the dark knight
by Kirsten Acuna Last month, visual effects (VFX) company Rhythm & Hues filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The studio helped bring a ravenous Bengal tiger to the big screen in Oscar winner "Life of Pi." However, after more than 200 layoffs, some 400 VFX artists protested during the 85th Academy Awards. The recent bankruptcy filing of Rhythm & Hues is the latest blow to the VFX community which has taken a hard hit in the past year. Last September, VFX studio Digital Domain Media Group also filed for bankruptcy before being bought in part by Galloping Horse and Reliance Capital. Now, some ...
It’s almost impossible to imagine a bat-world pre-Christopher Nolan, where the caped crusader was a laughing stock, a Day-Glo covered punchline forced to trade lame quips with A-listers cashing in whatever goodwill they had with the public. But Nolan went back to the beginning, started from scratch, rebuilt Bruce Wayne brick by brick, and created one of the greatest movie trilogies of all time. As the final chapter, “The Dark Knight Rises,” arrives on Blu-ray and DVD Dec. 4th, it’s time to look back and learn a few things about Gotham’s solitary protector… 10. Michael Caine helped ...
Christopher Moloney traveled to certain film locations and held up printed-out screenshots from the films that were shot there to create a really cool effect. The result was this awesome collection of photographs that he shares on his Tumblr, FILMography. The Fisher King (1991) ...
The final film in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy also marks the last of this summer's comic book films. And it's been a summer for the ages: As of July 30, The Avengers had domestically grossed more than $600 million, The Amazing Spider-Man almost $242 million, and The Dark Knight Rises about $295 million. Those three films make it the most lucrative superhero summer of all-time (2008, with only two major superhero films, The Dark Knight and Iron Man, comes in about $300 million behind.) But Hollywood never rests on its laurels - the next two years will see ten films based on characters from the Marvel and DC vaults. Here's a quick guide: Related: What Exactly Did Gordon-Levitt ...
This Weekend's Winners: The weekend's No. 1 slot went to the fourth Ice Age film, whose $46 million haul proved the franchise is a lot like pizza: When it's good, it's great, but even when it's mediocre, it's still pretty good. Related: Watch an Ice Age-Dark Knight Rises Mash-up Honorable Mention: Mr. YBOE thinks this weekend's second- and sixth-place finishers should be singled out for special props for their very modest drops: Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man and Universal's Savages decreasing just 44 and 41 percent, respectively. This Weekend's Loser: Box office overall is down almost 40 percent compared with the same time last year. Then again, that was when the final Harry Potter ...
On Sunday, The Hunger Games quietly passed the domestic $400 million mark on its 80th day of release, and the box office may never be the same. Most movies would be happy to make it to $100 million domestically, but in an era when studio tentpoles can cost twice that, the goalposts for success have moved significantly, and 2012 may usher in the biggest change yet: If The Dark Knight Rises grosses more than $400 million this summer - and it's likely to, since its predecessor earned $533 million - it will join The Hunger Games and The Avengers at the top of a year where three different movies passed $400 million, the first time that's ever happened. Related: Philip Seymour Hoffman Offered ...
