Category: Film

AS reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor New additions join Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, and Bruce Willis on the set of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s long-awaited sequel Deadline is reporting that both Julia Garner and Eva Green have signed on to the cast ofSin City: A Dame to Kill For, joining Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, and Bruce Willis on the set of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s upcoming sequel. Green, who starred in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows and played a…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Esther Zuckerman “Don Jon’s Addiction” Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in his directorial debut “Don Jon’s Addiction” alongside Scarlett Johansson. 200 Years of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Book Design How Two Hedge-Fund Giants Turned a Schoolyard Fight into a TV Battle Royale Here’s Video of Crocodiles Being Handcuffed in South Africa This Dolphin Stranded in Brooklyn Must Save Itself ‘American Idol’: The Louisiana Letdown The Sundance Film Festival is underway, and reviews are…

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As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER Easily the best part of Dredd 3D (after Karl Urban’s Judge Dredd scowl, obvi) is the slow-mo/Slo-Mo – both the movie’s drug of choice and the camera technique used to create the retina-stimulating scenes that accompany its use. To create those acid-trippy images the filmmakers used a 3-D rig that was outfitted with Phantom Flexhigh-speed cameras capable of shooting at a whopping 3,000 frames per second (and higher). That footage was then…

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As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom Douglas Trumbull tried — and failed — to bring HFR to theaters in the 80s. With digital cinema, he’s getting another chance The hyperreal high frame rate style that came into theaters with The Hobbit is usually described as cutting edge, but it’s older than most of the people buying tickets. HFR has actually had a nearly 40-year journey to the theaters, starting from a small Paramount lab run by Douglas Trumbull.…

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As reported on Mashable. by Brian Anthony Hernandez jOBS, the independent film about former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, will arrive in theaters in April, the movie’s distributors announced Thursday. The film — not to be confused with the one Sony Pictures is creating based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late tech luminary — will star Ashton Kutcher as Jobs and is still slated to premiere this month on the closing night of the Sundance Film Festival. Along with…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Kirsten Acuna Sony Pictures / Columbia Kate Beckinsale’s “Total Recall” remake didn’t totally take off this summer at theaters. While “The Avengers” and “The Dark Knight Rises” both saw more than $1 billion at the box office worldwide this year, there were many films which came up short at theaters.  From Kate Beckinsale and Jennifer Aniston to Judd Apatow to Disney’s Andrew Stanton, big name actors and producers were not…

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As reported on The Verge. By Ellis Hamburger Tim Squyres is a film editor, and director Ang Lee’s partner in crime for the last two decades, having edited all but one of his films. Among others, Squyres edited Hulk, Sense and Sensibility, Lust, Caution, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for best film editing. He most recently edited Life of Pi, an adaptation of the best-selling book that follows the tale of an Indian boy struggling to…

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As reported on Wired. BY WIRED STAFF There was a lot to anticipate in world of entertainment in 2012, but not everything lived up to the hype. From movie blockbusters to comics reboots, we’ve made a list of the media that disappointed us most over the last 12 months – or at least the glorious failures we enjoyed watching implode from afar.   The Battleship That Sunk Itself Look. It’s not like I was expecting Battleship to be great…

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