Tag: Lost in Space
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‘Avengers,’ ‘Spider-Verse’ and ‘Lost in Space’ Lead Visual Effects Society Awards Winners
It was a great night for Marvel at the 17th annual Visual Effects Society Awards on Tuesday night. The comic book publisher’s wares led the film fields, with “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” nabbing four wins apiece.“Spider-Verse,” a dominant animated feature on the awards circuit this year, swept each of its categories.…
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‘Avengers,’ ‘Spider-Verse’ and ‘Lost in Space’ Lead Visual Effects Society Awards Winners
It was a great night for Marvel at the 17th annual Visual Effects Society Awards on Tuesday night. The comic book publisher’s wares led the film fields, with “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” nabbing four wins apiece.“Spider-Verse,” a dominant animated feature on the awards circuit this year, swept each of its categories.…
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Matt Smith to Star With Jared Leto in ‘Spider-Man’ Spinoff ‘Morbius’ (Exclusive)
Matt Smith is in final talks to join Jared Leto in “Morbius,” a film based on the Spider-Man villain of the same name.“Safe House” director Daniel Espinosa will helm the movie. Exact details of who Smith would play are unknown at this time, other than it being a major role in the film.Matt Sazama and…
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‘Avengers,’ ‘Lost in Space,’ ‘Ready Player One’ Lead Visual Effects Society Nominations
The Visual Effects Society announced nominees for the organization’s 17th annual awards on Tuesday.Leading the way in the film and TV fields, respectively, were Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War” and Netflix’s “Lost in Space.” Each picked up six nominations. Pixar’s “Incredibles 2” received the most nominations among animated feature contenders with five.“Ready Player One” also landed…
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George Jenson, Production Illustrator on ‘Return of the Jedi,’ Dies at 87
Academy Award-nominated art director and production illustrator George Jenson died of melanoma cancer in Henderson, Nev., on May 25. He was 87.He was the production illustrator on 1983’s “Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.” Jenson received his Oscar nomination for visual effects on “2010” in 1984.Jenson began his career in the film…
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Jared Leto to Star in Sony Spider-Man Title ‘Morbius,’ Daniel Espinosa to Direct
Jared Leto, who played The Joker in Suicide Squad, is looking to add another comic book character to his resume.The Oscar-winning actor has signed on to star in Morbius, Sony’s latest entry into its Marvel-based, Spider-Man-centric universe of characters.Daniel Espinosa, the Scandanavian filmmaker who helmed Safe House and last year’s sci-fi thriller Life, will direct…
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Deanna Lund Dies: ‘Land Of The Giants’ Star Was 81
Deanna Lund, who starred in the late-’60s sci-fi series Land of the Giants and went on to appear in dozens of films and TV shows, died Friday. She was 81. Lund played the heiress Valerie Scott on Land of the Giants, the 1968-70 cult drama credited by pre-disaster movie producer Irwin Allen, who was coming…
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Early Plot Details for Sony’s Next ‘Spider-Man’ Spinoff, ‘Morbius’
Sony Pictures is going all-in on their own dark universe. With plans for this October’s Venom to lead into the Sinister Six supervillain movie, the studio has also been developing Morbius, a feature project centered on Spider-Man antihero Morbius the Living Vampire. It was reported last November that Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, who worked…
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‘Lost in Space’: Mina Sundwall and Max Jenkins on Family Dynamics and Working with a Robot
The Netflix family adventure series Lost in Space, set 30 years in the future, follows the Robinson family – John (Toby Stephens), Maureen (Molly Parker), Judy (Taylor Russell), Penny (Mina Sundwall) and Will (Maxwell Jenkins) – as they try to make a life for themselves in a new and different world, after they must leave…
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Netflix Is Concerned the Internet Thinks the ‘Lost in Space’ Robot Is Hot: ‘Ya’ll Need Jesus’ — Watch
The internet’s physical attraction to non-human movie and television characters is gaining traction on social media. We saw it happen with Pennywise when “It” became a horror blockbuster last September (Cosmopolitan wrote an entire article about it), and the attraction to the fish creature in Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar winner “The Shape of Water” was…