When the Sony Pictures Imageworks special-effects team got the screenplay for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, they quickly realized that with great box-office comes even greater responsibility for technical wizardry. The scope of the sequel was much bigger than Marc Webb’s 2012 reboot, and in contrast to the numerous night action sequences that dominated the first film, the new movie would extensively showcase Spider-Man slinging through New York in broad daylight, an entirely new set of creative challenges. “For some of the shots of Spider-Man swinging through the city , the computer could take 40 hours to render one frame of the city of New York,...
- 5/8/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Interview Simon Brew 15 Apr 2014 - 06:49
The director of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Marc Webb, tells us about the film, and the lengths people go to to find out what's going on...
Marc Webb's third film as director - following (500) Days Of Summer and The Amazing Spider-Man - sees him return for the second part of his webslinger trilogy. He was in London last week to talk about the film, and we chatted to him about the first film, directing action, Statham, and the day a drone camera landed on set...
I was a bit torn on your first Spider-Man film, if I'm being truthful with you, but I enjoyed this one a lot more. I couldn't help but think back to Tim Burton, when he made Batman and Batman Returns. He always said that his second Batman film as being far more of his film than the one before.
The director of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Marc Webb, tells us about the film, and the lengths people go to to find out what's going on...
Marc Webb's third film as director - following (500) Days Of Summer and The Amazing Spider-Man - sees him return for the second part of his webslinger trilogy. He was in London last week to talk about the film, and we chatted to him about the first film, directing action, Statham, and the day a drone camera landed on set...
I was a bit torn on your first Spider-Man film, if I'm being truthful with you, but I enjoyed this one a lot more. I couldn't help but think back to Tim Burton, when he made Batman and Batman Returns. He always said that his second Batman film as being far more of his film than the one before.
- 4/14/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
The first big question about last week’s two-hour premiere of Dallas on TNT was whether audiences would have any desire to revisit the Ewing family that captivated us during it’s thirteen year run on CBS (1978-1991). The answer came back an empahtic Yes! when 6.9 million viewers showed up (making it the number one scripted premiere for year-to-date). With tonight’s episode, the next question is whether viewers will stick around to see old rivalries heat up between brothers J.R. (Larry Hagman) and Bobby (Patrick Duffy) as well as new conflicts between sexy often-shirtless cousins John Ross (Josh Henderson) and Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe)?
With sharp, dramatic writing, no sign of the camp that sank the recent reboots like Charlie's Angels and Melrose Place and conflicts that come across as fresh instead of stale, the answer should again be Yes.
One reason for the apparent success of the Dallas...
With sharp, dramatic writing, no sign of the camp that sank the recent reboots like Charlie's Angels and Melrose Place and conflicts that come across as fresh instead of stale, the answer should again be Yes.
One reason for the apparent success of the Dallas...
- 6/20/2012
- by nyjimmy67
- The Backlot
The TV landscape of recent years is littered with the carcasses of failed remakes, shows that attempted and failed to capture the nostalgia of the Generation X'ers who now make up the center of the coveted adults 18-49 demographic.
Networks have put on everything from "Charlie's Angels" to "American Gladiators," and very few of them have worked. "Battlestar Galactica" did work, but it did so by running away from the cheesiness of the original show and embracing the darkness of its premise. "Hawaii Five-0" has done well by acknowledging the old show without being too tethered to it.
TNT's "Dallas," though, is openly embracing the past. It's not so much a remake or reboot as it is a sequel, with three original cast members from the hugely successful CBS soap playing prominent roles in the new one. For a show that is so etched in TV and pop culture -- "Who shot J.
Networks have put on everything from "Charlie's Angels" to "American Gladiators," and very few of them have worked. "Battlestar Galactica" did work, but it did so by running away from the cheesiness of the original show and embracing the darkness of its premise. "Hawaii Five-0" has done well by acknowledging the old show without being too tethered to it.
TNT's "Dallas," though, is openly embracing the past. It's not so much a remake or reboot as it is a sequel, with three original cast members from the hugely successful CBS soap playing prominent roles in the new one. For a show that is so etched in TV and pop culture -- "Who shot J.
- 6/13/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The first time we see J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) on "Dallas," which premieres Wednesday, June 13, on TNT, he's a frail old man living in an assisted living facility following an emotional breakdown. And for anyone who was a fan of the original series, which became an American pop culture phenomenon during its 1978-91 run on CBS, the natural reaction is: "Oh, no. I knew this was a mistake."
Luckily, we're being set up in that scene, because by the end of this two-hour premiere episode, Hagman's J.R. is a revitalized lion in winter, ready and eager to renew his long-running family feud with brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy) over the future fortunes of the Ewing family ranch, Southfork.
Given the long list of failed attempts to revisit former TV hits -- here's looking at you, "Charlie's Angels," "Knight Rider," "Bionic Woman," "Fantasy Island" and countless others -- it's easy...
Luckily, we're being set up in that scene, because by the end of this two-hour premiere episode, Hagman's J.R. is a revitalized lion in winter, ready and eager to renew his long-running family feud with brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy) over the future fortunes of the Ewing family ranch, Southfork.
Given the long list of failed attempts to revisit former TV hits -- here's looking at you, "Charlie's Angels," "Knight Rider," "Bionic Woman," "Fantasy Island" and countless others -- it's easy...
- 6/13/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards is here! Tonight’s show features Adele, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, actress Jennifer Lawrence and a much-anticipated preview of “The Hunger Games.” Speakeasy is live blogging the event.
Join the conversation and leave your thoughts in the comments.
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Goodnight everyone! Thanks for reading!
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"The Hunger Games" preview didn't look like the pictures I had in my head when I read the books. That doesn't mean the movie can't still be great,...
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards is here! Tonight’s show features Adele, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, actress Jennifer Lawrence and a much-anticipated preview of “The Hunger Games.” Speakeasy is live blogging the event.
Join the conversation and leave your thoughts in the comments.
11:38 pm
Goodnight everyone! Thanks for reading!
11:31 pm
"The Hunger Games" preview didn't look like the pictures I had in my head when I read the books. That doesn't mean the movie can't still be great,...
- 8/29/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The 1970s was a period of television known for its “high concept” shows about characters with super powers. In the decade of super heroes which included the Six Million Dollar Man, the Bionic Woman, the Invisible Man, the Gemini Man, Spider-Man, Captain America, Wonder Woman and the Hulk, one of the most ambitious of these programs was the aquatic adventure show Man from Atlantis.
Man from Atlantis stars a pre-Dallas Patrick Duffy, in his first major role. Duffy plays an enigmatic, water-breathing man, with webbed fingers and dolphin-like sonar. Washed up on a beach after a nasty hurricane, our amphibian protagonist is taken to a local medical facility where, by a lucky coincidence, pretty marine biologist Dr. Elisabeth Merril (Belinda Montgomery) is present. When X-rays show gills where his lungs should be, Elisabeth realizes that the dying man doesn’t need oxygen, he needs water. She takes him to the ocean,...
Man from Atlantis stars a pre-Dallas Patrick Duffy, in his first major role. Duffy plays an enigmatic, water-breathing man, with webbed fingers and dolphin-like sonar. Washed up on a beach after a nasty hurricane, our amphibian protagonist is taken to a local medical facility where, by a lucky coincidence, pretty marine biologist Dr. Elisabeth Merril (Belinda Montgomery) is present. When X-rays show gills where his lungs should be, Elisabeth realizes that the dying man doesn’t need oxygen, he needs water. She takes him to the ocean,...
- 8/18/2011
- by Rob Young
- JustPressPlay.net
If there's one thing TNT wants you to take away from the teaser for its new version of "Dallas," it's this: The show is not a remake, just a continuation of the story that played out for 13 seasons from 1978-91 on CBS.
"Television's landmark drama returns," the voiceover intones on the teaser, which aired during "The Closer" on Monday night (July 11). Sure, there's been a 21-year break (not counting a couple of TV movies in the latter half of the '90s) since the last episode, but unlike, say, "Hawaii Five-0" or ABC's upcoming "Charlie's Angels," TNT is selling continuity with the old show.
Three prominent cast members from the original -- Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman and Linda Gray -- are in the new series, which centers on J.R.'s (Hagman) son John Ross (Josh Henderson) and Bobby's (Duffy) adopted son Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe). And from the glimpses we get of them,...
"Television's landmark drama returns," the voiceover intones on the teaser, which aired during "The Closer" on Monday night (July 11). Sure, there's been a 21-year break (not counting a couple of TV movies in the latter half of the '90s) since the last episode, but unlike, say, "Hawaii Five-0" or ABC's upcoming "Charlie's Angels," TNT is selling continuity with the old show.
Three prominent cast members from the original -- Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman and Linda Gray -- are in the new series, which centers on J.R.'s (Hagman) son John Ross (Josh Henderson) and Bobby's (Duffy) adopted son Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe). And from the glimpses we get of them,...
- 7/12/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
From synth pop to Hollywood remakes to collecting manual typewriters, we're busy plundering the past. But why the fatal attraction?
There's no single thing that made me suddenly think, Hey, there's a book to be written about pop culture's chronic addiction to its own past. As the last decade unfolded, noughties pop culture became steadily more submerged in retro. Both inside music (reunion tours, revivalism, deluxe reissues, performances of classic albums in their entirety) and outside (the emergence of YouTube as a gigantic collective archive, endless movie remakes, the strange and melancholy world of retro porn), there was mounting evidence to indicate an unhealthy fixation on the bygone.
But if I could point to just one release that tipped me over the edge into bemused fascination with retromania, it would be 2006's Love, the Beatles remix project. Executed by George Martin and his son Giles to accompany the Cirque du Soleil spectacular in Las Vegas,...
There's no single thing that made me suddenly think, Hey, there's a book to be written about pop culture's chronic addiction to its own past. As the last decade unfolded, noughties pop culture became steadily more submerged in retro. Both inside music (reunion tours, revivalism, deluxe reissues, performances of classic albums in their entirety) and outside (the emergence of YouTube as a gigantic collective archive, endless movie remakes, the strange and melancholy world of retro porn), there was mounting evidence to indicate an unhealthy fixation on the bygone.
But if I could point to just one release that tipped me over the edge into bemused fascination with retromania, it would be 2006's Love, the Beatles remix project. Executed by George Martin and his son Giles to accompany the Cirque du Soleil spectacular in Las Vegas,...
- 6/2/2011
- by Simon Reynolds
- The Guardian - Film News
Ok, now that the games are in full swing and the official team uniforms have been exposed to millions around the world, it's time to sharpen the pencils at the judge's table. I must admit some of my earlier concerns have been dashed as I've had the chance to see more official team attire, particularly for Team USA.
How hot is that luge suit? These guys have to be the closest thing we have to "no-fear, hell bent on a need for speed" hot rodders. So, how better to suit them than with a replication 50's showpiece street rod paint job? I love it! Just enough red, white and blue, mixed with a dose of "in yo face" swagger. Unfortunately they've yet to intimidate the Germans.
Short track could take a clue from the lugers. When you race around the oval at those speeds and angles, you should be wearing...
How hot is that luge suit? These guys have to be the closest thing we have to "no-fear, hell bent on a need for speed" hot rodders. So, how better to suit them than with a replication 50's showpiece street rod paint job? I love it! Just enough red, white and blue, mixed with a dose of "in yo face" swagger. Unfortunately they've yet to intimidate the Germans.
Short track could take a clue from the lugers. When you race around the oval at those speeds and angles, you should be wearing...
- 2/19/2010
- by Joe Duffy
- Fast Company
The excitement is rising. The games will soon be here. I can't wait. As someone raised in the ice and snow of Minnesota, the Winter Olympics are my favorite spectator event. They are a spectacle that is part world sporting competition, part cultural festival, part global media extravaganza. There are so many fascinating angles to these games.
As a designer, after the competition and the opening/closing ceremonies, what captures my attention is the way the countries present themselves in uniform and the role the uniform takes in projecting national imagery, sporting culture and fashion. First, of course, is team USA. The 2010 Winter Olympic ceremonial team uniforms are designed by Ralph Lauren, classically American styled with a sense of casual athletic ruggedness.
I think team USA and also the Canadian's team attire (above, by Hudson's Bay Company) do a good job of combining today's fashion, with a competitive athletic feel...
As a designer, after the competition and the opening/closing ceremonies, what captures my attention is the way the countries present themselves in uniform and the role the uniform takes in projecting national imagery, sporting culture and fashion. First, of course, is team USA. The 2010 Winter Olympic ceremonial team uniforms are designed by Ralph Lauren, classically American styled with a sense of casual athletic ruggedness.
I think team USA and also the Canadian's team attire (above, by Hudson's Bay Company) do a good job of combining today's fashion, with a competitive athletic feel...
- 2/13/2010
- by Joe Duffy
- Fast Company
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- 3/25/2009
- backstage.com
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