From time to time, the local news coughs up a story that's basically the opening 20 minutes of a horror movie -- in other words, the portion of the film between the opening credits and the scene where the doomed, 38-year-old high school cheerleader goes skinny-dipping.
Here are five tales from 2013 that are destined to someday be slapped with a screamingly obnoxious "BASED ON TRUE EVENTS" tag line.
Keeping movies honest ►http://bit.ly/HonestTrailerSub Pacific Rim was the summer's hottest film about robots punching monsters. How can you possibly mess tha...
Huffington Post (blog) Printing Chocolate in 3D: Does the Medium Have a Message? Huffington Post (blog) It was only a matter of time before 3D printing technologies would be applied to chocolate.
Being a perennially popular sweet treat, chocolate is an attractive tool to make a new and potentially unsettling technology more accessible to an audience skeptical about the moral and social implications of 3D printing.
Is Cartoon Network trying to kill Beware the Batman already? io9 In news that should feel queasily familiar to fans of DC's recent animated series, Cartoon Network has yanked the new Beware the Batman cartoon off the air after a mere 11 episodes.
In news that should feel queasily familiar to fans of DC’s recent animated series, Cartoon Network has yanked the new Beware the Batman cartoon off the air after a mere 11 episodes.
Comicbook.com Disney Announces Japanese, Animated "Marvel Disc Wars" Series Comic Book Resources The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Ltd. announced today that it will produce the first Japanese Marvel animated television series targeted at boys.
The story will revolve around how The Avengers – Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and the Hulk together with the help of Spider-Man and a group of teens, will harness their respective fighting skills and superhuman powers to foil Loki’s scheme to take over the world.
Hollywood has advanced far beyond monsters in floppy rubber suits. Pulling technology from fields as diverse as dentistry and automobile racing, special effects' gurus create creepy monsters, gruesome murder victims and other movie magic.
Meanwhile, 3D printing has changed the way Clement does business. The effects' gurus can sculpt a monster head using a computer program, then make tweaks and print it out.
"It's an extremely fast way of sculpting and of doing concepts," Clement said. Concepts are the mock-ups shown to moviemakers as a sort of first draft of the effect. Instead of building them from scratch only to have to re-do them with filmmakers' fixes, Clement's team can now keep them digital-only until all the changes have been made.
"On Harry Potter, we had a big old giant spider we did for the last film and we had to build a smaller version of the same thing, so we had it scanned and 3D printed," Coulier said.
Slate Magazine (blog) A Brief History of Fake Blood Slate Magazine (blog) Fake movie blood—sometimes called “Kensington Gore,” after the street of that name in London—began evolving long before 1976.
Fake movie blood—sometimes called “Kensington Gore,” after the street of that name in London—began evolving long before 1976. For black-and-white films, when blood was permitted at all (the censorship guidelines of the Hays Code in Hollywood didn’t much allow it), filmmakers used something quite simple: chocolate syrup.
The joke about a rational horror movie where the characters behave intelligently is an old one, but Joe Nicolosi's "HELL NO" is a very well-made example of the species. HELL NO: The Sensible Horror Film ...
The joke about a rational horror movie where the characters behave intelligently is an old one, but Joe Nicolosi's "HELL NO" is a very well-made example of the species.
Comicbook.com (blog) A 'Doctor Strange' Movie Is Coming, Says Marvel Chief Kevin Feige Moviefone Marvel's next movie is getting an extra dose of strange: Movies.com is reporting that Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige wants to feature Doctor...
Marvel's next movie is getting an extra dose of strange: Movies.com is reporting that Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige wants to feature Doctor Strange in the studio's next phase of superhero flicks.
"Doc Strange, as I've been saying for years, is a movie I believe we should make -- we're just figuring out how to make it a great movie," Feige told the site. "It is in active development right now. Whether that's one of the movies we announce for 2016 or 2017, we have to see. I think it'll be the middle of next year before we announce officially what the post 'Ant-Man' films will be."
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Jonathan Gottschall is the author The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. His work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, among others.
Jonathan Gottschall: 'In his 1897 book What is Art? the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy defined art as “an infection.” Good art, Tolstoy wrote, infects the audience with the storyteller’s emotion and ideas.'
Take And Share 3D Images Like It's No Big Deal Gizmodo Australia What we experience in real life isn't enough, so our digital lives are becoming more and more 3D.
What we experience in real life isn’t enough, so our digital lives are becoming more and more 3D. iOS 7 has parallax, movies want you to feel like you’ve been hit in the face with a satellite, and lots of developers have been trying to make 3D photography easy. Seene for iOS seems like a solid step.
Basically the app works by breaking the object you’re shooting down into points and then calculating depth based on how those points move and distort as you move your phone around while shooting the image.
But while Facebook forces all users to participate in “sponsored stories,” Google gives you the opportunity to opt out of its ad program. Minors will be automatically excluded, but you’ll have to manually tell Google to leave your name out of its ads if you’re over 18. Fortunately, it’s easy to do so.
In case you missed it, effective 11 November, Google is going to start using your real face and name next to "reviews, advertising and other commercial contexts". Here is an overview of their changes to the TOS for Google accounts. http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/changes/
To stop Google from using details from your Google+ profile in its advertising campaign, you’ll need to head to the Shared Endorsements page on Google+.
The Emma Stone boyfriend , Andrew Russell Garfield enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama at the University of London and his role in Lions for Lambs gave him the chance to work with one of his heroes, Robert Redford.
The Guardian (blog) Top 10 crime movies The Guardian (blog) For better or worse, the movie made possible the long reign of Miramax, revived Travolta's career and ratified Tarantino's reputation.
Murder, robbery, revenge... some of the greatest films revolve around the vilest human acts. The Guardian and Observer's critics pick the best crime films ever made.
This tutorial I will show you how to create a design with beautiful and dramatic shadows using the 3D in Photoshop CC. The process is very straightforward and it will take you less than 1 hour to achieve the same result.
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10 Great Stop-Motion Animation Movies TIME When Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (pictured) opened, in limited release, on October15, 1993, it launched a renaissance in stop-motion animation.
Now in its second year, Brussels in Shorts is an international graphic short story competition that invites illustrators and artist from around the world to create a predominantly visual story set against contemporary Brussels.
. The winners this year were graphic artist Antonio Segura Donat (a.k.a. Dulk) and brother Carlos out of Valencia, Spain who created this superbly illustrated short story titled Zomeravonden (Summer Evenings) based on sketches made while visiting the city center. Click and watch these amazing works. They are great :-)
In a snowy winter, a son had a quarrel with his mother before going abroad. The mother tried to say goodbye to him the last minute but the taxi took off...
Paradise Sandbox will automatically enhance your models with real-time reflections, ambient occlusion, shadows, hundreds of lights, wet materials, tons of post-processing effects… and stunning skies, volumetric clouds, electric thunderstorms and oceans. It contains a material database of more than 200 materials, which will quickly grow in the future (it also comes with a built-in objects database). The creator, Xavier Verguín states that it has a professional user interface with ease of use, but at the same time, powerful – workflow.
The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.
Fearless optimist Anna teams up with Kristoff in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna's sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom in eternal winter.
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From time to time, the local news coughs up a story that's basically the opening 20 minutes of a horror movie -- in other words, the portion of the film between the opening credits and the scene where the doomed, 38-year-old high school cheerleader goes skinny-dipping.
Here are five tales from 2013 that are destined to someday be slapped with a screamingly obnoxious "BASED ON TRUE EVENTS" tag line.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5-news-stories-that-are-basically-horror-movie-plots/#ixzz2idoAJTxm