The New Frontier

The latest film and TV-related technologies, gaming news, and articles on how the internet and broadband are changing the film and television landscape.

Discovery, Sony and IMAX teaming up to launch first 24 hour dedicated 3D TV network in U.S.

Three of the world’s leading media, technology and entertainment companies – Discovery Communications, Sony Corp. and IMAX, recently announced a joint venture to develop the first 24/7 dedicated 3D television network in the United States. The partnership brings together three leaders with an extraordinary collection of award-winning 3D content, technology expertise, television distribution and operational ….

Award-winning talhotblond murder investigation getting multi-platform release

Paramount Digital Entertainment announced that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the award-winning documentary talhotblond. The deal is the first of its kind for the division, which will make the critically-acclaimed film available through download-to-own digital distributors following the documentary’s broadcast premiere this Sunday, December 13th, on MSNBC. Talhotblond is the true story (and ….

Ask James Cameron and Avatar stars your questions when MTV and Fox host Avatar Live Facebook streaming event

IESB reports that MTV and Twentieth Century Fox are teaming up on an unprecedented livestream event to give fans a unique and interactive look into James Cameron’s highly-anticipated epic adventure Avatar. Titled Avatar Live, the event will stream in high-definition simultaneously on MTV.com and Facebook this Thursday, December 3rd, beginning at 3:00pm ET/ 12:00pm PT, ….

Here’s that 3-D movie poster from The Final Destination

Warner Brothers aimed to bring viewers to complete visual meltdown with the release of the movie The Final Destination, so they partnered with Virtual Images to promote it. The creative team at Virtual Images, consisting of 3-D artists and 3-D designers, worked with the studio to create visually stunning art that depicts a human skull ….

Paper-thin rechargeable video player to be inserted into upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly Magazine

According to a report on CNET, CBS will include a super-thin video player in the September 18th print edition of Entertainment Weekly mailed to subscribers in the Los Angeles and New York areas. It will play video clips advertising the new shows NCIS: Los Angeles, Accidentally on Purpose, The Good Wife and Three Rivers, and ….

Streaming Media West 2009

Now in its 12th year, the Streaming Media West show is the number-one place to come see, learn and discuss what’s taking place with all forms of online video and its related technologies. Content owners, viral video creators, online marketers, enterprise corporations, broadcast professionals, ad agencies, educators and more all come to see and hear ….

Take part in interactive premiere of Inglourious Basterds this Monday

Twitter and The Weinstein Company have teamed up for the first ever red carpet “TweetUp” at the Hollywood gala premiere of Inglourious Basterds, taking place on this Monday, August 10th, 2009. Guests at the Hollywood premiere of Inglourious Basterds will be able to see timely conversations, opinions and experiences as they emerge from the red ….

Jim Jarmusch to lead discussion following New York premiere of Empires of Tin

IFC Center will host the New York premiere of Empires of Tin, Jem Cohen’s “documentary musical hallucination” on Tuesday, August 11th at 7:30pm as part of the Movie Nights with Jem Cohen series. Following the screening acclaimed filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Mystery Train, The Limits of Control) will join Cohen for a discussion ….

Warner Premiere to debut first of its kind ‘visual music album’ featuring U.K. band

The U.K.-based band One Eskimo and Warner Premiere have created an innovative new musical experience that brings a musical album together with groundbreaking animation and story to offer music fans a fully immersive musical and visual storytelling experience. The brainchild of lead singer Kristian Leontiou, The Adventures of One Eskimo is a visual album comprised ….

Chat live this Wednesday with the filmmakers behind the indie horror The Collector

The producers of The Collector are holding a live Facebook Video chat with writer/director duo Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton this Wednesday, August 5th, at 1:00 pm Pacific Time. Here is how to participate: This Wednesday, 8/5 at 1:00 PST, log into Facebook and visit http://apps.facebook.com/vpypebroadcaster. Type in your questions to Marcus Dunstan & Patrick ….

Gaming social network announces Inglourious Basterds video game tournament

Gaming community network GGL Global Gaming today announced a video game tournament in conjunction with Quentin Tarantino’s newest film, Inglourious Basterds. Dubbed the Are You a Basterd? Call of Duty: World at War Tournament, the competition gives fans the chance to battle it out for new Dell Mini 12 Netbooks, movie posters signed by the ….

Death Proof Zoe Bell to attend panel & uncut screening for her series Angel of Death at Comic-Con ’09

Comic book legend Ed Brubaker (Captain America), Actress and Stuntwoman Zoe Bell (Death Proof), Doug Jones (Quarantine), Ted Raimi (Spider-Man 3), along with director Paul Etheredge (Buried Alive) and producer John Norris, will all be in attendance for a Q&A panel and exclusive screening of the UNCUT feature-length film version of the groundbreaking online series ….