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Skip Press sends this report:
TOP FILM STORY
Landmark duo backs d-cinema
LAS VEGAS—The Dallas Mavericks might be the name of Mark Cuban’s
NBA team, but the Internet billionaire’s maverick sensibilities extend far
beyond the basketball court. In the slowly evolving world of digital
cinema, Cuban and business partner Todd Wagner, owners of the largest
indie theater chain Landmark Theatres, are challenging the status quo.
The two executives will announce today at ShoWest 2005 that their 2929
Entertainment has purchased six SXRD Sony 4K projectors to begin
equipping their theater chain for digital cinema.
Skip comments:
What does this mean? Typically, innovators move outside Hollywood and affect Hollywood, and they’re increasingly digital. Pixar, anyone?
The playing field keeps getting leveled for all innovative creators, and I’m happy it’s a Dallas boy like myself doing it. I’ll have to shoot off an email and thank him.
If you can make a movie with $10,000 worth of equipment, including the computer and monitor, and you only need $50,000 to shoot it, and when it’s edited it’s already in a format you can transmit via broadband to those cinemas in Dallas, well, how cool is that? To use a Dallas term, cooler than a blue norther, baby.
