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9 Revelations from WETA’s Chimp-Filled Rise of the Planet of the Apes Preview

Posted on April 13, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The folks at WETA Digital took to the internet Wednesday to unveil an in-depth first look at this August’s franchise reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes in a live-stream chat, confirming Charlton Heston’s worst fears: Hordes of damn, dirty (and pretty photorealistic) CG apes will definitely be invading the streets of San Francisco this summer. The first Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer will premiere on Apple/iTunes Thursday, no doubt featuring more of the impressive visual effects shared in the preview; hit the jump for the nine most compelling insights, revelations, and concept art peeks revealed by the WETA effects team and star Andy Serkis.

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Count the Comedy Stars in Matt Walsh’s Improv Stoner Comedy High Road

Posted on April 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder Matt Walsh ( Outsourced ) called on a dozen of his fellow comedians to act in his directorial debut High Road , an improvised film about a weed dealer (James F. Pumphrey) torn between his “career,” his musical aspirations, and his pregnant girlfriend (Abby Elliott). Hit the trailer after the jump and see how many of your favorite comedy players, including veterans of The State, Saturday Night Live , and Walsh’s short-lived series Players show up in the lo-fi indie comedy. (Well hello , Horatio Sanz!)

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Deadpool Gets a Director, But Will Ryan Reynolds Get His R-Rating?

Posted on April 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Deadline reports that visual effects veteran Tim Miller ( X-Men, X2, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ) has graduated to the helm of Fox’s Deadpool , which is currently being written by Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. But with its star currently carrying another studio’s comic book tent pole ( Green Lantern ), how soon will Deadpool happen with Reynolds — and will it be the Deadpool movie that Reynolds wants to make?

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Watch a Great Breakdown of the Visual Effects Work in ‘Hereafter’

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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When the full suite of Oscar nominations were announced a few weeks ago, squatting smack in the middle of the final five for the Best Visual Effects category was Clint Eastwood’s film Hereafter. And a great many people went… ‘huh?’ There are obviously effects in the film, which recreates the Indonesian tsunami from 2004. But against many of the other major effects players for 2010, the nomination… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 18/02/2011 17:34 Number of articles : 2

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Watch a Great Breakdown of the Visual Effects Work in ‘Hereafter’

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DVD: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who May Have the Most Outrageous Movie Title Ever

Posted on February 18, 2011 by | Leave a comment

With Shout! Factory releasing the Mystery Science Theater 3000 take on Ray Dennis Steckler’s horror musical The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies on DVD this week — coming on the heels of the widespread acclaim for Sundance midnight entry Hobo with a Shotgun — it seemed like as good a time as any to look at some of the most unwieldy, memorable, and occasionally even poetic movie titles ever concocted. Such as:

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VIDEO: So That’s Why Hereafter Was Nominated for an Oscar

Posted on February 18, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Perhaps in response to all those people left stymied by Hereafter ‘s Oscar nomination for visual effects (especially when Tron: Legacy got shut out of the category, poor thing), Warner Bros. have released a shot-by-shot reel showing how VFX supervisor Michael Owens and Scanline VFX put together that nine-minute opening tsunami sequence. And when you see how the live-action parts came together combining CG, green screen, water tanks, and on-location photography — well, “Oscar-nominated Hereafter ” doesn’t sound so silly anymore.

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Oscars Expand Visual Effects Category

Posted on July 8, 2010 by | Leave a comment

So much for the bake-off! The Oscars used to release a list of seven semi-finalists for the Visual Effects category, eventually trimming the contenders down to a measly three nominees (which squeezed out films like Terminator Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , and 2012 last year), but now that virtually every summer film has become an FX smorgasbord, the Academy has relented and expanded the nominee field to five. Keep your fingers crossed, Hydraulicon ! [ Coming Soon ]