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Post Article: Social Share (Simple) Social Follow Bar Follow Us! 🙂 Stay Connected with Us! Follow TechnoBuffalo Follow: Facebook Follow: Twitter Follow: Google Plus Post Article: Body Post Article: Content Two massive statistics from the Warcraft movie following a weekend of both highs and lows. First of all, the film is now the most successful video game…
“Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, tsunamis—oh, that’s the one.” Oscar Isaac, the most coveted actor in Hollywood who’s not yet a household name, is sitting beneath the towering skeleton of a 150 million-year-old Barosaurus in the entry hall of the American Museum of Natural History, reading up on the exhibit “Nature’s Fury: The Science of Natural…
ON A COLD LATE-JANUARY morning in Budapest, a shaft of sunlight streams through a window in the stately dining room of the art nouveau Gresham Palace Hotel, illuminating Charlize Theron. Her face contorts into a grimace as she stretches her oatmeal-encrusted forearm across the table, offering a spoon to an indifferent infant, while simultaneously turning…
The Argument for Cars Cars has all your Pixar basics: anthropomorphic characters with differing ideologies and clashing personalities that ultimately rally together for the “greater good,” well-placed comedic beats, self-referential jokes, excellent music, and a whole lot of heart. These traits, admittedly, don’t necessarily make a great film. But the common gripes with Cars should…
cache hit 224:single/related:95de6f0b396bd445f3bf6e3dc5d22cd4 empty Sunspring, a short science fiction movie written entirely by AI, debuts exclusively on Ars today. Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that’s not entirely what it seems. It’s about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love…
View this image › Louisa (Emilia Clarke) and Will (Sam Claflin) dance at a wedding in Me Before You. MGM / New Line Cinema ID: 8849944 Disability rights activists were ready for Me Before You in part because, as one put it, the problems they saw in the movie were “depressingly familiar.” Protests of the…
EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lawrence is attaching herself to Adam McKay’s drama about medical company Theranos and its 32-year-old founder Elizabeth Holmes. Theranos is the blood-testing startup that once had Silicon Valley investors salivating over its commercial potential with a $9 billion valuation as recently as two years ago. Founded in 2003 by Holmes, Theranos claimed to have revolutionized blood…
That alone is a tall order, but Jones’ ambitions reach much higher. He’s trying to tell a story about people driven equally by duty and personal need. He’s trying for something denser and more realistic than the usual fantasy binaries of pure, simple good and evil. He’s also finding resonance with his favorite themes, as…
That being said, I won’t be seeing the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Why would I? It’s just more warmed over nostalgia, souped up with computer-generated graphics replacing practical effects and Michael Bay explosions. The turtles’ vocabulary alone—bogus, cowabunga, radical—prevents them from making any sort of sense in the 21st century. Plus, 3D movies…
I’m not going to get too far into the weeds of this thing, but here’s the basic deets: out of the current $420 million credit for film and TV productions in New York State, the amendment would allot less than 1 percent ($5 million) to be used as a credit for productions that hire qualified…