As part of their Power of Film feature, IMDb has put together a list of the top 15 highest fan rated flicks released since 2000. The list is impressive and a bit shocking: four of the films are foreign, three are animated, and four are fanperson dream films.
Coming in at number one is, unsurprisingly, “The Dark Knight.” A fan favorite that arguably spurred the Academy’s decision to open Best Picture up to 10 nominees after it was snubbed a nomination. “The Dark Knight” redefined the comic book film genre. Similarly, “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” is number two, and one of only two films listed that won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Read more...
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During Friday night's conversational panel featuring celebrated filmmakers Peter Jackson and James Cameron, the pair revealed that they might revisit some older projects now that 3D technology is becoming more viable in theaters.
According to Cameron, his experience with the much-anticipated 3D film "Avatar" prompted him to look back on another big-budget, special-effects project in his rearview mirror. The director said he plans to "dimensionalize" (convert to 3D) his 1997 film "Titanic."
Over the course of the panel, the directing duo revealed that they'd bonded over their mutual love for 3D filmmaking. In fact, Jackson said he'd like to go 3D with his "Lord of the Ring" trilogy, too.
Saying he'd "love to convert the 'Lord of the Rings,'" Jackson said the current economic climate has studios viewing the cost of adapting theaters to 3D technology very skeptically. For his part, Cameron said that's all going to change once "Avatar" arrives.
Would you like to see "Titanic" and "Lord of the Rings" in 3D?
Doug Jones wants you to know that he would play a hemorrhoid in a Guillermo del Toro film if asked, that he would follow the visionary "Hellboy" director anywhere he chooses to go. Doug Jones also wants you to know that he hopes that includes "The Hobbit," del Toro's next project. Most of all, though, Doug Jones wants you to know that he isn't officially cast in that movie, that there's nothing on paper, that anything and everything could change, and that to state or otherwise imply otherwise would be premature at best and plain wrong at worst.
And we wouldn't dare go against any of these desires. Except, well, there's one tiny thing more Doug Jones also wants you to know:
"There's been lots of speculation. I wouldn't want to ruin anything. Guillermo creates things with me in mind and he's got a better image of what I can do than I do," the man otherwise known as the Silver Surfer and Abe Sapien told MTV News, a wicked and knowing smile across his face. "However, there might be an elf king, father of Legolas kind of character that I would love." Read more...
