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Marvel Studios executive vice president of visual effects Victoria Alonso chats with Digital Trends about the challenges of piecing together the eye candy in Iron Man 3 with the various teams scattered around the globe.
From "DirectX Box" to "720," it's been a long, strange trip for Microsoft's Xbox gaming console.
What will Microsoft's next-generation of Xbox bring to the table? We sift through all the rumors and present the most likely. We will also continue to update this post as new news - like the recently confirmed unveiling - are announced.
"This is what I loved growing up. It's why I love movies." said Retaliation director Jon Chu.
Despite mixed reactions for its 2009 predecessor, G.I. Joe returns to theaters with, G.I. Joe Retaliation, a sequel that improves on the original in big, big ways.
Antoine Fuqua, the director of Training Day, brings blood, bullets, and Gerard Butler to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for an action-packed thriller in Olympus is Down.
"A lot of what we guessed at and imagined was close to reality," said the film's writers.
With the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on home media today, we look back at the film and offer 10 things about J.R.R. Tolkien book and Peter Jackson's film that you might not know.
We chronicle the history of Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider franchise ahead of this week's big reboot of the series.
Despite its futuristic setting, Ridley Scott's return to the Alien franchise stressed practical effects over digital magic. We take a deeper look at Prometheus, a film with an Academy Award nomination in the same "Visual Effects" category won by Alien more than two decades ago.
It took a mix of CGI magic and all-too-real tigers to bring the story of a shipwrecked boy and a jungle cat to the screen in Life Of Pi.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson proves that he doesn't need fight scenes to bring the drama in this ripped-from-headlines thriller.
The team behind this dark retelling of a classic fairy tale mixed high-tech and old-school techniques to earn an Oscar nomination for Snow White and the Huntsman.
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates five films for an Academy Award in the “Visual Effects” category. The tale of each film offers a glimpse into the innovative, state-of-the-art tricks effects teams are using to light up the big screen like never before. Digital Trends’ “Oscar Effects” series puts the spotlight on one [...]
After two big-screen flops, the Hulk's success in The Avengers has put the movie on the path toward an Oscar.