"Indiana Jones" Fans Tough Crowd For Effects Crew (Hollywood Reporter) - Indiana Jones' return to the big screen after 19 years underscores how much visual effects have evolved. When the first three Indy films were made in the 1980s, the visual effects were done optically, i.e. photographically or...
'Terminator Salvation' Production Start Announcement (Warner Bros. Pictures) Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, starring Sam Worthington and Christian Bale, began principal photography on May 5, 2008, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Halcyon Company Presentation of a Moritz Borman Production of...
The response to the last one of these was enough to warrant a sequel... There are plenty of good movies out there that were made by others or even sometimes were turned down by the Mouse. I'm sure I won't get through all of them, but I figured we'd have another round of... "This coulda' been a...
post about E-blog's Shit, Fan, And all that I have been reading his blog a lot lately. He has some interesting ideas, but I don't think a post this long belongs in his blog. I hope I am not committing some kind of hi-jacking sin by posting it here, but I really have a lot to say about the issue....
From today's New York Times: "It’s Not a Sequel, but It Might Seem Like One After the Ads" By Michael Cieply LOS ANGELES, April 23 — If the Walt Disney Company and its Pixar Animation Studios unit have their way, by the time “Ratatouille” is released on June 29, millions will have learned...
This is a tough story for me because Amy was a friend of my sister. They were tennis team co-captains together. But, I have struggled since the horrible day that we learned of her death with the notion that this beautiful, athletic girl would think she needed liposuction. She had a figure that most...
'Prince Caspian' Dethrones 'Iron Man' (boxoffice Mojo) Disney/Walden's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian knocked Iron Man out of the top spot with an estimated $56.6 million from 3,929 theaters for an average of $14,398 per location. The sequel took in less in its opening weekend than "The...
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Major Setback for Prosecutors in Chessani Court Martial; Military Judge Finds Evidence of Unlawful Command Influence Wednesday, May 21, 2008 ANN ARBOR, MI – Prosecutors yesterday hit a major speed bump in their rush to convict Marine LtCol Jeffrey Chessani when the Military Judge ruled that he...
Rhythm and Hues Seeks Partners for Co-Productions (dnaindia.com) MUMBAI: Rhythm and Hues, an academy award winning animation studio having large-scale outsourcing operations in India, is foraying into production of original content. The Hollywood-based company, with operations in Mumbai and...
Lucasfilm: Easier To Stay Big? (thescotsman.scotsman.com) George Lucas' enduring interest in Star Wars hints at a lesson that his filmmaking peers have already learned: it is sometimes easier to make big movies than small ones. As his longtime friend and collaborator Steven Spielberg says: "All of...
Stars, Relatives Honor Special-Effects Wiz Winston LOS ANGELES (AP) — Friends, relatives and show-business colleagues gathered Sunday to remember Oscar-winning special-effects maestro Stan Winston, the man responsible for bringing the dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park" and other iconic movie creatures...
Jumper Reaches $38.3 Million in 5 Days (Box Office Mojo) The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith director Doug Liman struck again, as his new sci-fi action-thriller Jumper opened to impressive numbers this holiday weekend. Over the four-day Presidents' Day weekend, Jumper earned an estimated $31.7...
MICK GREEN BLUES BAND c1970 - 72 The original line up in 1970 was - Mick Green (later with Railroad, Eli, Rein Chantre) - Lead / rhythm guitar / vocals / harmonica. Tony (Mojo) Morgan (later with Railroad, Eli, Rein Chantre, EMF, Travelling Riverside Blues Band / Roddy Radiation's Bonediggers and...
It ain't that bad. I saw it tonight, with one of my best friends, The King-O-Pop, and we both came away from it with the feeling that it was about as good as we can expect from latter-day Spielberg and Lucas, but that it could have been so much better if the screen story had any sense of urgency....
The Golden Compass Takes Best VFX Oscar (fxguide.com - animationmagazine.net) Hosted by The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, The 80th annual Academy Awards ceremony telecast opened with an effects segment that featured animated characters from Cars, Transformers, The Hulk, Godzilla ('98) and other films...
'Justice League' Fires 2 Superheroes In the various retcons of the last 20 years, DC Comics has rewritten the origins of their premiere team a few times, mostly around the issue of whether or not DC's biggest guns (Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman) were or weren't founding members. This usually had...
Tim Burton Helms "Dark Shadows"? (darkhorizons.com) An interesting new "Dark Shadows" rumor cropped up at the "Get Smart" press junket over the weekend. Almost a year ago came reports that Warner Bros. Pictures, Johnny Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and GK Films were teaming to develop a feature based on...
TEXAS VFF HEROES TOUR TIMELINE March 19: San Antonio, TX 0900: Alamo visit and participation in "Alamo Blood Drive" 1100: Lunch at Menger Hotel 1300: Personal visits to wounded warriors at Brook Army Medical Center 1400: Wreath laying ceremony at National Veteran's Cemetery Fort Sam Houston 1500:...
Random questions: - Why is it when they film fire for a commercial, they film the flames backwards? - Why do I get distracted from what I am doing so easily? - Why do I have a damn head cold in the middle of summer? - Why doesn’t my cat eat expensive wet food like all the other cats? Is it just to...
