Beowulf
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Director has swallowed the high-tech Kool Aid...got to put the past behind you before you can move on." Zemeckis is following this credo to the max with Disney's A Christmas Carol, and The Polar Express and Beowulf before that. A visionary rather than a traditionalist, he's more jazzed... In this article: Robert Zemeckis, Jim Carrey, Colin Firth, A Christmas Carol, Hollywood, Oscar, Forrest Gump, Cannes Film Festival, Disney, and Beowulf |
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USATODAY.com | November 04, 2009
3-D 'Christmas Carol' fits Charles Dickens' vision
So what makes it unique? Zemeckis, who has pioneered this immersive technology with such films as The Polar Express and Beowulf, says this film manifests some of the more surreal descriptions from Dickens' prose. This version of the 1843...
In this article: Charles Dickens, Jim Carrey, Robert Zemeckis, Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol, John Leech, London, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Past
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The State | November 07, 2009
Holiday films will take you from Dickens' London to the end of the world
...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 was the idea of being able to actually...
In this article: Peter Jackson, Charles Dickens, Sherlock Holmes, Ebenezer Scrooge, James Cameron, Robert Downey Jr., London, and Jim Carrey
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International Herald Tribune - Culture | November 05, 2009
Movie Review 'Disney's A Christmas Carol': Ghosts of Technology Present
...of Christmas Present. The three main episodes of haunting provide Mr. Zemeckis with an opportunity to push ahead with the experiment he has sustained through "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf," and they show mixed results. There is real...
In this article: Ebenezer Scrooge, Robert Zemeckis, Jim Carrey, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Gary Oldman, The Polar Express, A Christmas Carol, London, and Disney
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ITN Headline News - Showbiz news | November 08, 2009
A Christmas Carol producers talk about movie
...motion capture film in history. Producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke have worked on a number of films with Robert from Beowulf to Forrest Gump and as a trio they are one of the most successful teams in Film. This latest outing sees the...
In this article: A Christmas Carol, Robert Zemeckis, London, Forrest Gump, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, and Jim Carrey
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The Stranger - Slog | November 09, 2009
Robert Zemeckis and Motion-Capture: A Brief History of My Feelings
...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 human actors are...
In this article: Robert Zemeckis, Jim Carrey, A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Coal, Bob Cratchit, and Jesus Christ
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CNN | November 04, 2009
Classic 'Carol' captured for modern filmgoers
...and Christmas Yet To Come. Zemeckis' version of "A Christmas Carol" was filmed using "performance capture," the same technique the director used to bring "Beowulf" and "Polar Express" into movie theaters. Performance capture allows...
In this article: Ebenezer Scrooge, Robert Zemeckis, Jim Carrey, E mail, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Ghost of Christmas Past, and Oscar
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Beowulf is a 2007 performance capture action film based on the Old English epic poem of the same name. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film was created through a motion capture process similar to the technique used in The Polar Express. The cast includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Alison Lohman, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Brendan Gleeson, and Angelina Jolie. It was released in the United States, Canada and the UK on November 16, 2007, and was available to view in IMAX 3D, Real D and standard 2D format.
- Name:
- Beowulf
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Release Date:
- November 16, 2007
- Directed By:
- Robert Zemeckis
- Produced by:
- Written By:
- Starring:
- Music By:
- Alan Silvestri
- Length:
- 114 min.
- Website:
- http://www.beowulfmovie.com/
- Language:
- English
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