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Russell Crowes divisive epic movie Noah gets a glowing review from VFX artists 10 years after its original release. Inspired by Noahs Ark, the biblical drama follows a man (Crowe), chosen by God to construct a vessel for his family and various animals to brave an impending apocalyptic flood. Along with Crowe, the cast of Noah includes Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone, and more. The film, directed by Darren Aronofsky, earned over $359 million at the box office, and though met with polarizing reactions, audiences praised the effects.

In the recent "VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGI" video, Corridor Crew looked at several moments from Noah. When it came to digitally creating all of those animals, Niko explained: "This is so impressive because you have to have an artist effectively model each one of these creatures." They also discussed the process, with Jordan revealing how skeletons were made for certain animals,...

Rich Peppiatt’s comedy-drama Kneecap opens in 237 cinemas across England, Wales and Scotland through Curzon this weekend, following a strong two weeks in its native Ireland.

The film opened in Ireland and Northern Ireland on August 8 through Wildcard Distribution and held a top five spot for its first two weekends amid summer box office competition, reaching £557,610 as of Sunday, August 18.

Kneecap is a semi-fictionalised story of the eponymous Belfast-based hip-hop trio, and charts their rise from the Gaeltacht Quarter of West Belfast to becoming popular music artists.

Group members Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh all star as themselves.

Unified Pictures has partnered with ReDefine Animation for The Ark and the Aardvark, the latest animated feature from Kung Fu Panda co-director John Stevenson.

ReDefine Animation is part of the Dneg Group, the London-based visual affects company. The animation division was responsible for the work on last year’s Nimona, which earned an Academy Award nomination for best animated feature, as well as The Garfield Movie. Dneg recently received $200 million in funding from Abu Dhabi-based Vc firm United Al Saqer Group for IP development, a new production studio in Abu Dhabi, and the creation of a new arm centered on AI technology.

The feature is already in production and ReDefine, which was chosen for its artistry, experience and scale, will act as a finishing company, working with Unified’s LA based animation team.

Aardvark explores the famed story of Noah’s Ark from the perspective of the animals and tells the story of an outcast aardvark,...

Disney’s “Alien: Romulus” topped the U.K. and Ireland box office in its opening weekend, earning £3.7 million ($4.8 million), according to numbers from Comscore.

The sci-fi horror film unseated Sony’s “It Ends With Us,” which moved down to second place with £2.8 million in its sophomore frame, bringing its total to £11.3 million. Disney’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” held strong in third place, adding £2.3 million in its fourth week for a cumulative gross of £48.4 million.

Trafalgar Releasing’s 15th anniversary re-release of “Coraline” opened at No. 4 with £1.2 million. Rounding out the top five, Universal’s “Despicable Me 4” continued to perform well in its sixth week, taking in £1.1 million for a total of £38.7 million.

Other films in the top 10 include Warner Bros.’ “Trap” at No. 6, Disney’s “Inside Out 2” holding at No. 7, Warner Bros. “Twisters” at No. 8 and Bakrania Media’s Bollywood horror-comedy “Stree 2” debuting at No. 9 with £291,804. “Borderlands” from Lionsgate U.

Mia, the character played by Anna Castillo, in Nowhere, tries to flee an atrocious regime along with her husband, facing several hardships in the process. Anna Castillo has been able to do justice to the character, displaying the traits eccentric to a mother, who selflessly stands up to all the hardships to save her unborn child. She loses her husband on their way out, and later, while trying to hide from the barbaric army, ends up in a shipping vessel. She goes into labor and gives birth to her child there, all by herself, and toils day and night to provide proper care for the baby in the middle of the ocean. Her survival instincts and will to live help her keep the hope alive for the two of them. Directed by Albert Pintó, Nowhere centers on the crafty nature of humans that help them to survive in any situation,...

The constant rain in David Fincher's Se7en was a deliberate choice to create atmosphere and maximize shooting efficiency. The rain reinforces the film's themes of sin and nihilism and contributes to the noir-esque visual language. The rain also ties into the biblical allusions in Se7en.

The constant rain in David Fincher’s bleak neo-noir Se7en creates a memorable atmosphere, but there were also practical reasons for employing it in the film. With its dark tone, engrossing plot, and top-notch cast, Se7en is rightly remembered as one of David Fincher’s best films. The thriller follows Mills (Brad Pitt) and Somerset (Morgan Freeman), two homicide detectives on the trail of an elusive serial killer whose murders are modeled after the seven deadly sins.

Se7en’s dark tone and harrowing ending were considered a serious gamble upon the film’s release in 1995. After a disastrous test screening, director David...

Indiana Jones is one of cinema's most memorable heroes. As Harrison Ford finally hangs up the hat and the whip after playing the character for a final time in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, many fans of the franchise are looking back on the franchise with fondness.

One notable thing about the franchise is how much time had passed between sequels, as there was a 19-year gap between The Last Crusade and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as well as another 15-year gap between that film and The Dial of Destiny. Although the franchise ends with 5 films, there easily could have been more films to make.

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Indiana Jones And The Peril At Delphi

Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi was the first novel in a long-running series published by Bantham Books during the 1990s. The novel follows Indy...

Warning: Spoilers for Manifest season 4 part 2

It took two years, but Manifest finally explained Angelina’s mysterious connection to Cal. Introduced in season 3, Angelina’s significance to the plot has long been a bit of an enigma for the series. The passengers have known since her introduction that Angelina was important in some way, with her later actions only complicating this mystery.

Cal believed wholeheartedly in Manifest season 3 that the Flight 828 passengers needed Angelina, presumable to beat the Death Date and save the Lifeboat. How she was meant to help became all the more confusing when she turned into a murderer in the season 3 finale. Angelina hardly felt like a character that the passengers were meant to depend on, with her story in Manifest season 4, part 1 drastically reducing her redemption chances. What’s more, the show made her the biggest threat to the Lifeboat by having her acquire permanent Omega Sapphire powers.

Zeke’s return is a lore-changing twist for Manifest season 4, part 2. Played by Matt Long, Zeke lost his life in the Manifest season 4, part 1 finale. However, the trailer for the show’s final episodes confirm the character’s time on the show hasn’t ended. He’ll be back, and as the footage reveals, it won’t be through a flashback.

Since the second half of season 1, Zeke has played a crucial role in the journey of the Flight 828 passengers. Even after beating his own Death Date in the season 2 finale, Zeke continued to be vital to the story. He proved his importance to their destiny in the Manifest season 4, part 1 finale when he made the ultimate sacrifice to save Cal. This moment seemingly completed his arc. However, it appears the show still has room for him. The Manifest season 4, part 2 trailer revealed a scene where Zeke communicates with Michaela in a mystery location.

The Indiana Jones franchise swings back into fans' lives with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny this summer, but Indy 5 might be in trouble if it's already ignoring George Lucas's biggest piece of advice. The trio of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Harrison Ford have been involved with each film to feature the titular globe-trotting archeologist, with Spielberg either directing or producing, Ford starring, and Lucas writing the story, which always focuses on a real archeological object imbued with supernatural powers. In order to adhere to a winning formula, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull took fifteen years to generate Indy's next adventure.

Fans thought Indy 4 didn't quite hit the mark with a plot about extraterrestrial beings, and now fifteen years after that, they're concerned that Indiana Jones 5 might be another disappointment. Lucas has always tried to carefully balance the more fantastical elements of...

2022 firmly put Miles Teller on the map as an acting talent, but there are many Miles Teller movies. Teller had already impressed many with smaller indie movies and a few genre releases. However, in 2022, he starred in the massive blockbuster hit Top Gun: Maverick as well as a Netflix release, Spiderhead, alongside Thor actor Chris Hemsworth. From his latest projects to the movies that helped launch his career, Teller has assembled an impressive filmography with plenty more likely to come.

With his role in Top Gun: Maverick becoming the biggest box-office success story of his career, the future looks bright for Teller. However, as he has done over his career, Teller has some interesting choices lined up to follow up that blockbuster. While Miles Teller has nothing lined up in 2023, he has an animated movie based on Noah's Ark and a romantic action movie from horror director Scott Derrickson that...

Stuart Ford's Agc Television has optioned Christopher Golden's Ben Walker novels for the small screen, starting with the best-selling supernatural thriller Ararat.

Golden's Walker novels follow the titular character, a self-described "weird shit expert" who investigates strange phenomena for a secret arm of the Department of Defense. In Ararat, an earthquake reveals a secret cave in Mount Ararat in Turkey.

When a newly engaged couple go exploring, they discover an ancient buried ship many believe to be Noah's Ark. But when a blizzard traps them inside, a much more horrible truth is revealed. Agc Television has optioned ...

SyFy has released a new teaser for The Last Sharknado: It's About Time and it's completely insane. Along with the crazy sharks, dinosaurs and superheroes have joined the mix as well. The first installment of the wildly successful franchise premiered in 2013 and the latest, which will also be the last, premieres on August 19th. The series stars Ian Ziering and Tara Reid as Fin and April Shepard, a husband and wife who can't stop running into sharknadoes, which are obviously tornadoes filled with sharks, wherever they go. It's all about to come to a gigantic, history-making climax.

The 2018 summer box office has seen some pretty heavy hitters including Infinity War and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom to name a few, which are given the spoof treatment in the latest teaser for Sharknado 6. Tara Reid is spotted in the teaser wearing a superhero costume while dinosaurs are running around. If that wasn't enough,...

Sneak Peek more new footage, plus images from "The Last Sharknado: It's About Time", the disaster horror comedy science-fiction feature and sixth film in the series, starring Tara Reid, Ian Ziering and Cassie Scerbo, airing August 19, 2018 on Syfy:

"...Ian Ziering as 'Fin Shepard and Tara Reid as his wife 'April' continue to encounter 'sharknadoes', ie tornadoes filled with sharks, wherever they go.

"Touted as the last film in the series, the new film features time travel, dinosaurs, and 'Noah's Ark'..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek  "The Last Sharknado: It's About Time":

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What? Not another Hungarian silent film from 1914 -- how many can the market bear? Actually, the rarity and high quality of this amazing rediscovery is nothing to laugh at. Michael Curtiz made fifty or sixty features before coming to America, and this sentimental melodrama shows us that basic entertainment values haven't changed. The Undesirable Blu-ray Olive Films 1914 / B&W with color tints / 1:33 flat full frame / 67 min. / "A tolonc" / The Exile / Street Date January 19, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 Starring Lili Berky, Mari Jaszai, Victor Varconi . Cinematography László Fekete New Music Attila Pacsay Written by Jenö Janovics from a play by Ede Tóth Directed by Kertész Mihály (Michael Curtiz)

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

They tell us that most silent films are lost forever, and a look at the missing titles in the filmography of Michael Curtiz makes us realize just how true that is. Although not a household name...

Charles Brackett ca. 1945: Hollywood diarist and Billy Wilder's co-screenwriter (1936–1949) and producer (1945–1949). Q&A with 'Charles Brackett Diaries' editor Anthony Slide: Billy Wilder's screenwriter-producer partner in his own words Six-time Academy Award winner Billy Wilder is a film legend. He is renowned for classics such as The Major and the Minor, Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Witness for the Prosecution, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment. The fact that Wilder was not the sole creator of these movies is all but irrelevant to graduates from the Auteur School of Film History. Wilder directed, co-wrote, and at times produced his films. That should suffice. For auteurists, perhaps. But not for those interested in the whole story. That's one key reason why the Charles Brackett diaries are such a great read. Through Brackett's vantage point, they offer a welcome – and unique – glimpse into the collaborative efforts that resulted in...

Robert Redford movies: TCM shows 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' 'The Sting' They don't make movie stars like they used to, back in the days of Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, and Harry Cohn. That's what nostalgists have been bitching about for the last four or five decades; never mind the fact that movie stars have remained as big as ever despite the demise of the old studio system and the spectacular rise of television more than sixty years ago. This month of January 2015, Turner Classic Movies will be honoring one such post-studio era superstar: Robert Redford. Beginning this Monday evening, January 6, TCM will be presenting 15 Robert Redford movies. Tonight's entries include Redford's two biggest blockbusters, both directed by George Roy Hill and co-starring Paul Newman: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which turned Redford, already in his early 30s, into a major film star to rival Rudolph Valentino,...

Author Slide to discuss the history of Hollywood extras at historical Lasky-DeMille Barn Film historian Anthony Slide, author of dozens of books on Hollywood history, will be discussing his most recent work, Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players and Stand-Ins, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, at the Hollywood Heritage Museum, located at a Hollywood historical landmark: the Lasky-DeMille Barn, right across the street from the Hollywood Bowl. (Check out: "The History of Hollywood Extras, Bit Players and Stand-Ins: Interview with Author and Film Historian Anthony Slide.") Pictured Above are Olivia de Havilland and her The Charge of the Light Brigade stand-in, Ann Robinson, circa 1936. As per the Barn's press release, "Mr. Slide will discuss the lives and work of extras, including the harsh conditions, sexual harassment, scandals and tragedies." Besides, he'll also talk about Central Casting and the Hollywood Studio Club, the residence of a number of up-and-coming actresses,...

Hollywood Unknowns explains that there were several organizations ready to help out young women who came to Los Angeles to become movie extras. But what about the men? Didn't male extras also need assistance? Yes, the emphasis was on helping female extras. And this may have been influenced by the knowledge that some had young children. And yes, I am sure male extras were abused. Just consider how they were treated by Michael Curtiz during the making of Noah's Ark (1929). Stripped naked, their bodies painted with a vile-smelling brown liquid, and then sent on to a set where four million gallons of water were poured down on them without warning. Many male extras would live three to four to a room, even sharing their clothes. Incredibly, those who had loaned out their clothes would sit around all day waiting the return of their colleagues. In your view, was Central Casting truly helpful to the extras?...

At the end of "The Dark Knight Rises," (spoiler alert ahead) Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character has been given the keys to Batman's armory, which, as a result, has spurned rumors of a possible spinoff movie -- rumors that Gordon-Levitt has done a good job dancing around.

But if the story did continue, what would his vigilante superhero be named? It might prove difficult to just assume Batman's identity. And using his character's real first name, Robin, doesn't seem reasonable. I asked Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who didn't have an answer ready. But, thankfully, David Koepp -- the man who wrote "Jurassic Park" and "Spider-Man" -- was in the room and did have an idea. Sadly, we will probably never see the words, "Joseph Gordon-Levitt is ... Shitkicker."

Gordon-Levitt and Koepp are promoting "Premium Rush," a film in which they, respectively, star and direct. In the film, Gordon-Levitt plays Wilee, a daredevil bike messenger...

Above: If you ever wondered what a pharaoh's nursery would look like...

He was born Manó Kertész Kaminer in Hungary in 1886, began directing as Kertész Mihály, switched to Mihály Kertész in 1917, and was known in Hollywood as Michael Curtiz. The film that got him there, Moon of Israel (1924), sees him credited in English as Michael Courtice. But despite the dancing letters of his name, he was remarkably consistent in his approach.

Warner Brothers imported him from Austria, and Jack Warner would soon come to bemoan the prolific and successful emigré's tendencies to indulge in frequent tracking shots that seemed to have little to do with the plot, and to focus on set design and visuals over actors and story. Yet somehow, perhaps due to that elusive and phantasmal "genius of the system", Curtiz's approach meshed with the Warners house style to create movies where incessant gliding across glossy obsidians and...

By Doug Gerbino

Warner Archive has just released three classic silent (or part-silent) films. The Merry Widow (1925), Don Juan (1926) and Noah's Ark (1929). These three films are among the best-remembered hits of the late silent, early sound era. First, let's start with The Merry Widow (1925, MGM). This film stars Mae Murray and John Gilbert and was directed by Erich von Stroheim. Much has been documented about von Stroheim's excesses as a director. This was his first film after the infamous debacle known as Greed. Hollywood legend has it that while going through the daily rushes of this film with MGM chief Irving Thalberg, von Stroheim showed a single 10-minute take of one the character's shoe closet. When Thalberg questioned the 10 minute shot of shoes, von Stroheim said, "This is to establish that the character has a foot fetish." Thalberg supposedly replied, "And you have a footage fetish!" Loosely based on the...

Hollywood has no institutional memory. One of the reasons that the vast majority of its execs aren’t in therapy, and should be, is because they don’t want to talk about the past even if it’s prologue. They’re purposefully amnesiac. Otherwise, they’d have to confront the lunatic decisions they make over and over again (since repeating the same behavior and expecting different results is one definition of insanity). Which is why I want to revisit Summer 2007 whose $4.18 billion worth of threequels and blockbusters smashed the May 1st through Labor Day domestic box office gross record. It’s not that Hollywood denizens started doing everything right. It’s more like they just started doing less things wrong. The product is still terrible. The process is still tainted.