
This will allow consumers to download 4K titles, both recent movies such as The Amazing Spider-Man and restored classics such as Bridge on the River Kwai. This summer, Sony is aiming to give 4K for the home a boost by launching a 4K media player for its Ultra HD TVs. Those THR spoke with confirmed that they do want a 4K option to create and preserve images with more picture information but said clients have not been asking for it, citing added cost and increased data requirements for postproduction.

“4K processes have come together in the last year, but we need more work before it is an everyday occurrence,” said Canon’s Tim Smith.ĭuring Cine Gear, The Hollywood Reporter talked with a few directors of photography about what they currently think of having 4K as a creative tool at their disposal. Most major camera makers, including Canon and Red, as well as many postproduction technology tools are now able to support 4K. Sony, of course, isn’t alone in the market. the sensitivity of the F65, I experienced no problems.” We had one or two very challenging locations that would be difficult to shoot on film - in the jungle in Costa Rica and in the Redwood Forrest in Northern California. Opining that the F65 images were “better than film,” the cinematographer said the camera “behaved really smoothly. Sony played a short video with excerpts from a conversation with the film’s director of photography, Peter Suschitzky. All of which makes for a waste of perfectly fine production design.The movie was lensed with the first F65 models off the production line (serial numbers 1-7, provided by L.A. But at the same time, you don't have to travel half way across the galaxy to find an emotionally remote father. Kitai really needs to prove himself to his father. And that big alien thingie they were giving a ride to might still be alive and waiting for Kitai out there.Įven if "The 100" had not cornered the market on post-apocalyptic generational and parental issues, there would still be little reason to recommend "After Earth." That's how heavily contrived and predictable it is.

That becomes increasingly necessary considering Cypher suffered a compound fracture in the crash which even 30th century medicine has no quick fix for. To make matters worse, the emergency beacon is in the other half of the spaceship, several days hike across a hazardous planet full of things that want to eat them. When the spaceship carrying Kitai(Jaden Smith) and his father Cypher(Will Smith) crashes, they are the only survivors.
