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Kentaro
05-27-2009, 06:10 AM
Blockbuster year for special effects

George Lucas' ILM is the special effects company powering many of this summer's blockbuster movies, in what the film industry is expecting to be it's first $10 billion year. CNBC's Jim Goldman reports.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30948284#30948284 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30948284#30948284)
Shletten
05-27-2009, 06:38 AM
I agree, they have one hell of a great summer and what's cooler is that every one of these movies are ambitious.
whalerider
05-27-2009, 10:06 PM
While Lucas owns ILM, I doubt he has a say in the making of the effects of these movies. Also showing him giving directions on Clone Wars is not relevant. Too much simplification and bowing to big names.
Aneks
05-28-2009, 08:50 AM
wow that was a really terribly researched and reported article. but then what does one expect from MSNBC....
whalerider
05-28-2009, 01:42 PM
it's not just MSNBC, but across the board.
two other articles come to mind - the one about 140 TB of "memory" used to make Transformers 2 (apparently memory = storage = quality), and the other about how ILM does its magic thanks to "superfast computers."
what can you expect from an industry where gossip took center stage long ago.
anything that requires a bit of research and thinking is pushed aside.

wow that was a really terribly researched and reported article. but then what does one expect from MSNBC....
BookMansBlues
05-28-2009, 01:51 PM
and Clone wars isn't even done at ILM, it's being done at LF Singapore...
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