Doug Liman's epic sci-fi adventure "Edge of Tomorrow" (aka "Live Die Repeat") remains one of the great underappreciated event films of the last decade. Featuring solid performances from Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt and a sharp script from Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth, the 2014 spectacle is a compelling and even enthralling piece of entertainment.
The story, based on the novel "All You Need is Kill" by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, follows public affairs officer Major William Cage (Cruise), who inexplicably gets caught up in a war between humanity and an invading alien force. After dying on the battlefield, Cage wakes up the day before and quickly realizes he is somehow reliving the same day over and over again, resetting each time he gets killed. He then teams up with Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Blunt) to figure out the cause of his condition and the best way to utilize it against the aliens.
The story, based on the novel "All You Need is Kill" by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, follows public affairs officer Major William Cage (Cruise), who inexplicably gets caught up in a war between humanity and an invading alien force. After dying on the battlefield, Cage wakes up the day before and quickly realizes he is somehow reliving the same day over and over again, resetting each time he gets killed. He then teams up with Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Blunt) to figure out the cause of his condition and the best way to utilize it against the aliens.
- 11/25/2023
- by Jeff Ames
- Slash Film
The Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – ‘The Making of Harry Potter’ is getting an addition to its tour; the official set of Gringotts Wizarding Bank and visitors to the attraction will get the chance to explore its vaults.
Officially opening on Saturday the 6th of April, visitors to the site will be able to: walk through the banking hall of Gringotts; enter the Lestrange vault; pass through a gallery of goblins, alongside the costumes and prosthetics belonging to the Goblin bankers.
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Lined by towering marble pillars, the grand banking hall will be decorated with three magnificent crystal chandeliers and finished with real brass leaf. Inkwells, quills, ledgers and piles of Galleons, Sickles and Knuts will complete the goblin tellers’ desks as seen on screen. The Prop-making Department, led by Pierre Bohanna, created over 210,000 coins for the final two films alone.
Officially opening on Saturday the 6th of April, visitors to the site will be able to: walk through the banking hall of Gringotts; enter the Lestrange vault; pass through a gallery of goblins, alongside the costumes and prosthetics belonging to the Goblin bankers.
Also in news – Oscar Isaac enters talks to join Denis Villeneuve’s Dune
Lined by towering marble pillars, the grand banking hall will be decorated with three magnificent crystal chandeliers and finished with real brass leaf. Inkwells, quills, ledgers and piles of Galleons, Sickles and Knuts will complete the goblin tellers’ desks as seen on screen. The Prop-making Department, led by Pierre Bohanna, created over 210,000 coins for the final two films alone.
- 1/31/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Something wicked this way comes—to Warner Bros. Studios in London's The Making of Harry Potter exhibit, specifically. Filmed on the sets of Warner Bros.' Leavesden studio, the filmmakers who adapted J.K. Rowling's beloved series were left with thousands of props when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2 wrapped. The Making of tour was opened as a result, and the latest installation, the Dark Arts Tour, will give fans a peek inside the more frightening corners of the magical world. Set to open on Oct. 14, the permanent addition will cover all manner of dark magic from the film series.
- 10/10/2014
- by Jonathon Dornbush
- EW - Inside Movies
Edge of Tomorrow, the new action film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, presented an entirely new challenge for the actors: how to fight while wearing an 85 pound metal exoskeleton.
Designed by Pierre Bohanna, one of the minds behind The Dark Knight batsuit, the exoskeletons were built out of 275 custom pieces with 150 pieces of hardware, ensuring the suits could move with the actors. Bohanna revealed that it took him over five months to create the first complete exoskeleton – from the design to the finished product. Once he had established a manufacturing sequence to the suits, the time table sped up considerably, but the manufacturing the nearly 100 exoskeletons made was all done by Bohanna and his team.
Bohanna revealed that he received a lot of inspiration for the look of the suits from military grade exoskeletons, but coming up with materials best suited for the film was a bit more difficult.
Designed by Pierre Bohanna, one of the minds behind The Dark Knight batsuit, the exoskeletons were built out of 275 custom pieces with 150 pieces of hardware, ensuring the suits could move with the actors. Bohanna revealed that it took him over five months to create the first complete exoskeleton – from the design to the finished product. Once he had established a manufacturing sequence to the suits, the time table sped up considerably, but the manufacturing the nearly 100 exoskeletons made was all done by Bohanna and his team.
Bohanna revealed that he received a lot of inspiration for the look of the suits from military grade exoskeletons, but coming up with materials best suited for the film was a bit more difficult.
- 6/6/2014
- Uinterview
If there’s one thing actors don’t like, it’s looking dumb onscreen. They just hate it. Which explains why Emily Blunt was relieved—honestly, she swears, relieved—to have to wear an 85 lb metal exoskeleton during the battle scenes in Edge of Tomorrow. “Can you imagine trying to walk like you’re in one of those suits, and then they paint it in afterward with a computer? You’d look stupid,” she says. “When you see the movie, the action looks authentic because we were genuinely put on wires and flipped around wearing these enormous suits.”
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- 6/5/2014
- by Adam Markovitz
- EW - Inside Movies
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