Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in IMAX 3-D Opens with Record-Breaking Boxoffice
Harry Potter 5IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix shattered virtually every opening box office record at IMAX® theatres during its debut, contributing $7.3 million of the $140 million that the film grossed at the domestic box office, from July 11 through Sunday, July 15. The picture also broke the record for IMAX's largest single day worldwide total at $1.9 million and posted a domestic opening per screen average of $80,500. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opened on 91 domestic IMAX screens and 35 international IMAX screens, making it the largest opening in IMAX's 40-year history, with a record-smashing worldwide estimated total of $9.4 million. The film's overall worldwide debut total was an estimated $333 million and it is scheduled to open in 17 additional international IMAX theatres in the coming weeks.
"The results from this film - in all formats - are outstanding. It's by far the strongest 'Harry Potter' title in the franchise, breaking records for both the Studio and IMAX," said Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures. "The increased number of IMAX venues and the first-time 3-D finale delivered a huge opening weekend win for the large screen format - we're thrilled for their achievement."
"This phenomenal opening illustrates how one of the world's most anticipated movies presented in IMAX's format can help drive theatre attendance, ticket sales and turn a film that is already a grand spectacle into a major event," said IMAX Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs Richard L. Gelfond and Bradley J. Wechsler. "With the success of the last two Harry Potter installments in IMAX and the debut performance of this one, it is clear that moviegoers clearly love to experience the Harry Potter movies in a magical way. We anticipate that The Order of the Phoenix will continue to play very well at IMAX theatres throughout the summer."
"The international response to this film has been phenomenal. We couldn't be more excited about the way moviegoers are responding to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in IMAX and conventional theaters all over the world, after only its first weekend," said Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. "And adding the excitement of the 3-D finale to a "Harry Potter" film in IMAX will keep international interest in this film and format going throughout the summer."
"Unprecedented advance IMAX ticket sales, sell-out IMAX shows and record-smashing IMAX box office results underscore the excitement for this film and a premium experience that cannot be replicated at home," said Greg Foster, Chairman and President, IMAX Filmed Entertainment. "This strong performance can be attributed to an outstanding job by the incredible film-making team led by David Yates and David Heyman, the talented team at Warner Bros. Pictures and a continuously growing IMAX distribution network."
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3-D Auction Results
Here are a few 3-D auction results from the past month
Harry Potter lenticular
A four-foot by six-foot 3-D lenticular poster of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix sold $320.99 for with 18 bids. This was part of a lobby standee sent by the studio. The poster is made of a flexible plastic and on back is imprinted "Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper."
Switzerland Through the Stereoscope
A rare book titled Switzerland Through The Stereoscope sold for $51.51 with five bids. The rare book is Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood The book was meant to accompany the Underwood & Underwood Switzerland stereoview set. 276 pages hardbound. The maps are missing from the back pocket of the book sold in this auction.
Stereoscopic Eyes book cover
The book Stereoscopic Eyes sold for $90 with nine bids. The purpose of this book is to inform and instruct the reader as to what depth or stereoscopic vision really is, how stereoscopic vision of flat "depth" pictures can be seen with the 'naked eye.'"
Table of Contents:
Chapter I: Fundamentals of Stereoscopic Vision
Historical Background
How our Eyes See
Chapter II: How to take Depth Pictures
Equipment
Depth Pictures with Dual Equipment
Taking Depth Pictures with one Camera
Close-up and Portrait Work
How the Stereoscope Works
The Stereoscope
How your Eyes See Depth
Sorting and Making Pictures
Chapter III: Learning to Fuse
Some Examples of Fusion
Fusing Exercises
Fusing Large Pictures
Additional Fusing Aids
Depth Pictures
Chapter IV: The Use of Depth Pictures in Refraction and Orthoptics
A Stereoscopic Manual of Gonioscopy containing six View-Master reels sold for $153.50 with 12 bids. Gonioscopy is a technique for studying the eye.
Contents:
1. Uses of Gonioscopy.
2. Gonioscopic Anatomy of the Angle of the Anterior Chamber of the Eye.
3. Case histories with labeled drawings keyed to stereophotographs.
Surgical Anatomy of the Bronchovacular Segments Stereoscopic Slide Supplement book, slides and viewer.
A Realist format medical stereo slide and viewer set sold for $194.43 with 15 bids. It is in a box that looks like a book. The title of the book is Surgical Anatomy of the Bronchovascular Segments Stereoscopic Slide Supplement. The 170 slides appear to be supplements to a book published in 1960. The book is "written" by Bloomer, Liebow and Hales. The publisher is Synchromatic Pictures, Hollywood, CA. Inside the box is a Craftsmen's Guild Viewer with large lenses and interocular adjustment. The slides are all mounted in slip-in mounts and are numbered and labeled.
Image Nation book cover
The 1980 book Image Nation sold for $41 with 10 bids. The book contains 72 stereo images from various artists.
A 3-D lenticular Independence Day poster sold for $50 with one bid. This is the 24" x 32" poster that shows the White House being blown up by a giant alien spacecraft.
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Beowulf to Hit Theatre Screens on Nov. 16, 2007
Beowulf logoIMAX Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Shangri-La Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that Beowulf, the latest film from Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis, the filmmaker behind such box office successes as Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, the Back To The Future series and What Lies Beneath, will be released domestically in IMAX® 3-D simultaneously with the motion picture's premiere in conventional theatres on Nov. 16, 2007. The film will be released internationally within three weeks of the domestic launch. Beowulf will be digitally converted into IMAX 3-D and re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® through IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. Paramount Pictures will be the distributor of the motion picture to IMAX® theaters domestically, and Warner Bros. Pictures will be the distributor internationally.
Inspired by the 9th century English epic poem, Beowulf combines a digitally enhanced live-action filmmaking technology with an all-star cast that includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman and Angelina Jolie. Neil Gaiman (MirrorMask, the graphic novel Sandman) and Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) adapted the legend for the screen.
"IMAX 3-D has enabled us to tell stories in a whole new way, and we are very excited to offer moviegoers a chance to experience Beowulf in this incredible format," said Robert Zemeckis. "IMAX lends itself to the incredible image detail in Beowulf and in 3-D, it will transport the audience directly into the story."
"IMAX has provided the world's most spectacular 3-D presentations for more than two decades, and as we continue to work with world-class organizations like Paramount Pictures, Shangri-La Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures on groundbreaking 3-D projects, we're reinforcing IMAX 3-D as the gold standard," said IMAX Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs Richard L. Gelfond and Bradley J. Wechsler. "Audiences loved the last IMAX 3-D release we did with Robert Zemeckis, so we're obviously very optimistic about the potential Beowulf holds for the IMAX theatre network."
"Our partners at Paramount Pictures, Shangri-La Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures have done a fantastic job of combining the 3-D savvy vision of Robert Zemeckis with a great cast, and we believe that moviegoers are going to love it in IMAX theatres," said Greg Foster, Chairman and President of IMAX Filmed Entertainment. "The unique geometry of IMAX theatres will enable audiences to feel as if they are actually in the movie as they experience it in IMAX 3-D."
The story
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
Cast
Angelina Jolie - Grendel's Mother (voice)
Brendan Gleeson - Wiglaf
Anthony Hopkins - King Hrothgar
Crispin Glover - Grendel
Ray Winstone - Beowulf
John Malkovich - Unferth
Robin Wright Penn - Queen Wealhtheow
Alison Lohman - Ursula
Dominic Keating - Old Cain
Sebastian Roché - Wulfgar
Greg Ellis - Garmund, Golden Man
Chris Coppola - Olaf
Nick Jameson - Drehgbearn
Alan Ritchson - Animated Image/Beowulf
Charlotte Salt - Estrith
Aaron Stephens - Beowulf physique
Leslie Harter Zemeckis - Yrsa
Rik Young - Eofor
Sharisse Baker-Bernard - Hild
Woody Schultz - Hengest
Nadine Stenovitch - Ensemble
Tyler Steelman - Young Cain
Shay Duffin
Emily Johnson - Maiden #12
Randy Shelly - Boy
John Littlefield - Thane #23
Tim Trobec - Thane #1
Richard Burns - Sentry Guard/Unferth Guard
Jacquie Barnbrook - Altheaborg
Chris Mala - Thane #5
Jared Weber - Thane #3
Kevin Dorman - Unferth Guard
Tom West - Thane #44
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Comic-Con Preview: 20 Minutes of Beowulf 3-D
Angelina Jolie in Beowulf 3-DIn late July, a movie theater full of film press packed a big digital theatre in downtown San Diego to watch 20 minutes of Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf. Screenwriters Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman were on hand to field questions following the screening. The screening started late because the theatre was at the end of a multi-level labyrinth they call an outdoor mall. Security was tight with no one allowed to take in a camera, iPhone or even digital audio recording device.
They began the screening with the movie trailer that is now online. Gaiman, in a Superman’s Dead t-shirt, told the crowd to put on their “magic beowulf glasses.” The lights went out and the trailer played in digital 3-D. It was definitely much better in 3-D. At one point the blood sprays off the screen at the audience, which is a cool effect.
Neil promises that Beowulf will be the biggest 3-D release ever, simutanously being shown in IMAX 3-D, Real D on digital screens and in normal Dolby. Avary talked about the 10 year journey from script to screen and gushed over how “It’s like somebody reached inside my brain” and put the images on screen. He jokingly explain that he wanted to make the film to make the story easier to understand for future generations of high school students.
They then showed the entire second reel of the film, which was almost 20 minutes in length.
“The reason why we’re showing you the second reel is because it’s the only thing that exists,” explains Gaiman, who says the rest of the film is just data. Gaiman explained the set-up of Reel #1. A hole has opened and a monster named Grendel has started eating people because he hates the noise. Beowulf comes across the sea with his huge group of men to battle the monster. He strips down and says he will fight the monster with no weapons. Beowulf nearly defeats the monster and that is where Reel #2 starts.
Gaiman said that “Beowulf is the oldest story in the English language.”
Avary added, “told with the most modern technology.”
The two have a comic chemistry. Avary is always stepping over Gaiman’s words and apologizing. Gainman offers quick quips in return.
Reel 2 begins with Beowulf kicking the cut off arm of Grendel. It’s instantly impressive. The animation in Beowulf’s face, and the skin imperfections is the most realistic human facial animation to date. But you still have that weird motion capture movement. Which I’ve always found really odd since logically motion capture should result in more realistic movement, right? But instead you get some very robotic movements at times. This is not to say that Beowulf isn’t a vast improvement over Final Fantasy and The Polar Express, because it is. The technology is unfortunately not there yet. However, the 3-D technology is absolutely amazing.
Beowulf and crew return to be rewarded by the King. Grendel’s mother attacks the town and Beowulf is pissed that he was never told about the mother. The king looks exactly like a digital copy of Anthony Hopkins, which asks the question (which was asked later) why do all the work involved in motion capture animation if you’re just going to give the actor the same look? This is one of the reasons that Pixar is so successful. They hire the actors purely based who would be a better fit for the character.
Beowulf enters the watery cave alone. This is the scene from the trailer where Ray Winstone’s character wades through the water in the dark cave. He finds a cavern full of treasures and yells “show yourself!” and “What are you!?” A tail quickly flew by the foreground. “Are you the one they call Beowulf” Finally we see the monster. The monster is basically Angelina Jolie with a long ponytail that turns into a dragon-like tail. She rises up from the water and it’s very clear that Angelina Jolie is very nude (except slightly covered up). Everyone was in awe at how real and hot she looked. “What do you know of me demon!?” “Under your armor you are as much a monster as my so Grendel.” She strokes his sword in a very sexual way explaining that it’s been a long time since a man has visited her. He hand melts his sword. She offers Beowulf a deal that would make him the greatest and longest living king to ever live. The clip ends with them kissing.
Gaiman says that’s the genius of Robert Zemeckis, before taking questions from the crowd.
“What do you want to know? We will answer or we will lie!”
He confirms that the film was 100 percent motion capture: “They wore those suits all those dots on them, looking much like the cast from Tron.”
Avary explained that the motion capture technology allowed Bob to do full takes without any cuts which translated into some incredible performances: “That’s performance capture. It’s digitally enhanced acting.”
Someone asks the question, "Why do the motion capture and animation if you just want the characters to look like the actors that portray them." Gainman explains that Beowulf doesn’t, which I think was a lame answer. He saw that the aging of Beowulf in the film would not be possible without this technology. He then makes a good point: “If you have John Malkovich or Anthony Hopkins, why not?” He wondered out loud how the Academy will react. Will digital versions of actors get award recognition?
Roger explained that he grew up loving Legend and Excalibur, and that Beowulf was the one story he connected with in High School. It hit him that no movie was ever made of the story and put it on his list of ideas. Then when Avary was fired from the big screen adaptation of Gainman’s Sandman “for being too honest about his intentions and ideas”, he studied the story again and asked Gaiman to co-write the film with him,
Avary compares the story of Beowulf with the game of telephone. The resulting story has more than a few plot holes which forced him to be creative to cover up. Neil and Roger wrote the script in a two week stretch in Mexico in May 1997, while drinking bad Mexican beer by a pool, passing floppy discs between them. Zemeckis read the script and for years wanted Avary to direct it, but eventually took on the task himself.
They joked that the original dragon fight was very talky and lacked much action because they wrote it with a small budget in mind. Zemeckis hired them to rewrite the film and encouraged them to “go wild”.
Gaiman also confirmed that they are aiming for a PG-13 rating despite the violence, blood and previously discussed nudity of Angelina Jolie. I’m wondering if they can pull this off. He reiterated the previous statement that they are planning to release an unrated version on DVD at some point.
Avary praises Zemeckis for having a writers mind and having the creative collaborative excitement that some directors lack.
Gaiman describes the footage: “For me it felt like wandering around in a graphic novel.”
He sad that the technology is getting better every day and this may be the bet way to do Sandman, whenever that actually happens. He praised the 3-D technology as being a revolution for cinema. “This will actually be a reason to go to the cinema again.”
They then showed a teaser which showed quick cuts of all the cool moments from the reel and trailer.
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Beowulf logoIMAX Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Shangri-La Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that Beowulf, the latest film from Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis, the filmmaker behind such box office successes as Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, the Back To The Future series and What Lies Beneath, will be released domestically in IMAX® 3-D simultaneously with the motion picture's premiere in conventional theatres on Nov. 16, 2007. The film will be released internationally within three weeks of the domestic launch. Beowulf will be digitally converted into IMAX 3-D and re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® through IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. Paramount Pictures will be the distributor of the motion picture to IMAX® theaters domestically, and Warner Bros. Pictures will be the distributor internationally.
Inspired by the 9th century English epic poem, Beowulf combines a digitally enhanced live-action filmmaking technology with an all-star cast that includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman and Angelina Jolie. Neil Gaiman (MirrorMask, the graphic novel Sandman) and Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) adapted the legend for the screen.
"IMAX 3-D has enabled us to tell stories in a whole new way, and we are very excited to offer moviegoers a chance to experience Beowulf in this incredible format," said Robert Zemeckis. "IMAX lends itself to the incredible image detail in Beowulf and in 3-D, it will transport the audience directly into the story."
"IMAX has provided the world's most spectacular 3-D presentations for more than two decades, and as we continue to work with world-class organizations like Paramount Pictures, Shangri-La Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures on groundbreaking 3-D projects, we're reinforcing IMAX 3-D as the gold standard," said IMAX Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs Richard L. Gelfond and Bradley J. Wechsler. "Audiences loved the last IMAX 3-D release we did with Robert Zemeckis, so we're obviously very optimistic about the potential Beowulf holds for the IMAX theatre network."
"Our partners at Paramount Pictures, Shangri-La Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures have done a fantastic job of combining the 3-D savvy vision of Robert Zemeckis with a great cast, and we believe that moviegoers are going to love it in IMAX theatres," said Greg Foster, Chairman and President of IMAX Filmed Entertainment. "The unique geometry of IMAX theatres will enable audiences to feel as if they are actually in the movie as they experience it in IMAX 3-D."
The story
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
Cast
Angelina Jolie - Grendel's Mother (voice)
Brendan Gleeson - Wiglaf
Anthony Hopkins - King Hrothgar
Crispin Glover - Grendel
Ray Winstone - Beowulf
John Malkovich - Unferth
Robin Wright Penn - Queen Wealhtheow
Alison Lohman - Ursula
Dominic Keating - Old Cain
Sebastian Roché - Wulfgar
Greg Ellis - Garmund, Golden Man
Chris Coppola - Olaf
Nick Jameson - Drehgbearn
Alan Ritchson - Animated Image/Beowulf
Charlotte Salt - Estrith
Aaron Stephens - Beowulf physique
Leslie Harter Zemeckis - Yrsa
Rik Young - Eofor
Sharisse Baker-Bernard - Hild
Woody Schultz - Hengest
Nadine Stenovitch - Ensemble
Tyler Steelman - Young Cain
Shay Duffin
Emily Johnson - Maiden #12
Randy Shelly - Boy
John Littlefield - Thane #23
Tim Trobec - Thane #1
Richard Burns - Sentry Guard/Unferth Guard
Jacquie Barnbrook - Altheaborg
Chris Mala - Thane #5
Jared Weber - Thane #3
Kevin Dorman - Unferth Guard
Tom West - Thane #44
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Comic-Con Preview: 20 Minutes of Beowulf 3-D
Angelina Jolie in Beowulf 3-DIn late July, a movie theater full of film press packed a big digital theatre in downtown San Diego to watch 20 minutes of Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf. Screenwriters Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman were on hand to field questions following the screening. The screening started late because the theatre was at the end of a multi-level labyrinth they call an outdoor mall. Security was tight with no one allowed to take in a camera, iPhone or even digital audio recording device.
They began the screening with the movie trailer that is now online. Gaiman, in a Superman’s Dead t-shirt, told the crowd to put on their “magic beowulf glasses.” The lights went out and the trailer played in digital 3-D. It was definitely much better in 3-D. At one point the blood sprays off the screen at the audience, which is a cool effect.
Neil promises that Beowulf will be the biggest 3-D release ever, simutanously being shown in IMAX 3-D, Real D on digital screens and in normal Dolby. Avary talked about the 10 year journey from script to screen and gushed over how “It’s like somebody reached inside my brain” and put the images on screen. He jokingly explain that he wanted to make the film to make the story easier to understand for future generations of high school students.
They then showed the entire second reel of the film, which was almost 20 minutes in length.
“The reason why we’re showing you the second reel is because it’s the only thing that exists,” explains Gaiman, who says the rest of the film is just data. Gaiman explained the set-up of Reel #1. A hole has opened and a monster named Grendel has started eating people because he hates the noise. Beowulf comes across the sea with his huge group of men to battle the monster. He strips down and says he will fight the monster with no weapons. Beowulf nearly defeats the monster and that is where Reel #2 starts.
Gaiman said that “Beowulf is the oldest story in the English language.”
Avary added, “told with the most modern technology.”
The two have a comic chemistry. Avary is always stepping over Gaiman’s words and apologizing. Gainman offers quick quips in return.
Reel 2 begins with Beowulf kicking the cut off arm of Grendel. It’s instantly impressive. The animation in Beowulf’s face, and the skin imperfections is the most realistic human facial animation to date. But you still have that weird motion capture movement. Which I’ve always found really odd since logically motion capture should result in more realistic movement, right? But instead you get some very robotic movements at times. This is not to say that Beowulf isn’t a vast improvement over Final Fantasy and The Polar Express, because it is. The technology is unfortunately not there yet. However, the 3-D technology is absolutely amazing.
Beowulf and crew return to be rewarded by the King. Grendel’s mother attacks the town and Beowulf is pissed that he was never told about the mother. The king looks exactly like a digital copy of Anthony Hopkins, which asks the question (which was asked later) why do all the work involved in motion capture animation if you’re just going to give the actor the same look? This is one of the reasons that Pixar is so successful. They hire the actors purely based who would be a better fit for the character.
Beowulf enters the watery cave alone. This is the scene from the trailer where Ray Winstone’s character wades through the water in the dark cave. He finds a cavern full of treasures and yells “show yourself!” and “What are you!?” A tail quickly flew by the foreground. “Are you the one they call Beowulf” Finally we see the monster. The monster is basically Angelina Jolie with a long ponytail that turns into a dragon-like tail. She rises up from the water and it’s very clear that Angelina Jolie is very nude (except slightly covered up). Everyone was in awe at how real and hot she looked. “What do you know of me demon!?” “Under your armor you are as much a monster as my so Grendel.” She strokes his sword in a very sexual way explaining that it’s been a long time since a man has visited her. He hand melts his sword. She offers Beowulf a deal that would make him the greatest and longest living king to ever live. The clip ends with them kissing.
Gaiman says that’s the genius of Robert Zemeckis, before taking questions from the crowd.
“What do you want to know? We will answer or we will lie!”
He confirms that the film was 100 percent motion capture: “They wore those suits all those dots on them, looking much like the cast from Tron.”
Avary explained that the motion capture technology allowed Bob to do full takes without any cuts which translated into some incredible performances: “That’s performance capture. It’s digitally enhanced acting.”
Someone asks the question, "Why do the motion capture and animation if you just want the characters to look like the actors that portray them." Gainman explains that Beowulf doesn’t, which I think was a lame answer. He saw that the aging of Beowulf in the film would not be possible without this technology. He then makes a good point: “If you have John Malkovich or Anthony Hopkins, why not?” He wondered out loud how the Academy will react. Will digital versions of actors get award recognition?
Roger explained that he grew up loving Legend and Excalibur, and that Beowulf was the one story he connected with in High School. It hit him that no movie was ever made of the story and put it on his list of ideas. Then when Avary was fired from the big screen adaptation of Gainman’s Sandman “for being too honest about his intentions and ideas”, he studied the story again and asked Gaiman to co-write the film with him,
Avary compares the story of Beowulf with the game of telephone. The resulting story has more than a few plot holes which forced him to be creative to cover up. Neil and Roger wrote the script in a two week stretch in Mexico in May 1997, while drinking bad Mexican beer by a pool, passing floppy discs between them. Zemeckis read the script and for years wanted Avary to direct it, but eventually took on the task himself.
They joked that the original dragon fight was very talky and lacked much action because they wrote it with a small budget in mind. Zemeckis hired them to rewrite the film and encouraged them to “go wild”.
Gaiman also confirmed that they are aiming for a PG-13 rating despite the violence, blood and previously discussed nudity of Angelina Jolie. I’m wondering if they can pull this off. He reiterated the previous statement that they are planning to release an unrated version on DVD at some point.
Avary praises Zemeckis for having a writers mind and having the creative collaborative excitement that some directors lack.
Gaiman describes the footage: “For me it felt like wandering around in a graphic novel.”
He sad that the technology is getting better every day and this may be the bet way to do Sandman, whenever that actually happens. He praised the 3-D technology as being a revolution for cinema. “This will actually be a reason to go to the cinema again.”
They then showed a teaser which showed quick cuts of all the cool moments from the reel and trailer.
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kiamat
Badai Matahari = Flare dan CME
Masih menurut ahli lain dari LAPAN, bahwa badai Matahari akan terjadi ketika adanya flare dan Corona Mass Ejection (CME). Apa itu Flare..? Flare adalah ledakan besar di atmosfer Matahari yang dahsyatnya menyamai 66 juta kali ledakan bom atom Hiroshima. Padahal bom atom yang dijatuhkan Paul Tibbets, pilot pesawat Amerika Serikat (AS), B-29 Enola Gay, Agustus 1945, telah merenggut sekitar 80.000 jiwa manusia. Berarti kalau dikalikan 66 juta lagi, wouw…!
Sedang CME adalah sejenis ledakan sangat besar yang menyebabkan lontaran partikel2 berkecepatan tinggi yakni sekitar 400 km/detik. wouw…
Gangguan cuaca Matahari ini dapat mempengaruhi kondisi muatan antariksa hingga mempengaruhi magnet Bumi, selanjutnya berdampak pada sistem kelistrikan, transportasi yang mengandalkan satelit navigasi global positioning system (GPS), dan sistem komunikasi yang menggunakan satelit komunikasi dan gelombang frekuensi tinggi (HF), serta dapat membahayakan kesehatan atau kehidupan manusia, misal karena magnet Bumi terganggu, maka alat pacu jantung juga akan terganggu.
HP akan error, dan sms bakal ‘kiamat’ betul
Dengan skala sebenarnya, saya sketsakan kira2 Badai Matahari itu akan seperti apa. Besar matahari hanya diambil sepersecuilnya, sementara Bumi sangat penuh (meski masih sangat kecil) tampaknya. Bumi saja belum apa-apanya bila dibanding sunspot yang warna hitam2 itu…
Badai Matahari tahun 2011-2012
Badai Matahari tahun 2011-2012
Flare di permukaan matahari sangat dahsyat, kalau pas maksimal bisa menjulang sauangaaaat tinggi:
Flare di Matahari
Flare di Matahari
Bagi yangminat lihat animasi Flare matahari paling update, ini linknya:
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/sun_cam_animated.html
Persiapan menuju Kiamat 2012 itu…:
Dikatakan para ahli bahwa dari Matahari, milyaran partikel alektron sampai ke lapisan ionosfer Bumi dalam waktu empat hari, Dampak dari serbuan dari partikel elektron ini di kutub berlangsung beberapa hari. Selama itu, bisa dilakukan langkah-langkah antisipasi untuk mengurangi dampak yang ditimbulkan.
Mengantisipasi munculnya badai antariksa itu, LAPAN tengah membangun Pusat Sistem Pemantau Cuaca Antariksa Terpadu di pusat Pemanfaatan Sains Antariksa LAPAN Bandung. Objek yang dipantau antara lain lapisan Ionosfer dan geomagnetik, serta gelombang radio. Sistem ini akan beroperasi penuh pada Januari 2009 mendatang.
Langkah antisipasi LAPAN yang telah dilakukan adalah menghubungi pihak-pihak yang mungkin akan terkena dampak dari muncul badai antariksa ini, yakni Dephankam, TNI,Dephub, PLN, dan Depkominfo, serta Pemda.
Saat ini pelatihan bagi aparat pemda yang mengoperasikan radio HF telah dilakukan sejak lama, kini telah ada sekitar 500 orang yang terlatih menghadapi gangguan sinyal radio. PLN harus melakukan sosialisasi ke masyarakat akan adanya pemutusan berkala demi mengurangi dampak badai antariksa ini.
Penerbangan dan pelayaran yang mengandalkan GPS sebagai sistem navigasihendaknya menggunakan sistem manual ketika badai antariksa terjadi dalam memandu tinggal landas atau pendaratan pesawatterbang.
Perubahan densitas elektron akibat cuaca antariksa dapat mengubah kecepatan gelombangradio ketika melewati ionosfer sehingga menimbulkan delay propagasi pada sinyal GPS. Perubahan ini mengakibatkan penyimpangan pada penentuan jarak dan posisi. Selain itu, komponen mikroelektronika pada satelit navigasi dan komunikasi akan mengalami kerusakan sehingga mengalami percepatan masa pakai, sehingga bisa tidak berfungsi lagi.
Saat ini LAPAN telah mengembangkan pemodelan perencanaan penggunaan frekuensi untuk menghadapi gangguan badai matahari tinggi untuk komunikasi radio HF.
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Masih menurut ahli lain dari LAPAN, bahwa badai Matahari akan terjadi ketika adanya flare dan Corona Mass Ejection (CME). Apa itu Flare..? Flare adalah ledakan besar di atmosfer Matahari yang dahsyatnya menyamai 66 juta kali ledakan bom atom Hiroshima. Padahal bom atom yang dijatuhkan Paul Tibbets, pilot pesawat Amerika Serikat (AS), B-29 Enola Gay, Agustus 1945, telah merenggut sekitar 80.000 jiwa manusia. Berarti kalau dikalikan 66 juta lagi, wouw…!
Sedang CME adalah sejenis ledakan sangat besar yang menyebabkan lontaran partikel2 berkecepatan tinggi yakni sekitar 400 km/detik. wouw…
Gangguan cuaca Matahari ini dapat mempengaruhi kondisi muatan antariksa hingga mempengaruhi magnet Bumi, selanjutnya berdampak pada sistem kelistrikan, transportasi yang mengandalkan satelit navigasi global positioning system (GPS), dan sistem komunikasi yang menggunakan satelit komunikasi dan gelombang frekuensi tinggi (HF), serta dapat membahayakan kesehatan atau kehidupan manusia, misal karena magnet Bumi terganggu, maka alat pacu jantung juga akan terganggu.
HP akan error, dan sms bakal ‘kiamat’ betul
Dengan skala sebenarnya, saya sketsakan kira2 Badai Matahari itu akan seperti apa. Besar matahari hanya diambil sepersecuilnya, sementara Bumi sangat penuh (meski masih sangat kecil) tampaknya. Bumi saja belum apa-apanya bila dibanding sunspot yang warna hitam2 itu…
Badai Matahari tahun 2011-2012
Badai Matahari tahun 2011-2012
Flare di permukaan matahari sangat dahsyat, kalau pas maksimal bisa menjulang sauangaaaat tinggi:
Flare di Matahari
Flare di Matahari
Bagi yangminat lihat animasi Flare matahari paling update, ini linknya:
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/sun_cam_animated.html
Persiapan menuju Kiamat 2012 itu…:
Dikatakan para ahli bahwa dari Matahari, milyaran partikel alektron sampai ke lapisan ionosfer Bumi dalam waktu empat hari, Dampak dari serbuan dari partikel elektron ini di kutub berlangsung beberapa hari. Selama itu, bisa dilakukan langkah-langkah antisipasi untuk mengurangi dampak yang ditimbulkan.
Mengantisipasi munculnya badai antariksa itu, LAPAN tengah membangun Pusat Sistem Pemantau Cuaca Antariksa Terpadu di pusat Pemanfaatan Sains Antariksa LAPAN Bandung. Objek yang dipantau antara lain lapisan Ionosfer dan geomagnetik, serta gelombang radio. Sistem ini akan beroperasi penuh pada Januari 2009 mendatang.
Langkah antisipasi LAPAN yang telah dilakukan adalah menghubungi pihak-pihak yang mungkin akan terkena dampak dari muncul badai antariksa ini, yakni Dephankam, TNI,Dephub, PLN, dan Depkominfo, serta Pemda.
Saat ini pelatihan bagi aparat pemda yang mengoperasikan radio HF telah dilakukan sejak lama, kini telah ada sekitar 500 orang yang terlatih menghadapi gangguan sinyal radio. PLN harus melakukan sosialisasi ke masyarakat akan adanya pemutusan berkala demi mengurangi dampak badai antariksa ini.
Penerbangan dan pelayaran yang mengandalkan GPS sebagai sistem navigasihendaknya menggunakan sistem manual ketika badai antariksa terjadi dalam memandu tinggal landas atau pendaratan pesawatterbang.
Perubahan densitas elektron akibat cuaca antariksa dapat mengubah kecepatan gelombangradio ketika melewati ionosfer sehingga menimbulkan delay propagasi pada sinyal GPS. Perubahan ini mengakibatkan penyimpangan pada penentuan jarak dan posisi. Selain itu, komponen mikroelektronika pada satelit navigasi dan komunikasi akan mengalami kerusakan sehingga mengalami percepatan masa pakai, sehingga bisa tidak berfungsi lagi.
Saat ini LAPAN telah mengembangkan pemodelan perencanaan penggunaan frekuensi untuk menghadapi gangguan badai matahari tinggi untuk komunikasi radio HF.
http://pakarfisika.files.wordpress.com
planet
Baru-baru ini sebuah tim yang dibentuk oleh 73 astronom yang berasal dari berbagai negara memastikan bahwa mereka telah menemukan planet yang mirip bumi yang paling kecil di luar tata surya. Planet yang paling mirip dengan Bumi di luar tata surya kita sampai saat ini, permukaannya kemungkinan tertutup oleh air. Planet itu mengorbit bintang Gliese 581, yang terletak 20,5 tahun cahaya di gugus bintang Libra. Para ilmuwan menemukan planet itu dengan menggunakan teleskop khusus di Cili.
Mereka mengatakan suhu yang hangat dan nyaman di planet itu berarti permukaan planet diisi oleh air, yang secara teoritis dapat mempertahankan kehidupan. Benda yang mirip planet bumi ini jaraknya 28.000 tahun cahaya jauhnya, dan mataharinya adalah sebuah bintang cebol merah yang tidak tinggi, karenanya suhu pada permukaan planet ini kurang lebih berkisar antara 220 derajat Celcius di bawah nol.
Berdasarkan bintang tetap yang menyandarnya, ilmuwan yang menemukan planet ini memberi nama OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, bintang tetap ini sama seperti dengan matahari kita, berada di dalam sistem galaksi. Selama 11 tahun ini, sudah lebih dari 170 planet di luar sistem galaksi ditemukan, tapi sebagian besar mereka lebih besar daripada bumi. Volume mereka umumnya sangat besar seperti planet Jupiter, dan tidak mudah jika hendak mengamatinya, mereka baru bisa ditemui saat melewati bintang tetap.
Namun, karena pengaruh gravitasi dapat membuat cahaya bintang melengkung, sehingga menyebabkan fenomena pengamatan yang tidak stabil, ketika mengamati volume planet yang lebih kecil, dampak yang ditimbulkan tidak begitu besar. Pada 1912 Einstein telah mengemukakan fenomena lensa micro lensing, dan karena teori ini jugalah kemudian dapat menemukan planet mirip bumi ini. Yang dimaksud micro lensing adalah bintang tetap yang berada di garis penglihatan, gravitasinya membuat garis cahaya bintang tetap jauh atau pemandangan planet-planet mirip bumi lainnya merapat, sehingga menimbulkan fenomena yang semakin terang.
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb besarnya 5,5 kali lipat dari bumi. Jarak dengan bintang tetap yang disandarnya sendiri sejauh 390 juta km, dan jarak ini jika berada di dalam sistem galaksi, kira-kira berada di antara Jupiter dan Mars. Satu lingkaran evolusi peredarannya mengelilingi bintang tetap, yakni satu tahun-nya itu, menghabiskan waktu 10 tahun bumi.
sumber swaberita.com
Mereka mengatakan suhu yang hangat dan nyaman di planet itu berarti permukaan planet diisi oleh air, yang secara teoritis dapat mempertahankan kehidupan. Benda yang mirip planet bumi ini jaraknya 28.000 tahun cahaya jauhnya, dan mataharinya adalah sebuah bintang cebol merah yang tidak tinggi, karenanya suhu pada permukaan planet ini kurang lebih berkisar antara 220 derajat Celcius di bawah nol.
Berdasarkan bintang tetap yang menyandarnya, ilmuwan yang menemukan planet ini memberi nama OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, bintang tetap ini sama seperti dengan matahari kita, berada di dalam sistem galaksi. Selama 11 tahun ini, sudah lebih dari 170 planet di luar sistem galaksi ditemukan, tapi sebagian besar mereka lebih besar daripada bumi. Volume mereka umumnya sangat besar seperti planet Jupiter, dan tidak mudah jika hendak mengamatinya, mereka baru bisa ditemui saat melewati bintang tetap.
Namun, karena pengaruh gravitasi dapat membuat cahaya bintang melengkung, sehingga menyebabkan fenomena pengamatan yang tidak stabil, ketika mengamati volume planet yang lebih kecil, dampak yang ditimbulkan tidak begitu besar. Pada 1912 Einstein telah mengemukakan fenomena lensa micro lensing, dan karena teori ini jugalah kemudian dapat menemukan planet mirip bumi ini. Yang dimaksud micro lensing adalah bintang tetap yang berada di garis penglihatan, gravitasinya membuat garis cahaya bintang tetap jauh atau pemandangan planet-planet mirip bumi lainnya merapat, sehingga menimbulkan fenomena yang semakin terang.
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb besarnya 5,5 kali lipat dari bumi. Jarak dengan bintang tetap yang disandarnya sendiri sejauh 390 juta km, dan jarak ini jika berada di dalam sistem galaksi, kira-kira berada di antara Jupiter dan Mars. Satu lingkaran evolusi peredarannya mengelilingi bintang tetap, yakni satu tahun-nya itu, menghabiskan waktu 10 tahun bumi.
sumber swaberita.com
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