Astro Boy the Movie: Behind the Animation

Details: Category: In Production; Published: Thursday, 09 July 2009 10:53

ASTRO BOY BEHIND THE SCENES

Known as the Japanese Mickey Mouse, the boy wonder robot known as ASTRO BOY hits movie theaters October 2009 featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Freddy Highmore, Kristen Bell, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, and Eugene Levy.

Created in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, the godfather of anime, ASTRO BOY, began as a manga (Japanese comic) and later became a television series in the 1960's and brought to the United States in the 1980's as an American television series. The television series started the visuals associated with anime.

Now Imagi Studios brings a big screen version of the boy robot this fall. Imagi Studios, based in the United States and Hong Kong, gave CineMovie a sneak peek at the story about a robot made in the likeness of a scientist's dead son. We're with the line producer Pilar Flynn and character designer Luis Grane of Imagi Studios who explain their efforts to stay close to the original material.

Distributed by Summit Entertainment

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Making of the Hulk Part 1

Details: Category: In Production; Published: Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:21

"The Incredible Hulk" comes to DVD October 21. CineMovie went behind the scenes at special effects house Rhythm and Hues Studios in Los Angeles for a tour of the facilities and a look at how the Hulk was created.

Watch Part II: Motion Capturing the Hulk

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The Express Behind the Scenes

Details: Category: In Production; Published: Sunday, 28 September 2008 08:02

Universal Pictures Presents Dennis Quaid and Rob Brown in "THE EXPRESS". A story about how far you can go when you let nothing stand in your way. "THE EXPRESS" is based on the true story of the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

See "THE EXPRESS" in advance for FREE. Enter to win movie passes.

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Making of the Hulk: Motion Capture

Details: Category: In Production; Published: Tuesday, 21 October 2008 19:35

The Incredible Hulk and the Abomination were designed and animated by Rythyme and Hues in Los Angeles (see Part I segment) and then handed off to Giant Studios to capture real-time motion with an actor on set. Watch the behind the scenes on how motion capture was incorporated to bring the The Incredible Hulk to life...and closer to reality.

Watch Part I - CGI: Building the Hulk

The Incredible Hulk is on DVD now.

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Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds Starts Production

Details: Category: In Production; Published: Wednesday, 15 October 2008 18:20

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS COMMENCES PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY

International Cast Assembles in Germany for Writer and Director Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds began principal photography last week on location in Germany. The ensemble cast of Inglourious Basterds includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sönke Möhring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman. Inglourious Basterds reunites Tarantino with Academy Award-nominated editor Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning director of photography Bob Richardson, and production designer David Wasco. Joining Tarantino for the first time is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard.

Academy Award-nominee Lawrence Bender is producing Inglourious Basterds. Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the film’s executive producers. The co-producers are Charlie Woebcken, Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter. Pilar Savone is the associate producer.

The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures, through its newly formed International Studio, are co-financing and co-presenting the film with TWC handling domestic distribution and Universal handling international distribution. The two companies are partners on the project.

Zehnte Babelsberg Film, a subsidiary of Studio Babelsberg AG, is producing Inglourious Basterds. The film will shoot at Studio Babelsberg as well as in Berlin, Saxony and Paris.

Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

Inglourious Basterds will be released worldwide in 2009.

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First Look: Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner’s Close Encounter’s of Third Kind in New ‘Arrival’ Trailer

Details: Category: In Production; Published: Thursday, 11 August 2016 06:57

Arrival movie starring Amy Adams

Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker are about to meet aliens in the new teaser trailer for ARRIVAL, a first look at the sci-fi film directed by Denis Villeneuve (SICARIO, PRISONERS).

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