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The Handmade Tale: Coraline's Inventive DIY Effects

Like most Hollywood kid flicks, the big-screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline boasts a big star (the voice of Dakota Fanning), an armada of digital tools, and millions of dollars in advanced animation. But that's not what makes this stop-motion, 3 ...

From JASON SILVERMAN, Wired,  4 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Neil Gaiman,  Dakota Fanning

Tribeca Picks: Math Thriller, Kung Fu Fighter, More

Fighter Girls kick ass in this charming, not-completely-implausible story of a young Turk in a Danish city who overcomes sexism, racism and Muslim tradition to reign as a kung fu master. Natasha Arthy's film features choreography by Xian Gao, who ...

From JASON SILVERMAN, Wired,  7 May 2008
Related Topics: Cindy Sherman,  John Cusack,  Halliburton,  Marisa Tomei,  Ben Kingsley

Laughing Baby, Tay Zonday Win YouTube Awards

And the winner for best male performance: a baby who laughs so hard while ripping paper that he falls over. Actually, the kid won top prize in the "Adorable" category in the second annual YouTube Video Awards. Winners were announced Friday. It's a ...

From JASON SILVERMAN, Wired,  21 Mar 2008

Futurama: The Definitive Time Line

Got your mind in a twist trying to figure out what happens when in Futurama? Thankfully, one of those obsessive fans we are eternally grateful for did our homework for us, giving us plenty of time to bone up on Futurama facts before the June 24 release ...

From JASON SILVERMAN, Wired,  20 Mar 2008

Star Wars Fans Prep Boycott of 'Darth Weinstein'

Outraged Star Wars fans are lining up a protest against the Weinstein Company, which they say recut and ruined the film Fanboys. Originally about a boy with cancer who treks to Skywalker Ranch, the edited version of Fanboys (which played to approving ...

From JASON SILVERMAN, Wired,  19 Mar 2008

Fincher to Animate Heavy Metal

Fincher will direct one of eight or nine segments, with Heavy Metal publisher/editor Kevin Eastman and Tim Miller of CG master Blur Studio each doing another. Word on other directors to come. Expect some fanboy grumbling: The original 1981 Heavy Metal ...

From JASON SILVERMAN, Wired,  19 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Kevin Eastman,  Tim Miller,  John Candy,  Eugene Levy,  Harold Ramis

The Death of HAL

In the early 1960s at Bell Laboratories I had heard a recording of an Illiac computer singing "Bicycle Built for Two." I thought it would be good for the death scene especially the slowing down of the words at the end. Imagine my surprise, then, when I ...

From JASON SILVERMAN, Wired,  19 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Arthur C. Clarke

Chinese Citizens! Get Your Tibet Protest Videos Here!!

As Sarah Lai Stirland reported at Wired's Threat Level blog, the Chinese government banned YouTube in the hopes of keeping videos of Tibetans protesting from going viral. The internet being the internet, videos and photos are popping up, albeit slowly, ...

From JASON SILVERMAN, Wired,  18 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Sarah Lai Stirland,  MSNBC,  Google Inc.

Delicious War Movie

It's an ultra-violent, history-based war film. And it made me hungry. The stop-motion animation Food Fight, which director Stefan Nadelman describes as "a smorgasbord of aggression," replays the past 60 years of American-centric warfare, showing how ...

From JASON SILVERMAN, Wired,  17 Mar 2008

U.S. Soldiers Bring Home Stories, Videos of Atrocities

In 1971, Vietnam vets, frustrated by the lack of official investigation of the atrocities they had both witnessed and perpetrated, gathered to provide their own testimony. Their harrowing stories were captured in a film, Winter Soldier, that, due to ...

From JASON SILVERMAN, Wired,  17 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Michael Moore

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