When it came time for a 70mm restoration of 2001: A Space Odyssey, WB had two choices: VFX guru Douglas Trumbull and Christopher Nolan. They chose Nolan.
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Will the next Avatar movies be shot in 120 FPS and 4K? Douglas Trumbull says James Cameron's producer is interested in his new technology.
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Douglas Trumbull, the man who helped redefine visual effects in cinema working on films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Blade Runner, has very lofty goals. Despite being on the outside of Hollywood looking in, for the most part, since the mid-eighties, the director is still…
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Douglas Trumbull's resume reads like a sci-fi magazine's list of the best movies of all time: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Well, maybe not that last one. Still, his work in the visual effects field is iconic. He's directed films too, such…
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The Sandlot’s Marty “Yeah-Yeah” York and Patrick “Ham” Renna reunite at LA Fitness in Hollywood where York is a personal trainer. [tmz via tdw] What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 40…
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Almost like discovering a monolith buried underground, Warner Brothers recently found 17 minutes of lost footage from Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey in a salt-mine vault in Kansas. But before you go and drop acid in anticipation of an extended cut of the film, consider the slippery slope this footage constitutes. One, just…
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Douglas Trumbull, the special effects supervisor for Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey, is making a film about the making of 2001. Called Beyond the Infinite: The Making of a Masterpiece, Trumbull's film draws on his own experience, a decade of interviews conducted by David Larson, and a wealth of original production materials and…
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