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CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till release

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JoeZhang said:
Here's a tricky question - is it possible that Potter keeps Captain America off number 1 next week?
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Very possible and something that's been on my mind since they announced the Potter slot way back when.
I made what seems to be my first concern of opening post Potter back on page 56, post 839 ironically enough a year to the date that film opens, July 22, 2010.
Captain Craig said:
What concerns me about Caps chances for success are not how accurate his costume is to the source. I'm thinking about audiences getting superhero overdose by the time Cap roles around + Cap opens the weekend following Harry Potter: Deathly Hollows pt.2(aka the last HP film) + Pirates 4, TFormers 3, F&Furious 5 & Cars 2 among others. Next summer is going to be brutal and Cap will be opening in the thick of it. Thor is lucky to have the opening slot in May where the IM, X-Men & Spidey films have all done well. Cap could pull Hulk numbers, that's what I'm looking at as of now. XM:FC is the first Xfilm to open as deep into summer as it is.
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Potter is going to have to have a huge 65-70% drop AND Captain America needs to open strong, as strong as THOR, around $65m+ to be #1 I think. If it's as good as it seems it'd be a shame for it not at least have one weekend in limelight.
 
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JoeZhang said:
We had it in comics - it was called Truth:Red, White and Black and wasn't well received (I've never read it, so I have no idea).
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I thought it was incredible. Certainly not what I expected. Not really a super-hero story at all.
 
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Just read on ComingSoon.net that the post credits sequence in CA is a
teaser trailer for the Avengers. I posted the full description in the Avengers thread, if you to check it out.
 
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Sadly, I don't think Cap will get number one. Places around here are essentially sold out for Harry Potter for the first week. People who want to see it have to see it next weekend. A drop doesn't seem all that likely.
 
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I was able to catch an early free showing of the movie last night. While I wouldn't say it was bad, I was certainly disappointed. The pacing was a bit to fast. To top it off, certain elements were rushed through and not really explained well. There were some interesting ties to the Thor movie. Overall, it just had too much of a setup movie feel to it.
 
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Turns out that after all the talk of them going with a body double and CGI'ing Evans head onto another actor they filmed Chris Evans and digitally "shrunk" his body.

Like Fincher in "Social Network," director Johnston initially hired a body double and used the head replacement system in a scene where Steve Rogers was lying on a table. But he quickly realized it wouldn't work for other sequences.
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Instead of the body double/superimposed head, the filmmakers used a "shrinking" technique and computers to basically erase portions of Evans' strong physique on screen.
"We filmed over 250 shots of Chris and used digital technology to 'shrink' him down to what we called 'Skinny Steve,'" said Johnston.
"It's pretty amazing," added Evans. "They took shape out of my jaw line, they shrunk my skeleton and they made my shoulders less broad."
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Reviews should be hitting tomorrow or hopefully within hours if it's an online outlet
 
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The first review is up on RT now. It's rotten.
 
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That's a pretty shitty review, though. It's always a warning sign when the writer's more interested in their own cleverness than reviewing the subject.

It's too smug, and the author clearly hasn't really thought out her ideal Captain America film, where Steve confronts the real-life atrocities of the Holocaust.
 
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Captaindemotion said:
DWF said:
Captaindemotion said:
They did the Empire State Building in ID4, didn't they? Or did I imagine that?
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Yes they did since the motheship was right over the Empire State Building, but since it was 1996 the twin towers were there as well.
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Oh, I knew the TT were still there when the movie was made. But pre-9/11, they weren't as iconic, which is probably why the ESB got it in that movie. Indeed, one of the criticisms of the 1976 King Kong was that he climbed the, rather than the ESB.
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That's horsepoop, IMO. The Twin Towers have been considered iconic since the day they were completed. Every fricking movie made in NYC before 9/11 featured the obligatory shot of them. And as for the '76 King Kong, the one thing that the film actually got right was having him climb the Twin Towers, because they were the tallest buildings in the city, in their day.....just as the ESB was the tallest building of its day.
 
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Python Trek said:
Captaindemotion said:
DWF said:
Yes they did since the motheship was right over the Empire State Building, but since it was 1996 the twin towers were there as well.
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Oh, I knew the TT were still there when the movie was made. But pre-9/11, they weren't as iconic, which is probably why the ESB got it in that movie. Indeed, one of the criticisms of the 1976 King Kong was that he climbed the, rather than the ESB.
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That's horsepoop, IMO. The Twin Towers have been considered iconic since the day they were completed. Every fricking movie made in NYC before 9/11 featured the obligatory shot of them. And as for the '76 King Kong, the one thing that the film actually got right was having him climb the Twin Towers, because they were the tallest buildings in the city, in their day.....just as the ESB was the tallest building of its day.
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Read my post again. I said not 'as iconic', meaning as iconic as they are now. I didn't say they weren't iconic but let's face it, being at the centre of the greatest terrorist outrage in US history elevated them to a level of fame and attention they previously hadn't had.

And in relation to King Kong, I'm merely repeating a criticism I've heard levelled at the movie.
 
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