“VerticalVision” is one April Fools joke that just might hit a little too close to home for both film fans and filmmakers. While we gotta hand it to ourselves for our own April Fools prank - Canon is NOT in fact releasing a 16K EOS R for $99,999 today - the teams at Alamo Drafthouse and Birth.Movies.Death deserves recognition for their “VerticalVision” April 1st announcement. Let’s breakdown the “VerticalVision” hoax and how it might just be a little too on the nose for what might be the sad, eventual future of cinema. Alamo Drafthouse’s VerticalVision Complete with an in-depth blog post, an introductory landing page and even a “demo” video of the new technology in action (watch it below), the Alamo Drafthousers certainly went all in on building out a pretty elaborate and well-developed April Fools prank. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 1 April, 2019