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...taken out of the box. Nor could anyone decide who should pay for it - cinemas, studios or distributors. Six years later, just over 400 of the world's 120,000 projection booths use digital. That could soon change. The kick-start came in July, when seven major Hollywood studios published a 176-page document that sets out the minimum acceptable technical standards for everything from playback speed and color contrast to audio quality and security encryption. It was a call for the industry to go forth and digitize, safe in the knowledge that any equipment that meets the specs will...
...industry insists that a prettier picture isn't the only reason bytes are better. Right now, Hollywood might spend over $1 billion a year manufacturing and distributing film copies. Digital could slash that: the prints can be made for a fifth of the cost of celluloid ones and, stored on a hard drive the size of a paperback, they are easier and cheaper to transport than heavy, bulky reels. (Eventually, films could be sent to cinemas by satellite or cable, cutting out transportation costs altogether.) A more diverse range of films could be offered, too, because studios could afford...
Very few screenwriters get kidnapped. In Hollywood, where most of them live and work, they're considered low-value targets. But moments after arriving in Beirut in 2002, Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of Traffic, found himself in what seemed to be a hostage situation. His cell phone rang, and the voice on the other end said, "I've got something really special you can do, but you have to do it right now and I can't tell you what it is." Gaghan walked out of the airport and got into a car with a stranger. As they...
...meet people he had read about. He crossed Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on the first anniversary of 9/11, dined with men now suspected of killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, and sipped cappuccino in the kitchen of former Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Being a guy from Hollywood was often all it took to get people talking. "Steve got to do some amazing things," says Clooney, who is also Syriana's executive producer. "Other screenwriters probably want to kidnap him out of jealousy...
...geek-chic best, the Razr is just chic. Initially sold in silver, a black Razr made its debut as a gift to nominees at the Academy Awards this February. For Christmas, the company is selling the hot-pink Razr, promoted mainly as a red-carpet accessory to Hollywood starlets...