'Transcendence' Review: Wally Pfister's Debut Is More Machine Than Man
Read our Transcendence review. The directorial debut of Christopher Nolan's longtime DP Wally Pfister stars Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, and Paul Bettany.
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Two 'Transcendence' Viral Videos Introduce The Film's Anti-Tech Organization
Two Transcendence viral videos and one short studio featurette give us new glimpses into the triply sci-fi thriller directed by Wally Pfister.
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'Transcendence' Trailer: Johnny Depp Theorizes, Then Becomes An Intelligent Machine
Here's the latest full trailer for Wally Pfister's Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp as an AI designer who is killed in "real" life, but preserved as a digital consciousness. Pfister makes the leap from cinematographer to director here, but you can still see visual traces of his long run shooting for Christopher Nolan. This film looks…
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'Transcendence' Poster Is Wired
Briefly: We'll get a second trailer for Wally Pfister's first directorial effort, Transcendence, later this week. For now you can check out the first poster for the film, which looks like the sort of image that might have decorated a paperback copy of a William Gibson novel twenty years ago, or maybe a cover of…
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'Transcendence' Trailer: 'The Dark Knight' Cinematographer Directs His Own Techno-Thriller
After a couple days marked by minor teasers for Transcendence, we’ve now got a full trailer that uses actual footage rather than voiceover and stock images and illustrations. Christopher Nolan’s longtime cinematographer Wally Pfister makes his directorial debut here, and in the cast and style of the footage there’s a very recognizable set of faces…
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Kate Mara Calls For An Anti-Tech Revolution In Viral Teaser For 'Transcendence'
If you've ever worried that technology might be moving too fast, that computer intelligence could soon move so far past human intelligence that we're left cowering in the dust, that the machines will then turn around and destroy us, their makers -- well, then Kate Mara has some terrible news for you. According to a…
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'Transcendence' Teaser: Johnny Depp Is All Ones And Zeros [Updated With 2nd Teaser]
Countless sci-fi movies have explored the possible consequences of the technological singularity, the moment when the machines have officially outpaced the humans who created them. But in Wally Pfister's Transcendence, the first machine to achieve sentience isn't really a machine at all. It's a controversial scientist, played by Johnny Depp. Dr. Will Caster (Depp) is…
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Johnny Depp Merges With The Machine In New 'Transcendence' Stills
It really says something about Johnny Depp's career that his role in Transcendence as a megalomaniacal digital god (or something) is the least weird he's looked in a while. The role doesn't require him to don gold teeth, or vampire fangs, or ten pounds of white makeup and a bird on his head. Instead, as director…
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Official Synopsis For Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence' Confirms A Bunch Of Rumors
While hints about Wally Pfister's Transcendence haven't been all that hard to come by, actual, confirmed facts have. Neither Pfister nor Warner Bros. has said much about the plot at all, even though the sci-fi drama has been the subject of much interest ever since it was first announced. But today, a new official synopsis…
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Image, Teaser Poster And Featurette Give First Look At Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence'
The film Transcendence is the directorial debut of Christopher Nolan's long-time cinematographer Wally Pfister. The film has mostly been a mystery so far; we know the cast, which includes Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Rebecca Hall, Cillian Murphy, Clifton Collins Jr., Kate Mara, and Paul Bettany. And we know that the story involves the transferrence of consciousness from a human…
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Cillian Murphy Cast In Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence'
Each time we report on a new actor being added to Wally Pfister's directorial debut, Transcendence, it's the same old thing: new actor, very little new info. Being as Pfister has learned from the Christopher Nolan school, and in fact this film is being exec produced by Nolan, it's no surprise that details are scant.…
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'Dark Knight' Reunion Alert: Morgan Freeman Boards Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence'
Several months back, there was talk that Christian Bale could re-team with The Dark Knight Rises cinematographer Wally Pfister for the latter's directorial debut Transcendence. That potential casting didn't quite pan out, but now Pfister's enlisting the help of a different Batman actor. Morgan Freeman, who played Lucius Fox in all three Dark Knight installments, has…
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Kate Mara Joins Johnny Depp In Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence'
Kate Mara is hardly a newcomer; she's had notable roles on Jack & Bobby, 24, Entourage, and American Horror Story, with lots of feature work sprinkled in between those gigs. But her starring role on the David Fincher-produced series House of Cards has elevated her profile in a big way. One immediate result of Mara's…
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Casting: Rebecca Hall Joins 'Transcendence', Christian Bale Wanted For 'The Ends Of The Earth'
Rumors about who might star in Wally Pfister's Transcendence have been floating around for months, but now that the film is actually about to start production it's locking down some big names fast. Just last week we got confirmation that Johnny Depp would star, followed a few days later by news that Paul Bettany had…
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Paul Bettany Joins 'Transcendence,' Set For April 2014 Release
Yesterday we got confirmation that Johnny Depp is confirmed for the directorial debut of cinematographer Wally Pfister. The film is Transcendence, and now we know that Depp will be joined by Paul Bettany -- it's the Tourist reunion no one expected. Both actors play scientists. Depp's role is Will, who is killed by anti-tech terrorists,…
Read MoreJohnny Depp Confirmed For Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence' And Barry Levinson's 'Black Mass;' 'Pirates 5' Nowhere In Sight
One of the most popular and in-demand actors in Hollywood has just scheduled the rest of his year, with one glaring omission. Johnny Depp will now officially star in Transendence, the mysterious sci-fi directorial debut of Wally Pfister, best known for his work with Christopher Nolan. From there he'll star in Barry Levinson's Black Mass, a true-crime…
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Johnny Depp To Play Whitey Bulger In Crime Biopic 'Black Mass'
Regional crime boss James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger has a curiously strong hold on the imaginations of filmmakers. As one of the last of a largely bygone generation of gangsters, Bulger has become an inspiration for those looking to create screen villains -- Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed, for example, was based on Bulger. So…
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The 2012 Black List: The Year's Hottest Unproduced Screenplays
Just as we're enjoying the last of 2012's cinematic offerings, the latest edition of the Black List has hit the web. The annual survey highlights the hottest unproduced screenplays of the year, as based on the votes of hundreds of executives. The term "unproduced" is used rather vaguely here. Some of these scripts (like Ivan…
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Plot Details Of Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence' Reveal Johnny Depp Will Be A Big Thinker
Wally Pfister has become famous as Christopher Nolan's cinematographer, but he's making the leap to director with a film called Transcendence. We've known little about the movie beyond the fact that Johnny Depp will play the lead -- one of three scientists -- and that the story has a sci-fi bent as one of the…
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IMAX Deal With Warner Bros Reveals Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence,' Alfonso Cuaron's 'Gravity' In IMAX Upconversion; Wachowskis' 'Jupiter Ascending' Will Be 3D
How big do you want your big sci-fi movies? Today IMAX and Warner Bros. announced the continuation of a partnership that will see twenty Warners films released in "the IMAX Experience" format over the next few years. Along with the deal comes some info on a few different upcoming films, including Gravity, Transcendence, and Jupiter…
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Christian Bale Also In Consideration For Wally Pfister's 'Transcendence'
As Christopher Nolan's longtime cinematographer Wally Pfister prepares his directorial debut, he's looking to join forces with another Nolan favorite. Christian Bale is said to be on Pfister's radar for Transcendence, potentially joining rumored stars Johnny Depp, Noomi Rapace, Christoph Waltz, and others. If those names actually pan out, Pfister could end up with a…
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'The Dark Knight' Cinematographer Wally Pfister's Directorial Debut Is 'Transcendence,' Johnny Depp In Talks To Star [Updated]
For a few months we've known that Wally Pfister, the cinematographer who has shot all of Christopher Nolan's major work from Memento on, would be making his directorial debut with a top-secret film. We've known that Nolan and Emma Thomas are producing, and Pfister said not long ago that "it’s a present-day science fiction film,…
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