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Amnesty International Ad Sentences the Death Penalty to... Death

A commercial waxes eloquent about the injustices of capital punishment.READ MORE

The Terminator Economy: Passion Comes First

In preparation for Skynet's apocalyptic assault--the opening of Terminator Salvation on May 21--Fast Company is preparing its own onslaught of exclusive material, starting with this clip of director McG and Special Effects Supervisor ...READ MORE

The Terminator Economy: Beyond Digital Effects

Director of Terminator Salvation, McG, thinks special effects work best when they are a hybrid of CG and the classic technique, of building sets and making models. In this conversation, recorded at Stan Winston Studios, he points out ...READ MORE

Inside James Cameron's Head: Avatar, F-Bombs, and Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron, a biography of the director by former Time magazine Hollywood correspondent Rebecca Keegan, starts with the director's ancestors in Scotland and takes readers through ...READ MORE

The 12 Best and Worst Digital Characters

With the coming release of James Cameron's sci-fi epic, moviegoers are focusing anew on digital characters. It's tough to fashion from mere pixels believable beings that walk and talk and seem to feel the same emotions of real humans. Here are the virtual actors that lived up to their living colleagues, and those that fell flat on the screen.READ MORE