Visual Effects Society announces VES Awards nominees
Visual Effects Society has revealed the nominees for this year’s VES Awards. Iron Man leads the pack with five nominations, followed by The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Cloverfield and Hellboy II: The Golden Army with four nods each. Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Jericho and Pushing [...]
The Day the Earth Stood Still takes box office
Top movies at the box office this weekend and their ratings on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Day the Earth Stood Still steers clear of politics, revisits existentialist SF
Scoot Derrickson’s The Day the Earth Stood Still remake, starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connolly, may not be the best executed movie of the year, but it is successful in turning the idea of an alien with a message into a much darker, more immediate statement on life, loss and the possibility of transformation that comes with it.
The Day the Earth Stood Still opens in IMAX December 12
IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that The Day The Earth Stood Still, directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, John Cleese and Jaden Smith, will open domestically on December 12, 2008 in 123 IMAX(R) theatres, including 38 new locations equipped with IMAX’s digital projection system, [...]
10 most anticipated movies through summer 2009
Nine months in advance of its box office debut, “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” is already casting a spell over moviegoers, according to a just-released poll from MovieTickets.com. In a survey conducted between Aug. 8 and Oct. 5, nearly 4,000 movie fans who had just purchased tickets at MovieTickets.com weighed in with their [...]
