Film Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Indie video portrays the crazy, notification-driven life of an Apple user

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 1st, 2012)

Ever get bombarded by messages or miss out on something important because you had your nose in your computer? If you can answer "yes" to either question, then you will likely enjoy Digitals, a short film by Chris Crutchfield that portrays our busy digital life. Crutchfield says this about his video ...

TUAW on SOPA and PIPA: What they are and why we're against them

by Chris Rawson (Jan 18th, 2012)

By now, news about two bills making their way through the US legislative approval process, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), has spread like wildfire across the Internet, along with widespread criticism of both bills. As part of that criticism, if you're reading this on ...

iTunes version of Avatar will let users control scenes, more

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2011)

Apple has just announced a special iTunes version of James Cameron's Avatar that will not only include some special extras like the film's script and a big 1,700 picture special effects gallery of pictures to browse through, but allow viewers to actually control 17 scenes as they happen, ...

Aaron Sorkin 'strongly considering' writing the Steve Jobs biopic

by Mike Schramm (Nov 23rd, 2011)

Sure, why not? Sony Pictures apparently grabbed the movie rights to Walter Isaacson's recent Steve Jobs biography, and the studio has asked Aaron Sorkin to write the film. Sorkin said this past week in Los Angeles, that sure, he's considering it. "Sony has asked me to write the movie and it's ...

The All-ER lineup: Clooney and Wyle look to (re)-tackle Steve Jobs film role

by Michael Rose (Nov 20th, 2011)

No cited sources for this tidbit -- not even the usual "a person close to the production" -- but the UK's Now magazine sparked a rumor wildfire this week when it suggested that two veterans of NBC's ER are both interested in playing Steve Jobs for the upcoming film version of Walter Isaacson's ...

The Criterion Collection comes to iTunes

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 9th, 2011)

With virtually no fanfare -- or even a press release -- The Criterion Collection has made 46 of its 680 films available on iTunes. Among the films released are art house classics any lovers of cinema will recognize, including The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman, Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa, ...

Aaron Sorkin reportedly considered to write Jobs biopic

by Chris Rawson (Oct 26th, 2011)

You had to see this one coming a mile away after hearing that Sony Pictures obtained the rights to a film version of Steve Jobs's biography. The LA Times reports that Aaron Sorkin, the writer behind the Mark Zuckerberg biopic The Social Network, is reportedly in consideration to write a screenplay ...

Sony Pictures acquires rights to Steve Jobs biopic

by Chris Rawson (Oct 8th, 2011)

Sony Pictures has successfully bid for the rights to turn Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs into a motion picture. Deadline reports the deal is worth between one to three million dollars and headed by producer Mark Gordon. Deadline suspects bidding had already been taking place ...

Daily Mac App: Final Draft

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 5th, 2011)

Final Draft 8, the industry-standard scriptwriting software, has finally come to the Mac App Store. Even for those of you who have never written a movie script, you've seen the fruits of labor of the app used by those writers. Before Christian Bale utters a menacing threat to a criminal in a ...

LOVEFiLM comes to iPad

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 29th, 2011)

It's rare that an iOS movie-streaming app receives little notice, but earlier this week, Amazon released the LOVEFiLM Player for iPad without fanfare. LOVEFiLM is the UK equivalent of Netflix, which allows users to rent DVDs and Blu-ray discs by post or stream them online. In January of this ...

Oldboy director Chan-wook Park shoots new movie on iPhone 4

by Keith M (Jan 11th, 2011)

Last year, I caught a top 10 list somewhere that listed the top movies ever with twist endings. All but one of them I'd already seen, that one being the critically acclaimed Korean film Oldboy, directed by Chan-wook Park. Seeing as it was available for streaming on Netflix, I pulled it up that ...

"Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" uses Macs to solve mysteries

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 10th, 2010)

If you happen to have gotten caught up in the phenomenon known as the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, then you know that the computer of choice for these world-class computer genius hackers is made by Apple. I screened the film version of the story, and MacBook Pros are visible throughout as the the ...

Final Cut dominant among Oscar documentary nominees

by Dave Caolo (Mar 8th, 2010)

Steve Jobs and the iPad both appeared on TV during last night's Academy Awards, but they weren't the extent of Apple's presence. Cnet reports this morning that the majority of the "Documentary Feature" and "Documentary Short" nominees -- 9 out of 10 in fact -- were made using Final Cut Studio, ...

Is the Leonard Maltin Movie Guide app ready for its closeup?

by David Winograd (Dec 9th, 2009)

Long before people went to the Internet for film information, movie buffs annually bought the latest revisions of huge paperback books like The Leonard Maltin Movie Guide and Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever. These were, and are, massive reference books; the current version of Maltin comes in at ...

Insomnia Film Festival postponed due to server problems

by Cory Bohon (Nov 14th, 2008)

A few weeks ago, we told you about this year's Insomnia Film Festival -- a contest for high school and college students to create a 3-minute film in only 24 hours. However, eager contestants were greeted with some unfortunate news yesterday when they loaded the Apple Insomnia website. Apple notes ...