4 articles from 2010
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Visual Effects supervisor Karen Goulekas, who has worked on films such as The Day After Tomorrow and Spider-Man, updated her blog recently and revealed that Warner Bros. gave Green Lantern the official green light this week. From Shh: Wow! Been a long time since I posted! But today is a day worth posting about! Green Lantern got the [...] »
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4 January 2010 9:57 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
You can watch the Mayan calendar and the world end in epic fashion on DVD and Blu-ray this March. 2012 will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 2. The film will be released in a standard DVD version for $28.96 Srp and a single-disc Blu-ray for $38.96 Srp and a two-disc Blu-ray for $39.95 Srp. We don't have any cover art images for any of these titles, but we'll update this story as soon as we have the images. The film stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Woody Harrelson and Danny Glover. From Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, comes the ultimate action-adventure film, exploding with groundbreaking special effects. As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions, cities collapse and continents crumble. 2012 brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.Special Features:"Time For Miracles" Music Video by Adam »
4 January 2010 5:06 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
John Hillcoat has admitted that he was not a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction before choosing to direct an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road. The Proposition helmer told Metro that he was initially unsure about taking on the project. Hillcoat said: "When I heard it was post-apocalyptic, my heart sank. It's not my favourite genre. I imagined The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. "What irritates me about sci-fi is that it got hijacked by video games and also became so high-concept it was all about ideas and gadgets and technology and nothing about the human experience. What I like is finding new angles on genres. (more) »
- By Mayer Nissim
1 January 2010 1:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Disaster film-makers struggling to compete with the realities of the post-9/11 world have, in global warming, found the perfect plot device
It may be the start of a new year, but as far as cinema is concerned that doesn't mean it can't also be the end of the world. Even before January is out, audiences will have been given two gruelling visions of the future from which to choose. You can experience your dystopian forecast in moderately Hollywood-friendly form in The Book of Eli, in which Denzel Washington battles unwashed marauding types in a harsh futuristic landscape. Or you can take your medicine straight in the form of The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel about a father and son trudging through a world scarred by environmental collapse.
Long before such films, or recent animated equivalents like Wall-e or 9, we have harboured a cultural compulsion to imagine our collective demise. »
- Ryan Gilbey
4 articles from 2010
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