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...visitors to Universal Studios Florida, it must overcome memories of the Spider-Man theme-park attraction. In a six-minute tram tour of upper Manhattan, the ride provides careering thrills, state-of-the-art 3-D visuals and a fistful of supervillains. There, and not on Sam Raimi's screen, is where to find a charismatic Spider-Man--and a moving marvel...
...faithful (almost to a fault) to Harris' novel. It is particularly true to the grimness and grottiness of life at Bletchley. Enigma plumbs a drama that takes place largely between the ears of the code breakers, a story ideally realized on the printed page, less so on the screen...
...Karen and Mark Glenn squabble with each other and with the Clunes--well-off, whiny Californians who sneak in food and gear, rationalizing that pioneers would have cheated to survive if they could have. (The Brookses, a young interracial couple, are neighborly and mellow, and thus get relatively little screen time.) The couples clash over purity of lifestyle, rules and personalities, all within a context of earnest communitarianism. It's like the most fractious food co-op ever...
...today fewer than 30 of the 35,000 movie screens in the U.S.--and 25 of the 75,000 screens abroad--run digital projectors. And so far, all those projectors house TI's DLP chip, which consists of an array of tiny mirrors that flip on and off, refracting light through a prism and onto the screen. Kodak is developing a competing product set to launch next year. Its chip, manufactured by JVC, uses a liquid-crystal display instead of mirrors and, in a recent demonstration, appeared to match DLP's in quality. "The holdup right...
Installing a new digital-projection system, which includes a server for storing the files and a PC for running the screening software, costs about $120,000 a screen, although the price could fall significantly as volume picks up. Even so, that sort of expense makes little sense to the operator of the local sixplex, which usually owns the projection equipment. Nick Mulone, who owns four theaters in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area, praises digital-picture quality but doesn't expect it to draw crowds or justify higher ticket prices. "The average moviegoer is more interested in the movie than...