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Beast Wishes Documentary to Premiere in Hollywood on April 12th
3 April 2012 12:13 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
There is an upcoming documentary from Benevolent Monster Productions on two true treasures of the horror genre. Beast Wishes: The Fantastic World of Bob and Kathy Burns is a look at this couple who have dedicated so much to helping creative people become master F/X artists.
The film premieres on April 12th, 2012, 7:30 pm at the Arclight Theater in Hollywood. A Q&A follows the screening with the cast and crew, hosted by actor/comedian Dana Gould. Tickets for this event are now available exclusively at the Creature Features website.
If you're going to be near the Arclight on April 12th, be sure to check out this great event. However, if you can't make that one, there will also be Beast Wishes presentations and screenings at Monsterpalooza in Burbank, CA on April 13-15, and WonderFest in Louisville, Ky on May 26-27.
For more information and updates on the DVD release, »
- Doctor Gash
Image Conscious: A conversation with visual effects supervisor John Knoll
23 March 2012 5:05 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor John Knoll...
“That was a good long time ago,” recalls veteran Industrial Light & Magic Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll who was part of the team which created the landmark alien pseudo pod for filmmaker James Cameron. “It was something that was very different, new, and exciting for us. I had worked for Dennis Muren [Jurassic Park] on a number of his shows as a motion-control camera operator in the effects animation department. I moved over to the computer graphics department on a television commercial right before The Abyss [1989] happened. It’s funny to have this history with Dennis; he asked if I would supervise the work in the computer graphics department on The Abyss to help keep everybody on track and to come in with a production mindset that we have real deadlines. We have to get this done and let’s figure »
- Trevor
The 38th Saturn Awards Nominations
2 March 2012 2:08 PM, PST | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
The 38th Annual Saturn Award Nominations were announced earlier this week and we now have the full list of nominees. The Saturn Awards recognizing outstanding Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror releases in the last 12 months. Included in the list of nominees is multiple nominations for American Horror Story and The Walking Dead.
“Hugo and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 each received 10 nominations as the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films today announced nominations for the 38th Annual Saturn Awards, which will be presented on Wednesday, June 20.
Other leading titles in the Academy’s film categories were Super 8 (eight nominations); Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger (seven); and The Adventures of Tintin and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (six each). Rise of the Planet of the Apes breathed new life into a classic sci-fi franchise with five nominations, including a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Andy Serkis. »
- Jonathan James
Saturn Award Nominees Announced
1 March 2012 12:00 PM, PST | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films has announced the list of nominations for the 38th Saturn Awards, which will be presented on June 20th. These are presented without comment, other than to say to certain TV series, “Surprise! Welcome to Sci-Fi!”
Hugo and Harry Potter Cast Their Spells and Lead Film Nominations for 38th Saturn Awards
Breaking Bad and American Horror Story Scare Up Most TV Nominations in Banner Year for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror; Winners to be Announced June 20
Los Angeles – February 29, 2012 – Hugo and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 each received 10 nominations as the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films today announced nominations for the 38th Annual Saturn Awards, which will be presented on Wednesday, June 20.
Other leading titles in the Academy’s film categories were Super 8 (eight nominations); Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger (seven); and The Adventures of Tintin »
- Erin Willard
38th Annual Saturn Awards – The Nominees
1 March 2012 2:16 AM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films have announced the nominations for its 38th Annual Saturn Awards. In the film categories Martin Scorsese’s Hugo and David Yates’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 each scored 10 nominations; whilst in the TV categories AMC’s Breaking Bad scored 6 nominations, followed by American Horror Story with five. The awards ceremony will take place in June in Burbank, Calif.
The complete list of nominees is below:
Film
Best Science Fiction Film
The Adjustment Bureau (Universal)
Captain America: The First Avenger (Paramount/Marvel)
Limitless (Relativity Media)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Fox)
Super 8 (Paramount)
X-Men: First Class (20th Century Fox)
Best Fantasy Film
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Warner Bros.)
Hugo (Paramount)
Midnight in Paris (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Muppets (Walt Disney Studios)
Thor (Paramount/Marvel)
Best Horror/Thriller Film
Contagion (Warner Bros. »
- Phil
'Hugo,' 'Harry Potter' Top Saturn Award Nominees
29 February 2012 11:25 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Awards season may have come and gone, but sci-fi fans still have something to look forward to with today's announcement of the Saturn Award nominees.
The awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, recognize excellence in these genres, which are often underrepresented at other awards shows.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, this year's big movie contenders are "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2," "Hugo," tied with 10 nominations each.
A number of the movies scoring big have been commercial successes but have not received awards show love, including J.J. Abrams' $260-million grossing monster hit "Super 8," which nabbed eight nominations, and "Captain America: The First Avenger," which earned nearly $400 million worldwide, coming in with six.
One of the most surprising cross-genre hits is Woody Allen's romantic comedy "Midnight in Paris," which took home the award for Best Original Screenplay at Sunday's Oscars, in »
- Sarah Crow
Image Conscious: A conversation with visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett
4 February 2012 5:24 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett...
“In those days very few people were doing visual effects and it was difficult to find work,” recalls American Visual Effects Supervisor Phil Tippett. “Ray Harryhausen [The Golden Voyage of Sinbad] would do his kind of shows, and every once and a while somebody would do a fantasy or space movie. But generally, studios had disbanded a lot of their visual effects departments. There weren’t that many stop-motion animators so they didn’t do it.” The attitude changed with the arrival of filmmakers George Lucas (American Graffiti) and Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind). “George and Steven were big fans of the same kinds of movies that we liked and embraced the technology; they had the resources that allowed us to pushed things farther.”
After joining Industrial Light & Magic, Phil Tippett contributed to the scene in the original Star Wars (1977) where »
- flickeringmyth
Adventurous Calling: John Bruno talks about James Cameron
21 January 2012 3:21 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Trevor Hogg chats to Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor John Bruno about his collaborations with James Cameron...
“I was the first guy to breakup a film into multiple vendors and that was on The Abyss [1989],” states American Visual Effects Supervisor John Bruno who has collaborated with filmmaker James Cameron for over 24 years. The underwater tale starring Ed Harris (The Truman Show) and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Class Action) features an Academy Award-lauded technical achievement in the depiction of an alien life form. “It was written in the script as the water pseudopod; there are only 16 shots of that in the movie. Everybody at the time had their chrome guy and their chrome liquid mercury thing but nobody had done water. By taking surface water, motion, reflection and light and wrapping it around a wired frame grid or tube you got a water tube. We had to say, ‘I don’t know »
- flickeringmyth
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