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‘Star Wars’ Borrowed More From ‘Dune’ Than You Realize
Search your bookcase, you know it to be true In 1977, Star Wars hit the big screen. George Lucas’ space opera brought scope to science fiction….
Director Unveils New Steppenwolf Design For ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’
Director Zack Snyder continues to leak new images on VERO for his cut of Justice League. The rushed and disappointing CG design of Steppenwolf from…
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James Gunn Releases New Logos For ‘The Suicide Squad’
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is giving DC’s misfit band of antiheroes a make-over. Part of that new look, is the film’s new titles. On Wednesday,…
Paula Wagner: Tom Cruise’s Former Producing Partner Explains What A Producer Actually Does
Paula Wagner is an unfamiliar name for many film-goers, but if you watch the first three Mission:Impossible films, you’ll notice they’re made by Cruise/Wagner Productions. Wagner…
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The Power of “Jaws” Is In John Williams’ Two-Note Musical Score
The Jaws theme is one of the most terrifying musical scores in cinema. The soundtrack, dominated by two notes played over and over again to signal the…
DNEG Shares VFX Breakdown Of ‘Westworld’s Robots
Westworld shifted gears in season 3, exploring the real world outside the park. The real world is reminiscent of a pre-Blade Runner world, with “hosts”…
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How James Cameron’s Big Break Working For Roger Corman Led To ‘The Terminator’
James Cameron’s road to The Terminator involves designing “a mother-ship with breasts,” electrocuting worms, directing a B-movie Jaws rip-off, and meeting his producing partner–and future…
Revisiting Bruce, the Malfunctioning Animatronic Shark That Made ‘Jaws’ A Horror Classic
Jaws is a story about a shark that wreaks havoc and destruction on a small community, and the failure and, ultimately, success in defeating it….
Ridley Scott Admits ‘Alien’ Would Not Have Been The “Same” Without H.R. Giger’s Designs
Alien (1979) gave film-goers a new dimension in horror by taking the monster movie and setting it in outer space. It was like Jaws in…
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‘Burtonesque’: The Dark And Twisted Influences Behind Tim Burton’s Visual Style
Visually Tim Burton is one of the most recognizable directors. Watching a Tim Burton film is like stepping into a macabre fairy tale with a…
