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James Cameron is Taking 3D to Mars! Helping to Build 3D Camera for Next Mars Mission in 2011

by David Lane    Posted: April 29th, 2010 at 5:50 pm

Not content with making the biggest and most successful movies on Planet Earth, James Cameron has decided to take 3D to Mars.  And I mean that literally.

Thanks to  the pasadenastarnews, word has gotten out that Cameron is helping to build a 3D camera for the next Mars rover set to launch next year.  Apparently, NASA planned to film in 3D all along, but due to consistently going over budget and always being behind schedule, they scrapped the plan.

But sometime in January, Cameron sat down with NASA administrator Charles Bolden in a one-on-one meeting and got him to change his mind.  More after the jump:

Writer/Director Richard Kelly Exclusive Video Interview THE BOX

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: November 2nd, 2009 at 11:56 pm

Earlier today I sat down with writer/director Richard Kelly (“Donnie Darko”, “Southland Tales”) to talk about his upcoming movie “The Box”.  For those who don’t know, the movie is set around a deceptively simple moral dilemma.  An average couple is offered an opportunity to get themselves out of financial difficulty: a million dollars, in exchange for the knowledge that their acceptance of this gift will result in the death of one person somewhere in the world – someone they don’t know.  The big question is, “What will they do?” But writer/director Richard Kelly is also asking, “What would you do?”

While some interviews are rushed, our conversation was extensive and if you’re a fan of Richard Kelly or just curious about “The Box”, then you’ll definitely want to watch this. He talked about how the Arcade Fire came to the project, when will the score be released, the writing process, how his dad really worked at NASA and how he influenced James Marsden’s character, is the Blu-ray of both “Donnie Darko” and “Southland Tales” the final editions of those films, what will be on “The Box” Blu-ray, what is he working on now, and so much more. Take a look after the jump:

FOR ALL MANKIND Criterion Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: August 12th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

In 1986 the Challenger mission effectively ended America’s love affair with both NASA and space travel. I was ten, I was going to go to a TAG class, and we all watched on live television the destruction of one of the great American dreams (I remember a TV crew came to our classroom to film our reactions and our collective sadness). My father took my brother and I to see The Right Stuff when it came out in 1983. I grew up thinking I wanted to be an astronaut, at least at some point. There’s something magical and very human – and partly Americanized – about the desire for space travel. It’s the ultimate west. It’s that which is still barely treaded in. Man still longingly looks at the stars, curious to know if we are all that is and will ever be. If somewhere out there, there could be more than us. Be it god or other civilizations. We are curious. But space travel is back-burnered, as we’ve advanced computer technology in inner space, not outer space.  My review after the jump.

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