LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Sequels succeeded so well in 2002 that film studios have decided to do an encore. 2003 will see about two dozen followup movies, along with a few prequels — some craved by audiences for a decade or more, others hitting theaters less than a year after their predecessors. [More]
Day: January 16, 2003
Why do the preferences of America’s movie critics differ so radically from the tastes of the general public? This question comes up around this time every year as the leading organizations of working film reviewers announce their arcane choices for top movie awards. [More]
Robert writes: The LOTR Digital models supervisor was in Bologna yesterday at The Future Film Festival and our reader Rita sent me a fantastic report of the evening He partecipated at a conference, where he explained the work Weta Workshop has done. He spoke mostly about the work done with digital creatures as Gollum and the Ents. But he spoke also about the differences between what they have done in the first movie and what they have realised in TTT. There was also time to describe how they “improved” the human actors. For example, in one scene they needed to “erase” Viggo Mortensen’s real legs and to create a digital pair of legs to be more realistic! [Photos] [More]
LONDON (Reuters) – Boy wizard Harry Potter and his middle earth counterpart Gandalf both weaved money-spinning magic over cinema audiences last year — but whose sorcery left the biggest mark? [More]
Viggo Mortensen and author Jude Fisher will sign copies of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS VISUAL COMPANION at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, CA TODAY at 3:00 p.m. Presented by Houghton Mifflin, publishers of J.R.R. Tolkien since 1938
Check out this comic from Michael Fry and the folks at Commited. Take a look at the Orc dental plan! [More]