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| ‘Hobbit’ director despairs of iPad movie-watchers Posted: 15 Dec 2012 01:48 AM PST
Speaking alongside stars of the epic fantasy including Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen at a press conference in London, Jackson (picture) said filmmakers should embrace new technology to draw in "dwindling" cinema audiences. "I think we should look at the technology that we have available and say, 'How can we make the experience more immersive, more magical, more spectacular'?" said Jackson, whose new film is a prequel to his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. "There is a degree of jeopardy at the moment with the film industry with all the alternative ways that people have to see movies now, right from their home entertainment systems down to an iPhone and an iPad," he added. "I really hate the idea that I'm a director making a film for an iPad. That's kind of depressing. I think I would go and lie on a beach in Fiji and retire if I thought I was really doing that." Jackson used plenty of technological wizardry to recreate J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy for the screen, shooting it in 3D and using 48 frames per second – double the normal amount – to produce a less jerky picture. But the superfast frame rate has divided critics, with some complaining that it makes the sumptuous landscapes of "Middle Earth" – filmed in Jackson's native New Zealand – look more like a computer game. Jackson has defended the innovation, but he acknowledged on Tuesday that some new film technologies, such as 3D, needed to improve. Producers have "vaguely talked about" re-releasing the hugely successful "Lord of the Rings" trilogy in 3D, he added. But veteran British actor McKellen, reprising his role as the good wizard Gandalf for the first instalment of the new "Hobbit" trilogy, is less of a fan of certain special effects techniques. The movie follows Gandalf, along with unlikely hero Freeman as the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, joining a band of dwarves in their quest to reclaim their lost kingdom from an evil dragon. "The trouble with the dwarves is that despite what they are in real life they have to look smaller than me on the screen," McKellen told journalists. He was often filmed in a completely different place from the dwarves in scenes that show them together – which he complained was not at all "congenial to acting, which is about spontaneity". But Jackson added that some of the techniques used to make the dwarves seem shorter than McKellen were more rudimentary. "A lot of what you see is Ian standing on a box," he revealed. – AFP/Relaxnews |
| Mick Jagger love letters sold at London auction Posted: 15 Dec 2012 01:06 AM PST
Purchased by a private collector over the telephone, the letters sold for about US$301,000 at a Sotheby's auction. The letters were written to black American singer Marsha Hunt, aged 23 at the time, while Jagger (picture) was filming the movie "Ned Kelly" in Australia, and were presented as a window into a different side of the rock-and-roll legend. "We are delighted with the result of today's sale which reflects the great significance of these letters, written at such a vivid moment in social and musical history," said Sotheby's books specialist Gabriel Heaton. "There has been enormous international interest in the letters, which depict Mick Jagger, not as the global superstar he is today, but reveal him as a poetic and self-aware 25-year-old with wide-ranging intellectual and artistic interests." Hunt, who starred in the original London cast of hit musical "Hair" and was the poster girl of the "Black is Beautiful" movement, had an initially clandestine affair with the rocker when interracial relationships were taboo. "1969 saw the ebbing of a crucial, revolutionary era, highly influenced by such artists as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, James Brown and Bob Dylan," Hunt said after the sale. "Their inner thoughts should not be the property of only their families, but the public at large, to reveal who these influential artists were – not as commercial images, but their private selves." Written after the Stones' historic Hyde Park gig, the letters illustrate Jagger's musings on topics like the moon landing, his future relationship with Hunt, his impressions of the Outback and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Hunt said: "Despite his high profile and my own... our delicate love affair remains as much part of his secret history as his concerns over the death of Brian Jones and the suicide attempt of his girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull." Hunt is the inspiration behind the Stones' 1971 hit "Brown Sugar" and became the mother of Jagger's first child, Karis. – AFP/Relaxnews |
LONDON, Dec 15 – "The Hobbit" director Peter Jackson said recently that the future of cinema lay in 3D spectaculars on supersize screens, and that he hated the idea of people watching his latest movie on an iPad.
LONDON, Dec 15 – A collection of letters sent by Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to his secret lover in the summer of 1969 sold for around US$300,000 at a London auction on Wednesday, trumping their pre-sale estimate.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Showbiz To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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