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How Peter Jackson’s team created the Oscar-nominated soundscape of ‘Smaug’

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As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Ingraham The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was just nominated for two Oscars relating to its sound design — it’s up against some tough competition in the form of Gravity and a number of other excellent films, but a new mini-documentary from SoundWorks makes a good case for Peter Jackson’s latest adventure into Middle-earth. The video contains interviews with a number of sound mixers at Park Road Post Studios in Wellington, New Zealand who…

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James Cameron locks up lead actors for his new ‘Avatar’ trilogy

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop We already knew that James Cameron had some big plans for the Avatar franchise by making not just one but three sequels, and now he’s officially signed the stars from the first film to reprise their roles. According to The Hollywood Reporter, both Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana have signed on for the new trilogy. In case it’s been a while since you’ve seen the 2009 original, Worthington played Jake Sully, the human who ends up…

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Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report

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As reported on Wired. BY KYLE VANHEMERT The future we see in Her is one where technology has dissolved into everyday life.   A few weeks into the making of Her, Spike Jonze’s new flick about romance in the age of artificial intelligence, the director had something of a breakthrough. After poring over the work of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists trying to figure out how, exactly, his artificially intelligent female lead should operate, Jonze arrived at a critical…

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The science of ‘Her’: we’re going to start falling in love with our computers

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As reported on The Verge. By Ben Popper Why do humans become emotionally intimate with AI? In the new Spike Jonze film, Her, a man falls in love with his operating system. In some ways it’s a commentary on modern society and our increasingly intimate relationship to technology; it’s about the smartphones we bring to bed and the computers we wear to work. But there is also a lot of truth to the idea that people might fall…

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First Trailer for the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending Looks Good

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As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER First Trailer for the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending Looks Good In the future, Mila Kunis is a janitor who might hold the key to the universe. And Channing Tatum is a genetically engineered former soldier tasked with coming to Earth to save her. That’s the general run-down of Jupiter Ascending, the latest sci-fi brain-buster from Lana and Andy Wachowski. And even though it sounds nuts, based on this first trailer it looks like…

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Watch Pixar get spooky in its ‘Toy Story OF TERROR!’ trailer

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As reported on The Verge. By Rich McCormick Pixar showed a trailer for its first ever TV special back in August. Now The Wall Street Journal has a new clip of the Halloween-themed feature in action. Toy Story OF TERROR! is a 22 minute mini-movie that tracks a bagful of the Toy Story toys as they’re carted to Grandma’s house. En route, they’re forced through a decidedly spooky gauntlet as car trouble forces the group into a shady motel. The Wall Street Journal‘s…

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Visual effects studio stuns with three minute clip of sci-fi mech film

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As reported on The Verge. By Dante D’Orazio    An epic sci-fi movie featuring large-scale mech battles is an ambitious project for a small visual effects studio to take up on its free time. But that’s precisely what director J.J. Palomo and his team from Barcelona’s Big Lazy Robot have done with “Keloid.” Rather than output a full-length feature at direct-to-TV quality, the team spent over two years putting together this three minute “spec film.” It’s…

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‘Riddick’ review: still angry after all these years

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Vin Diesel and director David Twohy takes the antihero back to his R-rated roots The Riddick Series has never been AAA cinema. 2000’s Pitch Black was a B-movie mash-up of sci-fi, horror, and action, while its PG-13 sequel The Chronicles of Riddick aspired to be more of a costumed action epic — and failed at the box office.     The character has maintained a loyal following over the years, however, and…

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‘Elysium’ review: class warfare heads to space

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop The director of ‘District 9’ turns Matt Damon into man and machine   Four years ago District 9 hit theaters, heralding the arrival of a new voice in contemporary science fiction. Writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s alien-invasion film impressed visually, portraying a gritty, realistic world that seamlessly blended humans and digital creations. More importantly, it carried on in some of the best traditions of the genre by serving as intriguing social commentary…

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Tribeca Film Festival Narrows Down #6SecFilms Submissions To A Short List Of 40 Awesome Vines

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JORDAN CROOK Less than a month ago, Tribeca Film Festival opened up a sub-competition within the festival for those of us with a knack for brevity: the Tribeca Film Festival’s #6SecFilms competition. Partnering with Twitter’s new darling and video-sharing app Vine, TFF made a call for submissions from filmmakers who’d like to use the Vine platform to be featured on TribecaFilm.com, along with a nice cash prize of $600. Today, TFF…

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