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...Cash of the Titans The rush to 3-D began in earnest early last year, with much tub-thumping about how A-list directors like Steven Spielberg and James Cameron were testing the format. The box office verified that interest: four of the top dozen domestic hits of 2009 were shown in 3-D. Three were animated features: Up, Monsters vs Aliens and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. The fourth film: Avatar. James Cameron's eco-epic, which quickly became the No. 1 moneymaker in movie history, proved a couple of things about 3-D. In the right hands...
...next Batman - will be made, or at least released, in 3-D. Sony's decision to go with a new creative team for the next Spider-Man sequel is said to be related to the studio's wish to have the Marvel hero do his cavorting in 3-D. Spielberg is in postproduction on his 3-D Tintin movie. Will other moguls dare make the next film in the Transformers or James Bond franchise in a flat-screen version? It's more likely that producers, seeing the stratospheric grosses for Avatar and Alice and the quadrupling of screens able...
...rain valor worthy of a Medal of Honor. (If the roughly two hours of romantic sequences of Marines falling head over heels in love seem hokey by comparison, chalk it up to the demands of serial entertainment.) Nearly every prop used in the miniseries is an exact replica. "Steven [Spielberg] and I wanted to provide people with an accurate visual sense of time and geography," Hanks says...
...Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg had vividly captured ghostly, pockmarked European ruins in elegantly warped shades of brown, grey and beige. Those drab colors wouldn't do for a miniseries set in the blindingly blue Pacific Basin. Together, Spielberg and Hanks did tests at a Universal Studios back lot to conjure up a faded Hawaiian postcard look. Palm fronds, ripe coconuts and white clouds pop out from the TV screen in a tamped-down Day-Glo way. The cinematic effect is mesmerizing. (See the best movies of the decade...
...imaginative energy comes straight from novels like Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones' The Thin Red Line. The result is like Herman Wouk's The Winds of War (both the novel and the made-for-TV movie) on steroids. Hanks and fellow executive producers Spielberg and Gary Goetzman are wrestling with age-old - and current - questions about the barbarity of war: How can Americans ask our young men and women to indiscriminately kill a shadowy enemy and then return to their ordered Coca-Cola lives Stateside...