Comments on: $9 Million Added To Budget, More VFX Houses Hired To Finish ‘Green Lantern’ In Time For Release Date

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:07 +0000

Listen, who cares. really. Warner Bros. is just as stupid as the rest. Do they make a better movie than other studios? No. It is all about the marketing, and whether morons turn out to see it. special effects are boring.

By: zulu

zulu — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:07 +0000

yeah nolan IS better of, at least in terms of vfx post-production. why? simply because he uses much less cgi and vfx. batman begins had about 600 effect shots, inception even less. you can expect that green lantern will have 1500 to 2000 effect shots. so nolan has only about 1/3 of the amout effect shots to finished. huge difference.

By: Mr Anonymous

Mr Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:07 +0000

But take a look at The Amazing-Spiderman for example. That will have a tonne full of SFX and guess what? That wraps filming in mid-May, in just a couple of weeks!

Guess when it\’s out? July 3, 2012.

So from mid May 2011 when all filming is wrapped to July 2012 that gives it 14 months to be ready in time. 14 whole months to get EVERYTHING as perfect as possible! Now that is impressive!

Not 12 months including the shooting/filming schedule which is absurd!

This is how movies should me made! Marc Webb, i salute you!

By: Kevin Jagernauth

Kevin Jagernauth — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:07 +0000

\”The Dark Knight Rises\” is being delivered in just over a year. Nolan isn\’t that much better off.

By: Mr Anonymous

Mr Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:07 +0000

I honestly don\’t understand these stupid movie studios.

It should be at least a year and a half – 18 months – for a film to shoot and be ready in time for a release date.

To give all these movies – Green Lantern, X-Men, The Avengers – simply 12 months is ridiculous! The Avengers just started shooting and that\’s meant to be MASSIVE in terms of production and that\’s expected to be ready in 1 year for release?

Madness!

Thank god for Christopher Nolan, even he isn\’t that stupid!

By: EvilNik

EvilNik — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:07 +0000

this little known movie called Avatar was moved from an initial summer slot to the xmas holiday spot, cos one mr.cameron wasnt happy with the effects and was tinkereing it till the first week of dec. and it made some money i think so. around 2 billion. i think the combined gdp of some third countries.

By: LearnToRead

LearnToRead — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:07 +0000

Nothing in the Variety story indicates that the need to \”fix\” the effects. Rather, they simply allocated more money to put some final finishing touches on the movie. This does not indicate a problem. Rather, it demonstrates that the studio knows it has a hit on its hands, and is willing to invest more money to perfect the final product.

All you Chicken Littles out there can calm down. The sky isn\’t falling.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:07 +0000

There are a number of forces that are pushing effects houses to the limit. Ticket and concession prices are high because they studios and theaters need to recoup the what they put in from a dwindling audience share.

But audiences are no longer interested in shucking out 30-40 bucks a person with tix and treats, unless it\’s an obviously must-see-it-in-the-theater spectacular show, so the demand on effects houses is high.

Simultaneously, the costs need to be rock bottom, so studios will go with the lowest bidder. As other countries have ramped up their effects capacity — no longer are joints in India or Mexico just mass roto-houses, they are producing competitive looking product — so outsourcing is a major threat to American VFX, and drives the prices yet lower.

This causes effects houses to take any job they can just to stay in the game, and the only way to really compete is by saying that they can do it faster, so the turnaround times get shorter and shorter.

The VFX industry really can\’t take that for very much longer; I expect outsourcing to become the norm — Canada, Mexico, India and England all have outfits that can easily meet audience standards.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:41:07 +0000

It makes me mad that Variety reported this. \”Studio spends extra money to get effects done for release.\” Doesn\’t that happen with a lot of movies?

If they were to move the release to December, then I think that would be suspicious as most every film that gets moved (\”The Green Hornet\”, \”Your Highness\”) gets shit on by critics.

That would be a cool list: movies whose release date got moved and were actually very good.