Want Some Apple Glasses to Go with Your Apple Watch?
Apple is reportedly considering making digital glasses, entering a market Microsoft has been developing with its HoloLens product — and where Google fell on its facewear with Google Glass. After purchasing tech companies like PrimeSense, Metaio, and Flyby Media, Apple is said to be testing near-eye display components in advance of a potential launch in 2018 or later. Like the Apple Watch, any Apple facewear offering is expected to connect wirelessly to the wearer's iPhone. [Bloomberg]
Relativity Studios Cuts $200 Million Production Deal with Storyoscopic Films
The co-founders of Venture 3D have a new start-up, Storyoscopic Films, that's partnering with Relativity Studios on a plan to make five or more "family friendly" films a year as well as television projects. Among the first titles? Sequels to The November Man, Act of Valor and Immortals. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Irwin Winkler to Get PGA's David O. Selznick Award
The PGA said Irwin Winkler will receive the 2017 David O. Selznick award at the Producers Guild Awards, scheduled to be held January 28 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Winkler produced or co-produced Rocky, The Right Stuff, Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Martin Scorsese's upcoming Silence. [The Wrap]
A Look Back at the Morphing Technology in Michael Jackson's "Black or White"
The morphing action starts at 5:27 in the video above.
Cartoon Brew takes a trip down memory lane with a detailed look back at Pacific Data Images, where the techniques were developed 25 years ago that were used to morph a series of mixed-race dancers, one into another, at the end of Michael Jackson's "Black or White" music video, directed by John Landis. It was one of the first showcases for what was, at the time, a nearly magical technology. [Cartoon Brew]
Michael Chapman: Cinematography Demands the Right Look, Not the Prettiest Look
Set to receive the Camerimage lifetime achievement award, DP Michael Chapman, ASC (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), tells Variety that cinematography "shouldn't be beautiful — it should be appropriate." [Variety]
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