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The Special Effects Secrets Of Benjamin Button Laid Bare I don’t get to seeThe Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonuntil Sunday (ahead of a February 6th release in the UK) but I’ve seen all of the clips and trailers and, frankly, find it all a bitfunny looking. The first thing that comes to mind is the Orville Redenbacher Popcorn commercial David Fincher directed a couple of years back – presumably as a test bed for some of the tech he went on to call upon forButton....

The Worst Person In The World Trailer: A Life In 12 Chapters Neon has released a new trailer for the lauded Norwegian film “The Worst Person in the World,” about Julie (Renate Reinsve), a young woman trying to navigate her career and love life in Oslo. The film, which is told in 12 chapters, premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival where Reinsve won the award for Best Actress. “The Worst Person in the World” is the Norwegian entry for Best International Feature Film for the 94th Academy Awards....

This Week In Trailers: The Sapphires, Switch, Painted Skin: The Resurrection, Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, Glory Hole, First Winter, Trailers For The Blind: Safe Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

TV Bits: ‘In Treatment’ Not Quite Cancelled, Posters For ‘Falling Skies,’ Nudity Clause For ‘The Playboy Club,’ Kyle Chandler For ‘Powers’? We’ve got a mixed bag of TV bits for you today, from some pretty sci-fi artwork for TNT to possible envelope-pushing on NBC, so let’s get started. First off, HBO’s treatment ofIn Treatment: It was widely reported last night that the premium cable network had canceled its ratings-challenged psychiatric drama starringGabriel Byrne....

TV Trailer: Michael Bay’s Pirate Drama ‘Black Sails’ ThetrailersforThe Lone Rangerhave drawn more than a few comparisons to Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp’s last team-up,Pirates of the Caribbean. But Tonto’s untamed West is a world away from Captain Jack Sparrow’s high seas, and if waterlogged adventure is more your speed Starz has just the thing for you. Executive produced byMichael Bay,Black Sailsfollows the fearsome pirate captain Flint (Toby Stephens), his new crew member John Silver (Luke Arnold), and the rest of their as they go up against the British Royal Navy....

Universal Says Goodbye To ‘Ouija’ Back in May, a rumor broke on Twitter that Universal was halting pre-viz work and shutting down production onOuija, the big budget, board game adventure film that was to be directed byMcGand written byEdward KitsisandAdam Horowitz. Inquires to Universal at the time denied this rumor and we didn’t run the story. Turns out that was most likely the final few gasps of breath before the true ending....

Video: Are The New Food & Drinks At Jurassic Cafe & Isla Nu-Bar Any Good? [Jurassic World At Universal Studios Hollywood] We rodeJurassic World: The Ride. Weencountered baby Raptors and triceratopsandexplored all the new merch. And today completes our initial adventures toJurassic Worldas we take a look at the new food options.Universal Studios Hollywoodhas completely revamped the menu for theJurassicCafeand built a new bar with the puntastic nameIsla Nu-bar. What did we think of the new food and drink options?...

Warhammer 40k Feature Film Ultramarines Coming Our Way Codex Pictures have announced production ofUltramarines, the first feature film to be based upon Games Workshop’sWarhammer 40k. If you don’t know what40kis then it seems, somewhat surprisingly, that you aren’t quite as geeky as me. Simply put, it’s a tabletop wargame, as played with little miniature figurines and dice of many sides. Created in the late 80s as a spacey shooty spin off to a trolls and goblins original,Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the40kversion seems to have developed a following all its own and, at least whenever I walk by the local Games Workshop store, seems to be getting played at least as much as its ‘classic’ swords and sorcery ancestor....

Woody Harrelson Explains Why ‘Han Solo’ Will Be The Best ‘Star Wars’ Movie Ever Filming on Disney and Lucasfilm’s untitledHan SolostandaloneStar Warsspin-off beganalmost exactly one month ago, and at least one of its actors seems to think things are shaping up quite well, thank you very much. In fact, he thinks this could be the bestStar Warsmovie yet. Grab your torches and pitchforks and meet me after the jump. In some circles, it borders on blasphemy for an actor to suggest they’re making aStar Warsfilm that will be better than George Lucas’s original orThe Empire Strikes Back, but let’s hear whatWoody Harrelsonhas to say for himself....

WTF: Is There A Green Screen In Latest ‘Men In Black 3’ Trailer, Or Does It Just Seem That Way? Yesterday morning, when I looked at thelatest trailerforBarry Sonnenfeld’sMen in Black 3, I noticed something that seemed weird. A lot of other peoplenoticed ittoo: a shot in which there appeared to be a green screen that featured no CG shot composited into the placeholder space. I looked at the shot a couple times, but wasn’t able to see it on a full-size screen, and at first it really seemed as if the editors assigned to cut together the trailer had used a very unfinished shot....

‘1922’ Trailer: The Stephen King Adaptation Train Keeps On Rolling Stephen Kingis everywhere these days. In fact, he’s sittingright behind you as you read this. Okay, maybe that’s not true. Butadaptationsof King’s work have increased tenfold in the last year, and that was beforeItwent ahead and made all the moneys. WithIttaking in boffo box office, expect evenmoreKing adaptations to be announced. For now, though, there’s1922, which is one of two different Netflix King adaptations on the horizon....

‘A Promise’ Trailer: Rebecca Hall Is Torn Between Severus Snape And Robb Stark It’s not unheard of for fantasy geeks to debate the merits of Diagon Alley versus King’s Landing, Hermione Granger versus Daenerys Targaryen. But French filmmakerPatrice Lecontemay be the first to wonder whether Severus Snape or Robb Stark would emerge triumphant in a battle for the heart ofIron Man 3starRebecca Hall. Okay, so that probably wasn’t really Leconte’s aim in making the pre-WWI romanceA Promise....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Is About Emotional Terrorism From the very beginning, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has used terrorism as a plot device. This was always a cinematic world meant to reflect our own, and in the wake of 9/11, terror attacks were – and remain – a very real concern. TheIron Manfranchise explicitly includes terrorist acts as plot points – including the truck bombing inthe first film’s opening scene, the inciting incident that leads Tony Stark to become Iron Man in the first place....