Audio file: `The Future of Movies'

The podcast from last Thursday's panel discussion on `The Future of Movies,' organized by The Churchill Club, is now available on Apple's iTunes Music Store. (It's free.) You'll need the iTunes software on your computer to hear it...here's the link to the podcast. (It shows up as the last one on the list, titled `The Future of Movies.')

Todd Wagner from 2929 Entertainment and Landmark Theatres offers lots of insight into their strategy, as does Bob Lambert, the senior vice president for worldwide technology strategy at Disney. Dolby's Tim Partridge talks about the digital cinema roll-out -- which he says will take a long time -- and digital 3-D projection. Jerry Pierce represents Universal Pictures, and Randal Kleiser, an active Director's Guild member, represents the director's viewpoint.