Good to hear. Mod this up I guess. (And get me an invite)

I was very excited about Voddler (I'm a Spotify premium subscriber, and a big movie buff, so it was just what I'd been waiting for), until I read about how the mac client works.
When installed it takes root access (in beta? how can that be safe?), and the server part never shuts down. That's right, when you're not watching a movie, you're still uploading. When you're out and about with your laptop and on a 3G tether, just checking your email and paying for data transfer, you're still uploading. When you have some real uploading to do (for work or whatever), the only way to turn off the Voddler sharing is to uninstall the server part, and then the client and player stops working.

No thanks.

The article states that "the merchandising on Cars currently accounts for over $5bn in revenues." I fail to see how that could be considered a failure, even if it is their weakest film.

As far as safe bets go, a Pixar film is a safer bet than a sequel. Have they ever failed?

The headline is wrong, by the way. There will be non-sequels in between.

Let's also dump enough white paint to make a 1 inch cover of the oceans.

I still haven't seen anyone joke about how in sports DNF is short for did not finish. Can we get on that?

3D scares the shit out of me. Every time filmmaking has had a similar introduction of new technology, the art of filmmaking has taken a huge step back.

When sound was introduced, films suddenly looked the way they did in the 1910s, except for european films that didn't record sound on location, and Chaplin, who continued making silent films.
When color was introduced to combat the introduction of TV-sets (much like 3D is only a gimmick to keep us from downloading movies), cinematography was fell back to where it was in the early sound era.
Early cgi confined the camera to be still.

I've seen some of the recent 3d films, and I'm not impressed. It's not about headaches or feeling nauseous, it's about how limiting it is to the filmmaker, there are so many tools you simply can't do in 3d (handheld, selective focus, superimposition, and so on). It's like telling a painter he can't use certain colors, or telling a composer he's no allowed to shift time signatures.

As someone who's hoping to direct his first feature film in the next ten years or so, I really hope no producer will tell me i have to make it in 3d because "that's the only way to make it sell".

The Pirate Bay is not located in Sweden any more. If the people behind it are convicted they will be a couple million dollars in debt, but nothing will actually happen to the website.