Summary Director Francis Lawrence defends the long runtime of The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, prioritizing completeness over length. Lawrence learned from the criticism of splitting Mockingjay into two parts and insisted on making Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes a standalone film. The longer runtime of the film aligns with the trend of … Read more
Martin Scorsese gets honest about ‘Killer of the Flower Moon’ runtime Killer of the Flower Moon has a long runtime, and Martin Scorsese credited Ari Aster’s works for inspiring his AppleTV+ project’s length and pacing. In a chat with The Irish Times, the Academy winner filmmaker opened up about 206-minute length, saying, “I very much … Read more
Image: Marvel Studios At a time when folks are tying a movie’s runtime as part of their interest in seeing it in the theater, blockbuster tentpoles can sometimes run fairly long. At two hours or more, superhero flicks can run long in the the tooth. So if such a thing matters to you, you’ll be … Read more
Unity has done a 180 on a controversial new pricing scheme that users of its cross-platform game engine almost unanimously disparaged. A new pricing policy is still incoming, but it’s far less fraught for independent developers, many of whom threatened to leave the engine and platform behind rather than pay. The changes were announced only … Read more
After a controversial week for Unity, the game engine developer is walking back (at least partially) its much-derided runtime installation policy. Last Tuesday, the company announced its plan to charge game developers a fee every time a game made on the Unity engine was installed by a customer. As you can imagine, this did not … Read more
Helena and Indy in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future.Picture: Lucasfilm Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future received’t be in theaters till subsequent month, however followers who occur to be on the Cannes Movie Pageant this week shall be among the many first public audiences to see the movie in its entirety. Which … Read more