Matrix: Reloaded, Revolutions and Animatrix (WARNING: Revolutions Spoilers)

The guy at the local Babbages says that "Enter the Matrix" PS2 game will be out on May 16. It looks hella-cool too.

 

Just thought you guys would be interested inknowint that the full Reloaded trailer will be attached to Anger Management this Friday.

I have already seen a 30 sec preview of that. Looks good

Also some new promo pics for ETM

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I've also found some cool looking not seen before pics.

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[image=http://www.thematrix-fr.com/groupezion.jpg] [image=http://www.thematrix-fr.com/neodemo.jpg]

 

lastfreecity.com

More (Tuesday's) Access Hollywood footage here for download!

Ya have to see this footage. it is UNBELIVABLE!!

Shows kickass scenes with Trinity and more of the TWINS. plus NEO wacks the HELL out of one of the Agent Smith clones.

 

If ya download that footage then watch it frame by frame cause their are pics of scenes that go by too fast when watching it in normal speed.

some cool as stills of scenes in Reloaded.


Reloaded = Live action anime

 

Downloading the file now, will edit this with my verdict.

smauldookie what do you think of the posters I posted up a bit. Prety cool hu!?

*jumps up and down with exitement* Can't wait untill thursday!

 

Hell yeah those Posters RULE!


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download both access4 files NOW!!!

Especailly the bigger file.


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machacker from thelastfreecity.com forum.


"Hey everyone.....I know people have been complaining about slow download time and server errors. I have a very fast Internet 2 server that will not fail. Gotta love college! Anyways, I have put up all Access Hollywood footage, and the thirty second tv spot. The files are either mpeg's or mp4's (simply done to save download time, same as original copies). Quicktime is the only cross platform free software that plays both. www.apple.com/quicktime if you don't have it. Ok, now for the good stuff. My site is:
http://www.geneseo.edu/~dag4
There will be an index page with correct links to each video. Hope this helps!

~MacHacker"

DLE EDIT: Edited to stop scrolling.

 

PICS from the new issue of PREIMERE MAG!!

http://www.thelastfreecity.com/zionswitchboard/messageview.cfm?catid=20&threadid=6238

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John Gaeta VFX supervisor for Matrix Trilogy!
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So what does a visual effects supervisor do to follow up the Matrix trilogy? Gaeta says his next project will be "some combination of Akira, Busby Berkeley, and Apocalypse Now."


http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/matrix2_pr.html


MATRIX2


Bullet Time was just the beginning. F/x guru John Gaeta reinvents cinematography with The Matrix Reloaded.

By Steve Silberman

I'm sitting in a former naval barracks in Alameda, California, watching the digital assembly of a human face. Bones, teeth, glistening eyes. Layer upon layer. Finally the hair and skin, the creases and tiny scars that make us who we are. The face blinks and breathes. Then it snarls, and my skin crawls.

Agent Smith is back, and he's pissed.

You'll be seeing a lot of Agent Smith this year. Neo's man-in-black nemesis returns on May 15 in The Matrix Reloaded, the continuing story of a young hacker who learns that the apparently real world is an elaborate computer simulation. In November, a second sequel, Matrix Revolutions, will take up where Reloaded's nail-biting climax leaves off.

Things have changed since 1999. In the last shot of the original film, Neo, played by ex-slacker Keanu Reeves, flew up out of the frame, demonstrating that his mental abilities had become stronger than the enslaving delusion of the Matrix. Now he's a full-fledged superhero, soaring over the skyline at thousands of miles an hour and making a rescue as trucks collide head-on. The bad news: Agent Smith, played by Hugo Weaving, is a rogue virus in the Matrix, able to multiply himself at will. And the last free human city, Zion, in a cave near the Earth's core, is under attack.

What hasn't changed is the dark, richly nuanced aesthetic of brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski, a pair of Hollywood outsiders who wrote and directed what became the most successful movie in the history of Warner Bros. The Wachowskis had always conceived of Neo's odyssey as a trilogy, but to release both sequels months apart - plus the videogame Enter the Matrix and an anime series called The Animatrix - required a year of intense collaboration, as the scripts, sets, and shot designs all evolved together.

The Matrix raised the bar for action films by introducing new levels of realism into stunt work and visual effects. For Reloaded and Revolutions, the Wachowskis dreamed up action sequences that were so over-the-top they would require their special-effects supervisor, John Gaeta, to reinvent cinematography itself.

With four Academy Award nominations to their credit, the members of the core Matrix team reconvened in February 2000 at a secret location near the beach outside of Los Angeles. There - at the home base of Eon, the Wachowskis' production company - Gaeta, concept artists Geof Darrow and Steve Skroce, production designer Owen Patterson, producer Grant Hill, and the brothers brainstormed around "the most James Bond table you've ever seen," Gaeta says. Hanging above it were pulldown screens linked to 3-D workstations so that art and designs could be discussed collectively. Over the next year, a river of drawings, storyboards, and stage plans flowed into Eon's asset-management network, which was christened (what else?) the Zion Mainframe.

For visual ideas and inspiration, the group cranked up Alien, 2001, Vertigo, Apocalypse Now, Koyaanisqatsi, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, along with documentary footage of car crashes, robotics manufacturing, 19th-century submarines, glassblowers at work, the drilling of the Chunnel, the heavyweight bouts of Rocky Marciano, and the explosion of the Hindenburg. Madhouse, the makers of Akira and Metropolis, prepared a custom reel of explosions of various types and sizes for the Wachowskis, who were particularly interested in the ways that natural phenomena - weather, water, flames - are depicted in anime as inte

 

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/matrix2_pr.html

How to Be a Real Hollywood Player
And the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Game goes to Jada Pinkett Smith!
by Evan Ratliff


Warner Bros.
In Reloaded, the Matrix sequel, Jada Pinkett Smith plays the supporting role of Niobe, a hovercraft pilot. But in Enter the Matrix, the spinoff videogame, she's the star. Both will be released on May 15 - a synergistic first for Hollywood. (GoldenEye 007, a well-received shooter, came out a full two years after the movie hit theaters.) The movie industry has promised multimedia convergence ever since Atari's Star Wars hit arcades 20 years ago. But with minimal participation from actors and directors, franchised game incarnations have largely ended up as flubs that look and play like marketing ploys.

Enter the Wachowski brothers, avid gamers who view the two Matrix sequels and the game as a single project. All three titles share the same sets, crews, costume designers, choreographers, and - most crucially - actors. Each of the 25 main characters in the film reprise some version of their role for the game, and none more than Niobe. She and weapons expert Ghost (Anthony Wong) are the only playable characters.

While the typical spinoff might require actors to reread a few lines or submit to a scan, Pinkett Smith worked as hard on the game as on the movie that spawned it. She had to memorize game scripts several times longer than their film equivalents. She's starring in an additional hour of the movie, which will appear not in theaters but as cut-scene interludes in Enter the Matrix. And to get the gameplay right, she had to endure six months' worth of extra motion capture, face mapping, and full-body scanning. The result, she says, was maddening. "You had first unit, second unit, third unit, and then the game stuff."

That's a first for videogame production. "I could have hired some cheap actors to do it," says David Perry, whose company, Shiny Entertainment, developed the game. "But the Wachowskis didn't want to hear that. They were like, are you kidding me?"

For actors, shooting on a game set can be a trying experience: Game producers have to film from all angles to create realistic action. The motion capture set also required pretend-driving foam-and-wire cars, reacting to nonexistent explosions, and fleeing from make-believe agents. "It was like being a kid again," she says. "Everything had to be created through my imagination."

It wasn't easy, but the result, she predicts, will vault game acting into Hollywood's next big thing. "People are going to wanna be down," she says, noting that husband Will Smith is already investigating a game tie-in for his next movie. "That's the way you are going to have to do it from now on."

That's fine for Pinkett Smith - as long as she's working with the masters. "I know that if the Wachowskis made another game," she says, "it would be something that's never been done before."

The 10 Movies That Rocked My World
by John Gaeta

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
The ultimate application of visual effects by the director who has most inspired my industry.

2. Metropolis (Lang) Metropolis (Rintaro)
Fritz Lang's visionary approach to architecture and set design is as contemporary today as it was in 1926. The 2002 remake written by the anime master responsible for Akira is the most sophisticated merger of 2-D and 3-D animation methods I've ever seen. Plus, antirobot rebellion is supercool.

3. Alien (Scott)
Ridley Scott is a god when it comes to setting a tone. H. R. Giger's textures and atmosphere in this film are among the strongest and strangest visual backdrops you'll ever find. (A close second: Blade Runner.)

4. Koyaanisqatsi Powaqqatsi (Reggio)
These movies make me hallucinate, literally. I am obsessed with the visuals and consult them endlessly. Stylized culture, nature, and surreal patterns of this world - it's all there.

5. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
The vertigo effect is completely original. If Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, or Orson W

 

http://www.thelastfreecity.com/docs/8151.html

Here are the out-takes from the Wired interview that didn't make it to the print mag but did make it to you! Aren't they great!


Favorite Extra Moments from a Wired Interview with John Gaeta
by Steve Silberman

NOTE: Spoilers ahead. These quotes are out-takes from an interview I did with Matrix trilogy visual effects supervisor John Gaeta in February for "Matrix2," my cover story in the May 2003 issue of Wired magazine, which is on newsstands now in the US. (The article can also be found on the Web here, but please read it on paper if you can ? the images used to illustrate it, from a special shoot that our photographer Matthew Welch did with John, are very cool.)

John was very generous with his time, but publishing a magazine ? like making a film ? requires leaving a lot of tasty stuff on the cutting-room floor. I offer these additional quotes to Matrix fans worldwide, with the suggestion that they will make a lot more sense in the context of my article. Special thanks to John and the ESC and Warner Bros. staff who made this interview possible, and warm gratitude to Jon Cline of thelastfreecity.com for creating a great site and being a nice guy as well as a true fan. And thanks to all the fine folks at Wired. See you in Zion!
? S.S.

Steve Silberman: What music had a formative influence on you when you were young?

John Gaeta: I started thinking more abstractly when I started listening to electronic music. In high school, I went from the Grateful Dead to the Sex Pistols, and when my friends moved to Manhattan, they plunged into D.C. hardcore -- Bad Brains and stuff. But it was the Orb that switched a new light on in my head. I wanted to throw a multimedia party just so I could play that record for people.

Steve Silberman: How did the Wachowski brothers find you when you were working at [special effects company] Mass.Illusion in the '90s?

John Gaeta: Larry and Andy were led to Mass.Illusion through a producer friend of theirs who heard that we were into these really esoteric camera systems. They wanted to do two things: they wanted to see if someone knew how to move a camera in impossible ways, and then, in general, they were looking for people who could wrap their heads around their abstract, dark film. Larry and Andy and I were the same age, so we connected on a personal level about film, animé, and a lot of other things. They were just learning about visual effects ? they hadn't done any. They went all the obvious bigger firms, but Mass.Illusion wasn't even a competitor to, say, ILM. We were really the underdog. But the fact that they chose us was really telling about the way they operate: they are much more interested in the idea of creative exchange. They turned down proposals from much larger firms.

My friends and I at Mass.Illusion used to rent spaces in mills to have parties. They were the best parties. As visual effects kids, we were able to decorate our spaces with lots of props. We made a deal with Doug [Trumbull] that we would store his props for free. His bluescreen mirrors turned out to be very useful for making mirror rooms. We also used Doug's stunt mats ? giant porta-pit mats that you could jump into from high places, to practice stage diving. It was awesome. We would borrow lights. I owned 15 projectors myself, and I had friends who did animation, so we would make loops.

Steve Silberman: How do you and the brothers get along with producer Joel Silver?

John Gaeta: Joel has a lot of trust in Larry and Andy. I never see interference. They've basically earned the creative freedom that Stanley Kubrick had, but much earlier in their career. We look at Joel as the P.T. Barnum of today -- P.T. Barnum 2.0.

Steve Silberman: Did the studio executives at Warner Bros. understand The Matrix right away?

John Gaeta: Larry and Andy had these special pages attached to the script ? they called them the "blue pages," or something like that ? with a rider at the head of the script that said something like, "If your head explodes while yo

 

The Official Matrix site TheMatrix.com have just updated their Breaking News section with the following:

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Final theatrical trailer (2:30).

Launch dates:

Sooner than Friday in London; before Saturday in New York; way before Sunday in Sydney; significantly earlier than Monday in Tokyo. The rest of the world: between now and Tokyo.

TheMatrix.com

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Also Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight will show the entire trailer on their show.

 

HUGE ARTICLE ON NEW ISSUE OF PREMIERE MAGAZINE!! CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!!!!!!














Premiere (US) - May 2003

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINES
An exclusive report from the set of The Matrix sequels, where the latest weapons in the battle for mankind's deliverance are a sexy temptress, a multiplying villain, and some mind-blowing special effects.

By Mark Salisbury

Keanu Reeves is primal-screaming. Standing at the bottom of a crater set some 20 feet deep - all that remains of a sidewalk that's been torn apart by two superpowerful entities doing battle in the skies overhead before crashing to the ground - and drenched by four massive sprinklers that, during the wide shots, dump between seven and ten tons of water per minute on him, the star of this year's most anticipated sequels lets out the kind of deep, disturbing, bowel-loosening cry that would terrify small children, nervous animals, and any visiting journalist. Lasting no more than two seconds, it echoes around Stage 2 at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia, for what seems like an eternity and, give or take a few consonants, can be transcribed thus: AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

"Sometimes it's to raise my energy, and sometimes it's frustration," Reeves explains almost a year later, sitting in the lounge at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. "It's a way of venting, expressing my frustration, at myself and not being able to realize the event. This exclusively happens when I'm dealing with the action sequences, because I want to make it super-perfect."

In 1999's The Matrix, Reeves's character, Neo, awoke to the fact that the world as he knew it was a computer-generated construct designed to keep humanity blissfully unaware of it's status as energy source for a race of sentient machines. By the movie's end, he'd been transformed into The One, mankind's prophesied savior and key to it's freedom from the Matrix, flying up past the camera like some kind of comic-book superhero ready to wage war against the machines. Now, in the sequels The Matrix Reloaded (due May 15) and The Matrix Revolutions (November 7), his abilities have developed in ways fans of the first film will be drooling about for years. "He's self-actualizing inside the Matrix," says visual-effects supervisor John Gaeta, who won an Oscar for his work on the original. "He's superpowerful because he believes he is. He has the ability to knock down many more obstacles."

It's day 141 out of an eventual 270 in the 18-month-long production, during which both sequels are being shot. As rain lashes down inside and out (Sydney is experiencing what's tantamount to a monsoon), Reeves, dressed in a black, full-length, high-collared coat, is once again facing off against Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), the besuited ubervillain who, despite having been blown apart at the end of The Matrix, has become Lex Luthor to Neo's Superman. Today's scene (number 764) forms part of the Superbrawl, a thunderous fight at the climax of Revolutions in which the enemies duke it out in and above the megacity that is the Matrix, before reducing an intersection (the same one Neo took off from at the end of the original) to rubble.

For now, however, Reeves is required simply to come up into frame and utter four words - "Because I choose to" - his attitude implacable, his face impassive. And chiseled: Months of training and a special diet (including red meat if he would be fighting; fish, rice, and vegetables if not) have left him ultra lean, giving the impression that he is several inches taller than his six feet. Time and time again he delivers the line with differing tonation, until writer-director siblings Larry Wachowski, 37, and Andy, 35, are satisfied not only with his performance but with the way the rain and the lightening effects combine with it. Between takes Reeves confers with the filmmakers, whose dress sense and demeanor owe much to the excellent Bill and Ted, and who sit slightly apart from the crew under a black-tented viewing station that houses their video monitors. Or else he stands alone b

 

Here's the cover pic of the WIRED magazine on sale now.

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Here's the cover pic of Premiere Magazine on sale NOW!!!
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Official Drink of the Matrix! -- The Matrix is in You
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"
Hi all, I had just walked into my nearest convience store, searching for something to eat, when, to my amazement, I found a big green stand, covered in Matrix code. Written on the front was, in big green Matrix font, "The Matrix has You."

POWERade

The top was filled with oddly shaped bottles of green Powerade. With a wrapper printed with green Matrix code and 32 fl oz, I had to have it. So I got one, and a tuna sandwich."

http://www.thelastfreecity.com/docs/8157.html

 

http://www.thelastfreecity.com/zionswitchboard/messageview.cfm?catid=20&threadid=6260

The New Trailer - Ultra-Detailed

Date Posted: Apr/10/2003 3:24 AM

OK here's an ultra-detailed description of the trailer that just aired here in the UK. I managed to tape it and have since analysed and watched it more times than is probably healthy, but how it's as awesome as this how can you not? Big spoilers for it lie ahead, so don't read this unless you want to know every single thing that happens in the new trailer. Still here? Right, then here we go:

The trailer opens with a shot of a completely glass wall of a building, exactly the same as the one the helicopter crashes into in The Matrix. Suddenly Trinity burst out of it, and we watch as she begins to fall backwards down to the street below, firing up as an Agent jumps out after her. The two fall down the side of the building, firing at each other in Bullet-Time and between each shot the screen fades to black (this is all in slow-motion) cutting from Trinty to the Agent, back and forth. Then the blackness lasts a few seconds longer; and the next shot is Neo awakening with a gasp, a sleeping Trinity lying on his shoulder. Then a shot of Morpheus in his Matrix gear who says "Here we go." Neo is plugged into the Matrix, Neo puts on his shades and...

The pumping trailer music begins, the WB/Village Roadshow logos appear exactly as they do in the Superbowl spot. Then we get a shot of a metal door bending inward, then the shot of the 3 Agents with the middle one breaking the door down that we've seen in a couple of the teasers. Neo is standing behind it and says "Hi ya fellas."

Agent Thompson - It's him!
Agent 2 - Do we proceed?
Agent Thompson - Yes. Afterall he's still...
Agent Johnson - ONLY HUMAN!

The Agents attack Neo and we see the shots of him blocking and punching, as well as swinging around one Agent's arm and smashing another through a brick wall that we saw in the Superbowl spot, as well as the clip of Trinity doing on overhead kick to a guard also from the Superbowl spot. We then see shots of Morpheus hopping up onto the roof of a truck and taking off his shades then a voice-over by him begins. He says "all of our lives we have fought this war. Tonight I believe we can end it." While he's saying this we see the clip of Trinity jumping off her bike as it smashes into a building and explodes while she lands gracefully on the ground that was in the new TV spot. The last lines by Morpheus are spoken as he sits in the same chair in the same positon he's in when he gives his monologues in all the other teasers.

Then we cut to the Twins standing in the chateau hall who suddenly 'ghost' and disappear. Cut to Trinity who says "That's a nice trick" with the Keymaker in the background taking a few steps back, looking a bit surprised. Then a shot of one of the Twins spinning his razor blade in the car park (with a blood splatter on the wall behind him), and a shot of Neo locking arms with an Agent who says "upgrades". Cut to a Twin 'ghosting' through the back of a black car, flying through the air and through the windscreen of a car behind it that contains Morpheus, Trinity and the Keymaker. While it's doing this it makes a grab for Morpheus who's in the front passenger seat.

Now, onto the Burly Brawl. First the shot of Smith with the crows flying towards camera that we've seen before, then Neo turning toward the camera without shades. Smith says "Mr Anderson; surprised to see me?" with the same set of shots from the Superbowl spot. But then we see Smith standing face to face with another Agent (which *isn't* one of his copies) and he then rams his fingers into the other Agent's chest. The same thing happens to the Agent that happens to Neo in the Japanese trailer (looks as though he's being 'infected' or something) and the other Agent is transformed into a copy of Smith, who then yanks his hand back out of the Agent's chest. While he's doing this Neo has a voice-over saying "He's found a way to copy himself." We see shots of multiple Smiths,

 

I can't beleive that I diden't watch it. It was on on a British TV Channel in the morning called Rise. I thought to myself 'No I will watch it on my comp tonight'. But it is not out yet!

 

April 10th, 2003------------------------- 0x

Some have already seen the trailer on U.K. television. Others have seen it via last night's satellite feed. Many more will see it in the States for its broadcast television debut (the first time it is officially in rotation) on Sunday, 3pm EST, during Arena Football on NBC (watch for it in the second half). A vast number will see it this weekend in theaters.

A few will see it right here.

Countdown to official online trailer release:

9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...

Less than five hours (in Christchurch, NZ).

TheMatrix.com


I've just noticed something, there is a 0x just after the title. Strange......

Edit: It is here. I recomend strongly that you only download this if you have a fast comp with broadband of higher. The file size is 94.6 Mb and not for the faint hearted. This is off the official web site this is not a rough copy it is the actual thing. But it is WAY big. Good luck on your downloads. Will get back with comment on the trailer.

 

*drops dead*

That is definately the best trailer for it I have seen. Words cannot describe it, you need to see it for yourself. I am completely speachless!

 

S MALL

M EDIUM

L ARGE

Who the hell designed this board software? I mean WT*?

edit: Use of that abbreviation is not allowed. It is still swearing.

 

Animated .gif's off the new trailer.

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[image=http://www.mikedingleyjones.btinternet.co.uk/Swish.gif] [image=http://www.mikedingleyjones.btinternet.co.uk/Neo_Flys2.gif]

[image=http://www.mikedingleyjones.btinternet.co.uk/Bullets.gif] [image=http://www.mikedingleyjones.btinternet.co.uk/Niobie.gif]

[image=http://www.mikedingleyjones.btinternet.co.uk/M_Vs_Twins.gif] [image=http://www.mikedingleyjones.btinternet.co.uk/Burly_Brawl.gif]

[image=http://www.mikedingleyjones.btinternet.co.uk/Take_off.gif]

 

theent.com

 

The badassery displayed in the new trailer is, in fact, unbounded. I also watched Detective Story today for the first time, and it was amazing, by far the best of the Animatricies that I've seen, though I'm currently downloading Final Flight of the Osiris...

Let's just say that if the new Matrix trailer was symmetric, I would diagonalize it and find its principal axes in a second.

 

I... must... wait!

If I avoid the trailer now... the movie... will be that much better!!

Grahh, willpower!

 

odj_310388

I freaking LoVE you!

those GIF'S are AWSOME!! Thanks sooooo much.