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Its great to see how  the effects are still great and  hold up after time for this movie.  its still entertaining after all these years and  the  effects still look great from the day they were  first introduced

Industrial Light and Magic is the team that amazingly brought the dinosaurs to life on the big screen. We have a fascinating featurette that you need to watch that focuses on bringing the live-action elements together with the VFX elements. It’s really cool to get a before and after look at all the movie magic that had to happen to bring this classic film to life for us.

Here’s a little trivia that gives some backstory on what Steven Spielberg needed to do to make this movie work.

Steven Spielberg didn’t want people to be constantly reminded that what they’re seeing is CGI, but real, full-blooded dinosaurs, starting with the Brachiosaur scene, where Spielberg was keen on the dinosaur interacting with the background, and would offer suggestions to the animators on how to make it better. The second scene done in that same vein was the Gallimimus scene, which made use of 25 animated individual Gallimimuses. Geometric shapes represented them initially and were choreographed onto the scene. Spielberg needed complete freedom to convey the energy of the scene, so worked with Dennis Muren to shoot it, because he wanted to move the camera and not lock it down everytime a Gallimimus came into frame. The scene was shot gradually with Sam Neill, Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards running through a field by themselves. A grid was placed over the ground as a frame to chart the movement of the camera by computer, using what looked like golf balls whenever an actor looked somewhere. The dinosaurs were than added later.

The T-Rex chasing the Jeep was the most difficult scene to animate. Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams had to do research because there’s no frame of reference for a running animal of that size; it took two months to figure out how to get it to run, for instance. He would run the sequence backwards to see all the mistakes. They were also able to use the computer to add little details to authenticate the scene, e.g. the T-Rex running through puddles of water and leaving splashes, etc. The splashing was filmed individually and then the computer added it to the T-Rex’s footsteps.

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Quentin Tarantino is one of my all time favorite directors. Everything he makes blows me away! So when I heard that he is thinking about making a Django Unchained miniseries, it caught my attention. Tarantino brought up the idea of the miniseries at the Cannes Film Festival, saying,

“It would use all the material that I have and it wouldn’t be an endurance test. It would be a miniseries. And people love those! It’s funny. You present someone with a four-hour movie and they roll their eyes. They go, ‘I don’t want to watch that!’ But you show them a four-part miniseries that they like and they’re dying to watch all four episodes in a row.”

I am one of those people who would watch it all in one go. Django Unchained is such a great movie and getting to go deeper into that world is very appealing. 90 extra minutes can cover a lot of ground. I wonder what new stories will be told? Will we see Django and Broomhilda running away for the first time instead of just the aftermath? I’m hoping to see more of Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz and learn more about his character!

Tarantino was also willing to disclose some tidbits about The Hateful Eight.

“I’m in no hurry. Maybe I’ll shoot it. Maybe I’ll publish it. Maybe I’ll do it on the stage. Maybe I’ll do all three.”

After what happened with the script being leaked, I can understand his hesitation.

“I have calmed down a bit from the knife in the back. The wound is starting to scab.”

what are your thoughts on this,  we want to know!

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Unlike its predecessors, The Expendables 3 has received a PG-13 rating from the MPAA.

Sylvester Stallone confirmed the rating during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival.

“We want to reach as many people as possible,” Stallone said. “It’s very close to an R, believe me, it’s right there. But I think we owe it to the next generation. We thought we’d join that club for a while.”

So in other words, they want to reach the next generation’s wallets.

This may also be due to The Expendables 2 grossing over $85 million domestically which is $18 million less than the the first Expendables which grossed over $103 million domestically.

Maybe a PG-13 rating and the youth will help boost ticket sales.

We all know rated R movies don’t perform as well as they use to causing many films to purposely tame their content… although most PG-13 films are just as violent as an R film just without the blood splatter and swearing.

Are you disappointed in the PG-13 rating?  I think its going to bite him in the ass!  You can’t have a movie like this and  dumb down the violence.  this is a  violent film!  thats like  taking a musical and  take the music out of it!  I see a  sad day for this  film and the  films to follow  unless Stallone changes his  tune!  What are your thoughts?

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Warner Bros. has set a release date for their Harry Potter spinoff film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. According to Exhibitor Relations, that date is November 18th, 2016.

The story takes place a number of years before the events of the Harry Potter books and films. It is loosely based on a book that J.K. Rowling wrote for charity. The film will tell an original story, and with it, Rowling will be making her screenwriting debut.

The book is a reproduction of a textbook owned by Harry Potter that was mentioned in the first Potter novel. The fictional textbook was written by a fictional magizoologist character named Newt Scamander. For those of you who aren’t up to speed on the Potter universe, Magizoology is the study of magical creatures.

It was previously reported that this story will be turned into a trilogy of films. While talking about the story Rowling said,

“Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for 17 years, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world. The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt’s story will start in New York, 70 years before Harry’s gets underway.”

What are your thoughts?  I am not a huge harry potter fan  but i know there are many that are!

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