For most digital projectors, no upgrade is needed as most can project up to 120fps currently.

Actually, a more correct ice cream analogy would be if you ate your favourite ice cream flavour every single day until you become sick of the flavour, and then was forced to eat it some more.

Once you implement more security, it is extremely unlikely that it will be rolled back in the future. So basically, once it's here, it's here to stay for good. The government probably won't stop until every door is a scanner.

As far as the industry is concerned, Pixar actually pay about 20% - 30% less than most of the other high profile studios (Dreamworks, ILM, Digital Domain, etc.)

It's common knowledge that one does not go work at Pixar for the money.

Episodic content is annoying like that when you have to wait so long to get to the next chapter.

I take it you don't read multi part novels then?

I live in Korea, and here we call it China's yellow wind. On the days when the wind blows from the west, there is an obvious yellow tint to the sky. There are also similar reports from Eastern European countries too. The funny thing with environmental disasters is that they usually do not stay localised to the country that causes them. So what China do to themselves will eventually affect us all.

The union is simply saying that doing this movie may result in long term loss of income, so perhaps it is better not to do it.

And the studio is saying that not doing this movie will result in short term and long term job loss for New Zealanders as studios avoid the country because of this situation. I am not saying it's a good or bad thing, just stating the facts. It's well known that Disney avoids shooting in Australia because of the MEAA.

It's just like the move from black & white to colour, from mono to stereo to surround, etc.

No no no, colour and stereo were passive improvements, the audience didn't have to do anything extra to experience those. S3D is an active improvement, as in you have to actively do something (wear glasses) to experience it otherwise you can't. I really wish people would stop making this comparison, because it's simply not the same.

Fact: S3D makes everything a few stops darker
Fact: You can't focus properly on any area of the screen that hasn't been made the focal point. Meaning that you can't marvel at some bit of the background scenery without your brain starting to get confused or even inducing a slight headache.

My theory on the current push for 3D is so that the studios can force the theaters to finally go digital, thus eliminating the need to make costly film prints. At up to $2000 each, if a movie wants to appear on 4000 screens simultaneously, that's a large amount of money the studios need to outlay. But in digital, they just ship around a bunch of reusable hard drives for a fraction of the cost. Once everything is mostly digital, S3D will die down again, like it did 30 years ago in the 80's, and 30 years before that in the 50's. History repeats.

Give me the crisp, bright normal "2D" movie please, so that I can enjoy looking at any part of the screen I want, and so that I can turn my head and still be able to watch it properly.

btw, I work in VFX and am currently working on a stereo converted movie.

Can't tell if you are being funny or not, so if you are, allow me to *whoosh* myself first.

Otherwise, costs would not have been spread evenly over the years, but more likely ramping up exponentially. So the fist few years of development might have cost $1m each, where the last year would have taken the brunt of the costs. The last few years would probably include buying loads of new servers, a herd of people to set them up and maintain them, marketing and more.

Oh, and don't forget the stupidly high exec salaries, of which there would be a high number of on a project like this.

Maybe they are ironically highlighting the fact that they their own best example of this...?

Dear Liz Cheney,

Your plight strikes a sympathetic cord with me. If you are able to accommodate me these few points, I think I can help you out:
1) I am only interested in women of "loose" morals.
2) I want to give your father a head noogie.
3) I am not fond of the taste of the colour blue. Please supply pills that taste like red.

Regards,
Concerned International Citizen

The sad thing is that domestic water use is like less than 5% of commercial/industrial water use. For the Australian government to really make a difference, they need to start clamping down on businesses as well as domestic households.