Stan Winston News

May 15, 2009
Exclusive: The Look of Terminator Salvation with Martin Laing
Production Designer Martin Laing has worked with James Cameron on True Lies, Titanic and Ghosts of the Abyss and has served on films like The Haunting, City of Ember and the upcoming Clash of the Titans. Terminator Salvation, with its bleak view of the future, is easily his most ambitious project to date. On the eve of the film's worldwide rollout, he sits down exclusively with RT to take us through concept art for the film and explain his approach... "Our Terminator world is quite different from the films you've seen before. In the same way that Warner Bros. took the Batman movies and turned them on their head, in design terms as well as the story, and turned that world into something very dark and really really cool, we're going to be doing the same thing with Terminator." More...

March 26, 2009
Exclusive: McG Talks Terminator Salvation
The news that one of the greatest sci-fi franchises of all time was to get a full-fat reboot predictably sent cyborg fanboys into paroxysms of joy. For about 10 minutes. That Arnie, otherwise engaged running the world's fourth largest economy, wouldn't be back was partly compensated for by the casting of Christian Bale. But the revelation that McG was to be at the helm of Terminator Salvation put an abrupt stop to the celebrations. Recently, though, the tide's been turning with trailers and longer assemblages revealing a gritty war movie with more in common with Mad Max and Children of Men than Charlie's Angels. RT talked exclusively to the much-maligned McG about the rise of his machines... More...

June 18, 2008
Total Recall: The Best of Stan Winston
With the passing of Oscar-winning makeup and special effects artist Stan Winston, RT decided to take a closer look at one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential behind-the-scenes figures, a man whose work changed the way that the movie industry brought special effects magic to the screen. More...

April 28, 2008
RT Interview: Jon Favreau on Iron Man, Effective CGI and the New Marvel Movies
The actor and director tells RT how to deliver the ultimate fanboy superhero movie, what to expect from Iron Man future and why listening to the online fans is important. More...

July 2, 2007
Another Stephen King Flick: This Time It's "Insomnia"
No relation to the Christopher Nolan crime thriller of the same name. More...

May 15, 2007
ILM Joins the "Iron Man" Team
In an effort to bring you absolutely every single piece of available "Iron Man" news, there's this: ILM was just hired to do all the fancy effects work. More...

April 5, 2007
"Area 51" Game to Make the Leap to Moviedom
The arcade version of "Area 51" was, I believe, one of the first to utilize the "point the gun at the screen" technology. Or if not one of the first, then certainly one of the coolest. Oh, and Paramount just signed a deal to make a movie from that game. More...

March 7, 2007
Favreau's Pretty Pumped About "Iron Man" Start
Actor turned tentpole-maker Jon Favreau is just about to get rolling on "Iron Man" production, so he stopped by his MySpace page to give the Marvel fans a quick little update. More...

July 11, 2006
The Comic-Con is Coming!
I attend several film festivals each year, but there's always one movie-centric event that I'd really love to attend: The San Diego Comic-Con. Movie geek heaven is what I like to call it. Read on to find out why... More...

September 9, 2005
MTV Films Acquires Midway?s "Suffering"
MTV Films has acquired the film rights to Midway Games' horror game "The Suffering." According to The Hollywood Reporter, MTV Films will work with Stan Winston and Brian Gilbert from Stan Winston Prods. and Jason Lust and Rick Jacobs from Circle of Confusion to bring this film to the big screen. More...