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Total Recall: James Cameron Movies

We take a look at the career of the visionary director of Avatar.
By Jeff Giles on Wednesday, Dec. 16 2009, 02:58 PM comment89 Comments

He got his start as a miniature model maker at Roger Corman Studios, and promptly went on to establish himself as one of the biggest directors in Hollywood -- both in terms of his staggering box office grosses ($3.5 billion worldwide and counting) and his seemingly limitless appetite for epic storytelling. Like a lot of filmmakers, James Cameron's imagination has often outpaced the available technology -- but unlike most of his peers, when confronted with those limits, he simply spurs the invention of new technology to get around them. Cameron's latest effort, Avatar, required the development of a whole new 3-D camera, and rode the bleeding edge of CGI's outer limits. After years of buildup, Avatar is finally here -- but before we witness what's being hyped as the future of filmmaking, why don't we look back at James Cameron's past?

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Five Favorite Films With Peter Jackson

We caught up with the Lovely Bones and Lord of the Rings director to ask the question...
By Luke Goodsell on Monday, Dec. 21 2009, 11:33 AM Comment72 Comments

Peter Jackson has come a long way since his 1987 debut Bad Taste, a shoestring-budget splatter film shot in his native New Zealand that went on to earn a cult following. Yet there's something of that film's inventive and playful spirit in almost everything he's done since, be it bawdy puppets (1989's Meet the Feebles), killer teens (1994's Heavenly Creatures) or ice-skating apes (2005's King Kong). The Lord of the Rings trilogy made him a household name and earned him Oscar acclaim, while he's currently producing the long-awated prequel, The Hobbit, with Guillermo del Toro directing. As Jackson's latest, the murder-thriller-fantasy The Lovely Bones, arrives in cinemas, we caught up with him and asked him to name his all-time favorite films. He happily obliged. "My five favourite films of all time," Jackson pondered. "For different reasons, they would be... "

The Effects of Where the Wild Things Are

We go behind the scenes with London's Framestore
By Orlando Parfitt on Friday, Dec. 11 2009, 07:41 AM Comment34 Comments

Spike Jonze's eagerly-anticipated adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are was initially supposed to use entirely practical effects, but the director soon realised he'd need more sophisticated computer trickery to bring the seven 'emotionally complex' (i.e. grumpy) Wild Things to life. That's where London's Framestore came in, the effects house needing to seamlessly animate all the monsters without compromising Spike Jonze's naturalistic vision for the project. RT went to visit them this week at their Soho headquarters, where Animation Director Michael Eames and Director of VFX Tim Webber told us how they did it, and shared some exclusive behind-the-scenes shots.

The Gimmicks That Changed Cinema: Part 2

In our second Avatar inspired chapter on movie gimmickry, we delve into the stranger side of movie innovation
By Michael Adams on Thursday, Dec. 10 2009, 08:01 PM Comment7 Comments

Yesterday we marvelled at the wonders of sound, color, 3-D and CinemaScope -- innovations that changed the way audiences viewed movies forever. Today, it's time to cross over to the less auspicious side of gimmickry. Behold! Odorama! Snuff! The Tingler? Will Avatar's blue, dreadlocked Na'vi be remembered with such reverence?

Robert Downey Jr. talks Sherlock Holmes & Iron Man 2 - RT Interview

The actor on his two big franchise outings.
By Henri Sordeau on Thursday, Dec. 10 2009, 06:21 AM Comment21 Comments

Robert Downey Jr. can't quite remember why he was on the phone to Guy Ritchie the first time Sherlock Holmes was mentioned, but it was to give him some advice about the trailer for his comic thriller RocknRolla, not to bid for the lead in his $80m Victorian detective caper. But Downey does remember that when the conversation finally swung round that way, Ritchie told him he'd be too old for it anyway. Nevertheless, within weeks of that chat, a press conference was held in the Freemasons Hall in central London, announcing the news that Downey had signed to play the eccentric sleuth. Just over 12 months later, the film is imminent, and what at first looked like stunt casting now appears to be a stroke of crazy genius. Once a cadaverous codger with a deerstalker hat and fogey pipe, Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous literary creation gets a jolt of adrenaline with Downey's firecracker performance, cutting a psychedelic swathe through the fog of Old London Town. He talks exclusively to Rotten Tomatoes about the challenge of playing the most brilliant man there never was...

The Gimmicks That Changed Cinema: Part 1

James Cameron promises Avatar will be the next step in a fully-immersive, 3-D movie experience -- but will it have the impact of these?
By Michael Adams on Wednesday, Dec. 09 2009, 04:40 PM Comment37 Comments

James Cameron's 'Avatar' is almost here, and if it's anything like the director's been promising-a new way to experience immersive 3-D movies, whatever that mean-then the industry could be about to enter a new phase of technology. So to mark the release of the latest revolution in film technology, we took a look back-way back--at the ones that have come before it. In the first of our two-part series about the technological advances that changed the movie industry forever, we look at the gimmicks that are now part of the standard moviegoing experience. Tomorrow, we look at the ones that weren't so fortunate.

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Exclusive: The World of Where the Wild Things Are

Spike Jonze, Maurice Sendak and more take RT on a journey through the film.Comment10 Comments

Sundance 2010: RT's 10 Most Anticipated Movies

We pick the handful of features you simply can't afford to miss.Comment42 Comments

10 Horrifically Profitable Films

As Paranormal Activity scares up $100 million from a budget of loose change, we look at history's lowest budget horror hitsComment46 Comments

Director Ruben Fleischer Talks Zombieland

With the hit horror-comedy in cinemas, we catch up with the director to talk casting, splatter, and his thoughts on Woody Harrelson punching out zombie paparazzi.Comment2 Comments

Ban Them All! 10 Infamously Controversial Movies

Lars von Trier’s latest descent into hell -- Antichrist -- is just the latest in a long line of stomach-wrenching shockers. Comment106 Comments

5 Facts About The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Exclusive: We tap the cast for hints on what to expect - could there be 5 films?Comment107 Comments

Five Favorite Films With Zombieland Director Ruben Fleischer

The man behind this year's hit horror-comedy reveals the films behind the manComment25 Comments

"I Don't Hate Women": Lars von Trier on Antichrist

The notorious director discusses 2009's most controversial film, horror, what scares him the most... and talking foxesComment34 Comments

Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview

On why he's such a petrol head.Comment12 Comments

Fight Club Sound Designer Reflects on Film's 10th Anniversary

Ren Klyce breaks the first and second rule of Fight Club by talking about it.Comment46 Comments

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