Audrey Hepburn Chocolate Commercial

What kind of world is this where the dead are being brought back thanks to computer graphics technology?

Two years ago, a very young Audrey Hepburn was brought back to the screen in a one-minute TV commercial for Galaxy Chocolate created by ad agency AMV BBDO, with visual-effects made by company Framestore. A team of four animators worked on recreating Hepburn’s infectious smile as she rides a bus on the Amalfi coast under the song “Moonriver” from the soundtrack of Audrey’s most famous movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”. Audrey’s co-star is the model Nick Hopper.

The Framestore artists ended up completely recreating Audrey’s face in computer graphics (CG) – a feat never before achieved at such close-up scale.

Audrey Hepburn’s sons, Sean Ferrer and Luca Dotti, said regarding the project: “Our mother often spoke about her love of chocolate and how it lifted her spirit, so we’re sure she would have been proud of her role as the face of Galaxy.”

We all love chocolate and we all love Audrey Hepburn, but is frightening to note that there seems no limits when the issue is advertising and profits. Watch the original video on YouTube. Read more clicking here.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Spielberg – Part 1

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and business magnate. Spielberg is consistently considered as one of the leading pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. In a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg’s films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg’s early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, war, and terrorism. He is one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios.

Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg’s films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. Forbes puts Spielberg’s wealth at $3 billion.

Steven Spielberg in his cinema debut, The Sugarland Express, 1974.

Spielberg with the mechanical Shark named “Bruce”, Jaws, 1975.

Spielberg with Harrison Ford, Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Spielberg and thank you for all your movies. Read more: Wikipedia. Let’s celebrate and remember some of the greatest Spielberg’s movies!

Happy Birthday, Mr. Spielberg – Part 2

To read the Part 1 of this post, please click here. Read more about Steven Spielberg on Wikipedia.

Spielberg with Henry Thomas, E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982.

Spielberg with Dustin Hoffman, Hook, 1991.

Spielberg with Liam Neeson, Schindler’s List, 1993.

Filmography as Director

    Firelight (1964)
    Slipstream (1967)
    Amblin’ (1968)
    “L.A. 2017” (1971)
    Duel (1971)
    Something Evil (1972)
    The Sugarland Express (1974, also wrote)
    Jaws (1975)
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, also wrote)
    1941 (1979)
    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
    Twilight Zone: The Movie (“Kick the Can” segment, 1983)
    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
    The Color Purple (1985)
    Empire of the Sun (1987)
    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
    Always (1989)
    Hook (1991)
    Jurassic Park (1993)
    Schindler’s List (1993)
    The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
    Amistad (1997)
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, also wrote)
    Minority Report (2002)
    Catch Me If You Can (2002)
    The Terminal (2004)
    War of the Worlds (2005)
    Munich (2005)
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
    The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
    War Horse (2011)
    Lincoln (2012)

Happy B-Day, Brad Pitt

William Bradley “Brad” Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received four Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one Golden Globe. He has been described as one of the world’s most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention.

Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Legends of the Fall (1994). In 1995, he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), and World War Z (2013). Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). Pitt owns a production company, Plan B Entertainment, whose productions include The Departed (2006), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Moneyball, which garnered a Best Picture nomination.

Following a high-profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. Pitt lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has attracted wide publicity. He and Jolie have six children—Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Since beginning his relationship with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues both in the United States and internationally.

Happy B-Day, Brad. Read more: Wikipedia.

Juan Betancourt

Juan Betancourt is a 24 year-old Cuban model, currently living in Spain, and since 2013 he’s the new front man from Tom Ford cosmetic male line.

Watch here the original video “Tom Ford for Men – Skincare and Grooming” feat. Juan Betancourt on YouTube.

 

Jor-El from Superman (1978)

Marlon Brando played Jor-El in the 1978 film Superman, which Alexander Salkind, his son Ilya Salkind, and their business partner Pierre Spengler produced and which Richard Donner directed. Susannah York as Lara, Superman’s biological mother on Krypton.

On the dying planet Krypton, using evidence provided by scientist Jor-El, the Ruling Council sentences three attempted insurrectionists, General Zod, Ursa and Non, to “eternal living death” in the Phantom Zone. Despite his eminence, Jor-El is unable to convince the Council of his belief that Krypton will soon explode. To save his infant sonKal-El, Jor-El launches a spacecraft containing the child towards Earth, a distant planet with a suitable atmosphere, and where Kal-El’s dense molecular structure will give him superhuman powers. Shortly after the launch, Krypton is destroyed.

In the movie, Jor-El is shown wearing the iconic “S”-shield symbol as the family crest of the House of El, resembling an Earth “S” by coincidence. The name “Superman” is later coined by Lois Lane due to the resemblance. In tandem, other Kryptonians are seen wearing their own individualized family crests. Originally thought up by Brando himself and suggested on-set, this origin of the famous Superman symbol has been used in many stories since. In the current comics, however, the shield is the Kryptonian symbol for “hope,” and not only is it worn by Jor-El in a similar manner to Brando of the first feature film, but it adorns all manner of Kryptonian flags, clothing, spaceships, and equipment. Source: Wikipedia.

See clicking here the differences between the versions of Jor-El from Superman, played by Marlon Brando in 1978, and Jor-El played by Russell Crowe in 2013 Man of Steel.

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078346/.

Stanley Kubrick movies

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer,cinematographer, and editor who did most of his work as an expatriate in the United Kingdom. He is regarded by many as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His films, typically adaptations of novels or short stories, are noted for their “dazzling” and unique cinematography, attention to detail in the service of realism, and the evocative use of music. Kubrick’s films covered a variety of genres, including war, crime, romantic and black comedies, horror, epic and science fiction. Kubrick was also noted for being a perfectionist, using painstaking care with scene staging and working closely with his actors.

Starting out as a photographer in New York City, he taught himself all aspects of film production and directing after graduating from high school. His earliest films were made on a shoestring budget, followed by one Hollywood blockbuster, Spartacus, after which he spent most of the rest of his career living and filming in the United Kingdom. His home at Childwickbury Manor in Hertfordshire (north of and near to London) became his workplace where he did his writing, research, editing and management of production details. This allowed him to have almost complete artistic control, but with the rare advantage of having financial support from major Hollywood studios.

Many of his films broke new ground in cinematography, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a science-fiction film which director Steven Spielberg called his generation’s “big bang,” with innovative visual effects and scientific realism. For Barry Lyndon (1975), Kubrick obtained lenses developed by Zeiss for NASA in order to film scenes under natural candlelight and The Shining (1980) was among the first feature films to make use of a Steadicam for stabilized and fluid tracking shots. As with his earlier shorts, Kubrick was the cinematographer and editor on the first two of his thirteen feature films. He directed, produced and wrote all or part of the screenplays for nearly all his films. Read more: Wikipedia.

Katy Perry

Here on Dream Gifs we love Katy Perry. She is sexy, funny, cute, gorgeous and has attitude and much personality. If you love her too, check out this our previous post with many gifs of Katy, and enjoy this new one.

Emma Stone

Emily Jean “Emma” Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. Emma Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of Jeff Stone, a founder and CEO of a general-contracting company, and Krista (née Yeager), a homemaker. She has a brother Spencer, who is two years younger. Stone is naturally blonde. She won her first role as a teenager after dyeing her hair dark brown. Judd Apatow, the producer of Superbad, had Stone dye her hair from dark brown to red for her role in the film. She returned to blonde for her role in The Amazing Spider-Man.

In 2007, she starred in the short-lived Fox action drama Drive as Violet Trimble, and made her feature film debut in the comedy Superbad (2007). She has appeared in The House Bunny (2008), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), Zombieland (2009), and Paper Man (2009). In 2010, Stone voiced Mazie in Marmaduke, and played the lead in the comedy Easy A for which she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 2011, she co-starred in Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Help. In 2012, Stone co-starred as Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot of the Spider-Man film series. In 2013, she co-starred in Gangster Squad, and voiced Eep in the animated film The Croods. Stone is set to reprise her role of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Read more: Wikipedia.

Jessica Alba

Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American television and film actress and model. Alba was born in Pomona, California, to Catherine (née Jensen) and Mark Alba. Her mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent and her father is of Mexican ancestry. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002). Alba later appeared in various films, including Honey (2003), Sin City (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck both in 2007.

Alba has been called a sex symbol. She appears on the “Hot 100” section of Maxim and was voted number one on AskMen.com’s list of “99 Most Desirable Women” in 2006, as well as “Sexiest Woman in the World” by FHM in 2007. In 2005, TV Guide ranked her # 45 on its “50 Sexiest Stars of All Time” list. The use of her image on the cover of the March 2006 Playboy sparked a lawsuit by her, which was later dropped. She has also won various awards for her acting, including the Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, and a Golden Globe nomination for her lead role in the television series Dark Angel. Read more on Wikipedia.