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The nominations are in, monster fans. The Oscar’s are, and always have been, all about prestige. Normally, genre films and filmmakers are marginalized or, even more often, ignored. But as the industry continues its decades long shift towards making science fiction, fantasy, and other genres at ever bigger and more advanced levels, what was once… [Continue Reading]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the seven films currently in contention for the Best Visual Effects at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. They are:
Universal’s Funny People opened with a modest $23.4 million. Despite the big names, such as Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan, attached to the Judd Apatow-directed picture, Funny People was not expected to generate the type of business as would be expected for this type of collaboration. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince held the second… [Continue Reading]
With all the craziness that was San Diego Comic-Con these past few days it was difficult to remind myself that not everyone was in Americas Finest City walking the rows of the convention center, attending the panels, carrying box after box of merchandise back and forth from van to booth, van to booth…well you get… [Continue Reading]
Aside from a snide remark here and there I try not to go into to much of my personal opinions when writing the weekend box office report, but I have to say that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was one of the most disappointing Potters yet. How the script even got approval from J.K…. [Continue Reading]
We all knew Transformers: Revenge of the Fallenwas going to be a huge hit regardless of the quality of the film. This type of event film is the essence of summer movie madness and it didn’t disappoint, debuting with a smashing $112 million over the weekend with a five day total of $201.2 million. RVOTF had… [Continue Reading]
Earlier we announced the sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen would have more robots, about 60 of them. Here’s another update. Learn which autobots and decepticons are in and which are out. Courtesy of The Latino Review, below is a tidbit and you can head over to Yahoo for the full details. Ravage, the cat-like… [Continue Reading]
What did Michael Bay mean when he said more robots in the next Transformers? Here’s exactly the story from a snippet of Variety’s interview with ILM’s Scott Farrar, lead vfx supervisor of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and its prior. To put it lightly, there are “some 60 robot characters and they play in settings… [Continue Reading]
Borat 2, I’m sorry, I mean Bruno 1, claimed the top box office spot this weekend. The Sacha Baron Cohen comedy from Universal debuted with $30 million. Close behind was Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs with $28.5 million. Down 31.6% from last weeks opening, the 3D animated sequel of a sequel has grossed $120.5… [Continue Reading]
Yahoo! Movies has unveiled the new poster for Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The tagline reads “Revenge is Coming.” Very nice. What sort of vengeance do you think we should expect? Revenge Is Coming in conventional theaters and IMAX on June 26, 2009.
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