In this video http://www.WatchMojo.com gets to sit down to talk to one of the most respected horror movie directors of all time, George A Romero. Thanks to his 1968 cult classic Night of the Living Dead film, he is one of the top names in the modern horror movies.
Well this looks like a pretty fun ride. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” vibe is unmistakable, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be an entertaining movie! Check out the first trailer:
This 3 and a half minute trailer should give you a better idea of the plot and some of the supporting characters. The CGI still doesn’t look “game-changing”, but its still impressive and the film definitely looks like a fun ride… Not sure about that dialog though… oh well, check out the brand new trailer from Yahoo!:
This is pretty cool. For Where The Wild Things Are Spike Jonze used a combination of real life-sized puppets with CGI faces that allowed them to show emotions, etc. Read more from Wired.com on how it was accomplished:
Building a lifelike monster is hard enough. But director Spike Jonze needed 14 of them, each with its own unique look and personality, for his film version of Maurice Sendak’s beloved Where the Wild Things Are. “When I read the book as a kid, I wanted to hug them, and I was scared of them at the same time,” Jonze says. To create fearsome physicality with approachable cuddliness, Jonze turned to the Muppet-masters at the Jim Henson Creature Shop, then used CG to make the beasts talk and emote. Sound complicated? That’s probably why the movie took half a decade to make. Here’s a look at the mechanics.
Heads: The heads were heavy and all-encompassing—performers could see, barely, through the creatures’ mouths. To make up for the lack of visibility, a small wireless video monitor mounted just above the performer’s eye level showed the view from Jonze’s camera. Head-mounted speakers played back the scripted dialogue.
Bodies: Some characters (like the horned Carol) had arms that were short enough for the puppet fingers to be slaved to simple tube controllers wrapped around the actor’s hands. Longer-armed monsters had mechanical hands made of a lightweight polymer called Plastazote, covered with carbon fiber for strength. Performers wore a backpack that supported a sort of rib cage and pelvis, over which hung a Lycra and foam “muscle suit” and a flexible fur skin made of custom four-way stretch fabric. “The suits had to be very lightweight, so as not to inhibit the characters, but they also had to look real,” says Peter Brooke, creative supervisor at the Creature Shop. That said, the Carol suit is 9 feet tall and weighs about 60 pounds.
Faces: “Initially I was thinking we would do animatronics in the faces,” Jonze says. “But then David Fincher,” who directed the facial-f/x-heavy Curious Case of Benjamin Button, “told me that was the stupidest thing we could ever do—go hours into the wilderness with a bunch of suits and all these servo motors and remote controls. We were working out of his office in Hollywood and he would leave notes on our door with a little drawing of a wild thing and an arrow that said ’suit’ and another arrow pointing at the face that said ‘CG.’” Heeding Fincher’s advice, animators created CG models of the creatures’ faces in postproduction and tracked them over what Jonze had shot on location. Using videos of the voice actors and of Jonze himself performing every scene, the animators added expressions. One tricky part was calibrating nonhuman mouth movements: Carol has a Kermit the Frog-like line that all but bisects his face; large movements would look cartoony and small movements would be too Muppety. (Turns out there is a such a thing!)
Arguably one of the most versatile directors in the business, Spike Jonze jumps regularly from music videos to commercials to Oscar-nominated films. He even had a main role acting alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg in 1999’s “Three Kings.” In this video, WatchMojo.com takes a look at the highlights of Spike Jonze’s still young career.
You know you have an identifiable film-making style when even a stop-motion animation movie has the look and feel of a Wes Anderson movie! This looks “fantastic”:
1- George Clooney and Brad Pitt
2- Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson
3- Matthew McConaughey and Lance Armstrong
4- Chase Crawford and Ed Westwick
5- Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
6- Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider
7- Will Smith and Tom Cruise
8- Tom Cruise and David Beckham
9- David Spade and Chris Farley
10- Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell
According to MSN.Entertainment.com
Over his career, as both a filmmaker and author, Michael Moore has become one of the left wing’s most vocal speakers. He is one of the most recognized documentary filmmakers, however not always for the best reasons. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com takes a closer look at the career of Michael Moore.
It seems that Travolta is back trying out his “badass” mode. The movie is from the same gang that brought you the out of nowhere hit Taken, and it looks pretty entertaining. Check out the trailer:
George Clooney… Jason Reitman… tons of buzz from Telluride… this movie is looking great. Check out the first teaser for confirmation:
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