| �The Polar Express� is about to pull into the station�bringing visual effects one step closer to a future when anything's possible in the world of cinema. Associate Editor Devin Gordon interviewed director Robert Zemeckis and star Tom Hanks for the Oct. 25 issue of NEWSWEEK. He�ll take reader questions about �performance capture,� the amazing new technology used to make the Sony Imageworks film, plus Hanks� �fat fingers� on Friday, Oct. 22, at noon ET. (I copied the above from the MSNBC link I found). Here's the question I submitted... |
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| How far away are we from waving "bye bye" to the elaborate trailers, entourages and face-lift bills of actors and saying "hello" to CG actors who never grow old, never say anything politically offensive and whose salaries are commensurate with a graduate of your local state university? I think of the revolution that occured in Hollywood with the advent of the "talkies". Are we there again? | ||||||
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