How To Create A District 9 Alien Hand Dan Koelsch, January 20, 2010January 20, 2010 Indy Mogul is a great site for news, reviews, and anything about DIY filmmaking. On the site and its YouTube channel, they show you how to make cheap special effects that look great (called Backyard FX). In one of their latest videos, they show you how to make an alien…
Avatar News: Banned in China, 23 Minute Featurette, and Man Dies From Excitement Dan Koelsch, January 20, 2010January 20, 2010 James Cameron’s Avatar tends to attract some pretty strange news. There has already been the report of a woman getting shot during an Avatar screening, and now we have another death related to Avatar. More on this story, plus China banning the film, and a 23 minute behind-the-scenes featurette.
Viral Video: Lucas Re-Edits Star Wars Opening Text Dan Koelsch, January 19, 2010January 21, 2010 As a purist Star Wars fan who also loves modern technology, I’ve often been conflicted with the re-edits George Lucas has done to the original Star Wars trilogy (once in 1997 and again in 2004). Sure, there are some scenes that look bad-ass and definitely improve on the original 70s…
Iron Man 2 News Round-Up: Crossover Cameos and Reshoots? Dan Koelsch, January 19, 2010January 19, 2010 While we wait for news of anymore viral for this summer’s Iron Man 2, there’s a couple of interesting stories and theories circulating the web worth mentioning. First of all, Variety reports that S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) will make an apperance in both Iron Man 2 and Thor, which…
Viral For The House of The Devil Is Looking For a Babysitter Dan Koelsch, January 18, 2010January 18, 2010 Many of you may not have heard about the 2009 horror film The House of The Devil, and for good reason. The film didn’t have a nation wide release, its Writer/Director Ti West and actors are no-names (though you may recognize a few actors from small roles in the past),…