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  The Robert Zemeckis Encyclopedia
ROBERT ZEMECKIS was born and raised in the southside of Chicago, Illinois.
Zemeckis & Gale chose 1955 as their destination on the time line, a year which they are too young to really remember but which they look back at fondly.
Robert Zemeckis is married to actress Mary Ellen Trainor, and the couple, along with their son Alex, make their home in Santa Barbara, California.
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  Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis was born and raised in Chicago, and began making 8mm films while he was in high school.
One of Zemeckis' biggest hits, Forrest Gump is often referred to as his masterpiece.
Zemeckis has also become a movie producer, mostly known for middle-budget low-imagination efforts like House on Haunted Hill, Thir13en Ghosts, and Halle Berry's bland thriller Gothika.
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  Robert Zemeckis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award-winning American movie director, producer and writer of Lithuanian heritage.
In 1999, Zemeckis donated $5 million towards the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts at USC, which today hosts many film school classes, much of the Interactive Media Division, and Trojan Vision, USC's student television station which has won 4 Tellys and has been voted the number one college television station in the country.
He was once married to actress Mary Ellen Trainor with whom he had a son, Alexander Zemeckis.
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 Robert Zemeckis News
According to Claude Brodesser-Akner, director Robert Zemeckis may be on the verge of signing a multi-year deal to move from DreamWorks to Disney's Pixar division.
ROBERT Zemeckis, one of the executive producers of Monster House, believes that kids like to be scared.
Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg are two of the producers of the new animated film "Monster House" and the movie has some of that "Back To the Future"/"E.T." magic.
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 Robert Zemeckis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
American director Robert Zemeckis studied filmmaking at Northern Illinois University, and then got his start with a job with the film editing department at WMAQ-TV, Chicago's NBC flagship station.
Spielberg next had Zemeckis and Gale work on the screenplay of 1941 (1979), which, despite its disappointing box-office returns, convinced the young director that his protegés were valuable commodities.
By the early '90s, Zemeckis was recognized as a director of great technical skill but little personal viewpoint, something that changed with the 1994 release of Forrest Gump.
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 Moviehole.net - Interview : Robert Zemeckis
Zemeckis: One of the first things I said to Tom when he said, 'What do you think?' was 'I don't think this would make a very good live-action movie.' That was for a couple of reasons.
Zemeckis: Well, we had to perfect the system and we had to figure out what the limitations of it were, which aren't very many.
Zemeckis: I have a very simple philosophy about movies and kids, and that is, when I was a kid, I never wanted to see a movie that was made for kids.
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 Robert Zemeckis: Director Biography.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Robert Lee Zemeckis was born on May 14, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois.
Zemeckis was raised in the south side of Chicago and began making 8mm films while still in high school.
Robert likes to use a core group of actors in the majority of his films including Michael J Fox, Tom Hanks, Kathleen Turner, and Crispin Glover.
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Produced by Steven Spielberg and co-written by Zemeckis and Gale, BTTF may have endured an arduous shoot (lead Eric Stoltz was replaced by Michael J. Fox part way through filming) but it became a smash hit at the box office and is one of the few genuine classics made during the 1980s.
Zemeckis' "golden boy" status was cemented with 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, an inventive hybrid of live-action and animation that recalled the Film Noir genre as well as the classic cartoons of Disney and Warner Brothers.
Robert Zemeckis' films are distinguished by their whimsy, nostalgia, and wit, as well as the director's passion for groundbreaking special effects and genre-mixing storytelling.
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 Robert Zemeckis
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 Robert Zemeckis - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Robert Zemeckis - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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 Robert Zemeckis Celebrity Interview for Cast Away (2000) at The Movie Insider
It is almost hard to imagine, watching Cast Away, the latest film from Robert Zemeckis, that its often unconventional approach is in stark contrast to many of the director's more mainstream fare, such as Romancing the Stone and Back to the Future.
Spielberg next had Zemeckis and Gale work on the screenplay of 1941 (1979), which, despite its disappointing box-office returns, convinced the young director that his protégés were valuable commodities.
Four years later, Zemeckis has made a decidedly LESS cynical film with Cast Away, and as it deals with one man's profound transformation, perhaps the experience of making the film transformed the director, perhaps there are distinct parallels between Hanks' Chuck Noland and director Zemeckis.
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 ZEMECKIS, ROBERT   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Zemeckis is referring to Performance Capture, a proprietary filming technique developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Zemeckis filmed the performances on a soundstage in which a ten-foot volume (the maximum size the process could originally handle) was taped out.
Zemeckis and his writing partner William Broyles (Cast Away) expanded the book considerably, adding a hobo character and fleshing out several of the children in the story.
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 :: El Portal del 3D y la Animación :: 3DyAnimacion.com
Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks, with the help of Ken Ralston and all his team, have made a new step in the world of the animation.
The past June we had the opportunity to visit the studios used by Robert Zemeckis to capture the performance of Tom Hanks and the rest of actors who gave life to all the characters of 'The Polar Express'.
After seeing the process of motion capture, that we have already explained to you in past articles, we had the opportunity to speak with Robert Zemeckis, the director, Ken Ralston, the Visual Effects Supervisor, and Steve Starkey, the producer of the film.
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 Robert Zemeckis News Headlines
It also was the first feature for director Robert Zemeckis, who later cast Sperber in his 1980 comedy Used Cars and his 1985 blockbuster Back to the Future.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis the film will tell the story of the eponymous hero who saves the Danes from the monstrous Grendel, says the Hollywood Reporter.
Robert Zemeckis to helm The Corrections 27 January 2005 Chugging away from his success with The Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis is planning to switch from sweet and..."
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 BBC - Films -article article - Robert Zemeckis
Born on 14th May 1952 in Chicago, Robert Zemeckis first began shooting 8mm movies when still in school, making short films before going first to the Northern Illinois University then switching to the famous University of Southern California (USC).
Zemeckis' first feature was 1978's "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", which he wrote and directed.
In the next five years, he scored massively at the box office with "Back To The Future Part II" and "Part III" and the seamless mix of live action and animation that was "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
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 Rotten Tomatoes: Robert Zemeckis Celebrity Profile
Specifically, it's been 15 years since "The Muppet Christmas Carol." Well, good things come to boys and girls who wait: Empire reports Robert Zemeckis is prepping to film the classic Charles Dickens novel with Jim Carrey.
Either you were forced to read the epic poem in high school or maybe you just rented the really awful Christopher Lambert movie, but a new version of "Beowulf" is coming from Robert Zemeckis -- and so far it looks pretty cool.
I think Robert Zemeckis is the greatest director.
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 AMCTV.com - Robert Zemeckis Biography
As a kind of protégé of Steven Spielberg's, it's fitting that Robert Zemeckis has followed his mentor's lead by directing and producing some of the highest-grossing movies ever made.
Usually working with his writing partner, Bob Gale, Zemeckis' films are typically special effects-driven and the kind of movies for which the term "blockbuster" might have been coined.
But in addition to the kazillions of dollars his movies have made, perhaps Zemeckis' biggest contribution has been skillfully blending movies with special effects and special characters -- both of which have stayed with audiences long after they've left the theater.
www.amctv.com /article?CID=1031-1--0-5-UTC   (441 words)

  
 Directors Robert Zemeckis DVD - Includes Directors Robert Zemeckis Movie Trailer and Directors Robert Zemeckis Movie ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Zemeckis has directed such moderm day classics as Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Contact, What Lies Beneath and Cast Away.
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 Robert Zemeckis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Later, the filmmakers made it possible for Zemeckis and his USC writing partner Bob Gale to get a development deal for their original screenplay 1941 that Spielberg chose to direct.
Zemeckis made his directorial debut in 1978 with a screenplay he co-wrote with Bob Gale, I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
Zemeckis sits on USC School of Cinema-Television's Board of Councilors, and is presently married to actress Mary Ellen Trainor.
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 Amazon.ca: Used Cars: DVD: Robert Zemeckis,Kurt Russell,Jack Warden,Gerrit Graham,Frank McRae,Deborah Harmon,Joe ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This 1980 film by director Robert Zemeckis gives no indication of things to come in his career (Contact, Forrest Gump), but it is representative of a certain cynical humor he shared early on with writer-partner Bob Gale.
Director/writer Robert Zemeckis works with much of the same team that contributed to Steven Spielberg's bloated bomb 1941 and Zemeckis' own charming and wacky directorial debut I Wanna Hold Your Hand to produceUsed Cars, a low-brow comedy boasting easy targets (used car salesmen) and irresistibly attractive cruelty.
Zemeckis, however, was able to springboard from Used Cars to the kinder, gentler Indiana Jones homage Romancing the Stone, the wildly successful Back to the Future trilogy, and, eventually, to the Oscar-winning Forrest Gump.
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Director/producer ROBERT ZEMECKIS earned the Best Director Oscar for "Forrest Gump," which also was named Best Picture and earned Tom Hanks the Best Actor Oscar, and Zemeckis secured himself a position as one of the preeminent filmmakers in the industry.
Starkey's professional relationship with Zemeckis began in 1986 when Starkey associate produced "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and continued with the second and third films in the "Back to the Future" trilogy, on which he served again as associate producer.
Executive producer JOAN BRADSHAW previously worked with Robert Zemeckis on the second and third installments in the "Back to the Future" series and as co-producer/unit production manager on "Death Becomes Her." She was executive producer/unit production manager of "Nine Months" and co-producer/unit production manager on the box-office smash "Mrs.
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 Robert Zemeckis - The Huffington Post
Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf to be released in IMAX 3D
One of the stories we missed on Friday was that Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf will also be released in IMAX 3D simultaneously with the film’s domestic release in conventional theatres...
The Expo aud was treated to a world exclusive of 15 minutes of unedited "Beowulf." The clip from the Robert Zemeckis pic, which will be released in November, closed tantalizingly with the titular warrior, played by Ray Winstone, preparing to...
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 Robert Zemeckis - AwardAnnals   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director Robert Zemeckis, and Best Actor Tom Hanks, this unlikely story of a slow-witted but good-hearted man somehow at the center of the pivotal events of the 20th century is a funny and heartwarming epic.
The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis’s Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these day—each is an expression of the heroine’s lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life.
Director Robert Zemeckis and cast bent over backwards to add layers of time-travel complication to this follow-up, and while it surely exercises the brain it isn’t necessarily funny in the same way that its predecessor was.
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 USC School of Cinema-Television - Facilities & Equipment - Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Art   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, a 35,000 square foot facility, represents the country's first and only fully digital training center.
Made possible through the generous support of the entertainment community, the Zemeckis Center is a milestone in the School of Cinema-Television's evolution, further enriching the curriculum with the most advanced tools in digital filmmaking and ensuring that our students stay ahead of the curve in the new technology of storytelling.
An unprecedented collaboration of studios, agencies, corporations and individual leaders throughout the entertainment community, the facility that was once only the dream of alumnus Robert Zemeckis is now a reality.
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 Motion Captured: Disney Poaches Robert Zemeckis - TMZ.com
Zemeckis is said to be deeply disappointed with his years at DreamWorks, which is now part of Paramount Pictures.
In the interim, Zemeckis' new-found motion capture passion isn't just appealing creatively: His latest film, "Monster House," is reported to have cost only $75 million, or less than half of what a typical Pixar film budget looks like.
Calls to a Disney spokesperson were not returned at deadline, and a spokesman for Zemeckis declined comment on the talks.
www.tmz.com /2006/08/07/motion-captured-pixar-poaches-robert-zemeckis   (819 words)

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