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- 3/2/2013
- by t.k.
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The Academy has picked fifteen films for the Visual Effects category. Out of the fifteen, ten will be chosen in early January, then five for the final nominations to be announced January 25.
If we're going to predict which films will be included in the final five, we're thinking "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," "Hugo," "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (because for some reason, the Academy loves honoring "Transformers" in this category -- big, clashing eye candy!), and the critics-darling "The Tree of Life."
We'll find out January 25th if our Oscar crystal ball is accurate. For now, here are the 15 films vying for nominations (in alphabetical order):
"Captain America: The First Avenger" (Marvel/Paramount) Marvel VFX supervisor: Christopher Townsend
"Cowboys & Aliens" (DreamWorks/Universal) Ilm VFX supervisors: Roger Guyett and Eddie Pasquarello
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" (Warner Bros.
If we're going to predict which films will be included in the final five, we're thinking "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," "Hugo," "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (because for some reason, the Academy loves honoring "Transformers" in this category -- big, clashing eye candy!), and the critics-darling "The Tree of Life."
We'll find out January 25th if our Oscar crystal ball is accurate. For now, here are the 15 films vying for nominations (in alphabetical order):
"Captain America: The First Avenger" (Marvel/Paramount) Marvel VFX supervisor: Christopher Townsend
"Cowboys & Aliens" (DreamWorks/Universal) Ilm VFX supervisors: Roger Guyett and Eddie Pasquarello
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" (Warner Bros.
- 12/10/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
First off, I have to tell you that this page may load slow. We're making an awful lot of calls to the Amazon Api here, and that's bound to monkey with things. If you have no idea what that means... it's shiny. Please note also that, for the same reason, you may find, depending on traffic, that not all of the Amazon details will load properly. I apologize for that, it's just the nature of the beast, and the fact that the Api wasn't really meant for such things. If you refresh, it will probably fix.
You may have heard me mention this giveaway quite a while ago, and it's taken me a long time to figure out what sort of format to put things in, and I kept added things. Eventually it became too much to really give any kind of run down on the items, so I decided...
You may have heard me mention this giveaway quite a while ago, and it's taken me a long time to figure out what sort of format to put things in, and I kept added things. Eventually it became too much to really give any kind of run down on the items, so I decided...
- 9/15/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Just like other drama directors before him, Kenneth Branagh faced the challenge of being an industry veteran, yet a novice in the ultra high budget, VFX intensive level of filmmaking. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
Better known for his Shakespearean work on film and on the stage, Kenneth Branagh was an inspired yet unusual choice to direct the film adaptation of the Marvel Comics superhero and god of Thunder, Thor… and he didn’t hesitate when he was approached to helm this project.
“I knew Thor would be an epic on a scale that I had not worked on before, so I was excited and surprised,” admitted Branagh.
He even finds similarities between the work of Shakespeare and the world of Thor – the Norse god of thunder sent to Earth to learn humility: “They’re both about royal families, the tension between the private world of public individuals, and the jobs they have to do.
Better known for his Shakespearean work on film and on the stage, Kenneth Branagh was an inspired yet unusual choice to direct the film adaptation of the Marvel Comics superhero and god of Thunder, Thor… and he didn’t hesitate when he was approached to helm this project.
“I knew Thor would be an epic on a scale that I had not worked on before, so I was excited and surprised,” admitted Branagh.
He even finds similarities between the work of Shakespeare and the world of Thor – the Norse god of thunder sent to Earth to learn humility: “They’re both about royal families, the tension between the private world of public individuals, and the jobs they have to do.
- 4/17/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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