Quick Cuts: The Hobbit, The Heretic, Taking Woodstock
Though it was seemingly inevitable — despite many, many hurdles — Variety has announced that Guillermo del Toro has officially signed on to direct the New Line-MGM feature The Hobbit, as well as its sequel. The films will be produced by Lord of the Rings producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh back-to-back over the next four years […]
In: News · Tagged with: Ang Lee, Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy II, Javier Rodriguez, Lord Of The Rings, Peter Jackson, The Heretic, The Hobbit
Trailer Watch: Blindness, Hellboy II
The teaser trailer for City of God director Fernando Mereilles’ adaptation of the Jose Saramago novel Blindness is up at MSN Video. It’s tough to tell if it will be brilliant, like City of God (which probably deserved five stars in my review, in hindsight), or slick but stupid like the well-meaning Constant Gardener, but […]
In: Trailers · Tagged with: Blindness, Hellboy II
Special effects articles round-up
When I was a kid, I would eat up “making of” TV shows and special effects-related shows like the Leonard Nimoy-hosts Lights, Camera, Action. One for The Dark Crystal that appeared on HBO — and now on most of the DVD editions — left a huge impression on me, particularly sequences with Brian Froud drawing […]
In: Around the Intertubes, Movies · Tagged with: Hellboy II, special effects, The Dark Crystal, The Golden Compass, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Transformers