Question: Do you like AC/DC?
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If you answered with ‘Not really bothered’, ‘Don’t mind ‘em’, ‘Not sure’ or any other bit of obfuscating prevarication then just mash the two reviews together and fashion the happiest medium you can (and you should really try climbing off the fence. You will get ass splinters otherwise).
Iron Man 2 soundtrack review A: Simple yet effective. That was the modus operandi of the first Iron Man movie. While Spider-Man 3 got itself all snared up in its own ultra-tangled web of lame plotting, and The Incredible Hulk degenerated into a $200m version of ancient city-smashing coin-op Rampage, Jon Favreau’s take on how tycoon Tony Stark became tin-headed crusader Iron Man successfully breezed by...
If you answered ‘Yes’ then please proceed to Iron Man 2 soundtrack review A.
If you answered ‘No’ then please proceed to Iron Man 2 soundtrack review B.
If you answered with ‘Not really bothered’, ‘Don’t mind ‘em’, ‘Not sure’ or any other bit of obfuscating prevarication then just mash the two reviews together and fashion the happiest medium you can (and you should really try climbing off the fence. You will get ass splinters otherwise).
Iron Man 2 soundtrack review A: Simple yet effective. That was the modus operandi of the first Iron Man movie. While Spider-Man 3 got itself all snared up in its own ultra-tangled web of lame plotting, and The Incredible Hulk degenerated into a $200m version of ancient city-smashing coin-op Rampage, Jon Favreau’s take on how tycoon Tony Stark became tin-headed crusader Iron Man successfully breezed by...
- 4/23/2010
- by Paul Martin
- Movie-moron.com
Performance capture -- the method of digitally recording an actor's facial expressions and body movements -- is evolving to become a bona fide filmmaking technique for creating CG characters in both animated and live-action productions. A preview of Paramount Pictures' Beowulf should underscore that message and make the technique a hot topic at Siggraph, the annual computer graphics confab that opens this weekend in San Diego.
A clip from Beowulf will be screened during Siggraph's Electronic Theater computer animation festival; it includes performance-captured Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins and Ray Winstone. Said festival chair Paul Debevec: "To capture a human performance and bring it into the digital world in a way that represents the acting -- we are just on the threshold of showing that it is possible."
Numerous technology manufacturers plan to demonstrate performance capture advancements for face and/or body during the confab, but Hollywood already is demonstrating a keen level of interest.
"When one or more characters has to be synthetic by design, there are many discussions about using performance capture for live action as well as animation," said Debbie Denise, executive vp production infrastructure and executive producer at Sony Pictures Imageworks. "It frees up live-action directors to cast whomever they want in whatever role they want. I think it will become popular as long as the character design supports the rationale. We are talking to three or four companies about significant characters for upcoming films that need to be synthetic by design."
Imageworks -- the company behind performance capture-based Beowulf, The Polar Express and Monster House -- already is developing three new projects to use its proprietary Imagemotion performance-capture technologies. They include two projects from Sony Pictures Animation, Neanderthals and an untitled feature from VFX supervisor Jerome Chen; and a movie based on James Patterson's Maximum Ride.
Meanwhile, Beowulf director Robert Zemeckis' performance-capture studio ImageMovers Digital is using the technique to make an adaptation of A Christmas Carol for Disney that stars Jim Carrey as Scrooge and the three ghosts.
A clip from Beowulf will be screened during Siggraph's Electronic Theater computer animation festival; it includes performance-captured Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins and Ray Winstone. Said festival chair Paul Debevec: "To capture a human performance and bring it into the digital world in a way that represents the acting -- we are just on the threshold of showing that it is possible."
Numerous technology manufacturers plan to demonstrate performance capture advancements for face and/or body during the confab, but Hollywood already is demonstrating a keen level of interest.
"When one or more characters has to be synthetic by design, there are many discussions about using performance capture for live action as well as animation," said Debbie Denise, executive vp production infrastructure and executive producer at Sony Pictures Imageworks. "It frees up live-action directors to cast whomever they want in whatever role they want. I think it will become popular as long as the character design supports the rationale. We are talking to three or four companies about significant characters for upcoming films that need to be synthetic by design."
Imageworks -- the company behind performance capture-based Beowulf, The Polar Express and Monster House -- already is developing three new projects to use its proprietary Imagemotion performance-capture technologies. They include two projects from Sony Pictures Animation, Neanderthals and an untitled feature from VFX supervisor Jerome Chen; and a movie based on James Patterson's Maximum Ride.
Meanwhile, Beowulf director Robert Zemeckis' performance-capture studio ImageMovers Digital is using the technique to make an adaptation of A Christmas Carol for Disney that stars Jim Carrey as Scrooge and the three ghosts.
COLOGNE, Germany -- Oscar-nominated Stasi drama The Lives Of Others, fragrant blockbuster Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and controversial comedy "Mein Fuehrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler" are among the titles selected for the Berlinale's European Film Market's German Cinema showcase.
The lineup, which provides a cross-section of the most successful and critically acclaimed German-language films of the past year -- along with a few new titles -- includes Marcus H. Rosenmueller's sleeper hit Grave Decisions; Chris Kraus' award-winning 4 Minutes; Matthias Luthardt's Pingpong, which won the screenwriting award in Cannes; and Ralf Westhoff's speed-dating comedy Shoppen, which was snapped up for German release by X Verleih following its debut at the Hof Film days.
The 17 titles picked for this year's showcase will be screened at the CinemaxX 1 cinema Feb. 9-17.
A full list of German Cinema titles follows.
A Friend Of Mine Sebastian Schipper (sales: Telepool)
Emma's Bliss Sven Taddicken (sales: The Match Factory)
4 Minutes Chris Kraus (sales: Beta Cinema)
Grave Decisions Marcus H. Rosenmueller (sales: Beta Cinema)
Mein Fuhrer Dani Levy (sales: Beta Cinema)
Neandertal Ingo Haeb, Jan-Christoph Glaser (sales: Rommel Film)
Offset Didi Danquart (sales: Bavaria Film International)
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" Tom Tykwer (sales: Summit Film Sales)
Pingpong Matthias Luthardt (sales: Media Luna Entertainment)
Shoppen Ralf Westhoff (sales: Drife Prods.)
Summer '04 Stefan Krohmer (sales: Bavaria Film International)
The Cloud Gregor Schnitzler (sales: Bavaria Film International)
The Last Train Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vavrova (sales: Telepool)
The Lives Of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (sales: Beta Cinema)
Warchild Christian Wagner (sales: Christian Wagner Film)
While You Are Here Stefan Westerwelle (sales: Kunsthochschule fuer Medien KHM)...
The lineup, which provides a cross-section of the most successful and critically acclaimed German-language films of the past year -- along with a few new titles -- includes Marcus H. Rosenmueller's sleeper hit Grave Decisions; Chris Kraus' award-winning 4 Minutes; Matthias Luthardt's Pingpong, which won the screenwriting award in Cannes; and Ralf Westhoff's speed-dating comedy Shoppen, which was snapped up for German release by X Verleih following its debut at the Hof Film days.
The 17 titles picked for this year's showcase will be screened at the CinemaxX 1 cinema Feb. 9-17.
A full list of German Cinema titles follows.
A Friend Of Mine Sebastian Schipper (sales: Telepool)
Emma's Bliss Sven Taddicken (sales: The Match Factory)
4 Minutes Chris Kraus (sales: Beta Cinema)
Grave Decisions Marcus H. Rosenmueller (sales: Beta Cinema)
Mein Fuhrer Dani Levy (sales: Beta Cinema)
Neandertal Ingo Haeb, Jan-Christoph Glaser (sales: Rommel Film)
Offset Didi Danquart (sales: Bavaria Film International)
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" Tom Tykwer (sales: Summit Film Sales)
Pingpong Matthias Luthardt (sales: Media Luna Entertainment)
Shoppen Ralf Westhoff (sales: Drife Prods.)
Summer '04 Stefan Krohmer (sales: Bavaria Film International)
The Cloud Gregor Schnitzler (sales: Bavaria Film International)
The Last Train Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vavrova (sales: Telepool)
The Lives Of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (sales: Beta Cinema)
Warchild Christian Wagner (sales: Christian Wagner Film)
While You Are Here Stefan Westerwelle (sales: Kunsthochschule fuer Medien KHM)...
- 1/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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