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BusinessWeek
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King of the World (Again) The inside story of how Avatar's James Cameron became the most powerful commercial force in the movie business -- twice.   |
BusinessWeek
April 2, 2007 |
James Cameron on the Cutting Edge The director of Terminator and Titanic explains how movies will be transformed by motion-tracking and 3D technology. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Tom Russo |
Movies 2.0: Digital Effects Magic Explained In today's digital Hollywood, cameras capture scenes in bits, not frames and computer wizards conjure up everything from impossible beasts to cliff-top battlegrounds. Film is dead. Long live the movies. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2010
Glenn Zorpette |
Weta Digital Reverse Engineers the Human Face The special-effects house behind Avatar reveals a bit of its magic |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Frank Rose |
Beowulf and Angelina Jolie Give 3-D a Second Chance in Hollywood The new movie Beowulf starring Angelina Jolie brings old school 3-D glasses back into the theater. |
Popular Mechanics
July 24, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
3D Films Take Center Stage at San Diego Comic Con 2009 Special effects are highlighted with the arrival of four new movies. |
Popular Mechanics
July 21, 2008
Seth Porges |
Are 3D Movies Finally Ready for Their High-Tech Close-up? With James Cameron's Avatar on the way, and theater owners scrambling to install the technology, 3D cinema could be on the verge of explosive growth. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Can Cameron Terminate Hollywood's Troubles? James Cameron is back at a movie theater near you with his new movie Avatar, and he's shaking up the entire film industry as usual. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Eric Pavey |
Ready for their Close-ups Making all the right choices to create a computer-generated figure that looks truly alive is no easy task. It probably will take a Leonardo da Vinci, or a team of da Vincis-computer-graphics artists talented enough to put it all together. |
Popular Mechanics
December 30, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Top 10 VFX Scenes of 2009 Spectacular visual effects from the past year in cinema. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Erin McCarthy |
The Tech Behind 3D's Big Revival What has convinced Hollywood that 3D is finally ready for its closeup? The short answer may be that technology has caught up with the concept. |
Popular Mechanics
March 27, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Monsters vs Aliens: Behind-the-Scenes Look at 3D Tech Creating an animated 3D film is a complex process, and directors are still using trial and error to find the true potential of the format, which is enjoying a resurgence thanks to improved digital technology. |
Popular Mechanics
July 24, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
How Effects Wizards Transformed G-Force From 2D to 3D When Disney asked if the director could make the new movie, G-Force in 3D, he turned to VFX house Sony Pictures Imageworks, which was already creating the film's animated guinea pigs, to figure out how to do it. |
BusinessWeek
April 2, 2007
Aili McConnon |
The Mind-Bending New World Of Work Motion-capture technology has burst out of Hollywood and into businesses from aerospace to advertising. |
Popular Mechanics
May 21, 2008
Glenn Derene |
Motion Capture Ready to Bring Next-Gen Avatars to Gaming, Movies, Medicine, the Military and More (With Video!) It's testament to the speed of digital imaging innovation that what was considered revolutionary just a few years ago is already being superseded by a new generation of motion-capture technologies. |
Wired
March 2006
Matt Brady |
How Digital Animation Conquered Hollywood Digital animation is not just for cartoons anymore. Here's how it has been used to make great movies such as King Kong, Sin City, Munich, V for Vendetta, and Jarhead. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2009
Eric Bleeker |
Will "Avatar" Change Filmmaking? Will this expensive 3-D extravaganza change the film industry? |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Erin McCarthy |
Top 10 F/X Scenes in Movie History Today, many digital effects are so subtle that movie audiences often don't notice them but it wasn't always this way. Industry insiders pinpoint the biggest breakthroughs in digital F/X history. |
Popular Mechanics
February 24, 2010
Jeremy Repanich |
2010 Oscars: PM Picks Winners for Sci/Tech Academy Awards While most of the media focuses on the Oscars' glamour awards like Best Picture or Best Actor, here is some insight into the best in the technical categories. |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Stephanie Overby |
Virtual Stars Boffo in Tinseltown A new breed of actor is taking a star turn in Hollywood. They don't hide out in their trailers, check into rehab in the middle of a shoot or sleep with their costars. They do their own stunts, can shoot take upon take and don't require residuals. |
Popular Mechanics
December 29, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
11 Geeked-Out 2009 Movies We're Waiting For Films for the new year that will entertain tech-minded audiences with promises of new special effects and gadgets. |
Popular Mechanics
December 18, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
17 Movies We're Geeked Out For in 2010 What we can look forward to from Hollywood month by month. |
BusinessWeek
January 21, 2010
Charlie Rose |
A Charlie Rose Q&A with James Cameron The Avatar director holds forth on the birth of a blockbuster and the future of film. |
Home Theater
January 21, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Avatar Raises 3D Awareness Like it or not, 3D is coming home, and James Cameron's blockbuster has made a majority of viewers aware of that. |
Home Theater
August 4, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Some Directors Knock 3D Not all directors are as enthusiastic about Hollywood's 3D push as James Cameron of Avatar fame. Some are against 3D while others are ambivalent about it. |
Popular Mechanics
August 14, 2008
Allie Townsend |
Aldrin in His Ear, Fly Me to the Moon Director Eyes Next-Gen 3D Chronicling the Apollo 11 moon mission, the animated children's movie Fly Me to the Moon is the first feature-length film released solely in 3D. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2011
Travis Hoium |
James Cameron Pushes Studios Into the Third Dimension Will Hollywood pony up the extra cash to film in 3-D? |
Wired
April 2005
Xeni Jardin |
The Cuban Revolution The maverick billionaire blogger wants to take the film out of the film industry. And his all-digital vision is coming soon to a screen near you. |
BusinessWeek
February 13, 2006
Burt Helm |
James Cameron's Game Theory Cameron is working on the screenplay for Project 880. If it gets produced, it could be the first major Hollywood project that audiences will experience first as a multiplayer game on the Net, and only later on the silver screen. |
Popular Mechanics
January 13, 2010
Erik Sofge |
Why 3D Doesn't Work for TV, But Is Great for Gaming: Analysis Here's why 3D is perfect for video games, and why it will go mainstream soon. |
Salon.com
December 19, 2000
David Lazarus |
"The Abyss" Extras galore reveal teary breakdowns, chlorine burns and the nightmarish conditions behind this watery "Close Encounters"... |
Popular Mechanics
January 7, 2010
Jim Meigs |
Catching Up With Avatar Producer Jon Landau Avatar producer Jon Landau, at Panasonic's CES press conference to extoll the virtues of Panasonic's plasma monitors, discussed the future of 3D. |
Salon.com
February 14, 2001
Max Garrone |
"Aliens" The maternal instinct meets the Vietnam War. Plus: How to make your own face-hugging space creatures... |
Salon.com
October 11, 2000
Bill Wyman |
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" A slate of exhausting extras takes us back to the time James Cameron was an action director extraordinaire -- and not the irritating owner of a best picture Oscar... |
BusinessWeek
September 10, 2007
Ronald Grover |
Depth Of A Salesman Jeffrey Katzenberg is determined to show that 3D's time has arrived. |
Salon.com
November 16, 2000
Michael Sragow |
Charlie's dude Director McG on why his "Charlie's Angels" is a kung fu "The Breakfast Club" with one part "Grease," some "Singin' in the Rain" and a bit of "Rocky." Or something like that... |
BusinessWeek
February 13, 2006 |
Syncing Hollywood and Gamers The relationship between films and games hasn't produced memorable offerings, complains Titanic director James Cameron, who aims to change that. |
Popular Mechanics
June 24, 2009
Seth Porges |
Top 10 Movie Explosions of All Time Psychic Head Explosion... Stay Puft Gets Fried... Cyberdyne HQ Goes Boom... A Psychedelic Explosion... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
December 16, 2009
Adam Hadhazy |
The Science Behind James Cameron's Avatar Could science replicate the same events and effects featured in the new movie? |
PC Magazine
June 23, 2008
Frank Washburn |
Getting Your Game Face On Today's high-tech games are tapping into a player's emotional responses using his avatar. |
Popular Mechanics
December 23, 2008
Seth Porges |
The 6 Technologies That Shaped 2008 From streaming videos, microblogging, and netbooks, to mobile applications. |
Popular Mechanics
August 19, 2008
Seth Porges |
How 3D on the Big Screen Will Change Tech in Your Living Room Getting directors to film important movies in 3D is just one step toward making the technology mainstream. The genre's next home? Your big-screen TV. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Can Avatar Save Disney? Disney turns to James Cameron for a theme park spark. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Ronald Grover |
Ryan Kavanaugh Is Ready for His Close-Up Financier Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is using rigorous data analysis, rather than instinct, to select its Hollywood films. |
AskMen.com
Michael Hirsch |
How To: Produce An Independent Film How to get started in movie production. |
The Motley Fool
February 3, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
IMAX Scores More Movie Magic With "Avatar" The giant screens lead to a big box-office take. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2010
Anders Bylund |
How 3-D Tech Is Saving Hollywood "Avatar" and Zeus himself are paving the way for a happier, more profitable Hollywood. |
BusinessWeek
September 17, 2009
Grover & Hall |
Panasonic Puts Its Chips on 3D TV Plasma sets have given it a big boost. Now it's betting consumers will pay up for 3D |
National Defense
February 2012
Eric Beidel |
Avatars Invade Military Training Systems The influence of video games on military training has been substantial, and the military's interest in avatars -- for soldiers and other actors in simulations -- is growing. |
Inc.
May 15, 2000
Ben Cameron |
Stage Might We asked Ben Cameron, executive director of Theatre Communications Group, about people's changing relationship to live theater in an age of digital entertainment. |
