This week as The Amazing Spider-Man is released to audiences in the USA, we’ve gotten our hands on an exclusive look at a scene broken down layer by layer to reveal how the visual effects have been constructed. We’ve got an interview with the effects wizards behind this magic coming up soon, but for now it’s time to dig deep in an entirely aesthetically pleasing sense. Have a peek at this SlashGear exclusive video below.
Band members of the legendary metal band Def Leppard have announced that they've reached an impasse with their record label and will be freezing sales of all original recordings of their music. What they've done instead of accepting an unfair amount of royalties, so they say, they've decided to record what are effectively covers of all their original songs that'll then be pushed to iTunes et all in a much more direct way that'll have them cashing in as much as possible. One would hope that they'll do a bit better than KISS did with their latest double-album (one of which was all covers of old songs too) Sonic Boom.
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Nokia teased its The Dark Knight Rises 3D map yesterday, and now the full interactive Batman world has gone live - complete with the chance to win Batman's cowl. Built in collaboration with Warner Bros., the 3D map details director Christopher Nolan's rebooted Gotham and introduces a series of games.
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Now that The Amazing Spider-Man is out for all to see, it’s time to talk about the gadgets and software you’ll be seeing when you decide to head to the theater this weekend. Of course if you live up here in Minnesota, you’ll be considering going to the movies this whole week just to get out of the heat – that just makes good sense. What doesn’t make a whole heck of a lot of sense to those viewers of The Amazing Spider-Man is the choices Peter Parker makes in the film in regards to both software and hardware.
With The Amazing Spider-Man in theaters this week, it’s high time you read up on the making of the film and it’s future as spoken by the stars themselves, today’s interview being with none other than Dennis Leary. Playing the role of Peter Parker’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy’s father, Leary lets it be known that he’s not letting go of the series as easily as the classic plot-line surrounding his character would suggest. Note that this interview is especially littered with swearwords and spoilers galore, so if you’re rather young or don’t want to know what happens to Leary’s character in the movie specifically, watch out – otherwise dip in on this rather candid talk with the actor.
If you watched anything on Netflix last month, then you helped the digital streaming giant reach a new milestone - a billion hours of streamed video served to users in one month. Company CEO Reed Hastings made the announcement in a Facebook post. It's unclear how far over the billion-hour mark the site went last month, but it probably just barely crossed the finish line.
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The next blockbuster comic book film headed to theaters this summer is The Amazing Spider-Man, and we got the opportunity earlier this month to speak to none other than the friendly neighborhood super-hero himself: Andrew Garfield. As part of a press junket in New York City that included everyone from Emma Stone to Martin Sheen [our talk coming up later this week], including the director Marc Webb as well, it was Garfield who came off as the single most jolted and excited cast or crew member involved. Have a read on how Garfield jumped into the role of Peter Parker and his superhero alternate identity Spider-Man below, and don’t forget to keep your mask on!
Earlier this month we got the chance to shoot some questions at several of the stars and crew of The Amazing Spider-Man, one of these talks being with Emma Stone, who played comic legend Gwen Stacy in the film. She spoke about how she got to know the character Gwen only after having spoken about playing Mary Jane as well as how the big change in working on her first big-name effects film is really in the press tour action. Have a peek at this un-cut interview below.
This week as the fuzzy teddy bear toting R-rated Seth MacFarlane movie Ted comes out, we got the chance to interview Jenny Fulle of The Creative-Cartel, the group responsible for overseeing the visual effects for the film. As it is with many of the films The Creative-Cartel works with, Ted presented them with the challenge of creating a set of effects that were top-notch with a budget that was less than your everyday average blockbuster effects film would present. The result was no less than a perfectly legitimate looking transformation of MacFarlane to the body of a toy bear stuffed into a comedy with essentially no other visual effects to speak of. It had to look real, and it certainly does.
This month we had a chance to take a look at an early screening of the upcoming blockbuster action film The Amazing Spider-Man, and what little we can tell you at the moment includes this: the visual effects here take the cake. While the refresh of the Spider-Man movie series has a story that is thrilling in its relative newness, it’s the mise en scene that will strike you hardest. If The Avengers proved to us that its prime time to bring the Marvel Universe to the big screen in a massive way, Spider-Man is the knife that cuts all the sweetest bits of this delicious visual cake and serves them up with the friendly neighborhood kid this superhero was always supposed to be.
The TV service provider that was more bullish on 3D content than anyone else is now cutting back on its three-dimensional programming due to low consumer demand, even though there are notably more 3D TV sets on the market. The problem is that viewers just aren't tuning in, even if their TV supports the new standard. As a result, the flagship n3D channel will no longer operate 24 hours a day.
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When you think of long, arduous journeys, sitting around and watching movies all day isn't usually the picture that comes to mind. But would you be able to watch 252 fils in their entirety in the span of just one month? That's a total of more than 404 hours of content, and it's what one Mark Malkoff did.
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