The amazing visual FX of The Hobbit once again transported fans to Middle Earth. However since Peter Jackson’s original trilogy, a lot has change with digital technology and this new featurette
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY Becomes Anthology Series
FX’s drama series American Horror Story has been a runaway hit with it’s brilliant narrative style and genre bending stories. Though if you caught the first-season finale, like other fans you would’ve been shocked that most of the main characters weren’t around by the end credits. The reason for this as co creator Ryan Murphy explains, is that the finale closed out the Harmon family’s […]
Watch 4 Minutes of GREEN LANTERN
The Green Lantern opens this July and is one of the year’s more highly anticipated movies, however since the film began production it has been drawing plenty of criticism ranging from the use of a digital suit, to the tone of the flick and the outlandish visuals. Now with the release of four minutes of […]
Zack Snyder Talks SUPERMAN FX
Here’s a cool interview with visionary director Zack Snyder talking about his plans for the Superman reboot and the visual FX it will feature. His latest flick ‘Sucker Punch’ has been receiving a bit of flack for it’s insane visuals and somewhat shallow story, but nonetheless an accomplishment on many levels that only certain filmmakers […]
New 3D Fantastic Voyage Finds It’s Director
The 1966 film Fantastic Voyage was a memorable sci-fi special effects extravaganza that was directed by Richard Fleischer and starred screen siren Raquel Welch. The story followed a team of scientists that along with a specially designed nuclear submarine, were shrunk using advanced miniaturization technology to journey inside the body of a fallen diplomat and […]
Black Swan – FX Featurette
If you’ve seen Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan then watching this FX featurette should be fun, if you haven’t then it’s full of visual spoilers. It’s a visual FX breakdown showing the various layers that went into making the shots, from the initial background plates to the multiple takes required for compositing and the impressive CG […]
Sony Picks Up Elysium For $120 million, With Blade Runner’s Edge
Elysium is the next big Sci-Fi flick from director Neill Blomkamp that recently locked in Jodie Foster to star alongside Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley. It’s set a 100 years in the future on another planet and will reportedly combine the social allegory and themes that made District 9 so distinct. Media Rights Capital who […]
Battle: Los Angeles – Trailer #3
Here’s the new trailer for the much anticipated Battle: Los Angeles and whilst the first and second were pretty impressive, this one will surely knock your socks off. It features the cutting edge visuals that you’ve come to expect from an alien invasion genre flick of this scale, but this new promo combines both spectacle […]
Superman Reboot Production Schedule Revealed?
As fanboys and movie buffs try to guess which of the comics will serve as canon for the new Superman movie and how the story will re-introduce us to the classic superhero, a possible production schedule has leaked online. The list of dates were sent into Collider by a likely insider and seem to be […]
Troll Hunter – Trailer, FX Featurettes
The Troll Hunter is the latest in the wave of movies that are designed as ‘mockumentaries’ and borrow from the ‘found footage’ genre which was used to great effect in ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and ‘Cloverfield’. Most recently ‘The Last Exorcism’ used the genre style and now Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal is taking audiences on […]
Boardwalk Empire – FX Featurette
HBO’s original series Boardwalk Empire began with Martin Scorsese directing the first episode which proved so popular it was renewed for a second season. From the producers and writers of The Sopranos, it masterfully captured the time period of Prohibition and the emergence of the mob which made for a thought provoking hour of TV. […]
Rango – Johnny Depp Behind The Scenes
Gore Verbinski is making his animation debut with the new CG flick Rango starring Johnny Depp and the talented FX wizards of ILM providing the visuals. Now you might think that behind the scenes of such a movie is is just the animators at their computers or the actors reading lines in a sound booth, […]
THOR – Trailer #2 Kenneth Branagh Interview
The second trailer for the eagerly awaited comic book movie Thor is here. Though somewhat similar to the first trailer, it’s all starting to look pretty exciting with some cool visuals and more of the film’s FX featured. Its hard to imagine these characters coming to life a few decades ago, but now with the […]
Tranformers 3 – Set Footage and Cast Interviews
With principal photography completed on Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, a teaser trailer is on the way and Michael bay has said that it will be attached to the Narnia and Tron sequels. Though this time around people are unsure of what to expect from the third installment after the second was an over […]