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Sunday, 27 September 2009 14:22 |
Not surprising that the festive period brings Christamas themed movies and 2009 is no different with a retelling of the classic A Christmas Carol.
And the man behind Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis, is back for yet another animated movie.
He brings together an impressive voice cast of Jim Carrey, whose taking on four characters, Robin Wright Penn, Colin Firth and Gary Oldman.
Charles Dickens’ timeless tale of an old miser who must face Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet-to-Come, as they help to bring kindness to his otherwise cold heart.
The Ghosts remind him of the man he used to be, the hard truth of what the world is today, and what will happen if he does not strive to be a better man.
A Christmas Carol is released 6th November. Take a look at the trailer for the film by clicking the link below.
Christmas Carol Trailer
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Friday, 04 September 2009 02:46 |
Pixar's live action "John Carter of Mars" is a go
Disney’s John Carter of Mars is seemingly moving ahead full-throttle.
Several major casting announcements have given the once doubtful-looking project new credibility. Taylor Kitsch, “Gambit” in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, plays the title character, a Civil War veteran who finds himself transported to the even more dangerous planet Mars. Kitsch has also been seen in the TV show Friday Night Lights, as well as the movies Snakes on a Plane and John Tucker Must Die! Willem Dafoe has signed to play Martian warrior Tars Tarkas. Other recent cast additions include Dominic West, Samantha Morton and Polly Walker. Thomas Hayden Church also joins Lynn Collins, who co-starred with Kitsch in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Pixar director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-e) makes his live-action directorial debut. The script is by Stanton, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon and Mark Andrews.
John Carter of Mars is based on a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan novels. Tarzan is currently being developed (again) for the big screen, this time by GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra director Stephen Sommers.
Interest in filming the Burroughs fantasy/science fiction series has flared up periodically for decades. Looney Toons director Bob Clampett expressed interest in making an animated feature based on John Carter of Mars in the thirties but was unable to convince backers the idea was viable. A few years later, Walt Disney produced Snow White. Stop motion animation guru Ray Harryhausen wanted to make the project in the fifties, and John McTiernan reportedly made a stab at it in the eighties.
John Carter of Mars is currently projected to be released in 2012.
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Friday, 04 September 2009 02:29 |
Spielberg and Jackson bringing back Tintin
It's no secret that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have been hard at work on their latest project, the film adaptation of classic comic The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Sony Pictures just released a picture of the two of them from the set and it reveals some very important pieces of information.
One: the movie is being shot at Giant Studios, a company that specializes in motion capture. This confirms that the movie will be motion capture...which we knew before so, OK not so important.
Two: Spielberg and Jackson are single handedly trying to bring the bowler hat back in fashion. In fact, Tintin.com has a clip of both Jackson and Spielberg with their Tintin-esque hats and umbrellas celebrating Tintin's 80th birthday at a comic book convention.
The movie stars Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Simon Pegg, and Andy Serkis, all of whom are providing not only their voices but motion captured performances. It hits theaters in 2011.
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Monday, 31 August 2009 07:32 |
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Stunt choreagrapher of the year Garrett Warren discusses Tintin film
Garrett Warren, who is the recipient of the 2009 Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards for Stunt Choreographer of the Year, discussed his role in the upcoming Tintin movies directed by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson with Movieline.com. Besides answering the basic question of what a stunt man is doing in a motion-capture animated film, he has some really interesting things to say about the Tintin film and how it looks. Here is a brief quote:
Can you describe the look of it at all?
It looks an awful lot like the cartoon. They really wanted to bring the cartoon to life. So if you know the cartoon, or have seen the books, that’s what it looks like. It’s beautiful. You would have thought to yourself that they would have tried to go for a more realistic look, but they’re actually trying to preserve the look and essence of the original Tintin characters.
I’m wondering how coordinating stunts for a live-action film differs from motion capture?
The difference is that you have to have just a little bit more imagination when you have motion capture. You have to make believe you’re in an elevator, or something is a dragon, or a house. In live action, we’d actually have the horse, or build a mock-up of a dragon, or put the actors in an elevator. We still perform an awful lot of hard action sequences, but they don’t necessarily take place at an actual location. We just put down a box, and have the person jump off of that, and that can be jumping off the roof of a building.
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Monday, 31 August 2009 07:24 |
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Disney, Zemeckis Plot Remake of the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine”
The director of Back to the Future is going back to Beatlemania for his next film. Robert Zemeckis and Disney are hoping to remake the Beatles‘ 1968 animated classic Yellow Submarine, Variety reports. Zemeckis and Disney are reportedly brokering a deal that would give them access to the original film’s 16-song soundtrack. Just as the 1968 Submarine was ahead of its time from an animation standpoint, Zemeckis hopes to employ his revolutionary performance-capture 3-D digital production formula that he’s brought to films like The Polar Express, Beowulf and the upcoming Jim Carrey vehicle A Christmas Carol.
The film’s plot is something that only the psychedelic era could produce: The Beatles, posing as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, are recruited to protect Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, with the Fab Four boarding a Yellow Submarine for the odyssey to the city under the sea. The Beatles didn’t actually lend their voices to their animated counterparts — actors played those roles — but the group did appear in a live-action segment at the film’s denouement. The film also introduced classics like “Hey Bulldog.”
Zemeckis is eying a 2012 release to coincide with the Summer Olympics in London. Variety also writes that the deal for Yellow Submarine would include the option to spin a stage musical out of the remake. The Yellow Submarine remake is just the latest in a massive resurgence of the Beatles’ legacy in recent months, a renaissance that will be capped off on September 9th with the release of both the band’s entire remastered catalog and the The Beatles: Rock Band video game.
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 05:48 |
"Avatar has been kept under wraps and its revolutionary filming
technique has been largely misunderstood. Effects-laden films such as
The Abyss, Terminator and Titanic led to the development of a new
motion-capture filming process that many have interpreted as being the
final inexorable step towards a fully digital film and, consequently,
the diminution of the actor.
But Cameron's producer on Titanic and Avatar, Jon Landau, says that
couldn't be further from the truth.
"*To me, it's the exact opposite," Landau says. "Our goal on this movie
was not to replace the actor, it was to replace the animator.* If you
think about it, what a great actor does and what a great animator does
are antithetical to one another.
"A great actor withholds information. Dustin Hoffman in All the
President's Men can sit there and do nothing. No animator would ever
allow that, they would put in a twitch. So our objective was to preserve
Sam Worthington's performance and have that be what you see in those
characters."
The filmmakers don't refer to motion capture, rather they call it
"performance capture". Cameron used a newly developed camera through
which he could see not the actor but the virtual actor, and not the
green-screen set but the virtual world the actor is supposed to be in.
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are using the same technology on
their series The Adventures of Tintin.
"There's no point in having technology being a limiting factor, we want
technology to be an enabling factor," Landau says."
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