment

Confessions Of A Hollywood Stuntman

1:32AM May 14, 2011 | Vic ArmstrongMaxim

Stuntman Vic Armstrong spent a career taking blows in some of Hollywood’s most iconic roles. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, he describes what it was like to actually, physically, be Indiana Jones. More »