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I’ve been off ill for a couple of days so apologies for the delay in posting this but last night I saw the very sad news that Stan Winston had passed away at the age of 62.
Even if you aren’t a huge film fan you probably know some of his work: the robots in the [...]

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Popular Mechanics have a short interview with Grant McCune - the man who designed R2-D2 and the Millenium Falcon.
Here is an excerpt:
What’s the secret to making a good model?

For motion picture miniatures and production miniatures, I’ve always told people to get a good background in photography first.
The most important thing is what you see [...]

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If you are a fan of the Bond film Live and Let Die and want to know how they did the sequence where 007 escapes from a bunch of hungry crocodiles check this out:

Director Guy Hamilton was so taken with the stunt he even named the villain Kananga after the stuntman who performed it, Ross [...]

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Here is a short IMAX featurette about the upcoming Batman sequel The Dark Knight.
Director Christopher Nolan and cinematographer Wally Pfister discuss how they shot four sequences with hi-res IMAX cameras.
The film opens in the US and UK next July.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Ocv6bXja4

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOayjdQEnRk

An inside look at the story behind Beowulf which opens this weekend.

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