Oct 24
Captain America’s first outing
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Jun 25
Because we don’t have any real life superheroes in this totally lame world of ours, we obsess over the lives of silly celebrities with beautiful cheekbones and photoshopped curves and cry over athletes wearing fresh laundry. It’s what we call fun! But if superheroes existed on Earth, all those puny humans would never make the cover of magazines ever again. We’d obsess over superheroes all the time.
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Feb 20
Did you think ‘The Avengers’ finale was shot in New York? Think again (video)
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Raymond Teller once said that the secret to fooling people is to put in so much more effort than the trick seems worth. It seems that the bods at Industrial Light and Magic followed his wisdom when concocting the effects for The Avengers. If you’d marveled at how seamless the team had blended shots of the Big Apple with the Chitauri invasion, then we’ve got a surprise for you — almost none of it is real. Rather than shoot parts of the New York-based finale in the city (or any other city), the effects house created a 20-block “digital playground,” complete with individually detailed office windows. Interested in learning just how much of those breathtaking set pieces were filmed in a green screen in New Mexico? Head on past the break.
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Feb 19
Seriously, after seeing ILM work its magic in all of its movie, I basically trust ILM with anything. If the next movie ILM works on doesn’t involve real actors or real sets or even a real script, I don’t care, I’m in. If ILM told me it could make a world better than real life, I’d totally sign up. Anything ILM does is gold. The visual effects wizards can even magically, er, digitally recreate New York City. Watch. More »
Feb 19
The Incredible Creation (and Destruction) of an Entire City in The Avengers
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Almost a third of The Avengers may have been set in New York, but as this video from Industrial Light & Magic’s YouTube channel shows us, hardly any of the filming took place in the Big Apple itself. Since actually filming in New York would have been difficult—what with the many road-blocking restrictions and the city generally looking down on setting their streets and/or citizens on fire—almost everything had to be digitally recreated. More »
Jan 24
Industrial Light and Magic has been in the visual effects game since the original Star Wars. And if you need any further proof that they’re still one of the top FX shops on the planet, here’s another look at the work they did to bring the Hulk to life in The Avengers. More »
Jan 14
ILM or Industrial Light & Magic or the wonderful CGI wizards who create visual effects that are better than real life just gave a look behind the curtain of its fantasy shop to show us how they created the Hulk in The Avengers. More »
Sep 24
We are officially in the fall premiere season. From freshly-minted Emmy winners like Homeland to newbies like Last Resort, 666 Park Avenue and Elementary, the prime time schedule is suddenly full of shows jostling for our attention. Add in a full slate of movie releases, football games and even WNBA playoffs, well, and our DVRs have their work cut out for them. Look below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.
The Avengers
One of the summer’s biggest hits is here on disc, in two discs Blu-ray / DVD combo pack (no digital copy) and four disc Blu-ray 3D edition (with digital copy). We got a chance to check it out early and there’s certainly enough extras here to keep the fans happy, along with a slick and fast-loading menu system. We did not get an opportunity to try out the Second Screen app yet, but with the price of the four disc pack down to $25, we figure most fans will getting thier money’s worth — unless of course they’re waiting for the delayed Marvel Cinematic Universe edition.
(September 25th, $24.99 on Amazon)
Last Resort
We’re sure there’s more to this military drama than just trying to be the next Lost, but when you start off stranded on a fictional island then throw in conspiracy theories and a submarine, our magnets start to tingle. From the trailer (embedded after the break)it certainly has an interesting plot, as the crew of a US military vessel is fired upon by its own country, and subsequently goes rogue in an attempt to find out why and get back home, but we’ve seen many of these mysterious shows come and go very quickly — it will need to find its own hook, and fast.
(September 27th, ABC, 8PM)
Louie
As we welcome in a slew of new shows, we say goodbye to one for now. Comedian Louis CK’s show was also an award winner last night, and it was well deserved. After a Rocky-style take on the late night wars the show wraps up its season this week with what appears to be a New Year’s themed episode. If you haven’t checked it out yet and are a fan of CK’s comedy style, this is probably the time.
(September 28th, FX, 10:30PM)
Continue reading Must See HDTV (September 24th – 30th)
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Sep 17
Amazon placating delayed Marvel Cinematic Universe pre-orderers with free Avengers Blu-rays
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About a week ago we got the bad news that Marvel’s entirely over the top Cinematic Universe: Phase One Blu-ray set would be delayed until spring 2013 while Disney works up a new case, but there is a silver lining for those who preordered from Amazon. One of our readers forwarded us an email sent out to those who preordered, indicating that in the meantime, they will receive The Avengers two disc Blu-ray / DVD combo package, free of charge. It’s not a S.H.I.E.L.D. suitcase w/ glowing Tesseract cube built in of course, but we guess it will have to do until the replacement packaging is ready to go. Anyone who put in an order between June 1st and August 28th are eligible for the free copy and should have received their redemption code via email.
[Thanks, Nick]
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Sep 07
Marvel Cinematic Universe 10-disc Blu-ray set delayed, that sweet Tesseract case is to blame
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Remember that $139 Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One – Avengers Assembled Blu-ray boxed set and its S.H.I.E.L.D. case (pictured above, video after the break) with the sweet glowing Tesseract cube? Good – now forget it, at least until spring 2013. Blu-ray.com has an official statement from Disney that sadly informs us it will not make its predicted September 25th ship date, and has been pushed back. The statement does go on however, noting that buyers will receive a new briefcase with even more (unspecified — may we suggest Tony Stark’s Iron Man briefcase?) special features. It doesn’t go into precisely why all this happened, but an earlier report from TheHDRoom noted a legal squbble between Marvel and Rimowa, the company that apparently created the metallic briefcase it was based on, and subsequently sued Marvel and Disney’s home video arm, Buena Vista Home Entertainment for trademark infringement and the like. Whatever the cause, the set is on ice for now — we’ll let you know when it’s safe to preorder again.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe 10-disc Blu-ray set delayed, that sweet Tesseract case is to blame originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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