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Forbes
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Which Cinema Format Should You Choose For ‘Jurassic World Rebirth'?
Dolby Dinosaurs are big. Very big. Of course, they can be small as well, but we don't go to the cinema to see the small ones come to life. Oh no. We go to see the big ones. The new movie, is, of course, Jurassic World Rebirth, which is chomping its way through theaters from July 2nd. Wot No IMAX? As the biggest cinema format out there, it's a surprise, therefore that the movie will not be getting an IMAX release. Some have suggested that this is because the director, Gareth Edwards, chose to shoot on 35mm film, and while this doesn't lend itself to an IMAX expanded aspect ratio, it wouldn't have precluded it from getting an IMAX DMR pass, so it could be shown on the largest screens. More likely, it's simply down to IMAX congestion, with the F1: The Movie blocking its path, in a maneuver presumably deemed legal by the stewards. There are rumors of an IMAX 3D release in China, however, presumably to cater for the popularity of 3D in that region and the availability of local IMAX screens. While the lack of IMAX for the rest of us is something of a disappointment it does open the path for the other premium formats. At the top of the technical tree in terms of image quality is the HDR by Barco format and this is listed as a 'Coming Soon' on the format's website. However, while there may be 30 to choose from by the year's end, there are only a handful of screens that support this format at the moment, so for most, it won't be an option. Dolby Lights The Way That leaves Dolby Cinema as the premium format to seek out for Jurassic World Rebirth. This offers a brightness level of 108 nits, which is very high for a cinema. This leaves plenty of space for the extended dynamic range images, with Dolby Vision creating truly deep blacks and bright whites, along with a wide color gamut. Essentially, it will allow for the beauty and texture of the film stock that the movie was shot on to come through. Excitedly for stereoscopic fans, the film is even getting a Dolby Vision 3D release, (48 nits if you were wondering about the comparative light loss — which I know you were), and having not seen this since the release of Avatar: The Way of Water – and it happens to be the ticket I have pre-booked. Dolby Cinema is also known for its immaculate, modern theaters, complete with comfy seats and optimized layout. The Dolby Atmos audio is also a treat for the ears, which, along with serious bass slam, offers the ability to place sounds precisely in the 3D space to heighten the immersion. I'm looking forward to it already. If you can't get to a Dolby Cinema, then try to find a premium larger format (PLF) screen. These offer an experience that's close to that of Dolby, with a floor-to-ceiling 4K laser projection, which means a bright, clear and sharp picture, albeit without the dynamic range goodness of Dolby. You do get Dolby Atmos audio, though, and the seating is normally better than standard so it will be worth the outlay. PLFs all have different brand names according to the cinema chain, so in the USA, look out for names such as Prime at AMC, Regal RPX, Cineplex UltraAVX, and Cinemark XD, while in the UK they are called Cineworld Superscreen, Odeon iSense, or OmniplexMAXX. Shake It Up In 4DX Those are your premium formats taken care of, but if you want a format that will put a smile on your face, then try 4DX, which, for Jurassic World Rebirth, is combined with RealD 3D. The screen will likely be a 2K Xenon and the audio will be a conventional 'flat' surround sound format, but you'll likely be hanging onto your seat too much to notice – quite literally. 4DX has chairs that move, throwing you around in sync with the action on screen, along with thumbs in the back for bangs and crashes, splashes or water, blasts of air, and flashes of light. I'd expect it to be a great fit for Jurassic World Rebirth. I'd be less inclined to choose ScreenX. This offers additional images down the sides of the theater. While much of this extra-wide footage is especially created for the movie, I'd prefer a larger screen and better sound mix of the other formats. The screens down the side can be more distracting than immersive, and theaters are not always well optimized for the format: I've even seen an Exit sign in the middle of the side screen. Finally, you could go to a regular screen showing it in 3D. If you know the screen has a laser projector, this might be acceptable, but unless you can be sure, it's a risk: many screens still have projectors that use old Xenon lamps, which lose brightness as they age, which will be exacerbated by the 3D glasses. If you don't want to risk it or don't enjoy 3D motion blur (oh, where art thou' TrueCut Motion) for Jurassic World Rebirth, then a standard 2D screen will be a safer option. Or at least as safe as things can be. After all, you know how slack those 'Dinosaur Supervisors can be. (Only kidding Phil, we love ya…). Related Reading Can Avatar: The Way Of Water's TrueCut Motion Tech Save High Frame Rate Cinema? Barco Light Steering Uses AI Tech To Brings True HDR To The Big Screen Vue And Barco Partner To Bring Laser Projection To Over 1000 Screens Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith Returning To Theaters For 20th Anniversary
Time Magazine
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
All Your F1 Questions Answered, Ahead of 'F1 The Movie'
F1 The Movie, which is out in U.S. theaters and IMAX on Friday, has summer blockbuster potential, given the huge budget—north of $200 million—and star power—Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, cameos by Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and other Formula 1 drivers—involved. So if you're an F1 newbie looking to spend a few entertaining hours in an air-conditioned theater, or you've seen the film but don't totally understand all those terms about tires and safety cars and DRS, we've got you covered. Below, some of your questions, answered. (With an assist from Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff, an executive producer on the film who also makes an appearance in the movie). It's a movie, people. And while Pitt is indeed a 61-year-old actor, we never find out the age of his character, Sonny Hayes, the journeyman washout whose promising F1 career was derailed by a horrific accident at a race in Barcelona in 1993. Pitt could be portraying a younger man. 'I don't think Sonny is 61,' says Wolff. Let's say, for the sake of argument, Hayes was an 18-year-old rising star at that race in Barcelona. That would put him at about 50 in the movie. Middle-aged drivers were more common in olden times: Luigi Fagioli, at 53, is the oldest F1 driver to win a race; he shared the 1951 French Grand Prix title with another driver. Fernando Alonso is the oldest driver on the current grid: the two-time world champion, who currently drives for Aston Martin, turns 44 at the end of July. But Alonso hasn't won a race since 2013. Hayes still has driving talent: at the beginning of the film, we see him help his team win the 24-hour endurance race at Daytona. Transitioning to F1 soon thereafter is a bit of a stretch, but not, according to Wolff, utterly impossible. 'Racing cars is like learning to ride a bicycle,' says Wolff. 'You don't unlearn that.' It's a term that pops up in the film, and in actual races: DRS, or Drag Reduction System. During F1 races, at designated areas of the track—particularly on straigtaways—drivers can can open up a flap on the car's rear wing to reduce aerodynamic drag, and overtake opponents. A car must be within one second of the racer it's trying to catch in order to use DRS. Grip, Wolff explains, 'is a tire sticking to the ground. The more sticking to the ground you have, the quicker you go through a corner.' Simple enough. 'Here comes the caveat,' Wolff says. 'Going beyond that limit of sticking, or sliding, creates overheating of the tire. So what you want to achieve is actually the optimum grip, the optimum sticking to the ground without it giving up and sliding.' Tires for dry race conditions—the slick tires—come in three classifications: soft tires offer the most grip but last the shortest period of time before degrading, so they're ideal for qualifying runs, or when a driver needs a burst of speed. Hard tires last longer—saving pit stops—but have less grip, and result in slower lap times. Medium tires split the difference between the two. In damp conditions, teams employ intermediate tires, which are grooved to allow drivers to navigate tracks with no standing water, or drying surfaces. The deeper grooves of the wet tires can disperse more water and are best for the rainiest days. Each of the 10 Formula 1 teams consist of two drivers, who are all fighting for two championships in every race: the Constructor's title, in which the combined performance of both drivers helps the team assemble points and trophies, and the Driver's title, in which a single driver is designated as world champion. Racers often put more stake in the individual title, which builds their legacies and brands. So while they're supposed to be working together on the track, they often want to beat each other to the checkered flag. F1's tension revolves around the aging Hayes and his teammate on the fictional APXGP race team, Damson Idris' Joshua Pearce, a young talent from Great Britain. Drivers at loggerheads is quite common in F1. 'Tension is always existing, which you've just got to accept,' says Wolff. 'That's how it is.' Wolff would know: as Mercedes boss, he had to manage the competition between Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time F1 champion, and Nico Rosberg, who won the 2016 title over Hamilton before retiring. There was hostility between the duo, especially after Rosberg used an engine mode banned by the team to gain an advantage over Hamilton during the 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix. Hamilton returned the favor in Barcelona a month later. Drivers are calibrated to win at all costs. 'You can't expect the lion in the car and the puppy outside,' says Wolff. 'They drive with the knife between the teeth. It's the team's principal's role to say, 'no more.' And that's what we did.'' Mercedes drivers won every title between 2014-2020 (Hamilton in 2014, 2015, 2017-2020, Rosberg in 2016), and eight straight Constructor's championships from 2014-2021. In F1, APXGP technical director Kate McKenna, played by Oscar nominee Kerry Condon, tweaks the car design: the fix helps boost the team's results. Yes, this actually happens in the real Formula 1. While a set of strict technical regulations guides the makeup of an F1 car, teams can come up with innovations within these rules to give themselves an edge. Before the 2020 season, for example, Mercedes made a change to the steering column: its drivers could push and pull the wheel to change the alignment of the tires. The steering advantage was so effective, it was banned the next season and beyond. On-track accidents and dust-ups slow down the race. For less serious incidents, officials send out a 'virtual safety car'—no physical car is deployed onto the track, but cars must reduce their speed by 30-40% of the normal racing pace. So the gap between racers remains the same before the restart. For the more severe crashes, which require more time to remove debris from the track, an actual car—the safety car—enters the track. Cars file behind the safety vehicle: while drivers can't overtake one another on the track while a safety car is deployed, they can bunch up closer. So a driver who was way behind the leader, or the car in front of him, can effectively erase such a deficit. 'It kind of resets the race,' says Wolff. Which all begs the question: could one F1 teammate crash on purpose to give another an advantage? This is unlikely to happen for several reasons. First, a driver risks injury or worse in a crash. And second, a 2008 incident in Singapore, in which Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr. said he was asked by his team to deliberately crash to allow his teammate, Alonso, to gain position during the safety car period as other cars made pit stops for gas, led to an embarrassing scandal. Alonso won the race. But the resulting 'Crashgate' fallout resulted in bans for Renault team leaders. Renault was threatened with disqualification from F1. The risk just isn't worth it. According to a 2025 study that appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 264 total injuries and 43 deaths were reported in F1-related events between 1950 and 2023. The analysis included 865 F1 drivers. While a 5% death rate for F1 drivers seems frighteningly high, there's a crucial caveat: a majority of the fatalities took place in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. No F1 driver has died in the 2020s. 'The evolution of safety regulations in F1,' the study concludes, 'appears to have successfully reduced total injuries, total deaths, and most injury classifications.' No, since each track, or circuit, has different designs and laps lengths. F1 races must cover a minimum of 305 km (or about 190 miles). Each race is about that length: but while the Belgian Grand Prix, for example, requires just 44 laps to reach that distance on the long track at Spa, the shorter circuit in the Netherlands requires 72 laps. One exception to this rule is the street circuit in Monaco: that race covers just 260 km (162 miles). Due to the narrow roads and sharp turns on the Monaco track, lap times are slower, so the distance is shorter to allow it to be finished within F1's two-hour time limit for races. (A race can take up to three hours in the event of suspensions due to bad weather; most are done in about 90 minutes). The feedback seems to be positive from the actual F1 drivers; they saw it at a screening before the Monaco Grand Prix in May. In the audience was Kimi Antonelli, the 18-year-old Mercedes rookie driver who finished his final high school exams right after earning his first podium with a third-place showing in Montreal in June. Perhaps not surprisingly, what stood out to Antonelli was the 2 hour, 36 minute run time. 'It's freaking long,' he said afterwards.
The Herald Scotland
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Matt Damon arrives in Scotland ahead of The Odyssey filming
The Odyssey - an adaptation of Homer's epic Greek poem - boasts an all-star ensemble cast, with Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron starring alongside Matt Damon. Slated for a July 2026 release, Universal Pictures describe it as "a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology", while Jim Orr, the studio's distribution chief, said it will be 'a visionary, once-in-a-generation cinematic masterpiece that Homer himself would quite likely be proud of.' Principal photography began at Aït Benhaddou in Morocco in February before filming moved to Pelopennese in Greece and the island of Favignana off the coast of Sicily - believed by some scholars to be one of the locations described in Homer's epic poem. Earlier this month, it was revealed that scenes for the film will be shot at Findlater Castle overlooking the Moray Firth in Aberdeenshire. It came after Variety named Scotland among the list of 'announced locations' for the film, while actor Jesse Garcia confirmed in an interview that The Odyssey would be filmed in Scotland - and Ireland. Speaking about the film, Garcia said: "The locations are beautiful. It's been fun to work with all the actors that we're working with, and everyone is putting everything into it. We're literally emptying the tank every day. "It's epic. There's going to be some groundbreaking stuff on screen that's really never been done before. [Nolan] keeps upping the game with everything that he does, and the way it's going to look on screen is just going to be incredible." Back in February, Universal unveiled a first look at Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Odyssey. The side-angle shot showed Damon, who worked with Christopher Nolan in Oppenheimer, clad in military armour. Nolan is no stranger to Scotland, having filmed parts of The Dark Knight Rises in the country. The opening scene, where supervillain Bane hijacks a plane, was filmed over the Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairngorms National Park. News of Matt Damon's arrival in Scotland for filming comes after Deadline confirmed that Joel Coen's next film, Jack of Spades, will shoot in Scotland this summer. The movie will star British actor Josh O'Connor - primarily known for his portrayal of Prince Charles in The Crown - in the lead role. Coen is best known of course for his collaborations with his younger brother, Ethan. Among their most acclaimed works are Fargo, True Grit, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and No Country for Old Men. The film will follow Coen's previous solo release, 2021's The Tragedy Of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. Plot details for Jack of Spades remain under wraps, but there are reportedly offers out to two British actresses to star alongside O'Connor. The Herald understands that Coen is already in Glasgow ahead of filming starting. In an interview with The Herald in 2009, Coen, who has visited Skye repeatedly on holiday, hinted of a possible future shoot in Scotland. He said: 'I love Scotland, I visit there a lot for the countryside, the landscape of it. I go up to the Isle of Skye. "Who knows, maybe some day we will do a movie set in Scotland. It will probably have an American character in it though.' In other film news, Deadline also reports that Russell Crowe has joined Henry Cavill's Highlander reboot. The Oscar-winning actor is set to play Cavill's mentor in a variation on the part played by Sean Connery in the 1986 original. Earlier this month, director Chad Stahelski confirmed that filming is due to commence by mid-September in London, before production heads to Scotland. READ MORE:
Hans India
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Hans India
Manchu Manoj Praises Brother Vishnu's Performance in Kannappa
Manchu Vishnu's new movie Kannappa is out now, with Vishnu playing the lead role. The film is receiving a lot of positive responses from the audience. On June 27, Vishnu's brother, Manchu Manoj, watched Kannappa in an IMAX theatre and praised the movie. He said the film is very good and believes it will be the next big hit after Prabhas. Manoj was impressed by Vishnu's performance, especially in the climax. Manoj also complimented their father, Mohan Babu, for his amazing acting in the movie. He hopes the film becomes a big blockbuster and wishes the team great success, saying he will watch the movie again to catch the part he missed.
Pink Villa
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
EXCLUSIVE: War 2 locks exclusive IMAX showcasing across 33 screens in India and key global market
Over the years, Yash Raj Films has established a strong distribution network, with their offices running across the country. The studio often has an upward hand in the clash scenario owing to a good hold on exhibitors in almost every circuit of India. Come the Independence Day weekend, and their ambitious actioner, War 2 led by Hrithik Roshan, NTR, and Kiara Advani is all set to release with the Lokesh Kangaraj-directed Coolie with Rajinikanth in the lead. And Pinkvilla has exclusively learnt that YRF has inked an exclusive deal with IMAX. According to reliable trade sources, no other film except for War 2 will see an IMAX release in India over the Independence Day weekend. 'In a strategy move, YRF has already secured an exclusive nationwide showcasing on the big screen format of IMAX, which means that no other film except for War 2 will get showcasing at the aforementioned properties in India. The film has secured a run on IMAX properties until the release of the next Conjuring film. Internationally too, most properties catering to the Indian diaspora are giving a preference to War 2 at IMAX properties,' revealed a source close to the development. The source further added that YRF has secured a deal of approx. 2 weeks in Imax and is currently in advanced conversations with exhibitors to release the Ayan Mukerji directorial in a manner that ensures WAR 2 reaches audiences in high-quality cinematic experiences worldwide. India has approx. 33 IMAX screens, and these are touted to be the high-performing centres for film business. Marketed as a face-off between Hrithik Roshan and NTR, War 2 is gearing up for a massive release all across the globe on August 14. While the makers have already dropped the teaser of War 2, the music and other marketing assets will be unleashed from mid-July, leading to the film's release. Crucially, War 2 is expected to unveil long-term storylines and characters that will send ripples across all future instalments including Alpha, Pathaan 2, and Tiger v/s Pathaan, laying a robust foundation for what's to come in this interconnected cinematic world. The film has been designed for the big screen with six larger-than-life action sequences featuring the emotionally charged-up characters leading to all the drama and thrill. As reported by Pinkvilla before, YRF has declined pre-release offers for theatrical rights in Indian and International markets, opting for a full-scale self-release. Stay tuned to Pinkvilla as we bring more on War 2 shortly.
