If modern film productions aren’t your cup of tea, or perhaps you would like to see an original film for once, fed up of remakes? Well Universal is on hand to bring some cinematic classics to your modern screens with a slew of re-issues from the studios amazing catalogue.

The film productions involved in the 100^th anniversary celebrations re-release event include All Quiet On The Western Front, Jaws, Schindler’s List, The Sting and many more.

The celebrations will kick off with To Kill A Mocking Bird being released on Blu-ray later on in January, whilst the rest of the titles will be restored and released in mind blowing HD throughout the year.

As of March you’ll be seeing a whole new logo on the Universal releases as well as a sparkly reminder of the centenary. Studio COO Ron Meyer had this to say regarding the celebrations:

“Our centennial is designed to bring special memories back to longtime movie lovers and fans, and to engage new audiences with our extraordinary library of films for the first time…Our goal, 100 years later, is to preserve, restore and continue the iconic legacy of this studio for generations to come.”

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Still no originality on the horizon of film production in Hollywood of late, with a third Bruce Almighty sequel set to rekindle the studio-exec’s success with the original, despite the second in the franchise, starring Steve Carell, being as dubiously malnourished as Pascal’s wager.

Jim Carrey is back on board, having slid comfortably into the ranks of actors who walk the line between A and B list celebrity, it would appear that nonchalant rubber baffoonery has a thicker spine of longevity than creatively ambitious ventures. Which is fine, as long as he can balance the book-sheets with something worthy of his talent later on down the line. Though this is no small task in the current creative cess-pool of Hollywood, I do have a froth of faith in Jim. It is just a shame that Carrey’s best film production work cannot begin to financially infringe upon the forgettable comedies which he so clearly yearns to transcend.

Though the people who worship them might, numbers never lie, and Bruce Almighty has made over $485m (£313m) at the box office. This makes it Carrey's highest grossing film ever, after 2000's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Carrey's last film, Mr Popper's Penguins, made just under $187m. Both ‘Almighty’ films were directed by Carrey's long-time collaborator Tom Shadyac, who worked with the actor on Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) and Liar Liar (1997).

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A video production is a truly champion way of promoting your charitable cause, being both more modern and less chilly than standing in the town centre, aggressively rattling your collection tin at disinterested elderly shoppers. And that’s a lesson that the British Heart Foundation has clearly taken to er, heart, for it has recently launched a new video campaign featuring the combined talents of Vinnie Jones and the Bee Gees.

Now, the kiss of life might have been the mainstay of that repository of life-saving wisdom that was Baywatch, but it is apparently not the method of resuscitation which the British Heart Foundation is keen to promote. No, the BHF is instead attempting to encourage us all to concentrate on chest compressions if we find ourselves in an emergency situation.

And in an effort to disseminate that message, a new BHF video production has been launched featuring testicle-grabbing footballer-turned-passable actor Vinnie Jones, playing a dodgy geezer character of the type which populated VJ’s very first screen hits, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.   

Vinnie’s public information-providing efforts are soundtracked by the Bee Gees, with those toothsome titans of pop across the ages having, appropriately enough, donated usage of their disco hit Stayin’ Alive to the cause.

Meanwhile, the British Heart Foundation has launched a Twitter hashtag – #hardandfast – in service of the campaign, although if you’re attending a heart attack victim then checking your tweets presumably shouldn’t be priority one, two or even three.

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Despite the general lack of enthusiasm in 3D video production Panasonic is really pushing the much derided film medium at this year’s CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas and a partnership with network television giant NBC would appear to be their main event when it comes to 3D in 2012.

Panasonic have designs on turning the network’s television production of the London 2012 Olympic Games into a three-dimensional extravaganza. Star Olympian and former medallist Brandi Chastain helped to unveil the project which will see 3D coverage appear on NBC throughout the games including the opening and closing ceremonies.

If you’re interested in shooting your own video production in 3D Panasonic have also announced the release of the Z10000 camera, which brings 3D filming to the ‘prosumer’ market, the big selling point being the camera’s ability to handle close-ups of objects up to 18 inches away with perfect 3D clarity.

In other Panasonic news, the tech giant has teamed up with the battle scared Myspace who was pulled away from the remnants of its own implosion by singer turned actor turned entrepreneur Justin Timberlake. The plan is to merge television with the Internet. It’s not an original plan, but as a fan of Myspace from the early days I would like to see where a bit of creative thought (and a lot of cash) could take the beleaguered site.

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Film production is set to fall to the mercy of the clock hands in 2012. Warner Bros has tinkered deals with Redbox, Blockbuster and Netflix over the weekend, forcing millions of customers to wait longer and buy rental discs earlier. For example, those of you who are tired of waiting 28 days for a new release to hit shops will find that you will now be waiting 56 days.  

For thousands of disgruntled customers world-wide, this spells boycott, mutiny and heightened piracy. Especially considering that this new deal doesn’t even guarantee the participating companies streaming rights. It will simply be offering them the ability to buy discs in bulk, at a significant discount pricing, like they already do. Is anybody else getting flash-backs to the nineties?

Online Web Video suppliers are now penalized in the wake of this new deal. Given the prescient nature of the web video phenomenon, this short-sighted development is destructive, retrograde and unbelievably archaic -  a penultimate antithesis to good online video marketing, yet again demonstrated by the lobotomized suit-drones in tinsel-town.

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