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12 items from 2012
'Avengers' sets opening-weekend record: But is it the most impressive debut ever?
7 May 2012 8:00 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
At the box-office, more is always better, but I admit I was a little disappointed when analysts upgraded the record-breaking opening-weekend haul of The Avengers from $200.3 million to $207.4 million. Two hundred million dollars just sounded better, didn’t it? It had the ring of a record that could last forever — like Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points scored in a single game.
So as it turns out, The Avengers shattered the previous record — held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 — by more than $38 million, an enormous sum. Even with the less rounded figure of $207.4, the magnitude of the action film »
- Jeff Labrecque
Universal to reboot ‘Mummy’ & ‘Helsing’; CW picks up a few shows & ‘Stargate’ composer Goldsmith dies
3 May 2012 3:17 PM, PDT | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
Universal has signed a new two-year deal with writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and their K/O Paper Products production company. The first two films out the gate will be reboots of Universal properties The Mummy and Van Helsing. Their writing credits include two Transformers movies and the Star Trek reboot as well as the much maligned Cowboys & Aliens. On the TV side, they created the underrated Fringe and produce the Hawaii Five-0 reboot.
The set-bound 4th Doctor Who story of season 7 -a probable bottle-episode due to so much expensive location shooting for episodes 1, 2, 3 and 5- is confirmed to be a story that brings back Unit and involves Henry VIII and his wife Catherine. Stephen Blything and Law & Order: UK’s Jemma Redgrave has been cast in those roles. The episode has a working title of Cubed.
For those girls who were wondering, and a few boys too, The »
- spaced-odyssey
Sci-fi cinema’s freakiest vortex moments
27 April 2012 9:15 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
A sci-fi movie wouldn’t be the same without a hypnotic journey through time and space. Here’s our celebration of cinema’s finest genre vortexes...
It’s a given that any sci-fi protagonist will, at some point in their adventures, descend into a kind of churning whirlpool in space. The experience is probably an entry requirement in the sci-fi hero private smoking room, if such a thing exists. “What? You haven’t been through a vortex of flashing lights? You haven’t stared at the benighted abyss which lies beyond death? Get out. Get out of sci-fi hero club.”
Science fiction is all about poking at the edges of human experience. And sometimes, about what might happen if we head off into the depths of space. What - or who - might we find? Does space loop back on itself, so your ship effectively appears on the other side »
Danger! The world's scariest films!
2 April 2012 1:20 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Drowning, rabies, electrocution: 70s public information films suggested you could die at any moment. And they were so frightening, they still haunt people today
• Peter Bradshaw on the horror of public information films
• Jude Rogers on how public information films haunt today's directors
In the mid 90s, a company secured the rights to release a selection of classic public information films on video, under the title Charley Says. I bought it not, as I suppose most people did, in a haze of nostalgia, but in the spirit of confronting a terrible fear, like those people who try to overcome their aerophobia by booking on to a course that involves a trip in a plane.
I can't remember the first time I saw The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, the 1973 public information film in which a Bergman-esque Death literally stalks children playing on riverbanks. That was part of the problem: »
- Alexis Petridis
Weekend Box Office: The Hunger Games Powers on, Wrath of the Titans falls into the 'Tomb Raider trap', Mirror Mirror Underwhelms
1 April 2012 1:03 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
As expected, The Hunger Games (review/trailer) again topped the box office this weekend, but its relatively strong hold suggests that it may be a bit mightier than a conventional Twilight/Harry Potter sequel. With $61 million in weekend two (the eighth-biggest non-opening weekend ever, ahead of all the respective Harry Potter and Twilight Saga films), the film dropped 60% and ended day ten with a whopping $251 million. That's the biggest ten-day total for a non-sequel ever, and the fifth-biggest ever. It came in above the $240 million ten-day total of Spider-Man 3, and it is that film which its performance most resembles. Spider-Man 3 opened with $151 million in May of 2007 before dropping 61% for a $58 million weekend. Spidey took a drop on weekend two despite having no new releases to compete against because it wasn't exclaimed critically-acclaimed among the fanbase. The Hunger Games had two big releases this weekend, plus the loss of »
- Scott Mendelson
The Hunger Games again topped the box office this weekend
1 April 2012 12:28 PM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Scott Mendelson
HollywoodNews.com: As expected, The Hunger Games again topped the box office this weekend, but its relatively strong hold suggests that it may be a bit mightier than a conventional Twilight/Harry Potter sequel. With $61 million in weekend two (the eighth-biggest non-opening weekend ever, ahead of all the respective Harry Potter and Twilight Saga films), the film dropped 60% and ended day ten with a whopping $251 million. That’s the biggest ten-day total for a non-sequel ever, and the fifth-biggest ever. It came in above the $240 million ten-day total of Spider-Man 3, and it is that film which its performance most resembles. Spider-Man 3 opened with $151 million in May of 2007 before dropping 61% for a $58 million weekend. Spidey took a drop on weekend two despite having no new releases to compete against because it wasn’t exclaimed critically-acclaimed among the fanbase. The Hunger Games had two big releases this weekend, »
- Scott Mendelson
10 Reasons Why James T. Kirk Is Best Star Trek Captain
19 March 2012 4:20 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
“I’m James T. Kirk, Captain of the Enterprise!’’ he announces in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Bold, smart and king of the fistfights, Kirk has all the qualities of a great leader.
William Shatner turned to his experience as a Shakespearean actor when he was originally developing his lead character of Kirk in the 60′s series. Basing his leadership qualities on Horatio Hornblower and Alexander the Great, Shatner also wanted Kirk to have a humorous side but when the situation called for he ‘’would snap to and become the warrior.’’
A lot of examples come to mind that illustrate Kirk’s ability to get out of a tight spot, be it ‘’the prefix code’’ in Wrath of Khan or lying to Balok about Corbomite in “The Corbomite Maneuver” In these situations he is always controlled and focused, there is no mistake, Kirk is in charge!
Below are ten »
- Amarpal Biring
Ralph McQuarrie & The Canceled Star Trek Movie
8 March 2012 1:35 PM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
A lot has been written since the sad passing of Ralph McQuarrie on the 3rd of March this year. He’s the artist who is credited with coming up with the designs for Darth Vader, Chewbacca, C3PO & R2D2 to name a few. It has been said that without him, there would have been no Star Wars at all as it was his illustrations that convinced 20th Century Fox to give Star Wars the green light.
His designs for Star Wars are immediately recognizable if you are a fan of science fiction or not, and are now part of our societies pop culture. His images from Star Wars represent science fiction to the general masses and because of this, they are exploited to sell everything from cars to mobile phones. Rest assured that if the images of Vader or C3PO weren’t burnt into your conscience, no advertising company would consider using them. »
- Amarpal Biring
Star Trek: The Motion Picture TV Spots in Glorious HD
21 February 2012 3:30 PM, PST | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Thanks to our friends at AICN we have some HD TV spots for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. They were created by Daren R. Dochterman, who is a VFX artist, production illustrator, concept artist, and storyboard artist. He has worked on such films as The Chronicles of Riddick, Tron: Legacy, Se7en, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Iron Man 2.
Dochterman worked on the Director's Edition release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. As a superfan of the material and a true geek, he used his skills to take the Blu-ray footage and re-assemble it using the disc's HD source material. These never-before-seen TV spots look beautiful. Here is some background on Dochterman's involvement with Star Trek: The Motion Picture: In what is perhaps his crowning achievement to date (in the VFX field), Dochterman served as Visual Effects Supervisor for 2001's amazing "Director's Edition" of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. »
- Tiberius
Will Douglas Trumbull Reinvent Movies?
9 February 2012 7:00 PM, PST | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Who's Douglas Trumbull you ask? He's the guy who's looking to give James Cameron and Peter Jackson a run for their money in the race to change the way we watch movies. Trumbull is a pioneer in special effects, having worked on films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Blade Runner. He's now going attempt to change the movie going experience for everyone on his own dime, without the help of the Hollywood machine.
Trumbull is currently working on an epic film project that he says will “reinvent the movies.” The story for the film is set 200 years in the future, and it explores man's place in the universe. It's described as a “first person cinema reality which is indistinguishable from reality.” He goes on to say that it's "way beyond anything that Peter Jackson and Jim Cameron »
- Venkman
Ves Honoree and Effects Guru Douglas Trumbull on How Technology, Spectacle Can Rescue Hollywood
8 February 2012 6:43 PM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Within three years of starting his Hollywood career, Douglas Trumbull changed the moviemaking process irrevocably; working with Stanley Kubrick on 1968’s 2011: A Space Odyssey, when he was barely 25, he not only created a landmark cinematic experience, but pioneered special-effects techniques which filmmakers continue to use even today. Since then he’s done Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, and most recently, Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life. And almost 45 years later, Trumbull still doggedly pushes the industry to grow and change, even if he finds resistance – or worse, indifference - to
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- Todd Gilchrist
William Shatner Gets Beamed Up Straight Into...The Kingdom of the Spiders! (Review)
15 January 2012 5:32 PM, PST | Horrorbid | See recent Horrorbid news »
Oh yeah. The classic 1977 spider flick starring William Shatner right before he did Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Kingdom of the Spiders stars William Shatner as Rack Hansen a veterinarian in Arizona. Rack has problems dealing with his brother's death, though it is never explained in any great detail, so he has to care for his brother's widow and young daughter. He is called upon by his friend Walter Colby (Woody Strode) when Walter's prize… »
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