Schlagwort: Peter Jackson

15. Juli 2013 / / Reviews

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Alien invasions with flying saucers are cheesy and no longer cool…
So the alien monsters in Pacific Rim are sent through a dimensional portal originating at the bottom of the pacific!

20. September 2012 / / Special Coverage
25. August 2012 / / Special Coverage

Long before the Hobbit was announced to be a trilogy and before Peter Jackson was set to direct it another director was set to be the director: Guillermo Del Toro.
Having created such iconic movies as Pan’s Labyrinth and having managed to capture a magical mysterious atmosphere with Hellboy II Del Toro seemed like a fantastic way to bring a new spin to Middle-Earth. And while I am very happy with Peter Jackson I can’t help to mourn the loss of a Del Toro helmed Hobbit. In an interview with io9 Peter Jackson is now talking about Del Toro’s influence:

30. Juli 2012 / / Special Coverage

Peter Jackson had an interesting announcement on his facebook page – something that has started as a rumor a few days ago:

The adaption of J.J.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit will not be two movies (An Unexpected Journey and There and Back again respectively) but instead a whole trilogy! Here is a capture of his statement:

17. November 2011 / / Reviews

The Adventures of Tintin is an animated adaption of the popular Belgium comic series of the same name. Directed by Stephen Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson this movie has been on many people’s watchlists. The question was if it would pay off or if this motion capture movie would be a multimillion dollar one-way-trip.

22. Juli 2011 / / General

Blimey, one week in England and suddenly everything exciting happens. I am a little late on with basically everything, so here just a collection of highlights that I missed:

23. Juni 2011 / / General

The highly anticipated two parter (The Hobbit: An unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again) that will take of December 2012 unveiled three images of the first part featuring  Bilbo Baggins (the porn actor from Love Actually) and Gandalf (Magneto v1.0):

2. Juni 2011 / / Analysen

For the Earth 2 version click here.

Note: Since I haven’t yet figured out an efficient way to edit pictures on Linux I must excuse myself for the uninterrupted wall of text.

Earth 1
Comic book movies have long become a respected and reliable source for both creativity and entertainment, but it was not always like this.

They had to come a long and hard way to get past people’s prejudice since they were initially written of as brainless entertainment by a large group.

So when was this barrier breached?

Let’s look at the history of comic book movies and their pivotal years

25. Mai 2011 / / Analysen

Earth 2
A long time ago comic book movies ruled the cinema, people flocked to every property imaginable and it seemed as if those adaptions had become a reliable source for money, but then they vanished from earth, retreated to the niche they came from.

So what went wrong?

Let’s look at the history of comic book movies and
their eventual downfall.

If you want to check out the Earth 1 version click here.

23. März 2011 / / General