In most blockbuster movies - and in the Potterverse especially - it's the music that completes the magic. The first official track from the score to Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them has been released (which you can listen to, below), and it has the rousing orchestral sweep you expect, transitioning [...]
All 70 seconds of it! As I had previously blogged about, freelance animator Patrick Schoenmaker was inspired to make a "calling card" test clip of what an animated Indiana Jones series could look like. After years of development, the brief but thrilling clip is here. Working as a "proof of concept" piece, The Adventures of Indiana Jones (see [...]
Can this be for real? Yes it can. And sort of not. But yes. At the end of September, a brand new Indiana Jones animated adventure will make its debut...but it's not Lucasfilm official. And it's not feature length or even a standard episode. It'll barely be a short. But if these images are any [...]
Making them like they used to, and it's glorious. In the age of digitized everything, it's refreshing to see a movie that so boldly stages real-life spectacle. Director George Miller did exactly that in Mad Max: Fury Road, as this behind-the-scenes 4-minute video "Crash & Smash" reveals. Sure, Fury Road had its share of digital enhancements, particularly [...]
Welcome to the set of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. In a substantial series of tweets from @GreatCharlesSt, @Shelliweb, and @ChrisBevan89 on the London set, we've been gifted with a lot more looks at the upcoming dystopian sci-fi thriller about humanity's obsession with VR and technology in the near future. Below you'll find a series [...]
Ground Control to General Solo. Everybody loves a Pop Culture Mashup, and freelance digital artist Steven Lear has come up with some beauts over at his website Why The Long Play Face. Transforming 37 classic album covers into Star Wars themed art, Lear proves he's a Photoshop Padawan who's strong with The Force. Just click on the [...]
Bored? Don't have anything to watch? Here's 100 suggestions by film critics and writers from around the world. The BBC just published a "100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century" list...or, well, the 100 best movies from a 15-year period (plus one from 2016 that sneaks in for the 3-way tie at #100). In that context it's [...]
Production on Steven Spielberg's dystopian sci-fi blockbuster Ready Player One is about to be in full swing, and so are the first of the (allegedly) unsanctioned image and video tweets. (See below) Based on the YA novel by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One is the near-future reality of 2044 in which society is so immersed into the virtual reality [...]
Bangarang! Thanks to the website 22 Vision, which celebrates "film, television and pop culture though unique viral experience", fans of Steven Spielberg's Hook can finally see Neverland's Lost Boys all grown up and back together. (Image gallery below.) Although the film's actual anniversary date isn't until later this year (December 11, 2016), the Lost Boys [...]
Kids ain't afraid of no female Ghostbusters. In fact, tykes are flocking to their action figures - boys and girls alike. Mattel reports that sales for their tie-ins to the new female-centric Ghostbusters reboot have exceeded their projections, proving popular with both genders. The film itself opened to a solid but not gigantic $46 million [...]
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