Oscar-winning actor Catherine Zeta-Jones recalls meeting “Chicago” costume designer Colleen Atwood in her workshop before the musical began filming. “It was this explosion of costume and dancing fishnet tights hanging from every hook,” says Zeta-Jones. “I remember meeting her for the first time and looking at her designs, giddy with anticipation, and looking at her […]
The problem isn’t bandwidth though, it’s latency. Video games are built on instant feedback. Some games can fudge the definition of “instant” a bit, but anything more than half a second of delay between input and action would be unplayable for even the most forgiving games. This is the problem I faced when trying out […]
Video scraping is just one of many new tricks possible when the latest large language models (LLMs), such as Google’s Gemini and GPT-4o, are actually “multimodal” models, allowing audio, video, image, and text input. These models translate any multimedia input into tokens (chunks of data), which they use to make predictions about which tokens should […]
The EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival has unveiled the first batch of movies selected for its 2024 main competition — a trio of aesthetically adventurous stories about women. The selection includes Jacques Audiard’s Cannes jury prize winner Emilia PérezMagnus von Horn’s arthouse drama The Girl with the Needleand Rachel Morrison’s boxing biopic The Fire Inside. Camerimage […]
The British Film Institute (BFI) has unveiled a new £1.5 million ($1.9 million) pilot program aimed at enhancing workplace conditions and practices in the U.K. screen sector. Titled WorkWise for Screen, the initiative will provide resources and guidance to support equity, inclusion, and respect in the industry. The program will offer a free online portal, […]
