Beowulf

...toy, the animated live-action technique known as performance capture, to the Dickens chestnut. He used it for The Polar Express and Beowulf. Now he could hire Jim Carrey to play not only the man who stares at ghosts but the three visiting...

In this article: Jim Carrey, Scrooge, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Robert Zemeckis, A Christmas Carol, Alastair Sim, Scrooge, and London

Gaiman created the epic comic book series The Sandman Movie writer Neil Gaiman, best known for penning Beowulf and Stardust, has won this year's Booktrust Teenage Prize with The Graveyard Book. The story is about a child abandoned in a...

In this article: Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Stardust, The Graveyard Book, Ray Winstone, Rudyard Kipling, Angelina Jolie, and Robert De Niro

...approaches the material with gusto and inventiveness. This is his third motion-capture film, after 2004's The Polar Express and 2007's Beowulf. Say what you will about either of them, but they were both exhilarating experiences, even if...

In this article: Robert Zemeckis, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, The Polar Express, London, and Fezziwig

...tries to present with photo-realistic authenticity. Zemeckis has been down this path before with "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf," both of which got a knuckle rapping (from Yours Truly and lots of other critics) for the "dead-eyed...

In this article: Robert Zemeckis, A Christmas Carol, Disney, The Polar Express, and Disney World

..."Bah Humbug!" rants denouncing the good name and nature of Christmas in the 2009 animated version of "A Christmas Carol. " Much like "Beowulf" and "The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis brings this story to us in 3D and uses the film...

In this article: Ebenezer Scrooge, Jim Carrey, The Polar Express, A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol, Wikipedia, Charles Dickens, Robert Zemeckis, and The Mask

...("Forrest Gump"), who presents Dickens' London with the same performance-capture technology he used on "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf." Carrey's Scrooge rings in Hollywood holiday spirit Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge.

In this article: Hollywood, Ebenezer Scrooge, The Road, Global warming, Viggo Mortensen, Forrest Gump, Charles Dickens, Jim Carrey, John Hillcoat, and Roland Emmerich

...like a bunch of expressionless, waxy, reanimated corpses. Which is precisely what I wrote in my review of Zemeckis's 2007 adaptation of Beowulf (a review titled, thanks to the great Annie Wagner, Waxy Waxy Anglo-Saxy): I guess old-fangled...

In this article: Robert Zemeckis, Jim Carrey, A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Coal, Bob Cratchit, and Jesus Christ

...president of domestic theatrical distribution. "Polar Express" also used motion-capture technology, as did Zemeckis' 2007 epic "Beowulf," which stalled at $82 million domestically. Disney said 3D theaters, which charge a premium for...

In this article: Disney, A Christmas Carol, The Box, Robert Zemeckis, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Overture Films, Jim Carrey, and George Clooney

...recently been seen as a star turn in gritty British drama "44 Inch Chest" which screened during the London Film Festival. His credits include the title role in 2007's "Beowulf" as well as gangster movies such as "Sexy Beast" and "The Departed."

In this article: Ray Winstone, 44 Inch Chest, London Film Festival, The Departed, Sexy Beast, Atlantic, Los Angeles, and Canada

...Carol," he said previous adaptations never captured the full impact of Dickens' surreal images. As he made "Beowulf," Zemeckis realized he now had the tools to bring "A Christmas Carol" to the screen the way he imagined it on the page. "It...

In this article: Charles Dickens, Sherlock Holmes, Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Robert Downey Jr., Ebenezer Scrooge, and Robert Zemeckis