John Rosengrant has been creating groundbreaking special effects for films since working with Stan Winston on The Terminator. He did spectacularly seamless VFX work for Dreamworks’ Real Steel and his marriage of practical and CG robots really helped sell the heart of this wonderful family film. He’s worked on all sorts of films from sci-fi classics like The Terminator and Predator to blockbusters like Jurassic Park and Avatar (just check out his IMDb page or see his bio at the bottom of this post). Basically if there was mind-blowing movie magic happening on screen, it was most likely John working his magic off screen. Go, See, Talk and other movie sites were invited to participate in an exclusive…
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Full List Of Nominees For The 84th Annual Academy Awards Released
As far as awards go, the Academy Awards is the Super Bowl of the film/entertainment world recognizing (and snubbing) the very best of what the previous calendar year had to offer. In what some consider a stellar year for films there are some crowd pleasing favorites which have made such an impact and have kept strong buzz going throughout all of 2011. When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominations for the 84th Academy Awards this morning, it was no surprise who some of the front-runners would be. Pulling in some big nominations were The Descendants, The Artist and Hugo. But little engines that could like…
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Hammer Announces Global Restoration Project To Bring Iconic Library To Blu-Ray
In a landmark collaboration, Hammer announced that STUDIOCANAL, Anolis Entertainment (Germany), Pinewood, illuminate Hollywood fka HTV and others are coming together to undertake a major restoration of the iconic Hammer film library. The project will bring over 30 of their most memorable and iconic movies into HD format for Blu-ray and new media exploitation in the 21st Century. This represents substantial investment by Hammer and its key partner STUDIOCANAL, and is testimony to the extraordinary regard with which the Hammer legacy is held internationally, with some materials for the project being provided by Hammer’s original US production partners Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures.
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G-S-T Double Take Review…Haywire
Editor’s note: One of the first in a series of new features presented as a sneak peek to commemorate/kick off Go,See,Talk’s upcoming 3 year anniversary we present this, our first, “Double Take” review. Here, both of our writers Bill and Grady give their thoughts on Steven Soderbergh’s all-star action-fest Haywire.
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Exclusive: Video Interview…Film Composer James Newton Howard
Oscar-nominated film composer James Newton Howard was invited to Dallas to perform some of his favorite and well known cinematic themes as the first performance kicking-off the 2012 Masters of Film Music series with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. But before he conducted his fantastic live retrospective concert, he agreed to meet with G-S-T for an exclusive interview. Due to Mr. Howard’s hectic schedule we had to break our session with him into two parts. As you’ll see and hear in the video, he was extremely down to earth and answered a wealth of questions. We discussed a wide range of topics from his roots, his inspiration/motivation, his process and more. Enjoy this insightful sit down with…
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James Newton Howard – Live At The Meyerson Symphony Center
To kick-off the 2012 program in the Masters of Film Music series, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra invited Oscar-nominated film composer James Newton Howard to perform a collection of his favorite and well known cinematic themes. With over 100 films to his name and 27 years experience scoring films he’s a legend in film circles and has become one of the most versatile, dynamic and in-demand musicians in his field. Howard had been asked several times by the Dallas Symphony to come and play a series of his themes.Howard admits, as he told us in our exclusive with him, that he had always wanted to do this and finally decided now was the right time. Listening to…
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ALL PASSES CLAIMED – FREE Advance Screening Passes to Studio Ghibli's ‘ARRIETTY' in DALLAS, TX
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – All winners have been notified. Thanks for your interest in The Secret World of Arrietty! —————————————————————————————————————————————- Go,See,Talk is partnering with Walt Disney Pictures to give 75 Dallas area film fans FREE passes (good for you +1 guest) to an “Advance Screening” of The Secret World of Arrietty starring Saoirse Ronan, Will Arnett and Carol Burnett. The screening will take place in DALLAS, TX on Saturday February 11th at 10:30AM and winners will be notified no later than Friday February 10th. So how do you claim/win them?? Simple. Leave an answer to the following question in the comment section (remember to include your email address) and we’ll send you your FREE ticket…but it’s first come, first served so act fast!
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USA Film Festival & Angelika Film Center Host 'A Tribute to STUDIO GHIBLI'
As many of you already know I am a HUGE fan of the works and films of Studio Ghibli. That said, I wanted to let all you Dallas area film fans with a fondness for the works of Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and the gifted story tellers from Studio Ghibli know about a 2 day event sponsored by the USA Film Festival. This weekend on January 21st and 22nd, The Angelika Film Center will be hosting 11 of the studio’s most famous and popular films in all new 35MM prints. (FYI, all films will be show in English except for Castle in the Sky) The Angelika will be showing: My Neighbor Totoro,…
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Full List of Nominations for The 65th Annual BAFTA Awards
The Golden Globes are behind us, the Academy Awards just a few weeks a head of us but the one awards event filling the gap between self-congratulatory (Globes) and career defining (Oscars) are the Orange BAFTAs. The British organization just released their official list of nominations this morning and lots of this year’s great/favorite films are rightfully being recognized. There are always going to be a number of films that lead the pack in every awards ceremony but The Artist is most definitely the one to beat this year as it has 12 nominations. Right on the heel’s of Hazanavicius’ silent crowd pleaser is the slow-burn spy film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with 11 nominations…
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Interview…’Dead Poets Society’ Writer Tom Schulman
Dead Poets Society (1989), starring Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke, makes its way to Blu-ray on Tuesday (01/17/2012). This movie won 13 awards, including an Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. It was also nominated for 17 other awards. It was my honor and privilege to interview the screenwriter of Dead Poets Society, Tom Schulman. What follows is the transcription of my interview with Tom. While I expected him to be cordial, I was not expecting him to be extremely nice. Tom is an accomplished screenwriter, with some amazing movie titles under his belt, yet he made me feel right at home. Tom was very humble;…
