The Spandex Speculations

July 10, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments

In honor of Comic-Con, we humbly offer our annual glimpse at the gritty details and vague conjectures about upcoming film adaptations of comic-book properties. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…a greenlit production!     Director Marc Webb’s hotly anticipated reboot of the Spidey story finds a teenaged Peter Parker [...]

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A Hot VFX Summer Sampler

June 2, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment

We focus on some of the innovative digital effects of three of the season’s early blockbusters. Men In Black III (Sony) VFX Supervisor: Ken Ralston It’s been 10 years since Agents J and K last graced the big screen to police the alien population living among us—not so long by [...]

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Weekend Brings Nice B.O. Booty for ‘The Pirates!’

April 29, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments

Sony/Aardman Animations’ stop-motion extravaganza The Pirates! Band of Misfits made a decent box office splash this weekend, landing in at No. 2 (after the urban comedy Think Like a Man) bringing in $11.4 million domestically. The film, which cost about $50 million to produce, has already made $63.7 million internationally, [...]

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