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[edit] Indiana Jones franchise

[edit] TF film series

The Transformers had appeared in the animated films The Transformers: The Movie (1986), which bridged the gap between seasons two and three of the TV series, and Beast Wars Special: Super Lifeform Transformers (1996). The later was only released in Japan, and mostly recycled footage from Beast Wars episodes, as well a new cel-animated segment entitled Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger, relating to the Japanese Beast Wars II. In 2000, after falling on hard times, Hasbro wanted to redevelop their core properties. The idea of a Transformers film was developed from a desire to apply the "more than meets the eye" tagline to a theme about the humans.[1]

While attending the 2002 Comic-Con International, producer Don Murphy entered an area dedicated to the Transformers, G.I. Joe and Masters of the Universe toy lines. Murphy realized the toy lines were making a big comeback: "All those kids from the 80's have grown up, and this is their nostalgia. This is what they grew up on, and this is what they want to show their kids — 'Hey, daddy likes He-Man.' So I thought that this could be something fun to try to do as a feature if one of these actually had a good mythology." Murphy contacted Hasbro for rights to G.I. Joe, but considered the subject matter inappropriate after the Iraq War broke out in March 2003. Instead, Murphy went for Transformers, and Murphy's colleague Tom DeSanto also joined the project, having always pondered the possibilities of a live action film adaptation.[2]

DeSanto chose a human point-of-view in his treatment to engage the audience.[3] Likewise, Murphy wanted to give the film a realistic feel, with multiple storylines which would emulate the tone of a disaster film. The writers researched the Generation 1 cartoons and comics, and also met with comic book writer Simon Furman. Furman's The Ultimate Guide became the main resource throughout production.[4] The Creation Matrix was a major inspiration in terms of the plot.[5] But Murphy and DeSanto were turned down by many studios. "We were met with befuddlement," DeSanto recalled, "'This is a truck that turns into a robot and he's going to battle the airplane that turns into a robot? And they're how tall?' It just wasn't their generation."[6]

Meanwhile, Paramount Pictures and Lorenzo di Bonaventura were interested in developing their own film version of the franchise. Upon hearing this, Steven Spielberg and his studio DreamWorks bought DeSanto and Murphy's treatment, and di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce came aboard the project.[7] Several DreamWorks were interested in the idea if unimpressed by DeSanto and Murphy's focus on an environmental theme. Spielberg himself believed the idea would work as a live action blockbuster.[8]

On May 30, 2007, Dreamworks greenlit two sequels.[9]

[edit] Schindler's List

[edit] Books

  • Loshitzky, Yosefa (May 1997). Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List (Paperback), Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253210984. 

[edit] Articles

[edit] Journals

  • Eley, Geoff; Atina Grossmann (Spring-Summer 1997). "Watching Schindler's List: Not the Last Word". New German Critique: 41-62. doi:10.2307/488558.  (saved)
  • Feinberg, Stephen; Samuel Totten (October 1995). "Steven Spielberg: My Primary Purpose in Making "Schindler's List" Was for Education". Social Education 59: 365-366. 
  • Fogel, Daniel Mark (August 1994). "'Schindler's List' in novel and film: exponential conversion". Historical Journal Of Film Radio and Television 14. 
  • Gelly, Ora (1997-1998). "Narration and the embodiment of power in 'Schindler's List'". Film Criticism 22.  (saved)
  • Goldstein, Phyllis (October 1995). "Teaching Schindler's List". Social Education 59: 362-364. 
  • Hansen, Miriam Bratu (Winter 1996). ""Schindler's List" Is Not "Shoah": The Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public Memory". Critical Inquiry 22: 292-312.  (saved)
  • Manchel, Frank (March 1995). "Review: A Reel Witness: Steven Spielberg's Representation of the Holocaust in Schindler's List". The Journal of Modern History 67: 83-100. 
  • Manchel, Frank (August 1998). "Mishegoss: 'Schindler's List', Holocaust representation and film history". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 18: 431-436.  (saved)
  • Niven, William J (1995). "The reception of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List in German media". Journal of European Studies 25.  (saved)
  • Rosenfeld, Alvin H (June 1995). "The Americanization of the Holocaust". Commentary 99: 35-40.  (saved)
  • Schweber, Simone A. (Spring 1999). "VICTIMIZED AGAIN? THE REPRESENTATION OF JEWS IN HOLOCAUST UNITS". Journal of Jewish Education 65: 42-59. doi:10.1080/0021624990650106.  (saved)
  • Skloot, Robert (1999). "But Is It Good for the Jews? Spielberg's Schindler and the Aesthetics of Atrocity". Holocaust Genocide Studies 13: 138-140. doi:10.1093/hgs/13.1.138.  (saved)
  • Thomson, David (March 1994). "Presenting enamelware". Film Comment 30: 44-49.  (saved)
  • Weissman, Gary (April 1995). "A fantasy of witnessing". Media, Culture & Society 17: 293-307. doi:10.1177/016344395017002008.  (saved)
  • White, Armond (March 1994). "Toward a theory of Spielberg history" 30: 51-56.  (saved)
  • White, Les. "My father is a Schindler Jew". Jump Cut: 3-6. 
  • Wildt, Michael (Spring 1996). "The Invented and the Real: Historiographical Notes on Schindler's List". History Workshop Journal: 240-249.  (saved)

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[edit] TFA

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science-fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace and Peter Coyote. Thomas plays Elliott, a lonely boy who befriends a friendly alien, dubbed E.T., who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help the alien return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government. The film's concept came from an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents' divorce. When work on Night Skies stalled in 1980, Spielberg met Melissa Mathison to pen the script for E.T. The film was shot during late 1981 in California on a budget of US$10.5 million. To facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young cast, the film was shot in roughly chronological order. E.T. was a box office hit, surpassing Star Wars to become the most financially successful film yet released. Critics acclaimed it as a timeless story of friendship, and it has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The alien became the subject of analogies for Jesus. The film was rereleased in 1985, and in 2002 with altered special effects and additional scenes. Spielberg believes E.T. epitomizes his work.

[edit] VOTD

The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Directed by Michael Apted
Produced by Andrew Adamson
Mark Johnson
Written by Steven Knight[10]
Christopher Markus
Stephen McFeely[11]
Novel:
C. S. Lewis
Starring Ben Barnes
Georgie Henley
Skandar Keynes
Music by David Arnold[12]
Cinematography Dante Spinotti[13]
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s) May 7, 2010
Language English
Preceded by The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Followed by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair[14]
IMDb profile

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will be a fantasy film based on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third published novel in C. S. Lewis' children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. The third film in Walt Disney Pictures' and Walden Media's Chronicles of Narnia film series, it will be directed by Michael Apted and is currently scheduled for release on May 7, 2010.

[edit] Plot

Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace, where they encounter King Caspian aboard the royal ship Dawn Treader. They join him on a quest across the eastern sea for seven missing lords of Narnia; along the way, they encounter delights, dangers, and transformations before reaching the edge of the world and Aslan's country.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Production

Michael Apted was announced as director on April 17, 2007;[19] Andrew Adamson, director of the series' first two films, and Mark Johnson are slated as co-producers. Apted, who grew up reading the novels,[16] described taking over direction of the series as easy because of "how different all the stories are... there’s no element of Narnia in it at all. This is a journey that Caspian the Tenth is making into the islands, outside to the east of Narnia. So it’s interesting, it’s a whole different tone to the other things."[20] Production designer Roger Ford was replaced by Jan Roelfs.[21] Costume designer Isis Mussenden is in negotiations to return.[22]

The owners of an AUS$2.1 million 40 metre by 30 metre by 5 metre water tank at Warner Roadshow Studios in Queensland were negotiating with the production company, hoping The Voyage of the Dawn Treader would be filmed there.[23][24] Apted and Johnson scouted locations in Malta and Spain.[22] Filming was set to begin in January 2008,[25] in Malta, and then move to Prague and Iceland.[26]

However, in September 2007, Disney announced "in consideration of the challenging schedules for [its] young actors", they were delaying the start of production until mid-2008. Consequently, the release date was pushed back from May 1, 2009, to May 7, 2010.[27] The schedule was altered for 60% of filming in New Zealand. Locations included the Bay of Islands, Coromandel, New Plymouth, Hawke's Bay and Gisborne.[28] Again, filming was delayed to October 2008 because of the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike.[29] Johnson rescheduled the shoot to Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, where two-thirds of the film would be shot at the water tank that was used for Titanic and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.[30]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rise of the Robots, 2007 DVD featurette
  2. ^ Laura Ellison. "Exclusive: Don Murphy talks 'Transformers'", Comics2Film, 2007-07-03. Retrieved on 2007-12-17. 
  3. ^ Kellvin Chavez. "On Set Interview: Producer Tom De Santo On Transformers", Latino Review, 2007-02-21. Retrieved on 2007-05-19. 
  4. ^ Kellvin Chavez. "On Set Interview: Producer Don Murphy On Transformers", Latino Review, 2007-02-21. Retrieved on 2007-12-17. 
  5. ^ Don Murphy at TransformersCon Toronto 2006. Transformerscon. Retrieved on 2007-12-17.
  6. ^ Josh Rottenberg. "How "Transformers" toys with Hollywood", Entertainment Weekly, 2007-07-07. Retrieved on 2007-12-16. 
  7. ^ Laura M. Holson. "Fans Get to Talk About ‘Transformers,’ and the Knives Are Unsheathed", New York Times, 2007-07-09. Retrieved on 2008-03-10. 
  8. ^ David M. Halbfinger. "How a Fan of Comic Books Transformed Himself Into a Hollywood Player", New York Times, 2007-06-30. Retrieved on 2008-03-10. 
  9. ^ Dave West. "Two 'Transformers' sequels in pipeline", Digital Spy, 2007-05-30. Retrieved on 2008-02-29. 
  10. ^ Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan. "Knight's fantasy job", The Boston Globe, 2008-05-13. Retrieved on 2008-05-13. 
  11. ^ Michael Cieply. "Two Screenwriters With No Complaints", New York Times, 2007-06-17. Retrieved on 2007-06-23. 
  12. ^ "David Arnold confirmed as Bond 22 composer", MI6.co.uk, 2007-10-09. Retrieved on 2007-10-09. 
  13. ^ "Voyage of the Dawn Treader Crew Listing", NarniaWeb. Retrieved on 2007-09-03. 
  14. ^ "The Silver Chair to film in 2008?", NarniaFans. Retrieved on 2007-09-13. 
  15. ^ Dan Jolin. "Ben Barnes is Prince Caspian", Empire, April 2008, pp. 96. 
  16. ^ a b c "Director Apted plans "Voyage" to third Narnia film", Yahoo!, 2007-07-20. Retrieved on 2007-07-20. 
  17. ^ "Seeing Prince Caspian in NYC", NarniaWeb, 2008-05-05. Retrieved on 2008-05-05. 
  18. ^ a b "PuppetMaster". "Voyage of the Dawn Treader Begins Production", Movies Online, 2008-02-12. Retrieved on 2008-04-21. 
  19. ^ "AICN Breaking Exclusive: Mrs Beaver feels the director of THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is very Apted!", Ain't it Cool News, 2007-04-17. Retrieved on 2007-04-17. 
  20. ^ "NZ Radio Station Interviews Michael Apted", Narniaweb, 2007-07-11. Retrieved on 2007-07-13. 
  21. ^ Paul Davidson. "Dawn Treader Voyage Set", IGN. Retrieved on 2007-06-08. 
  22. ^ a b Heather Newgen. "Prince Caspian Audio Interviews", 2007-07-30. Retrieved on 2007-07-31. 
  23. ^ AAP. "Giant tank to bring film to Qld: govt", The West Australian, 2007-02-21. 
  24. ^ "Golden pond makes splash with moguls", The Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast Publications Pty Ltd, 2007-02-23. 
  25. ^ Peter Gilstrap. "Apted to direct 'Narnia' sequel", Variety, 2007-06-19. 
  26. ^ "Dawn Treader Locations", NarniaWeb, 2007-09-09. Retrieved on 2007-09-09. 
  27. ^ "Next Narnia Delayed", IGN, 2007-09-19. Retrieved on 2007-09-19. 
  28. ^ "Int'l film makers seek out NZ's magical powers", ChinaView, 2007-12-24. Retrieved on 2007-12-28. 
  29. ^ Paul Martin. "Douglas Gresham Interview on Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader", NarniaFans, 2008-02-15. Retrieved on 2008-04-21. 
  30. ^ Edward Douglas. "Dawn Treader Starts Shooting in October", ComingSoon.net, 2008-04-19. Retrieved on 2008-04-21. 

[edit] External links

Narnia Portal

[edit] Monsters

In July 1988, Dark Horse Comics began published the bimonthly Aliens, a six-issue limited series written by Mark Verheiden, which is set ten years after the film Aliens, focusing on Corporal Hicks and Newt (played respectively by Michael Biehn and Carrie Henn in the film). This began a trilogy, also consisting of Book II and Earth War, concluding in October 1990.

  •  Mike Richardson, John Arcudi (w),  Damon Willis (p),  Aliens: Genocide  #4 issues (November 1991 to February 1992) : Following an Alien infestation on Earth, a billionaire arranges an expedition to the Alien homeworld to capture a queen and its royal jelly. Sabotage and an Alien civil war ruin the plan.
  •  Jerry Prosser (w),  Kelley Jones (p),  Aliens: Hive  #4 issues (February to May 1992) : A scientist and a thief build a robotic Alien to infiltrate a hive and steal the royal jelly.
  •  Mike Richardson (w),  Jim Somerville (p),  Newt's Tale  #4 issues (June and July 1992) : The second film told from Newt's perspective.
  •  Chris Warner (w),  Tony Akins (p),  Aliens: Colonial Marines  #10 issues (January 1993 to April 1994) : Lt. Henry, the insubordinate son of a politican, finds the toxic dump his team was assigned to guard has been infested. This leads to the discovery of human-Alien hybrids and the "father" of the species.
  •  Ian Edginton (w),  Will Simpson (p),  Aliens: Rogue  #4 issues (April to July 1993) : Dr. Kleist breeds an Alien King, subject to his will, to kill the Alien Queen, and therefore control bring the species.
  •  Paul Johnson (p,i).  Aliens: Sacrifice  (May 1993) A woman is stranded on a planet, and must protect a village from an Alien.
  •  Jim Woodring (w),  Kilian Plunkett (p),  Aliens: Labyrinth  #4 issues (September to November 1993, January 1994) : A homicide investigation takes place in a research lab, headed by Dr. Paul Church. Church, a survivor of an Alien infestation, has studied Alien behaviour and can predict their behaviour.
  •  Dave Gibbons (w),  Mike Mignola (p),  Aliens: Salvation  (November 1993) : Told from the perspective of a god-fearing man, whose ship containing live Aliens, crashlands on an untamed planet.
  •  Chet Williamson (w),  Tim Hamilton (p),  Aliens: Music of the Spears  #4 issues (January to April 1994) : A composer hires various fighters to battle his captive Alien, to record its anguished cry for use in his symphony.
  •  John Arcudi (w),  Doug Mahnke (p),  Aliens: Stronghold  #4 issues (May to July, September 1994) : A scientist perfects an android Alien.