Here’s an interesting article on CGSociety.com about the current VFX Oscar race between Transformers, The Golden Compass, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. They ask questions of the 3 Visual Effects Supervisors from the films.
My money is still on Transfomers… Todd agrees with me in the 4th part of his VFX Oscar comparison.
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There are any number of reasons that I have Bill Mauldin on my mind these days.
The first reason would be that a few weekends back, I stumbled across a Seventh Printing (August 1945) edition of his 1944 book, Up Front. The book conveys (through some text as well as single panel cartoons of his soldier [...]
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Rank Title Weekend Gross
1. MEET THE SPARTANS $18,725,000 $18,725,000
2. RAMBO $18,150,000 $18,150,000
3. 27 DRESSES $13,500,000 $45,347,000
4. CLOVERFIELD $12,700,000 $64,294,000
5. UNTRACEABLE $11,200,000 $11,200,000
6. JUNO $10,300,000 $100,152,000
7. THE BUCKET LIST $10,210,000 $57,684,000
8. THERE WILL BE BLOOD $4,887,000 $14,764,000
9. NATIONAL TREASURE: BoS $4,664,000 $205,421,000
10. MAD MONEY $4,610,000 $15,284,000
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Jeff Lemire, the fellow behind the Essex County Trilogy (of graphics novels) about a fictionalized version of his native Ontario, Canada, is the latest in a long list of Top Shelf-published creators that I admire immensely. While I started this blog partially out of a desire to do more pop culture interviews and to step [...]
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I’m not a huge Ringo Starr fan, but I really have to tip my hat to Craig Ferguson for devoting his entire January 24 episode to the Beatles former drummer (who is currently making the rounds with Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart as part of his band). The last time I can remember an entire show devoting [...]
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