Richard Williams is an Oscar-winning animator, with an extensive history in the film business. His well-reviewed Animator’s Survival Kit (US$22 on Amazon) is currently in its second edition. For a mere $959.50, you can pick up a 16-DVD boxed set s…
Beyond: Two Souls Launch Trailer Revealed At Tribeca Film Festival
Developer Quantic Dream and director David Cage’s Beyond: Two Souls will be revealed at the Tribeca film festival through not only the ubiquitous trailer, but also a 35-minute gameplay video. Despite the studio’s vocal stance on storytelling and emotion in
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Running with scissors: the director of ‘Robocop’ and ‘Showgirls’ bets on his fans and loses
Debuting his latest film at Tribeca, director Paul Verhoeven took the stage on an almost apologetic note. “I hope that you enjoy it, and will accept the moral choices I made while making the movie.” Coming from a man best …
Zach Braff’s new film hits Kickstarter goal as director attempts to retain creative control
Last month, the creators of Veronica Mars took to Kickstarter to fund a movie adaptation of the cult TV hit. It was perhaps the most high-profile example of a well-known creative entity using Kickstarter to mobilize a fanbase to get a…
Ratchet & Clank Movie Coming In 2015
I think that most of us love the Ratchet & Clank games. You probably thought they would be great movies. Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games thinks so too, which is why they announced an animated film is currently
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Watch this: ‘Euphonia’ questions the merits of our obsession with technology
Danny Madden’s Euphonia tells the story of a high schooler who, after purchasing a sound recording device, becomes obsessed with experiencing the world through sound bites. Writing about the film in January, The Verge’s Paul Miller sa…
Vine creator Dom Hofmann on the evolution of six-second storytelling
Vine co-creator Dom Hoffmann says the app’s appeal lies in its immediacy: “A post on Vine takes you there,” he tells The New Yorker, in his first interview since the Twitter-owned app launched in January. “You feel like you were there…
Updated: ‘Watched’ and ‘want to watch’ buttons come temporarily to Facebook’s Sponsored Stories
[Update 4/24/13: We've learned that the addition of "watched" and "want to watch" buttons on Page Like Sponsored Stories, as seen in the image to the right, was a temporary bug and this ad type will not...