Τhe Official Cinema Thread! (μιλήστε για παλιές/νέες/επερχόμενες ταινίες)

Christopher Nolan finds his new Director of Photography for INTERSTELLAR

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Hoyte Van Hoytema has been recruited for the gig. While the name will be unfamiliar to many, he’s the man who helped to give us the stunning images in Tomas Alfredson‘s Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, as well as David O. Russell‘s The Fighter. His work can also be seen in Spike Jonze‘s Her later this year, and it’s hard to think of a better fit for Nolan’s style than Hoytema, who will be employing the use of IMAX cameras for the first time in his career.

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Όσοι έχετε δει κάποιες ή όλες τις ταινίες στις οποίες έχει δουλέψει, πώς σας φαίνεται αυτή η επιλογή;

^ πανέμορφη δουλεια σ όλες έχει κάνει.

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^ πανέμορφη δουλεια σ όλες έχει κάνει.

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Οπότε το πιθανότερο είναι να κάνει πανέμορφη δουλειά και στο interstellar. Μια χαρά.

Shimizu Takashi Confirmed to Direct Live-Action KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE



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After much speculation about whether horror-genre director Shimizu Takashi (The Grudge, Ju-on) would be the one to helm a live-action adaptation of Eiko Kadono’s children’s fantasy novel Kiki’s Delivery Service, Japanese newspapers Sports Nippon and Sports Hochi shed some light on the rumors. The publications announced today that Takashi is indeed taking the reigns of the project and a live action version of Kiki’s Delivery Service is in the works. Sixteen-year-old Japanese figure skater Fuka Koshiba is reportedly set for the starring role of Kiki. The novel follows a young witch, who must use her flying abilities to make a living, while she spends a year on her own in a town without any other witches.

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The confirmed news of Takashi’s plans to direct Kiki’s Delivery Service comes courtesy of Twitch. The novel was popularized by Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 Studio Ghibli animated version based on the series’ first novel of the same name. While Takashi’s live action take will follow in the same footsteps it is also said to include elements from the second novel in the series and tell a more thorough account of the story. Knowing Takashi’s inclination towards horror, I think it’s possible we’ll see a darker version of Kiki this time around, which makes the prospect of a live action take much more appealing.

Here’s the synopsis for Eiko Kadono’s Kiki’s Delivery Service (via Amazon):

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Kiki is a resourceful, spunky girl who follows her maternal tradition to be a witch. She possesses only one gift of witchcraft — the power to fly. Like all young witches, she sets out at age 12 to find a town of her own. With her ever-present companion Jiji — a cynical and faithful black cat — Kiki departs on her broomstick and arrives at a big town near the ocean. Though nervous at first, she soon sets up a business delivering packages.
Kiki meets all kinds of people and has many adventures. She befriends the thief who stole her broomstick and saves the town’s traditional New Year’s marathon with some courageous and timely flying.

Throughout, Kiki’s confidence and self-awareness grows as she learns to value her unique talents. And with Kiki’s help, the townspeople realize that everyone has some magic that gives them their own special character and vitality.

This is a charming and delightful tale that is reminiscent of children’s favorites The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy and Astrid Lindgren’s Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. Black and white line drawings sprinkled throughout reveal the humor and warmth in everything Kiki does.

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^^ Eξαιρετο ανιμε... που μακαρι να εμενε μονο ανιμε...

είδε κανείς iron man 3; you are in for a treat guys.

35 Things to Know about MONSTERS UNIVERSITY and THE BLUE UMBRELLA from Our Set Visit to Pixar


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As we stepped onto the campus of Monsters University, we were greeted by the school’s cheerleading squad who were accompanied by the drum section of their marching band. Music and cheers filled the air as we walked to the center of campus where a huge tailgating party had been set up for the annual homecoming game against Fear Tech. In the quad, all manner of student organizations were out in force trying to sign us up for the Yearbook Club, the Greek Council and the Art Club (or maybe it was just a guy named Art…). As soon as we set foot inside the doors to the main hall, we knew we had arrived … at Pixar Animation Studios.

In what was too short a time at Pixar, our group was whisked on a whirlwind behind-the-scenes journey of their latest animated feature (and The Blue Umbrella, the short that will be preceding it in theaters). Monsters University, the studio’s first prequel, will re-introduce fans of Monsters, Inc. to the college versions of Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal) and James P. Sullivan (voiced by John Goodman). Hit the jump for 35 things you need to know about it!

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Here’s (almost) everything you need to know about Monsters University and The Blue Umbrella:

• This film will be Dan Scanlon’sfeature directorial debut.
• The prequel will center on Mike’s story, though his relationship with Sulley will be a prominent feature.
• Mike is a hard-working know-it-all while Sulley is a confident, yet lazy, natural-born Scarer.
• Other characters from Monsters, Inc.will make an appearance, including Randall in a re-imagined version of the monster fans love to hate.
• The filmmakers are aware that the original movie mentioned Mike and Sulley knowing each other since the fourth grade; they attempted to tell a new story that involved that factoid, but ultimately felt that the spirit of their long friendship would be captured with a tale of them meeting at college.
• The gap between Monsters University and Monsters, Inc. is about 10-15 years.
• Where fur and clothing were the big technical challenges in Monsters, Inc., backpacks – surprisingly – proved to be the biggest difficulty inMonsters University.
• Since many iconic college movies take place in the 80s, there are some 80s motifs (hair and clothing styles) that the animators worked in.
• The team thought about making Sulley shy, but chose to go with a young, brash and confident natural Scarer since that’s what his character design informs upon him. John Goodman was up to the task.
• One of the fantastic new characters, Dean Hardscrabble, was original envisioned as a male. She was changed to a female since the filmmakers hadn’t seen any female Scarers in the first film. Helen Mirren brings gravitas to the role.
• There is no hard and fast rule, but Pixar bases their runtimes around the 90-minute format.

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• There were some class majors that were pitched but didn’t make the final cut, such as a major for simply destroying buildings in a Godzilla-like fashion.
• The new characters of Oozma Kappa are collectively known as the Misfits and are certainly an odd bunch. They include Don Carlson, Scott “Squishy” Squibbles, conjoined twins Terri and Terry, and lastly, Art.
• Dean Hardscrabble isn’t your usual adversary, but rather an authority which Mike and Sulley have to fight back against.
• Completely re-designed just six weeks prior to their deadline, Dean Hardscrabble is based in part on a Chinese centipede in the genus Scolopendra.
• Scanlon plans to include a lot of behind-the-scenes technical featurettes as extras on the eventual Blu-ray.
• Scanlon’s favorite new characters is Don, who reminds him of “every mid-Western dad [he’s] ever met.”

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• The animators came up with a pool of almost 300 background characters.
• Pay special attention to the way light is used in each scene, as it foretells either an achievement or an obstacle placed in the path of the protagonists.
• Monsters University could have featured more furry characters, but because that was a technological limitation on the first film, the team wanted to stay faithful to the look of the original movie.
• Pay attention to scale in Monsters University, since the world is built for monsters of all shapes and sizes. Everything from the spacing of the steps to the size of doors and coffee cups is created with the monsters’ variety in mind.
• We will get to see a little bit of the human world, but the filmmakers were tight-lipped about just how much.
• Pixar is employing a new method of scene lighting dubbed Global Illumination. Their rendering farm server banks were doubled to handle the load and were used for the first time in this manner on Monsters University.

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• The animators had the whole crew bring in their senior portraits so they could compare their younger versions to their current selves … and have a laugh.
• Mike and Sulley were both thinned out and smoothed a bit to make them appear young. Both of their colorations are slightly different. Mike now sports a retainer.
• Noah Johnson voices the youngest version of Mike. The producers searched for a while in New York before finding a kid who could match the energy of Billy Crystal’s performance.
• Peter Sohn was working at Pixar prior to doing voices for their animated characters; he started doing scratch dialogue on the side and eventually worked his way into starring roles.
• Sohn is co-directing The Good Dinosaur with Bob Peterson; it’s due out in 2014.
• Sohn also directed the short Partly Cloudy, which played before Up.

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• Saschka Unseld directed The Blue Umbrella, the short film that will play in front of Monsters University.
• While The Blue Umbrella looks like a mash-up of live-action shots augmented with animation, there is absolutely no live action. Those images are photo-realistic animations.
• Unseld originally used his phone to film sections of the city where he saw faces in the brickwork or various fixtures. His initial intent was to make a music video for a Sarah Jaffe song with the city itself singing like a glee chorus. This idea evolved into The Blue Umbrella.
• Unseld loves cities in the rain and wanted to bring that front and center in his short film.
• If he had been making the film in a European art house style, it would not have had a happy ending.
• Unseld cites cinematographer Jack Cardiff’s work in Black Narcissus and Wong Kar Wai’s film Chungking Express as some of his inspirations.

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είδε κανείς iron man 3; you are in for a treat guys.

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Ειναι οντως τοσο καλο;

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είδε κανείς iron man 3; you are in for a treat guys.

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Yeap, πολύ καλό ήταν :D

Spoiler!

Βέβαια το teaser στο τέλος ήταν κάπως meh, το tagline ομως ήταν όλα τα λεφτά.

Tony Stark will return!

Επίσης, όλα τα λεφτά ο Kingsley, περίμενα μια πολύ μέτρια ερμηνεία, αλλά πήρα άλλα πράγματα!

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είδε κανείς iron man 3; you are in for a treat guys.

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Θα το δω σήμερα τελικά, χθες οι ώρες που είχαν τα σινεμά δεν με βόλευαν. Όταν το δω θα γυρίσω με εντυπώσεις.

Πολυ καλα λογια λετε και το καλυτερο ειναι οτι ερχονται απο ατομα που εχω παρατηρησει οτι το γουστο τους συμβαδιζει (τις περισσοτερες φορες) με το δικο μου....

με πεισατε να το δω σινεμα.... το κριμα στο λαιμο σας... αν γυρισω πισω με "σεντονι" ποστ, εσεις θα φταιτε! χαχα ;)

εχει κανα 2 απιστευτα εντυπωσιακες σκηνες για σινεμα, ειδικά η πρώτη (θα καταλαβεις αμεσως μολις συμβει) ειναι απιστευτα εντονη. Πάρε και μεγάλο ποπ κορν, όχι για τη δράση αλλά για τις ατάκες που θα ακούσεις.
επίσης να πω, δεν ειναι σποιλερ κατα την γνώμη μου γιατί μερικοί μπορεί να θέλουν να πάνε μόνο για αυτό, πως βλέπουμε πάρα πολύ τόνυ σταρκ και λιγότερο iron man, αλλά είναι γαμώ παιδιά.

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εχει κανα 2 απιστευτα εντυπωσιακες σκηνες για σινεμα, ειδικά η πρώτη (θα καταλαβεις αμεσως μολις συμβει) ειναι απιστευτα εντονη. Πάρε και μεγάλο ποπ κορν, όχι για τη δράση αλλά για τις ατάκες που θα ακούσεις.
επίσης να πω, δεν ειναι σποιλερ κατα την γνώμη μου γιατί μερικοί μπορεί να θέλουν να πάνε μόνο για αυτό, πως βλέπουμε πάρα πολύ τόνυ σταρκ και λιγότερο iron man, αλλά είναι γαμώ παιδιά.

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Ναι και εγώ το παρατήρησα αυτό, ειδικά στη μέση της ταινίας. Αλλά ευτυχώς δεν κάνει ποτέ κοιλιά, η δράση δράση ακόμα και αν δεν υπάρχει η στολή ;)

CINETROLL: Η μονοπωλιακή τρομοκρατία των multiplex που χαντάκωσε των Toμ Κρουζ στο «Oblivion»

Aναφέρεται ο συντάκτης ότι αυτό συμβαίνει στις ταινίες της UIP και μόνο, η οποία δεν τα βρίσκει με τα multiplex για οικονομικούς λόγους;

Η διαφορά τους, αν θυμάμαι καλά, είναι στα έσοδα από τα μισά εισιτήρια, η UIP θέλει μερίδιο (ή κάτι τέτοιο), τα multiplex (μιας και η προσφορά δεν αφορά την UIP) δεν δίνει, και κάπου εκεί οι ταινίες της UIP δεν προβάλλονται σε multiplex.

edit: Οκ, του τύπου απλά δεν του αρέσει να πηγαίνει σε multiplex!

Ειδα το Blade Runner. Τρομερα εφε, τρομαζεις και μονο να σκεφτεις ποσες ταινιες εχει επηρεασει αλλα περα απο αυτα τα δυο στοιχεια, δεν νμζ οτι μπορει να προσφερει και παρα πολλα στον συγχρονο θεατη. Μετριος ο Ford, ειχε και καποιες σεναριακες ασυναρτησιες. Θα το ξαναδω καποια στιγμη τωρα που ξερω τι να περιμενω, αλλα το περιμενα πολυ καλυτερο.

Είδα το Iron Man 3. Καλό έως και πολύ καλό. Είχε κάποιες σκηνές που σε καθήλωναν, είχε όμως και κάποιες κακές στιγμές, όπως ήταν οι αμερικανιές. Καλύτερο ίσως από το πρώτο ironman, χειρότερο από το avengers.

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Aναφέρεται ο συντάκτης ότι αυτό συμβαίνει στις ταινίες της UIP και μόνο, η οποία δεν τα βρίσκει με τα multiplex για οικονομικούς λόγους;

Η διαφορά τους, αν θυμάμαι καλά, είναι στα έσοδα από τα μισά εισιτήρια, η UIP θέλει μερίδιο (ή κάτι τέτοιο), τα multiplex (μιας και η προσφορά δεν αφορά την UIP) δεν δίνει, και κάπου εκεί οι ταινίες της UIP δεν προβάλλονται σε multiplex.

edit: Οκ, του τύπου απλά δεν του αρέσει να πηγαίνει σε multiplex!

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είναι από την αρχή της σεζόν δυστυχώς αυτή η κόντρα, και η uip είναι αυτη που δε στέλνει τις ταινίες της στα multiplex(village και odeon) γιατι είναι εναντιον των μισων εισιτηριων.

To χειρότερο ποιο είναι;
Το Star Trek είναι της Uip, γλέντια.

^^Και θα το φέρει τον Ιούλιο (!) :doh:

Πρωτη φορα την ακουσα την συγκεκριμενη εταιρεια διανομης, αν και ηθελα να την ψαξω οταν διαβασα την ειδηση.

Ενα πιο κατατοπιστικο -και αντικειμενικο- αρθρο πανω στο ιδιο θεμα.

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Πρωτη φορα την ακουσα την συγκεκριμενη εταιρεια διανομης, αν και ηθελα να την ψαξω οταν διαβασα την ειδηση.

Ενα πιο κατατοπιστικο -και αντικειμενικο- αρθρο πανω στο ιδιο θεμα.

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Στο link που έβαλε ο Lnds500, γράφει ότι "είμαι σε θέση να γνωρίζω ότι βρίσκεται σε εξέλιξη μια τεράστια επένδυση ψηφιοποίησης των αιθουσών, σε συνεργασία των τριών (Village, Odeon, Ster)." Ξέρει κανείς τι εννοεί με αυτό; Μήπως το ότι θα προβάλλουν οι αίθουσες σε αυτά τα σινεμά ψηφιακές προβολές;