May

6

LA Film Festival closing night

By AltBakh

LAFF director of programming Rachel Rosen and honorary co-chair Christina Applegate gave the closing night awards at UCLA Wadsworth Theater before the premiere of Fox Searchlight’s raucous comedy Little Miss Sunshine, which played well to the crowd. After reviewing 265 feature films, documentaries, shorts and music videos, the Film Festival of Los Angeles scored a shelter Sunday night. On the feast of grass after the small Breslin made her dance moves with James “Super Freak Rick.Local-directors-made-good Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton brought cast members Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, ...More

May

6

Letter from Michael Moore

By AltBakh

Here’s the latest update of Michael Moore in its many activities
Friends, Just a quick note to let you know how things go.
It was truly overwhelming and literally took a month and read them all. I have received over 19,000 of them. To read more about the misery of the people get through all the days to profit-based system is both moving and revolting. That’s all I’ll say right now.Back in February, I asked if people sent me letters describing their experiences with our health care system.
If people ask, we say that “Sicko” is “a comedy about 45 ...More

May

5

Final Fantasy XIII-2 to fit on a single disc Xbox 360

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So it means that your weapons / armor changes will appear in cutscenes now. More importantly, most of disk space occupied by the CGI isn t feel like high-definition film, which explains how the game is on one disc. Read more »

May

5

Round Up box office

By AltBakh

[Posted by Sheigh "Sealegs Truelove" Crabtree
Let's wallow in post-'Pirates opening weekend of bondingIt's been a while since many news outlets so I have decided to inform the film together is not dead.
NY Times 'Sharon Waxman reports overall box office is up 6.4 percent from 2005 and highlights the participation of the public (uhm, that would include swordfightin' cosplay outside theaters). Lin
"A ago we were saying, 'Is this the end of the theatrical experience? And here it comes, breaking records.This Dergaradedian quote Paul stood up and inserted into a story of many unionized ...More

May

5

VFX Frontiers, big budgets and box office

By AltBakh

I’m about Superman Returns is going in the summer box office. Be part of the problem is that studios are indulgent parents. So Bryan Singer gets to spend 2.3 million U.S. dollars in the same sequence shot in the eye. Because Peter Jackson was coming off the amazing Lord of the Rings, Universal let him do whatever he wanted, and got a three-hour movie that barely scraped into profitability, and should have been cutThey have gobs and gobs of cash to spend, especially when investing in a franchise with great potential, there is no incentive not to let their smart, talented imaginative directors ...More

May

4

Comments on Street Fighter Capcom 5

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Clearly, Capcom can not keep crapping expansions forever, as they want. So the big question is when we go to get a correct result? Capcom Community Manager Seth Killian responded to this question in a recent interview with Eurogamer: Read more »

May

4

Clerks II Premiere: Talking Heads

By AltBakh

I missed it at the end of Cannes and I’ve been a fan of Kevin Smith. I went to the Clerks II premiere last night. (He’s doing a lot of public relations
(Dogma and Chasing Amy remain my two favorite Smith movies.The film is just what you expect: more polished than, shot for the first time in color, with a fine musical number (thank God for Rosario Dawson, with Smith, left) and a lot of talk, in large scatalogically fun part. The guys go on astonishing riffs (my favorite is a heated debate about the merits of Star Wars vs. LOR) and Smith says they get some pretty hairy ...More

May

4

iklipz: new talent and exclusive content

By AltBakh

Former Paramount marketing chief Arthur Cohen went live with indie film hub Iklipz.com last week (see story of Human Resources). David Dinerstein, former president of Paramount Classics, serves as a programming consultant with Susan Wrubel Iklipz “Classic Par former head of acquisitions and co
Poland asked why not simply produce his own vlog on his own siteAmong the attractions exclusive David is the founder of Poland MovieCityNews video blog, the first of which came on Friday (link).
When I had the radio, I liked working inside another person’s boundaries and flexing muscles ...More

May

3

Rumor: GTA 5 to be placed in the

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If the city of angels will be the final adjustment for GTA V is anyones guess, but it’s certainly exciting to think that it can be seen next to the house flipping cars on passers-by and a policeman punched in the face because you can. Read more »

May

3

Lady in the Water Review

By AltBakh

The assembled media was out for blood. This) In short, Disney production chief Nina Jacobson was right on all points (as revealed in the upcoming book The Michael Bamberger man to hear) film critic (Bob Balaban), the role of a sincere-writer played by Shyamalan himself, the fairy tale writing, the CG monsters totally unbelievable. (No doubt means not more credulous, less sophisticated audiences will behave this way. Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan would have cringed if he had sat through last night Arclight screening of Lady in the Water. There is emotion and feeling of the heart and yes, this ...More

May

3

Monster House Art, Actor

By AltBakh

Applehans Chris developed the concept of art (including the supply and production designs) for Monster House, a very clever animated film produced by Bob Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg that opens this weekend
The film is the same way Zemeckis did Polar Express – by shooting live actors covered with reflective sensors in a scenario with 200 cameras capture performance
Then, he won more than Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg during a pitch meeting with a unique plot twist in “Monster House.”According to legend, Kenan was “discovered” by an assistant to CAA in the ...More

May

3

Performs bandwagon rolled back into town, Rage parents in Portal 2

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The main story itself, is simply ridiculous. I can understand a tricky subject for parents to SA, but I do not see anyone complaining about t insult to fat people in the same sentence. It ’s all relative, everything is upset by some things and not others. Read more »

May

2

Comic-Con: Anime Super Hero

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[Posted by Sheigh
Panelists at the Character Animation Comics this afternoon session came well prepared with a variety of video samples and some interesting work with the director of 'stories
There were lots of aspiring animators from the crowd, so I tried to steer the conversation toward whether or not to try to specialize in facial animation versus action and building your reel when it's just the beginning in the industry animation
Chris Williams works with lots of young animators through Animation Mentor, so he had some words of breath of the mob. Meanwhile, Andy Jones, who ...More

May

2

Deepak Chopra meets Superman

By AltBakh

Comic-Con sentimental as the famous spiritualist Deepak Chopra (How to Know God and founder of Virgin Comics) and comics writer Grant Morrison (All Star Superman) mused on the Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes
And superheroes aspire to the impossible. When express our deepest longings we express not only our own aspirations, but the aspiration of the collective. At this juncture we can reach the depths of our soul and create a new story? Energy expresses the deepest aspirations of the collective soul of imagination, intuition and inspiration are the attributes of our soul. By creating ...More

May

2

Resistance 3 Beta Dated

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Resistance 3 is due to hit the PS3 in September. Insomniac has announced via the PlayStation Blog that the multiplayer beta will be available for PlayStation Plus the European Union on August 10. Insomniac has stated that the beta will always be available for all PS3 owners, such as Uncharted beta 3 s. Read more »

May

1

Comic-Conning Pan’s Labyrinth

By AltBakh

Guillermo del Toro is one of those directors who nurtures his fans, putting time and effort (like Kevin Smith and Bryan Singer) in interaction with them
In the maze of yesterday’s Comic-Con panel Pan, for example, where Picturehouse unveiled the new trailer (which we will make one or two passes before it is exclusive to the web, says Picturehouse chief Bob Berney), Del Toro actually gave your e-mail, asking people to send their films
A man approached Del Toro in a haunted house and found another child in a Virgin Megastore. At dinner last night Del Toro said he has discovered ...More