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Mediafreaks Movie Reviews: Inception
Three layers of dreams. With this premise, Christopher Nolan’s psychological thriller Inception caught everyone unaware as the most unlikely and most original blockbuster of the year. With an older and rougher Leonardo di Caprio as its lead role, everything about the film is just unpredictable — and that’s not such a bad thing at all [...]
Continue reading...Knight and Day Movie Review
29. June 2010
June Havens bumps twice into Roy Miller in an airport. They are supposed to be in the same flight but the ticketing officer informs June that she is not on the flight. Because she has a wedding to attend, she insists on boarding the plane but in vain – Roy says that maybe it is [...]
Continue reading...Mediafreaks Movie Review: Toy Story 3
25. June 2010
Andy is now going to college and Woody and his toys are left alone with no one to play with them. With Woody’s excellent planning skills, they somehow get Andy to visit them sometimes but nothing erases the fact that they have to stay behind when Andy goes to college. Andy’s mom tells Andy to [...]
Continue reading...Mediafreaks Movie Reviews: Karate Kid
21. June 2010
Dre Parker and his mom packs to board a plane to China and after leaving his old friends and old lifestyle, he is definitely not too thrilled to move. He finds a friend who invites him for basketball and after a few chats, his friend sees him wanting to talk to the girl sitting across [...]
Continue reading...Mediafreaks Movie Review: Prince of Persia
4. June 2010
Dastan, is not a prince by blood. King Sharaman, in one of his marketplace trips sees Dastan’s nobility when he saved a friend from the palace guards. The King then adopts Dastan as one of his own and raised him with Garsiv and Tus. Years after when Tus, the first-born, is training to succeed his father, [...]
Continue reading...Mediafreaks Reviews: Shrek Forever After
28. May 2010
And now after almost nine years, the noted 3D animation studio Dreamworks has decided to bring in the final curtain on their much-loved CG-animated franchise Shrek with the movie Shrek Forever After. After what seems to be forever, Shrek Forever After is actually the first movie in the franchise rendered in 3D. It seems though this [...]
Continue reading...Iron Man 2 Review
17. May 2010
Ivan Vanko’s father and Howard Stark’s disgraced business partner dies while whispering all his regret to his son. Vanko, now fueled by anger towards Tony Stark, builds something sinister using a blue print from the Stark Industries. Tony Stark, the very public Iron Man, opens his father’s vision: the Stark Expo in Flushing, New York. [...]
Continue reading...Robin Hood Movie Review
12. May 2010
The film is set in 12th century England. Robin Longstride fights alongside King Richard the Lionheart during the crusades. When the king dies in battle, Robin and his Merry men – Alan A’Dale, Will Scarlett, and Little John escape from the enemy to return to their homeland. Along the way, they come across an [...]
Continue reading...Kick Ass Movie Review
10. May 2010
Dave Lizewski, perhaps being bored with his life, decided one day to become a masked crime fighting hero. Without having any powers, his life was risked many times until one day, in front of a store, he defended a guy being mugged. He was able to drive the goons away and his half beaten face [...]
Continue reading...Pixel Liberation Front AMPs Up Avatar
30. December 2009
For AVATAR, PLF (Pixel Liberation Front) was charged with the designing and animation of the monitors and HUDs for the fleet of military aircraft, a handful of shots in the shack set and some set-extension composites. In all, they delivered more than 220 shots. “For the military aircraft, Jim [Cameron] wanted an authentic approach to the [...]
Continue reading...Review: Avatar
25. December 2009
James Cameron generally gets the bang for his bucks, even though the bucks are mind-boggling. This fascinating sci-fi adventure took four years to produce. There is very little wasted on speeches about people contemplating their navels. Cameron’s films are action films and they proceed apace. There are really two stories when you go to see Avatar. [...]
Continue reading...Director Henry Selick on Coraline and 3D Animation
23. December 2009
Coraline is a 2009 American animated stop-motion 3-D horror/fantasy film based on Neil Gaiman’s 2002 novel of the same name. It was produced by Laika and distributed by Focus Features. Written and directed by Henry Selick, it was released widely in US theaters on February 6, 2009, after a world premiere at the Portland International [...]
Continue reading...Ford Uses Hollywood Motion-Capture Software Behind ‘Avatar’ to Improve Vehicle Designs
23. December 2009
Ford Motor Company is the only automaker to use the same type of motion-capture software in its virtual engineering labs as Hollywood employs to create such motion pictures as “Avatar,” “Lord of the Rings,” “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and “Polar Express” Ford uses motion-capture software for a variety of automotive applications including the study [...]
Continue reading...Avatar to Open in Record Number of IMAX Theatres on December 18
16. December 2009
IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that James Cameron’s Avatar will open in 178 IMAX(R) theatres domestically on December 18, 2009, simultaneously with the motion picture’s premiere in conventional theatres. The IMAX(R) 3D release will also open in 83 IMAX theatres internationally starting on December 16th, for a total of 261 theatres, making [...]
Continue reading...IMAX Generates 14% of A Christmas Carol’s Opening Weekend
12. November 2009
IMAX Corporation and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures today announced that Disney’s A Christmas Carol, the spectacular Disney Digital 3D animation holiday release from director Robert Zemeckis and starring Jim Carrey, grossed $4.2 million from 181 IMAX(R) theatres domestically from November 6th through November 8, 2009, registering 14% of the film’s total domestic gross of [...]
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