Film

Will 3D be the Only Option Soon?

By Connor Riegel

This December, Avatar was the first blockbuster to be released in 3D.  But of course that was just James Cameron trying to be the biggest and best right?  That might not be true; it seems the recent trend is for a lot of movies to be released in 3D.

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Will 3D be the only option soon?

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Avatar opens new dimensions for film-making

By Julie Sayo

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If you haven’t seen James Cameron’s epic film Avatar, I suggest you see it now after all it is the highest grossing film in the country. Avatar won Best Film drama and Cameron won Best Director at the Academy Awards this past week. Cameron had originally planned on shooting the film in 1996 but scrapped the project after realizing that the technology of the time could not produce the film he envisioned. Fast forward to 2005 when Cameron and his crew at Weta Digital, the studio that produced special effects for King Kong and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, began the monumental project.

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Spike Lee Film Series Set to Wrap Wednesday

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By Brittany Lee

Over the past month, the Office of Academic Affairs and Diversity, the Black Faculty, Administrators and Staff Association, the Center for Innovation in Urban Education, the College Diversity Committee,  and ALANA Services have presented films at Loyola from director Spike Lee , who will be the guest speaker at Loyola's 2010 MLK Convocation in January.

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New Moon Trailer

The Twilight saga continues with the second movie,  New Moon, coming soon on November 20, 2009. Check out the newly released trailer below:

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