movies
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With Covid-19 Closing Theatres, This Distributor Is Taking The Movie-Going Experience Online
Movie theatres worldwide have been shuttering in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak since there”understandably”aren’t a lot of butts in seats between limitations on public gatherings, mandatory quarantines, and widespread adoption of social distancing practices. Several major studios such as Disney and Universal have partially solved their half of the problem by bringing their…
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Tom Hanks Tests Positive For COVID-19 While Shooting Movie In Australia
Actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for the new coronavirus in Australia, a country with at least 128 cases and three deaths from COVID-19. Hanks is in Australia preparing to shoot a new biopic about Elvis Presley and it’s not clear if he contracted the disease in Australia or the…
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Bruce Willis’s Plymouth Police Wagon In Moonrise Kingdom Was Car-Casting That Worked
Wes Anderson has been working hard to make sure the cars in his upcoming film The French Dispatch exude just the right kind of quirky Gallic flair. It’s hard work to get the cars in a film just right, but Anderson knows it pays off when he does. Just look at Bruce Willis’s Plymouth in…
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Neural Networks Upscale Film From 1896 To 4K, Make It Look Like It Was Shot On A Modern Smartphone
There are lots of valid reasons to be worried about how deep learning techniques could potentially be used to manipulate footage for nefarious reasons. But as Denis Shiryaev demonstrates by upscaling some old black and white film footage from 1896, those AI-powered tools can also be a powerful way to bring the past back to…