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FEB14

The Grey

Survival movies all pit man against nature and many of them show the limits of endurance and extreme conditions. THE GREY is more ambitious than that. It takes extreme as its starting point, and dares to venture into the tricky areas of spirituality and the metaphysical when the prospect of death is all but imminent.

Listen to star Liam Neeson explain the appeal of a script that not only read like an 18th Century epic, but allowed a respite from the age of technology with some wilderness introspection.
Hear how bitterly cold the conditions were in Alaska not to mention the exhaustion of having to run in thigh-deep snow, and how he thinks elements of his own personal tragedy undoubtedly crept into his performance.

Watch director Joe Carnahan describe how frost-bite made a regular appearance on set and how there's no traditional hook for this kind of thriller.
Then Dermot Mulroney argues that the movie straddles the line between documentary film-making and ficiton, given the realism of their expedition-like shoot.


LABELS:    Icon Films
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NOV04

Shark Night 3D

Ever since Steven Spielberg made swimmers afraid to go back into the water, other filmmakers have been thinking about ways to make their dismemberment as bloody and gory as possible.

It didn't take long for Sharkxploitation to catch on and now, with the glory of high-definition 3D, there are infinite ways to butcher the beautiful bikini babes.

In SHARK NIGHT 3D, which launched to great fanfare at Comic Con this year, a large variety of sharks begin to terrorize the happy sun-seekers on a private lake (don't ask) and the wake-boarders who taunt them.


LABELS:    Icon Films