Category: Movies
Does Skin Color Matter To Gods?
Above is an image of Heimdall (played by Idris Elba), from “Thor”. Some in the fan community were incensed when they found that Mr. Elba would be playing Heimdall because the character–as designed by Marvel–is white (image below the break).
Dr. Strange
According to ComicBookMovie.com, the image above is The Eye of Agamatto. You may be wondering, “What the heck is The Eye of Agamatto”?
Red Sky At Night
Now that MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is on more or less stable ground (after filing for bankruptcy in the latter part of 2010) the studio appears to be preparing the next outing of James Bond. For the moment the new film is known as James Bond 23 (the ’23’ representing the 23rd film in the series).
Thor: Ruler of the Foreign Box Office
According to Box Office Mojo, “Thor” has pulled in $93 million in foreign box office receipts (UK, France, Korea, Spain, Brazil, Russia, Germany, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines and Australia). Total production costs are currently unavailable, but it’s probably in the +/- $150 million dollar range.
Re-Animator: The Musical
‘Re-Animator’ Special Effects: Simple But Effective There have probably been a handful of films based upon the books of the Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft, though two of the best are “Re-Animator” and “In The Mouth Of Madness” (IMOM was not, per se, a “Lovecraft” film, though the title character of the film, Sutter Cane, […]
(Refusing) The Role of a Lifetime
Marvel Studios upcoming “Thor” and “Captain America” look to be huge hits, but there’s no way of knowing before the films are released into theaters. No one wants to be known for an unsuccessful film, which can potentially follow them their entire careers (John Travolta, no matter what he does, cannot shake the sheer, unrelenting […]
Final Cut Pro X
Apple’s Final Cut suite of professional editing programs have been used on films from the Coen brothers remake of “True Grit” to “(500) Days of Summer”. According to Facebook, in 2007 49% of films made were edited with the application.
The Pitfalls of Motion Capture
Special effects have come a long way in the past 30 years. They’ve evolved from practical elements rotoscoped together to digital effects that stitched together with the power of computer editing. The increasing power and speed of computers means that computers are able to create complex worlds that take up terabytes of data like James Cameron’s “Avatar” […]
Thor Parody
Remember that Volkswagen commercial with that little kid dressed as Darth Vader, running around his house, trying to use ‘the Force’ to move things?
