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Thursday, January 09, 2014

Movie Marketing is Hard! "WTF Happened to Movie Posters"

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View on YouTube A brilliant, comprehensive look at today's bland and lazy modern movie posters, created by Good Bad Flicks .
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

"Grown Ups 2" Trailer with Music from "2001"

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The teaser for Gareth Edwards’ “Godzilla” was given high praise from moviegoers for its beautiful, evocative imagery. The rhythm and pac...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Movies Are Long

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"The Wolf of Wall Street" is *how* long? Just for kicks, I put together the thirteen most popular films in North America las...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Comparing The "Man of Steel" Teaser and Film

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My tweet that inspired this post. The teaser for Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" arrived in July 2012, nearly an entire ...
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Friday, December 06, 2013

The List of 10, 86th Academy Awards

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It's bake-off time! David S. Cohen of Variety has the scoop on the list of films that will be going to the visual effects bake-off fo...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Support Cinefex Classic on Kickstarter

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I made this little personal video to illustrate how important Cinefex magazine is to me. Cinefex magazine has played a very importan...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

The Aspect Ratios and Cinematographers of Steven Spielberg

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larger Here is one of my many half-finished FXRant articles and graphics. I decided to just tidy it up and post it because, well, why n...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The "Die Hard At The White House" Franchise

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larger Ten years ago, "The Matrix" sequels "Reloaded" and "Revolutions" were released within 178 days of ...
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Monday, June 17, 2013

Leonardo DiCaprio Can't Stop Toasting

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larger The latest toast is from Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" .  Previous toasts include "The Great ...
Friday, May 17, 2013

This Poster Does Not Exist

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larger A poster with Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter and Jason Lee" headlining "The Incredibles" does not exist because Pi...
Saturday, May 04, 2013

Sam Elliott, "Beef... It's What's For Dinner" Radio Spot

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If you remember one of my earliest posts from 2007 , I have an affinity for Sam Elliott. I found an MP3 of a radio commercial narrated ...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Do Not Attempt

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Here's proof that, perhaps, lawyers run the world. This is the most bizarre disclaimer I've ever seen on a television commercia...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Movie Marketing is Hard! "From The Director of TRAINING DAY"

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UPDATE : This post has been updated with an additional film. Click here to read. Since directing the magnificent "Training Day...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

John Parenteau's Thoughts on the VFX Industry

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Hugo Last Friday, visual effects veteran John Parenteau wrote a long status update concerning the visual effects industry on his Faceb...
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

We've Been Busy

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... finishing up this one film.   Oh, look, here's a new teaser for a film that has some pretty nifty visual effects.   ...
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