Academy Award Best Achievement in Cinematography Avatar: Mauro Fiore - WTF - Before I slam Mauro Fiore for winning an award for what visual efx artists created, let me say something about Avatar first. I really liked the movie. That's right... I went hoping and expecting to hate Avatar for the spectacle of crap ...
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James Horner rips himself off… Again.
February 8th, 2010 by NoName
How do composers justify re-using the same music over and over again? How is the Avatar score up for an Oscar? I know each composer has their own thing and little snippets MIGHT get reused once... But this is just pathetic. James Horner has reused the same piece in Willow, Troy, Enemy ...
Mandalay Creates Specialty Film Division
February 5th, 2010 by NoName
Mandalay Entertainment has announced a new specialty division, headed by Celine Rattray formerly of Plum Pictures. This news is a couple weeks old but still worth pointing out. It has been rare to find good news in the world of specialty film this last year or two. Original report in this ...
Spider-Man going the way of Twilight?
January 27th, 2010 by NoName
I was all for the idea of re-booting Spider-Man. After the debacle of #3, it was time to switch it up. Sorry Raimi, but you screwed up. Move on. However... This latest description of where they are headed is scary to say the least. "The plan for the movie is to be ...
Big Box Office Eqauls Oscar for Best Picture?
January 26th, 2010 by NoName
I was disturbed to see the follwoing headline from /Film: The Hurt Locker Wins Best Picture from PGA; Is Avatar No Longer An Oscar Sure Thing? Avatar has made lots of money is breaking Box Office records left and right. But I have not read one glowing review of it anywhere. ...
James Cameron and Peter Jackson delude themselves
January 25th, 2010 by NoName
Newsweek recently posted a totally bizarre interview, actually more of a conversation between James Cameron and Peter Jackson. These are two men who have made billions of dollars on some the most epic, CGI enhanced films of all time. Personally, I love most of their work. James Cameron to this ...
The Future Film Critic’s Way
December 20th, 2009 by SickOfCrap
It's about time we start getting intelligent critics and with a sense of humor. Below is a link to an article I accidentally came across. But that's not the point, it's the video slam of the movie THE PHANTOM MENACE that has me excited. Any film enthusiast, writer, film maker, ...
More Movie Marketing Lies
November 14th, 2009 by NoName
The very first post I did on this site was about Movie Marketing lies. Studios and distributors constantly think they can pull one over on the audience. They would rather lie about what a film is and trick an audience into buying a ticket than just make a quality film ...
Warner Brothers Does Not Understand the Power of Their Own Fanbase
November 6th, 2009 by NoName
In the latest sign of studio stupidity, reported in this Cinematical article, Warner Brothers has decided to shut down Harry Potter themed Halloween nights run by a woman in London, one Ms. Marmite Lover. What Warner Brothers doesn't seem to understand is that this exact kind of fan based support provides ...
The self-reflective Charlie Kaufman needs to look in the mirror
October 9th, 2009 by NoName
I first heard of this interview through Scott Myers' post on his site, GoIntoTheStory.com. Apparently, the hyper-full-of-himself, uber-self-referential Charlie Kaufman is surprised that his directing debut did not turn out so well. This is a guy who made the adaptation of a book into a screenplay into a movie that featured ...
