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Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed —
... its Dark Knight toys . Here are some photos . - The USA Network has ordered more episodes of Monk . - Ooh, how could would a big-screen version of Scott Pilgrim be? - Emily Perry , best known for playing Dame Edna 's sidekick, Madge, has died at age 100. - Don't expect a Golden Compass sequel just yet. - Scott K. sent me this video of sock puppets reenacting Torchwood . - And from The Onion : " CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar for Michael Bay ."
One of the more horrifying things I’ve ever seen.
Burbanked —
2.20.2008“‘The podium, the backdrop, the sense of creative achievement that hangs about him - it’s all so vivid and detailed that you’d swear it was real.’ Added Krajcsik, ‘When you see Michael thanking his talented cast and crew and raising the Oscar above his head, it’s going to be hard to believe it never, ever happened.’” Read the rest of this brilliant, tragic, cautionary tale over at ...
Thanks to advances in CGI, reports The Onion, ... [Michael Bay]
Gawker: Defamer —
... Thanks to advances in CGI, reports The Onion, even Michael Bay will be getting his due on Oscar night, as green-screen technology will allow programmers to recreate with stunning proximity the illusion that the director is collecting an Academy Award right alongside his nominated Transformers sound and visual effects men. They even have made a grinning Jack in sunglasses out of millions of tiny vectors! [The Onion] ...
Linky Shop of Horrors
Film Experience Blog —
Today's MUST Read The Onion "CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar..." [thx] Also... Mondo Musicals is doing a whole series of posts on Little Shop of Horrors. A good time for it too, what with Ellen Greene's resurgence on Pushing Daisies. I love "Little Shop" -can't tell you how many times I've listened to the CD over the years. 'Feed me Mondo, feed me (posts) all night long. You can do it...' Bright Lights After Dark on the "sympathetic listener" in ...
Bay Awarded a CGI Oscar
FilmWad —
... CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar For Michael Bay ...
This Morning in Oscars: On Top of Everything Else, George Clooney Will Win Your Oscar Pool
Vulture —
... At last, thanks to the Onion and $125 million worth of CGI, Michael Bay wins his Best Director Academy Award. Choice passage: Meryl Streep, who commanded a $5 million salary for her role as the presenter of the Oscar, said the production was the biggest challenge of her career. '"To put yourself in that mental place, in a world where something like this would be possible, it's just indescribable.'" ...
Visual effects Oscar
Hollywood Elsewhere —
... Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 24, 2008 at 06:07 PM Dwayne Johnson delivering the Best Visual Effects Oscar, which moves me not. The cool effects are the ones you don't notice. The team behind The Golden Compass , the bomb that rocked New Line Cinema, wins. Who cares? Nobody. Not me anyway. I hate blatant CGI. Comments Man, they really hate Michael Bay. Good for them. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/cgi_team_creates_realistic_oscar Posted by: JoeGreenia at February 24, 2008 06:27 PM Post a Comment Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. ( ...
Now my campaign has a machine gun. Ho, ho, ho.
Burbanked —
... ) 2.20.2008“‘The podium, the backdrop, the sense of creative achievement that hangs about him - it’s all so vivid and detailed that you’d swear it was real.’ Added Krajcsik, ‘When you see Michael thanking his talented cast and crew and raising the Oscar above his head, it’s going to be hard to believe it never, ever happened.’” Read the rest of this brilliant, tragic, cautionary tale over at ...
Mildly amusing movie still juxtaposition #5.
Burbanked —
... ) 2.20.2008“‘The podium, the backdrop, the sense of creative achievement that hangs about him - it’s all so vivid and detailed that you’d swear it was real.’ Added Krajcsik, ‘When you see Michael thanking his talented cast and crew and raising the Oscar above his head, it’s going to be hard to believe it never, ever happened.’” Read the rest of this brilliant, tragic, cautionary tale over at ...
