61st Annual Directors Guild America Awards Tonight

The 61st Annual Directors Guild of America Awards takes place tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The nominees this year are Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire, David Fincher for The Curious...

The History of Atari: 1978-1981

I remember back when video games were real: knights atop giant birds, subterranean monsters that you must inflate with a pump, and, uh, Chopper Command.  Anyway, on gamasutra, there's a full-on history of the...

Batcam: IMAX Film Used for DARK KNIGHT Theatrical Release

You know budget filmmaking? IMAX is the opposite of that: expensive equipment, expensive processing, specialized post-production, and that's *before* re-integrating your IMAX footage with the rest of the 35mm...

DiCaprio to Star in Atari Movie

"Paramount Pictures has snapped up a pitch titled "Atari," with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star.Written by Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman, project is a biopic about entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, the creator...

NFL Coach Likened to Hitler

"Jets running back Kevan Barlow apologized to 49ers coach Mike Nolan for comparing him to Adolf Hitler in a newspaper interview. Barlow, who was traded from San Francisco to New York on Sunday for a fourth-round pick, made his inflammatory comments to the Contra Costa Times...

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