If 3D gets a bad rap, it's often for good reason. Done badly, 3D drives up ticket prices while adding nothing to the experience; done very badly, it robs you blind while destroying the picture. But every so often, a movie comes along that reminds you of how powerful the technology can be when wielded…
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Fox's official website for Ang Lee's literary adaptation Life of Pi is up and running, and while it's currently light on useful info, it is full of gorgeous imagery to ooh and ahh over. There's a brief 10-second clip showing what appears to be an early encounter between protagonist Pi (newcomer Suraj Sharma) and the…
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Life of Pi has taken its good sweet time journeying from the bookshelf to the box office. First published in 2001, Yann Martel's novel passed through the hands of M. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet before ultimately ending up with Ang Lee in 2009. A tricky adaptation process and budgetary woes helped keep…
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Hollywood has been trying to make a big screen adaptation of Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi since the fantasy adventure book was released in 2001. The book tells the story of Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy who survives 227 days after a shipwreck, while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean…
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