Eclipse News – The Making of the Wolves CGI in Eclipse
It was important to Eclipse director David Slade that Taylor Lautner actually film that scene with Kristen Stewart so she was able to establish eye contact with him instead of with a golf ball that could’ve been used as an eyeline and painted out later. The wardrobe department dressed Lautner in a neutral grey leotard and hoodie — primarily so his skin tone wouldn’t bounce back onto Stewart and create lighting issues when Wolf Jacob was added, Tippett says. We, however, like to believe someone was already thinking about the DVD extras. That will be great, won’t it?
The tender moment was made more challenging by the fact that Slade had a different vision of the wolves than New Moon director Chris Weitz. For starters, Weitz wanted the wolves to have their actor’s eyes. “He kind of wanted the performance to feel like the wolf behavior was being filtered through a human brain,” Tippett says. Slade wanted the wolves to have wolf eyes to de-anthropomorphize them. “David wanted the performances to be more feral, twitchy, and agitated. He wanted to see wolves that were more photographically representational, which had to do with things like getting more hair follicles, making the paws smaller.”
The believability of the wolves was equally crucial in the climactic fight sequence with the newborn vampire army. “We had to come up with a rationale for what happens when a 1,300-pound wolf that’s running 35 miles an hour crashes into a newborn vampire [played by an actor that weighs 165 lbs], how we justify that,” Tippett says. “David allowed us the transgression of saying, ‘Well, let’s just say that the newborns, since they’re not made of human material but some kind of a more marble-like material, have an actual mass of something like 500 pounds, so they have a lower center of gravity.’ And that allowed us to begin thinking about how to make all of that palpable, without thinking that they’re existing in two different physical universes.” Watch a clip of how that action gets put together below.
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Breaking Dawn News – Filming Locations Confirmed : Baton Rouge, Louisiana & Vancouver, Canada
The following was announced officially a couple of a hours ago.
Summit Entertainment’s THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN To Be Filmed In Louisiana And Vancouver
Summit Entertainment’s THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN will be filmed in both Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Vancouver over the next year starting this fall. The next chapter of THE TWILIGHT SAGA will be released as two separate films with the first of the two slated to be released in theatres on November 18, 2011.
Academy Award® winner Bill Condon will direct both films starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner along with Billy Burke as Charlie Swan as well as returning members of the Cullen Family including Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme, Jackson Rathbone as Jasper, Nikki Reed as Rosalie, Ashley Greene as Alice and Kellan Lutz as Emmett.
The project, based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, is currently being written by Melissa Rosenberg with Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt and Stephenie Meyer producing.
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.
FROM EW.com’s Hollywood Insider
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn has found its home, and for the first time, Twi-Hards can travel down south to catch a glimpse of their favorite vampires. Summit Entertainment announced today what had long been expected: that the final two Twilight films, to be directed by Bill Condon, will shoot in both Baton Rouge, La., and Vancouver. Louisiana’s appealing tax credits have drawn a number of productions to its locales, one bright spot on the state’s struggling economy. As such, Summit will take advantage of such deals, heading first to Louisiana, where the film’s interior locations will be shot. Then once weather has improved in Vancouver, the Breaking Dawn production will move to Canada, sometime in the New Year.
The first installment of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn will be released on Nov. 18, 2011.
ECLIPSE NEWS – EW: ” the Third Twilight THE old school action movie of the summer
The Twilight series is, in many ways, a high school girl’s fantasyland: all the hot boys want you, all the girls want to be your best friend, battles are fought over you, your dad has a mustache. EW critic Owen Gleiberman has expertly noted the different strands of feminism, post-feminism, anti-feminism, and WTFism that run throughout the various audience responses to the series. But according to the L.A. Times, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse snagged an audience that was 35 percent male, a whopping increase from the 20 percent male population that sat through New Moon. And I’m betting more men will see it in the ensuing weeks, because, in a weird way, Eclipse is an old-school action movie, recalling the plotline of Seven Samurai in its narrative economy and slow-burn build-up.
Consider: in Seven Samurai (and its fondly-remembered, actually-meh cowboy remake, The Magnificent Seven), a gang of outsiders help distrustful locals repel an invading force of nomadic bandits. Replace “Samurai” with “Vampires,” “distrustful locals” with “distrustful werewolves,” and “nomadic bandits” with “freaky newborn vampires,” and you’ve got Eclipse. Sure, you could argue that not much happens in the first three-quarters of the Eclipse…but that’s pretty much how old action movies worked, in the pre-Schwarzenegger era. Action movies like The Dirty Dozen are about 85 percent build-up to one big action sequence, not dozens of tiny action sequences sprinkled in between unconvincing character arcs and terrible dialogue. (Hi, Transformers!) And what makes Eclipse even more interesting is that all the action-movie shenanigans are refracted through the eyes of Bella. Most old-school action movies featured a female character, usually a girlfriend or a damsel in distress, and Eclipse almost plays like a Wicked-style re-imagining of an older movie from that damsel’s perspective.
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