It's A Wrap! MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Completes Principal Photography

It's A Wrap! MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Completes Principal Photography


It's A Wrap! MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Completes Principal Photography

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 08:00 PM PST

It weathered massive delays due - ironically - to good weather, survived a move to a different continent, and finished out the end of the shoot under the watchful eye of studio bean counters. But the key word in that statement is 'end'. Because that's what production of Mad Max: Fury Road has reached: The end of principal photography. After a six month shoot, largely in the deserts of Namibia, George Miller's long talked about Mad Max: Fury Road has wrapped production and the Tom hardy / Charlize Theron starring revival of the post-apocalyptic franchise that made Mel Gibson a star will now undergo a lengthy post production process in Australia. It's a happy note in what has been one of the more snake bitten...

Hell Yeah! Finally The Aussie Surf Movie You've Been Waiting For: DRIFT Trailer Rides In!

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 07:30 PM PST

Admittedly I've been a skeptic about Drift for a while. Sam Worthington in a mullet didn't exactly inspire confidence. But after this epic trailer, featuring Myles Pollard finally in the leading role he deserves, consider me sold. This has the vibe of Lords of Dogtown, which is a very good thing.Here's the official synopsis:Australia, 1970s. The Kelly brothers, Andy and Jimmy, have one great passion: riding big waves. As kids, their mother escaped from Sydney to Margaret River, a sleepy coastal town with some of the world's most challenging and dangerous waves. For the next 12 years, the boys perfected their surfing skills, always searching for the perfect ride. Free-spirited Jimmy is a gifted surfer and innovator but he starts to slip toward a life of...

First Teaser For Live Action LIBRARY WARS

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 05:31 PM PST

From Sato Shinsuke, the director of Gantz and The Princess Blade comes yet another live action adaptation Library Wars (aka Toshokan Sensō).  Based on a Japanese light novel series by Hiro Arikawa that spawned a manga and animated series/film, the social sci-fi depicts a battle between two opposing groups on the issue of book censorship laws in dystopian Japan.   Set in the year 2019 in Japan. In order to crack down on free expression, a new law is passed, which allows for the government to create an armed force to find and destroy objectionable printed material. Meanwhile, to oppose this oppressive crackdown, the Library Force is created. The Library force, including instructor Atsushi Dojo (Junichi Okada) and Iku Kasahara (Nana Eikura), work to protect...

Fantasy, More Real Than Real: THE HOBBIT, HFR And The Future Of Movies

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Earlier this year, I found myself at a friend of a friend's apartment watching Tod Browning's 1932 masterpiece Freaks through the "motion smoothing" filter on his HD TV.  For me, the resulting video-like image of what should be the opposite (which is to say, an absorbing film image - not so much sharp and immediate but lush and rich) robbed Freaks of its intended "filmic-ness", stripping it of the subtle texture and patina that is so accepted as what cinema ought to feel like.  As such filtering is force-fed upon an uneducated populace (uneducated not just about new HD TV technology, but about film language and cinematic nuance itself).The Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson has apparently decided, perhaps in deference to those who...

Want to Chat with LOOPER's Writer and Director Rian Johnson? Here's Your Chance.

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

Don't Twitch that dial - we have an important message for you. Tomorrow, Monday December 17, at 8pm EST / 5pm PST, I will be moderating a live Q&A with the brilliant mind behind Looper, Rian Johnson. What's in it for you, my dear reader? Well, I am going to tell you. The live chat is being hosted on Spreecast. EXTRATV has a really great article about it, which you can read HERE, but you'll want to head over and bookmark Spreecast for the actual event. There you can RSVP for a spot for the Q&A. RSVPing means you may get a chance to ask your questions to Rian via your webcam for the whole world to see (no pressure). You can also submit all the questions you have for him and I...

Quite Possibly The Least Competent Heist Ever In Full ALLE FOR TO Trailer

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

Denmark is getting silly with upcoming action comedy Alle For To, the Anders Thomas Jensen scripted sequel to popular hit Alle For En.This sequel to the box office hit »All for One« finds the previously tight-knit trio dispersed: Nikolai is on parole, while brothers Ralf and Timo are planning a heist involving the unlikely combination of unsalted butter, a strict diet and a helicopter. When their seemingly impossible heist succeeds, Nikolai asks to borrow some money to start over. The brothers reject him, but when all three of them are tricked by a fish-loving banking executive, they are forced to team up again.The first teaser for the film promised a goofy, mildly risque action comedy and the full trailer confirms that early impression. It certainly...
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