Tag "Oblivion"

‘Star Trek’ Beams Down $84 Mil. Weekend

May 19, 2013 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness landed on top of the domestic box office this weekend, with an estimated $84 million. The J.J. Abrams-directed sequel to the rebooted franchise made over $35.5 on Thursday and Friday. Industry watchers were predicting a possible $100 million opener, but the actual numbers were actually [...]

‘Iron Man 3' Delivers No. 2 Debut of All Time

May 5, 2013 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

The Disney/Marvel tentpole Iron Man 3 proved its mettle this weekend by opening to $175.3 million in North America, and becoming the second highest debut of all time right behind Marvel’s The Avengers ($207.4 million) in 2012. Meanwhile in foreign territories, the film hit the $175.9 million in its second [...]

Cinema 4D Aids Futuristic Vision of ‘Oblivion’

April 30, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

VFX and animation tech house Maxon has announced that the designers and animators charged with visualizing the complex in-camera and on-screen motion graphics sequences of Universal Pictures sci-fi flick Oblivion utilized the company’s Cinema 4D software to bring their futuristic vision to the big screen. Directed by Joseph Kosinski (TRON: [...]

Production Pipeline to Spotlight Art of ‘Croods’ & ‘Turbo’

April 29, 2013 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

A special session focusing on the art and technology of DreamWorks’ The Croods and upcoming feature Turbo will be held on May 3 as part of the inaugural Production Pipeline Expo at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. Also on tap is a vfx session on Universal’s sci-fi pic Oblivion, presented by [...]

The Spandex Speculations

July 10, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

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 [...]