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I haven’t watched this yet, but it’s the talk of the Internet as Morley Safer gets the first look at how James Cameron created his $400 million 3-D fantasy Avatar on “60 Minutes.” And yes, those are the exact words being used, dollar figure and all.

The first trailer for Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus has arrived, giving you your first full look at what was once a prequel to Scott’s classic 1979 film Alien but is reportedly now something all its own. The synopsis suggests the film creates a “groundbreaking” mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth,…

The Academy has announced the 15 documentaries that will advance in the voting process for the 2015 Oscars, competing in the Best Documentary category and among them is the presumed frontrunner Citizenfour, which was named Best Documentary by both the New York Film Critics and Gotham Awards just yesterday. In fact, it’s one of the few docs…

Vimeo user Tony Zhou has put together an excellent, eight minute look at Steven Spielberg‘s use of one shots throughout his filmography and the best part is Zhou doesn’t approach it strictly from an educational perspective, but also injects his own opinion in there keeping things lively… “This is probably the most jerked-off-to type of shot in filmmaking.”…

I just added the international trailer for Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem, or simply Alien vs. Predator 2 based on this Austrian trailer, to the RopeofSilicon trailer gallery. I honestly don’t see any diffence between this and the domestic trailer other than the fact that the title of the movie is different along with the official site address.…

Several scans and images from the found Metropolis footage have appeared online. First off, over at Zeit Online they have six images from the footage in quite impressive clarity considering they are fresh off the found reel. I have linked it with a German to English translation, just hit the forward arrows to check out all the images. Next up, AICN has several…

Over the weekend I will be putting together my final batch of Oscar predictions prior to Tuesday morning’s Oscar nominations announcement and now the final clue we’re going to get as to which way the Academy may be leaning arrives as the Motion Picture Sound Editors have announced their nominees. Based on the nominees below…

After yesterday’s nearly two-minute exploration of a massive one shot from Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, today we get a different kind of close-up look at movie magic. Well, I don’t exactly have any visuals per se, but in this case you might not want any. As I noted in my review of The Paperboy from Cannes, there is a moment in the film…

Is there much doubt Paul W.S. Anderson‘s Pompeii (TriStar; 2/28) will either begin or end (or possibly both) with a team of archaeologists uncovering the ancient city only to find a couple wrapped in each others arms, their love preserved in time? The bodies would be those of the slave (Kit Harrington) of a shipping tycoon who was…

Well, in 1989 we saw the release of Batman, The Little Mermaid and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In 2008 we had The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones and the Nuked Fridge and The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning so it only seems appropriate we go back to the well one more time and bring back Ghostbusters since ’89 was the last time we saw the protoplasmic…