To your list of recent pictures, Bud, I'll add
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (RED), and
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (PACE rig with Sony F35), two of the biggest movies of all time.
A little further back:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Thomson Viper),
Miami Vice, the last (or first) 3
Star Wars pictures (in fact, the Sony FW-900 as modified by Panavision is called "the Star Wars camera),
Superman Returns (Panavision Genesis),
Apocalypto (shot by Dean Semler on Panavision Genesis),
Public Enemies (Dante Spinotti, on CineAlta CineAlta 750/900/F23).
Coming soon:
Bond 23 (Alexa - DP Roger Deakins, who swears he'll never shoot film again),
Three Musketeers (Alexa),
Underworld: Awakening,
Total Recall, Bryan Singer's
Jack the Giant Killer, and Ridley Scott's
Prometheus (these last ones on Epic).
Here's the sad part about making this post. I would love to make a list of films being shot on film -- and TV series being shot on film; there are still quite a few -- to observe that the story of film shooting is far from over.
The article is in fact about the manufacturing of film CAMERAS. The major players stopped in 2009. There is nothing to debate. The facts are facts. The End. Fade to Black.
You will save us all a lot of time, helping us avoid making posts that we would rather not be making, if you had a little more information. Start with Wikipedia, which has
a list of digital films going back to 1998. It's a long list, but it's not even complete.
Digital is not a marginal, niche format being used strictly for genre pictures. Especially as cameras like Alexa, Epic, Sony F65, and even the Sony F3 with S-LOG have MORE latitude than film, the uptake of digital on big-budget blockbusters shot by the biggest names in "film" is accelerating.
