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Would you pay $4,000 to solve your streaming movie problems?

Fast Company Tech

How would you go about actually watching movies in it? Most streaming devices are too bogged down with banner ads and obnoxious upsells, and the streaming services themselves compromise on audiovisual quality for the sake of smoother streaming. The absence of distraction stands in sharp contrast to every modern streaming platform.

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How ‘The Matrix’ helped build—and break—beleaguered production company Village Roadhouse

Fast Company Tech

Its shimmering, nested “V” of metallic ribbons that taper inward like a cinematic illusion played before dozens of movies that collectively spawned 34 No. Over the next few decades, it extended its tentacles into regular theater business and home video, before launching a film production shingle: Village Roadshow Pictures.

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A love affair with a typeface? For these famous directors, type is part of their art

Fast Company Tech

But last week, as we reported on Sean Bakers extensive use of Aguafina Script across his past four movies, we wondered: How many other directors have firmly embraced a single, singular typefaceand what does that typeface say about their films? Ultimately, a title sequence and a title font is in service to a larger picture.

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Novocaine review: Jack Quaid crushes as an unlikely action hero who cant feel pain

Mashable Tech

The ensuing ride is the perfect showcase for Quaid's charms, as he elevates a serviceable action comedy to a damn great time. Credit: Paramount Pictures The first act of Novocaine sees Quaid in prime "regular guy" mode. Kitchen fights are an action movie mainstay. What's Novocaine about? Jack Quaid in "Novocaine."

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Sony rebrands Bravia Core streaming movie service, bringing it to PlayStation for the first time

TechSpot

The revamped service, now called Sony Pictures Core, launches today on PS4 and PS5 in 23 markets around the globe. With it, console users will have access to roughly 2,000 movies including hits like Spider Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Spider Man: No Way Home, Uncharted, Bullet Train, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Read Entire Article

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Apple TV Plus is first streaming service to win Best Picture at the Oscars

The Verge

CODA has become the first film from a streaming service to win Best Picture at the Oscars, in a sign of the growing dominance of streamers like Apple, Netflix, and Amazon at Hollywood’s most prestigious awards ceremony. Team CODA created a profoundly beautiful movie, a story of hope and heart that celebrates our differences.

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Hulu reenables picture-in-picture mode for iOS 14

The Verge

Hulu has fully reenabled picture-in-picture support (PiP) on iOS, MacRumors reports , which means half-watching network TV is once again possible for Hulu subscribers on iPhone and iPad devices. Hulu joins a collection of major streaming services that support the feature on iOS, leaving YouTube as the major exception.

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