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“Life of Pi” Available on Blu-ray and DVD March 12
To celebrate the release of Ang Lee’s visual masterpiece “Life of Pi”, Media Mikes would like to giveaway a Blu-ray to its readers. If you would like to enter for your chance to win one of these great prizes, please leave us a comment below or send us an email indicating your favorite film based on a novel. This giveaway will remain open until March 22nd at Noon, Eastern Time. This is open to residents of the United States only. One entry per person, per household. All other entries will be considered invalid. Media Mikes will randomly select winners. Winners will be alerted via email.
A “magnificent and moving” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) motion picture event that has been hailed as “a masterpiece” (Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times), taking in over $500 million in worldwide box office. LIFE OF PI follows Pi Patel, a young man on a fateful voyage who, after a spectacular disaster, is marooned on a lifeboat with the only other survivor, a fearsome 450 lb Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker. Hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery Pi and his majestic companion make an amazing and unexpected connection.
Check out Fox’s Guide to 3D Blu-ray:
One of the latest developments in the world of home entertainment is the introduction of 3D Blu-ray. Ang Lee made the most of 3D technology in the making of Life of Pi, which is being released on 3D Blu-ray March 12. The 3D Blu-ray will allow select bonus features to be seen in 3D, which is a first for the market. In this feature, we’ll take a closer look into at-home 3D technology and how it is evolving.
All the major studios now release their blockbusters on 3D Blu-ray. Popular 3D titles from 20th Century Fox include Avatar and Prometheus and with older titles such as iRobot now re-mastered for 3D Blu-ray release it looks like we will be viewing more and more of our favourite 3D films at home this year.
When 3D HDTVs were first sold in 2010 many believed that TV technology had reached its peak. However, TV giants such as Samsung, LG and Panasonic and Sony were already looking ahead. They immediately began work on passive 3D glasses, similar to what audiences use in the cinema, which were more comfortable than the chunky active-3D glasses, which consumers had to sync with their TV in order to use.
This was certainly a welcome step forward for consumers but the electronics companies were just getting started. In 2012 we witnessed the first glasses-free 3D HDTV. This marked a huge breakthrough for at-home 3D but there were still problems. For example, each person watching had to sync their position with the TV to ensure clear viewing, which proved tiresome in big groups.
Price remains the biggest barrier to consumer conversion to glasses-free 3D TV. These products are, on average, $10,000 more expensive than your run-of-the-mill passive or active 3D HDTVs, which means you are unlikely to see them in your friends’ living room anytime soon.
Another key area of growth with at-home 3D technology is mobile, with a growing number of laptops supporting 3D movie playback and video gaming. Tablets and smartphones are also expected to enter the market featuring glasses-free 3D entertainment in the next few years.
A good example of a company bringing 3D technology to laptops is the Dutch company Dimenco. They were behind a recent promotion involving glasses-free lenticular screens in London and have also developed a lenticular attachment for the MacBook Pro which will offer glasses-free 3D on a Retina-display laptop: the ideal place for it, since there is no problem with multiple viewing angles.
So what should we look out for in 2013? 4K technology has been on our cinema screens since 2007 but will be entering the home in 2013. 4KTVs will have a mind-blowing 8 million individual pixels and some brands will even allow users to play 2-player games with no split-screen. The $24,999 price-tag means you won’t be seeing many 4KTVs around but with at-home 3D technology evolving at such a pace, it won’t be long before you can watch your Life of Pi 3D Blu-ray in 4K at home.
Mine would be The Stand.
The Godfather
Fight Club
btw you put “favorite book based on a novel”
just saying
Hunger Games!
The Color Purple
The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
The Harry Potter Books
I like The note book.
The 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice
My pick would be Drive! The book (by James Sallis) and the film (directed by Nicolas Winding Refn) were two entirely different animals, but both were equally fascinating on a cultural and artistic level.
Harry Potter!
Either To Kill a Mockingbirg, or Let The Right One In.
For me it would be the movie, JAWS! It’s a true classic, as is Peter Benchley’s novel!
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My favorite is The Notebook
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My favorite is by far the Lord of the Rings! engineergirl@mail.com
The Notebook
Jurassic Park
‘Sophie’s Choice’
Stephen King’s It
The help
Hunger Games
Along came a Spider
My favorite movie based on a novel is “Les Miserables.”
Lord of the Rings (all of them)
Mine is the movie Precious based on the novel Push.
Alex Cross
I really like Jack Reacher.
Harry Potter
Back to the future
An Education
To Kill a Mockingbird….perfect adaptation. 🙂 Thank you.
Love The Stand
I Cold Blood was intense
I love “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
I loved the Secret Life of Bees
A classic, The Wizard of Oz.
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
The hunger games
Lord of the Rings.
The Power Of One!
The Notebook!
The Godfather
Gone with the Wind.
hunger games
The Notebook
Fight Club
JAWS! Not too much deviation from the novel, and it is a masterpiece of the 70s. A+ movie adaptation.
Memoirs of a Geisha was exceedingly lovely.
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lord of the rings
Perks of being a Wallflower
The Stand
Left Behind
the hunger games
Harry Potter
one who flew over the cukoos nest
Soylent Green
the notebook
TWILIGHT HAVE SEEN LIFE WITH PI YET FINGERS CROSSED
The Green Mile
Jaws
Gone With The Wind
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Silence of the Lambs!
To Kill a Mockingbird
fave: Charly
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Jurassic Park
John Carter
Fight Club
Contact by Carl Sagan
your favorite film based on a novel
Helter skelter 1978 made for tv
The Hunger Games
I loved Water For Elephants
A Walk to Remember
Water For Elephants was so beautiful.
My most recent favorite would be The Hunger Games 🙂
Stardust
silver linings playbook
I like Rebecca
A great picture with a great actor…MYSTIC RIVER
schindler’s list
plug me in for hunger games
Love your giveaways
Hunger Games
Giant
Harry Potter movies
Hunger Games
Shawshank Redemption…
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Titanic
I love Life of Pi, but haven’t read the book so I can’t really say it would be my favorite. So… I’ll go with “The Notebook” instead.
Gone with the Wind
Sophie’s Choice
The Godfather
Perks of being a Wallflower
The Color Purple
I would have to choose The Hunger Games or Gone with the Wind! Thanks!
I would have to go with The Wizard of Oz because it’s an awesome movie.
Fiddler on the Roof
Stand By Me
Fear and Loathing iin Las Vegas
Jurassic Park
I’m going to have to go with Fight Club. thanks for the chance! 🙂
True Grit by Charles Portis. The Coen Bros version. The book is still funnier, but that film is great.
maybe the hunger games
Holes
The Help by Karthryn Stockett
Definitely the Boy with the Striped Pyjamas.
Fight Club
I’d have to say The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! Thank ya!
pride and prejudice.
Fight Club
Favorite film based on a novel is The Notebook ♥
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I like the fight club
I will say “Warm Bodies” pretty decent remake.
Right now, it’s the Hunger Games. CAn’t wait for the next one to come out!!
Lord of the Rings.
I like the Secret Garden and Harry Potter movies!
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Fight Club
Probably To Kill A Mockingbird
To kill a mocking bird, since I just saw it recently.
I like the notebook
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James And The Giant Peach is my favorite!
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Fight Club is my favorite movie, so I’ve got to go with that! Also, the only movie I’ve ever seen that was better than the book.
I am still partial to HarryPotter lol
My favorite film based on a novel is A Civil Action.
Harry Potter.
The hunger games
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“Atonement”!
The Firm
fight club the best
mine is disney’s up
Fight Club!
The Notebook (although never read the book, but loved the movie)
Harry Potter (books were way better than movies)
The Green Mile
A Clockwork Orange
My favorite is the Da Vinci Code based on the novel by Dan Brown.
my favorite is to kill a mockingbird
The Help
my favorite is Narnia series
Twilight
Harry Potter
lord of the rings
Hmm…I really like The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
so many books tuned to film i love! full metal jacket, charlottes web, field of dreams, casino…but my all time favorite has to be forrest gump!
The Stand is my favorite.
Right now, I would say the Oz: The Great and Powerful. I think they did a wonderful job with the film. There are many good movies from book series, but not many of the come to mind at the moment.
The Lord of the Rings movies.
harry potter
To Kill A Mockingbird
I’d have to say The Shining.
I would have to say Harry Potter 🙂
I’m a huge fan of Bret Easton Ellis so The Rules of Attraction is one of my favorite books that was made into a movie…
The Lord of the rings Trilogy!
Jurassic Park
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
My favorite film based on a novel is The Notebook.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Notebook
Harry Potter Lord of the Rings The Hobbit
My favorite is Lord of the Rings
Out of Africa
the great gatsby is my favorite
The notebook!
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is great.
Mine is Pride and Prejudice. Always and forever. 🙂
Diary of a wimpy kid.
Harry Potter
Twilight
Gone With The Wind
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Lord of the Rings.
Hard to pick…Jurassic Park
Life of Pi. It’s actually my favorite movie.
The Lord of the rings Trilogy!
A Walk to Remember!
The notebook for sure 🙂
Gone with the Wind and Harry Potter
My favorite film thus far is the Harry Potter movies!