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When artist Brock Davis shaves off his beard, it's an event. Every daily act is an opportunity for him to create. Here's a bear that he made the manliness that he sliced off his face. R.I.P.

Some filmmakers will go the extra mile -or an extra year- the make their movie perfect. Sometimes it’s because they did not realize how difficult or time-consuming an effect would be, and once some time is spent, it doesn’t seem right to abandon the process (the law of diminishing returns). For others, it was part of their vision, and had to be just right. Some of these budget-busting effects ended up being fairly inconsequential to the finished movie. For example, the drop of blood in The Incredible Hulk was an important plot point, but the effect took way too long to get right. Was it worth it?

For some reason though, the company behind that shot, Image Engine, spent upwards of a year tweaking that scene to get it just right. Now I'm no expert on making movies, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that if Image engine had spent the budget and time that, that scene ended up consuming on something else, like maybe the Hulk kicking Abomination in the sack, the audience would have appreciated it more than an artistic shot of a drop of blood in freefall.

The other effects in this list all have a story behind them as well. Read about them all at Dorkly.

The final shot of a film is crucial. It’s the last image the viewer sees before leaving the theater, and the one with the most potential to stick in their minds about the film’s message. Some movies don’t really take it that seriously, lingering on something of little significance, or maybe just offering a simple wrap up. Other films approach the final shot with serious concern, knowing it can change the entire movie, or give the audience an opportunity to digest what’s gone before.

All of those different versions of the final shot, and many more, are on display in a new video from Devour. Starting with 12 Years A Slave, they’ve edited all the final shots from the 86 Oscar winners for Best Picture into one five-minute video. Check it out below.

Thanks to Devour, via Movies.com, for this great piece.

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The title Halt and Catch Fire makes this new AMC show sound like a strange thriller, but it’s really about the expansion of the PC market after IBM rose to prominence. That said, the show does look like a thriller to some extent, as a set of characters — primarily Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan, Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark, Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark, and Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe — exploit particular aspects of IBM’s design to create their own personal computer. Check out a Halt and Catch Fire teaser trailer below.

This will be a 10-episode series, from creators Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers. Jonathan Lisco is executive producer and showrunner.

Halt and Catch Fire premieres on AMC on Sunday, June 1 at 10pm ET/PT.

“Halt and Catch Fire” is set roughly one year after IBM all but corners the market with the release of its first major product – the IBM PC. It is also the same year people realize the IBM PC’s fatal flaw, which quickly makes personal computing anyone’s game. In this fictional drama, a former IBM executive, Joe McMillan (Lee Pace) plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer, he forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. McMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a once great engineer who dreams of creating a revolutionary product while trying to manage his initially unsupportive wife Donna (Kerry Bishé), and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan’s rogue PC project. While charting the changing culture of Texas’ Silicon Prairie, tensions build within the group as they attempt to navigate the thin line between visionary and fraud, genius and delusion, and as their drive to do something that matters runs up against their ability to truly innovate.

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To paraphrase Idiocracy, we used to care whose head was getting slammed into the Hibachi grill and why. As if to answer that question, The Raid 2 takes a substantially different tack from that of its 2011 predecessor, adding a convoluted plot and only intermittently attending to the sort of acrobatic ass-kicking for which the original became a global smash. Indeed, until its spectacular final act, the movie scans as a generic Asian Extreme gangster saga, whose endless double-crosses owe much to Infernal Affairs, Takeshi Kitano’s yakuza smackdowns, and Johnnie To’s triad films. The result may be a reversal of fandom: Those who (heresy alert?) felt benumbed by the first movie’s relentless gamer onslaught now have a bit more story to grab ahold of. Those who show up exclusively for the beat downs will have to contend with existential hand-wringing, as hero cop Rama (Iko Uwais) goes ...

After re-emerging from the his nearly decade-long dormancy, Dave Chappelle returned to comedy by headlining the massive Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival last year. Though the tour was not without incident—proving that, like the Whalers before him, Hartford is incapable of not ruining things—Chappelle has been relatively quiet since the end of that tour. But now he’s announced a (presumably) one-off show at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on June 18, making his first public appearance in the city since he filmed Dave Chappelle’s Block Party in 2004. Tickets for the show go on sale April 4 at 10 a.m., and even though Chappelle is notoriously unpredictable, it’s safe to assume that tickets for this, his first stand-up performance in New York City in over a decade, will go fast. 

Seems like they do have a new origin, as well as their new super-muscular builds.

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The Shredder variant and April’s dad did something that created the ooze that created the Turtles? That’s modern Hollywood thinking for you.

Official Trailer For Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Steven Spielberg and George Lucas originally wanted Tom Selleck to play Indiana Jones, but CBS wouldn’t let him do the film. These are scenes from Magnum, PI 8x10, “Legend of the Lost Art”.

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John McClane made it through Die Hard in 4 lives – how many does he need to finish all five movies?! We closed out the Die Hard saga and asked a real doctor to find out!

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Casting a movie can be fairly daunting and sometimes it means you don’t get to watch episodes of New Girl. Unless…..

That seems to be the rationale behind casting New Girl co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans, Jr. as the two slackers who pretend to be cops in Let’s Be Cops. After their plans to attend a costume party backfire, the duo find themselves enjoying the attention they get when mistaken for actual police officers. This, of course, leads to sex with attractive women, getting mixed up with criminals, and walking slowly toward the camera.

I can’t wait for the sequel where they pretend to be ghosts and end up in a real haunted house where they meet young women attracted to ghosts.

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Behold, 20 randomly cool movie facts, so random, so cool, your head might just explode—mine almost did from the Tom Cruise factoid alone. Seriously, though, any and all true movie lovers should know this stuff, it’s good stuff!

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Today I deliver words that should surprise no one. AMC is moving forward with the untitled spin-off of The Walking Dead. They’ve brought in Dave Erickson as the braaaaaiiinnnsssss behind the development and to executive produce and co-write the series. A writer and producer for the network’s abysmal failure, Low Winter Sun, Erickson was probably given this job with the challenge, “Here, idiot. Try to screw up zombies.”

I could see it. (TV Guide)

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The Rock is Hercules. He’s got his top off, he’s buff, he’s in a trailer that I might have expected to run with 300: Rise of an Empire. Guess it wasn’t ready in time.

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That looks a lot less wiseassed than Brett Ratner‘s typical fare. Could be be reinventing himself? We’ll see about that.

It also seems like a relatively grounded take on the Hercules myth. By which I mean, he seems to be like a movie action hero, with all the agility and invulnerability that implies, and not an animated god.

Trailer: The “Dwayne Johnson” Rock Is Brett Ratner’s Hercules

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