About the Story Astro Boy, who carries within himself the Blue Core, a power source made of positive “blue” energy, is sought out by the troops of the militaristic President Stone, obsessed with obtaining the Core for the “Peacekeeper” robot, in fact invented to be used as a weapon to dominate Earth. Fleeing from the…
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Avatar Movie Production Notes (2009)
We enter the alien world through the eyes of Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the…
Away We Go Production Notes (2009)
Green Light Away We Go marks the first movie that director Sam Mendes has helmed from an original screenplay since the Academy Award-winning American Beauty. He remarks, “I was feeling the need to do something writer-led. Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida’s script was delightful, and had a lightness of spirit even when dealing with serious…
Bandslam Movie Production Notes (2009)
“I met Vanessa very early on in the casting process while she was in New York doing press for ‘High School Musical,’ and really liked her,” recalls Goldsmith-Thomas. “She’s a straight-forward, very honest, sweet person.” After gaining worldwide recognition for playing the brainy, popular Gabriella in the phenomenally successful High School Musical trilogy, Hudgens was…
The Blind Side Production Notes (2009)
Teenager Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is surviving on his own, virtually homeless, when he is spotted on the street by Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock). Learning that the young man is one of her daughter’s classmates, Leigh Anne insists that Michael—wearing shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter—come out of the cold. Without…
Blood: The Last Vampire Production Notes (2009)
A young woman on a train eyes a nervous man. In a flash, he is chased down the train and the young woman slices him in half. She is Saya (Gianna Jun), a four hundred year-old skilled half human-half vampire samurai who hunts vampires. Raised by a man named Kato (Yasuaki Kurata), she works loosely…