Robots poster
Robots is a new, digitally-animated feature which opened on film and as digital cinema on March 11, 2005.
Robots was produced for 20th Century Fox by Blue Sky Studios, and stars Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Coolidge, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes and Drew Carey voicing the film's major characters.
Mel Brooks voices "Bigweld" in Robots poster
Entertainment Technology World spoke today with Bob Gordon, Vice President of Production at Fox Animation, about the making of
Robots, with a focus on the digital cinema aspects of this totally digitally-created film.
Fender (voiced by Robin Williams) selling Star Maps in Robots
Bob Gordon will be appearing on Monday, April 4, 2005, as the guest speaker in the latest of a series of digital cinema screenings being presented by the
University of Southern California's
Entertainment Technology Center's
Digital Cinema Laboratory, which is housed in the
Hollywood Pacific Theatre at 6433 Hollywood Boulevard, in Hollywood, California.
The featured digital cinema presentation at this event will be 20th Century Fox's
Robots.
Robots was digitally delivered to and projected at digital cinema-capable theatres by the
Access Digital Media subsidiary of Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. (AccessIT), "which provided digital content management and secure delivery of the film, via satellite, to 16 AccessIT digitally equipped theaters across the U.S."
You can listen to today's Etopia Media
Entertainment Technology World conversation with Bob Gordon, VP of Production at Fox Animation, in its entirety, by clicking
here.
To access a detailed and comprehensive treatise on digital cinema by Charles S. Swartz, Executive Director and CEO, Digital Cinema Laboratory at USC, entitled "Challenges of Implementing Digital Technology in Motion Picture Distribution and Exhibition: Testing and Evaluation Methodology," presented by him at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2003 Digital Cinema Summit, click
here.
All
Robots and publicity images © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.
Used by permission of Twentieth Century Fox.
Get in the swing with additional Etopia Media News Network articles and interviews and Google Alerts
Join the "Entertainment Technology World™" mailing list (unless you're already on another Etopia Media mailing list) and receive prompt notice of new articles and interviews on this Entertainment Technology World web site.