Wikio - Robert Zemeckis

Memo For File LXX (House of Eratosthenes)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:24:55 GMT

It’s Friday night and that means it’s time to find something worth discussing that doesn’t have anything whatsoever to do with him. So how’s this… If you watch a certain recent Robert Zemeckis masterpiece — namely, this…fast-forward to 0:4:33…listen to the music… It’s the same melody and rhythm you here in this other Zemeckis work from many years [...]

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Julian Schnabel (Richard's Notes)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:02:12 GMT

... Schnabel along with the stunning cinematography of Janusz Kaminski . In the Carl Sagan book and Robert Zemeckis movie Contact, Jodi Foster, a scientist, is looking out of her intergalactic transporter at a beautiful space scene that she has no words to describe and she says “They should have sent a poet”. Julian Schnabel is the poet and his poetry combined with stellar acting is what...

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Echo columnists: 1. In what year was the first FA Cup final held at Wembley? (Liverpool Echo.co.uk )

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

... Which Shakespeare play inspired the musical West Side Story'23. Which 1985 film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and featured the character Marty McFly'24. What is the name of the highest mountain in the USA?25. The Hoover Dam in America (pictured) was built on which river?26. Which Spanish painter said: “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”?27. In what century was...

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3-D Conversion Remains Thorny Issue for Theaters (Rotten Tomatoes)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:47:00 GMT

... live-action directors and movie studios -- "Titanic" director James Cameron, "Polar Express' " Robert Zemeckis, Disney, DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox at the forefront -- are making huge bets on 3-D's potential. Within the next eight months, the first steady stream of 3-D movies will arrive at the multiplex, but there still might not be enough 3-D screens to show them,...

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'Romancing the Stone,' 'Jewel of the Nile' Coming to Blu-ray (High-Def Digest: Blu-ray Disc News)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:14:07 GMT

Starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as mismatched lovers in search of an ancient hidden treasure, 'Romancing the Stone' propelled Turner to superstardom and gave director Robert Zemeckis his first bona fide box office smash. Fox will give the film its next-gen debut on October 14, bring with it the film's less well-received sequel 'The Jewel of the Nile' (also starring Douglas...

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To bring a book to life, watch the film (The Guardian Books Blog)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Ray Winstone in Robert Zemeckis' film of BeowulfRay Winstone has succeeded where countless English teachers failed. Having only recently seen the IMAX-tastic on DVD, I finally decided it was time to tackle the epic poem again. And guess what? It's fantastic. Admittedly, this should come as no surprise, seeing as how it's , largely on word of mouth alone. But having struggled to get beyond...

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The Ten Spot 2/2 - Shape Shifting Performances (JoBlo)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:11:02 GMT

... for a full year while Hanks lost weight and grew his hair long with a gigantic beard (director Robert Zemeckis used the break to film WHAT LIES BENEATH). And it could very well be the best natural beard grown for a movie (leaps and bounds above that rug glued to the face of Tom Berenger in GETTYSBURG). His dedication earned Hanks an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.3. Christian...

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Gary Oldman will be taking on three roles in “A Christmas Carol” (The Gryffindor Gazette)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:48:33 GMT

Image details: Premiere of "Batman Begins"- Arrivals served by picapp.com Gary Oldman, who did a fantastic job of playing Sirius, will be playing THREE roles in an upcoming Robert Zemeckis production of A Christmas Carol. Here’s what he had to say: “I saw the designs, and the realizations of London and the characters. The design of it, [...]

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Only 493 Days Until the Performance That Will Revolutionize Acting: Gary Oldman As Tiny Tim (Vulture)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:09:05 GMT

Photo-illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos: Getty Images, Hulton We've been openly skeptical in the past about Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol , which stars Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge and — through the so-called miracle of motion capture — as three of the ghosts who visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve. ("Anyone who goes to see this movie deserves what he gets," we wrote when the project...

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Gary Oldman discusses his Christmas Carol roles (Animated News)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:50:31 GMT

Dark Knight actor confirmed to Sci Fi Wire that he would be playing at least three characters in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming motion-capture-animated A Christmas Carol: “I play Marley. I play Tiny Tim, and I play Bob Cratchit, so I play three [characters].” In the animated film–which Robert Zemeckis is directing with the same technology [...]

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UCLA, USC film schools compete for cash (LA Times)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:04:34 GMT

... funneling into USC's cinematic arts program from entertainment greats Spielberg, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, donations by UCLA alums tend to finance worthy projects in other fields: the David Geffen Medical School, the Streisand Chair in Cardiology, Jerry Lewis Neuromuscular Disease Research Center, the Jane and Terry Semel Institute of Neuroscience...

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Oldman's Christmas Carol roles (Filmstalker)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:04:37 GMT

Robert Zemeckis is making A Christmas Carol using his performance capture animation. We knew that Jim Carrey and Bob Hoskins were starring in it , and that Gary Oldman was joining them. Now we know which multiple roles he'll be playing. I'm not sure why Zemeckis has turned to performance capture animation so much. It's the second film in a row he's made with it. He must love it....Visit...

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Nike Goes Back to the Future (II) With Hyperdunks (Gearlog)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:36:16 GMT

Those familiar with the1989 quasi-classic Robert Zemeckis sequel, Back to the Future II, know that we've got a bit of catching up to do, if we're going to hit the director's mark. It's not quite a hoverboard (damn it!), but these Nike Hyperdunks will have to do the trick.

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Oldman Confirms Carol Roles (SCI FI Wire)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Gary Oldman confirmed to reporters that he will be playing at least three characters in Robert Zemeckis' upcoming motion-capture animated A Christmas Carol, including Tiny Tim.

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Angelina Jolie On Beowulf (Absolutely Fabulous)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:12:34 GMT

Angeline Jolie speaks about her role in “Beowulf”. She took the part because it was a Robert Zemeckis film. She also was very excited to play the part of both mother and monster, a dual role she’s intimately familiar with in real life. Angelina Jolie says she doesn’t often get the chance to be [...]

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Paramount Sets Specs, Box Art for 'Beowulf' Blu-ray (High-Def Digest: Blu-ray Disc News)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:41:47 GMT

BLU-RAY NEWSParamount Sets Specs, Box Art for 'Beowulf' Blu-rayTue Jun 10, 2008 at 09:00 AM ETTags: , , () Paramount has unveiled final specs for the July Blu-ray debut of ',' which will match the studio's with high-res audio and extensive bonus features.As we've , Paramount will unleash the Robert Zemeckis-directed CGI adventure on Blu-ray July 29, nearly six months after first bringing...

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Jim Carrey Marches For Boy-Love Or Something (Hecklerspray)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:23:06 GMT

... gone and picked all three, the greedy sod. Not only did he voice Horton Hears A Who - with a Robert Zemeckis Beowulf -style version of A Christmas Carol in the pipeline - but Jim Carrey has also been hanging round Tom Cruise an awful lot lately. And then there’s the social activism angle - Jim Carrey exercised that yesterday by going on a march to help make vaccines less likely to...

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TV Review: 15 scariest TV shows ever (Entertainment Weekly)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:05:58 GMT

... door, down the hallway, into the basement, and turn the channel to HBO, which allowed gore-hounds Robert Zemeckis, Richard Donner, Joel Silver, and Walter Hill to hatch this wickedly adult anthology, inspired by the EC Comics of old.

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15 scariest TV shows ever (Entertainment Weekly)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:20:00 GMT

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A Strange, Lovely Teaser for 'Marley & Me' (Cinematical)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:02:00 GMT

Filed under: Comedy , 20th Century Fox , Trailers and Clips I'm all for teaser trailers that reveal very little, especially as an alternative to the Robert Zemeckis school of trailers meant, apparently, to replace the finished film. And while I'm deeply skeptical of Marley & Me , an adaptation of local Philly journalist John Grogan's sappy man-and-his-dog memoir, I love the teaser that...

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