Benny Har-Even

London

Contributor at Forbes

Journalist at Freelance

Writer, Editor, Tech journalist. Forbes contributor covering cinema tech and smart tech. https://t.co/MaB4Gat5yW

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Articles

What Format Should You Choose For How To Train Your Dragon 2025?

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Benny Har-Even

How To Train Your Dragon will be getting an HDR by Barco release for true HDR presentation but with ... More only a few capable screens worldwide IMAX and Dolby Cinema will be major quality choices. Barco Corporation The How to Train Your Dragon franchise has been a great success story for director Dean DeBlois in the animated world, but taking a leaf out of Disney's playbook, it has now taken the leap into the realm of live action.
How Nitrate Film Adds Danger To The BFI FIlm Festival

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Benny Har-Even

The NFT1 at the BFI Southbank where the BFI Film on Film Festival will be running from 12th-15th ... More June 2025. Edmund SumnerIf you enter the foyer of the BFI on the London Southbank from the 12th to 15th of June 2025, you’ll be confronted with a mechanical machine sporting a large lens at one end and large round disks on the other.
How The Nebula X1 Points The Way For Projection Technology

4 weeks ago | forbes.com | Benny Har-Even

Not everyone I know gets as excited about projectors as I do (I know, weird right?), but after being introduced to the Nebula X1, I was amazed to see how much technology parent company Anker has crammed inside it. Aimed primarily at the lifestyle market, the Nebula X1 is a portable projector that is designed to be used outdoors as well as inside. And while US$2,999/£2,200 is still a significant sum, it boasts remarkable specifications for the lifestyle market at which it's aimed.
Which Cinema Format Should You Choose For ‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’?

1 month ago | forbes.com | Benny Har-Even

Death-defying car crashes, abseiling off mountains, and hanging upside-down off planes. And let’s not forget running—lots of running. These are just some of the things that fans will likely be doing in their eagerness to see Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in the cinema as soon as possible. The movie is, of course, the latest, and possibly last, film in Tom Cruise’s “Mission” franchise.
Cannes Film Festival 2025 Auditorium Receives Dolby Atmos Upgrade

1 month ago | forbes.com | Benny Har-Even

The Cannes Film Festival has revealed that the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière at Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, which earlier this week hosted the world premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, was recently upgraded with Dolby Atmos Audio. While it may only now be catching up with your local multiplex, the upgrade means the renowned auditorium, is now Europe’s largest Dolby Atmos installation.
OMA Cinema, IMAX, And Vox Cinema Collaboration Opens In Dubai

1 month ago | forbes.com | Benny Har-Even

A couple of weeks back, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith was released into cinemas for a limited run to celebrate its 20th anniversary. I went along to see it in 4DX format, which involves seats that move in sync with the on-screen action, along with other effects such as flashing lights, air blasts, and kicks in the back. It was fab! Being tipped forward and back in my seat as Obi-Wan says his classic “another happy landing” line was every bit as much fun as I had hoped.
What’s The Best Cinema Format For ‘Thunderbolts*’?

1 month ago | forbes.com | Benny Har-Even

As inevitable as the sun rising, another MCU Marvel movie is never too far away, and as of this weekend, the latest instalment, Thunderbolts*, has arrived in theaters. As you would expect for a major studio release, there’s a wide variety of formats to choose from, which brings us to the perennial question: which format is best to watch it in?
Sinners In IMAX Is ‘An An Out-Of-Body Experience’ Says DoP Autumn Durald Arkapaw

2 months ago | forbes.com | Benny Har-Even

Only a select few cinematographers have shot movies using IMAX film cameras, but on Sinners, the new thriller-cum-vampire movie from writer/director Ryan Coogler, another name can now be added to that exclusive roster — Autumn Durald Arkapaw. Sinners isn’t technically the first time Arkapaw had framed for IMAX, having done so on her previous collaboration with Coogler, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
What Is The Best Cinema Format To Watch The Movie Sinners?

2 months ago | forbes.com | Benny Har-Even

Here at Forbes, I regularly write articles discussing all the available formats for upcoming films and deciding what the best format to choose is. Things are a bit different for Sinners, however, as the film’s director, Ryan Coogler, has done my job for me, by doing exactly that for his own movie with an explanatory video on Kodak’s YouTube channel. Speaking in current parlance — I have never been so “seen”.
Star Wars Print From A Long Time Ago To Headline BFI Film Festival

2 months ago | forbes.com | Benny Har-Even

It’s not often than minor miracles happen, but the BFI in London seems to have conjured one, with the news that an original print of Star Wars, sans its “Episode IV” title intro, is to be shown on the opening night of its BFI Film On Film Festival on the 12th of June 2025.