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Pixar will release a free version of its in-house software, RenderMan, this August, Venturebeat reports.
At The Guardian, Ali Gray explores how Twitter killed the official movie website:
When was the last time you saw a web address on a movie poster or trailer and felt compelled to type it into your browser, letter by stupid letter, to see what you’d find? An ad displaying a humble domain name already feels like an archaic marketing method, the equivalent of shouting your URL at someone out of the window of a moving car.
Once, a lack of online presence marked your company out as a backwater outfit that probably still advertised using Loot; these days, with social media controlling the flow of information around the net, web pages look like yesterday’s news. Studios are finally getting wise to how hard social media can work for them, leaving the poor old promotional movie website – once an essential port of call for film fans – to die a slow death.
Watch a video tribute to the work of Douglas Trumbull:
Megan Ellison on why she made Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master:
To continue in the spirit of clearing things up – I never expected to make money on the master. I expected it to change my life. And it did.
— Megan Ellison (@meganeellison) June 16, 2014
The Studio Ghibli documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness will be released in the U.S. by GKIDS, Variety reports.
Watch a featurette on the new IMAX 3D Digital Camera: