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Jul 31, 2015 - 1:16 PM
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dragon53
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FRIDAY, JULY 31
THE WALKING DEAD---AMC released new photos of Walkers from Season 6.
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS---sources said JJ Abrams wanted to retain the original trilogy's non-CGI practical special effects, so THE FORCE AWAKENS has only 28 pure CGI shots. This includes a 100% CGI scene involving TIE fighters and Star Destroyers.
GAME OF THRONES---HBO head Michael Lombardo said the series might last eight seasons, "Seven-seasons-and-out has never been the conversation. The question is how much beyond seven are we going to do."
Lombardo said creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss are, "feeling like there's two more years after six. I would always love for them to change their minds. That's what we're looking at right now."
He commented on a prequel, "I would always be open to anything Dan and David want to do. It really would depend fully on what they want to do. I think you're right, there's enormous storytelling to be mined in a prequel. We haven't had any conversations."
JONNY QUEST---Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) commented on his live-action movie based on the ABC animated series, "I'm turning in the script right now...I love Jonny Quest. The originals are so cool. They were really ahead of their time. I grew up with them because they used to play in syndication, and my kids still love them.
They're action-packed. That was an action cartoon. They had to cancel it after the first season because they couldn't keep up with it. The amount of drawings was like four times the amount of drawings. It was an adventure. Before Indiana Jones, it was an Indiana Jones/James Bond action-adventure strip with a kid in it. It just happened to have a kid. It wasn't a kid's story. It was an action-adventure story that had a kid in it." He said the movie will have a PG or PG-13 rating.
BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE---sources claim Jena Malone will play Barbara Gordon in the sequel.
SPIDER-MAN---co-writer Jonathan Goldstein said the reboot movie won't be an origin movie, "I think that everybody feels like you know he got bit by a spider and you know Uncle Ben died, and we probably don't need to revisit that."
TRON ASCENSION---Bruce Boxleitner commented on Walt Disney Pictures' decision to drop plans for another sequel, "I'm done with it. I've moved on. I hate to say that but it's been too up and down for me. I would rather not just keep going. I don't want to repeat my career anymore. That'd be like, 'Let's reboot SCARECROW AND MRS KING.' No, I'm not interested. Or BABYLON 5.
[I was] very much surprised [by the cancellation]. Not that I was privy to anything, but once in a while I got little snippets of information... I don't think they [Disney] really want it anymore. I think they've got Star Wars. They've got Marvel. Legacy was successful. I'm not sure that they really had that much interest anymore. I hate to say that because I think there's a lot more to go."
HUMANS---AMC renewed the series for Season 2.
BLACK SAILS---Starz renewed the series for Season 4. Starz is also developing a series titled HAVANA QUARTET starring Antonio Banderas and based on the novel series about a Cuban police detective who wants to be a writer.
MARVEL'S JESSICA JONES---it's been confirmed that DAREDEVIL's Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson) will do a crossover on JESSICA JONES.
EDGE---Yvonne Strahovski (CHUCK) will play a Pinkerton detective in the Shane Black/Amazon Western pilot.
WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY?---sci fi movie starring Noomi Rapace, Willem Dafoe and Glenn Close. Set in the future where famine and over-population has forced society to adopt a one-child only policy, seven identical sisters, each code-named after a day of the week, skirt the policy by having one of them venture outside on the day they're named after...until Monday doesn't return.
BIG SKY---Kyra Sedgwick, Bella Thorne and Frank Grillo star in this movie about a mother taking her agoraphobic teenage daughter to a treatment center when their van is attacked by two masked gunmen.
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER---Famke Janssen (X-MEN) will join the cast as a defense attorney.
IMPERIUM---Daniel Radcliffe stars in this movie about an FBI agent who goes undercover in a white supremacist group trying to develop a dirty bomb.
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Jul 31, 2015 - 3:58 PM
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Mike_J
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All this talk about Star Wars VII having mainly practical effects is utter rot. Pure economics alone dictates that CGi will be used extensively in the film and anything to the contrary is just PR spin to placate the fan boys.
Yes and no. To an extent, the practical effects talk in Mad Max was also rot: so many shots were touched up with CGI. The difference, and I think it showed, is that so much of it was not pure CG. There was a practical basis which lent the action a physicality and heft that is often missing from pure CG action scenes. So no, it's not "utter rot". Of course almost every shot in the film will be digitally touched up, but so what? It will still probably look better than a shot rendered 100%
So, you're suggesting that ILM have built a load of models of the Falcon, Star Destroyers, X Wings, TIE fighters etc., all shot on a motion control rig? And also they have used a bunch of matte paintings? And the light-Sabres are rotoscoped animation? And they have built vast sets on sound stages like in old days, instead of small little sets surrounded by green screen?
Sorry, but I think you are going to be very disappointed if you believe that. In fairness, I bought into the hype on Crystal Skull and honestly thought it was going to be old-school movie making rather than the (mainly terrible) CGI that proliferated that risible movie.
Granted I think there will be a fair bit of practical stuff in Episode VII but that will be mainly aliens and droid stuff I suspect.
Nope, sorry, I maintain it IS pure PR crap that there will be very little CGi in the movie. Just look at the trailer and tell me that the sequences of the X-Wings flying over water is not CGI, for example. And that is just one sequence.
Need further proof? Take a look at the list of technical credits for the film and see how many digital artists are working on it. That's a hell of a lot of crew for "28 pure CGi shots".
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Jul 31, 2015 - 4:05 PM
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Thor
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So, you're suggesting that ILM have built a load of models of the Falcon, Star Destroyers, X Wings, TIE fighters etc., all shot on a motion control rig? And also they have used a bunch of matte paintings? And the light-Sabres are rotoscoped animation? And they have built vast sets on sound stages like in old days, instead of small little sets surrounded by green screen?
It's not farfetched. The LOTR films are a prime example of contemporary FX that are built around sets and physical models, but which is then combined organically with CGI (something they departed radically from in the CG-heavy HOBBIT films). So my guess is that it's something like that, which sounds pretty much perfect to my ears. Bring it on, I say!
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I don't care if the effects are practical or CGI, just don't obscure them by bathing them in lens flare.
Indeed, the last 'Star Trek' movie was almost ruined by those lens flares. Didn't understand what they were trying to accomplish.
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