Tag Archives: Steven Spielberg

‘Minority Report’ Video Movie Clip Festival!

YOU are invited to our ‘Minority Report‘ clip festival, provided by MovieClips! ‘Minority Report’ has proven itself over time, ironically, given the ‘pre-cog’ element of the film, to be an amazing harbinger of technological things to come. Way before Microsoft Xbox’s Kinect, ‘Minority Report’ had gesture articulated computer screen manipulation, as an example! Pick up ‘Minority Report’ on Blu-Ray or …

‘Minority Report’s’ Crime Prediction Comes To Law Enforcement

Predicting crime before it happens is the Holy Grail of police work; the implications of such a reality would change the world as we know it—for better and for worse. Predictions, after all, are by their very nature unpredictable. Stopping crime before it happens isn’t a new idea, of course. Steven Spielberg used it in his 2002 sci-fi epic Minority …

‘Minority Report’ Takes Tom To ‘Oblivion’

Even though Stacee Jaxx  is still tattooed in our minds and Jack Reacher will beat his way into our brain pan before Jack Harper (Tom’s character in Oblivion) stands at the top of the mental movie heap, the release of the official Oblivion plot synopsis and the announcement of the composer selection—M83, a French electronic act— put us in a sci-fi kind of mood.  Tom’s most significant …

‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ Kicks Off Dubai Film Festival

Paramount Pictures and the festival organization announced the fourth installment of the ‘Mission: Impossible’ film franchise would kick off this year’s Dubai International Film Festival, which runs December 7 to 14, 2011. Tom Cruise, director Brad Bird and several other members of the film’s cast are scheduled to walk the red carpet at the festival. ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ …

From An Alien Invasion to Cold-Blooded Killer: New Tom Cruise Blu-ray Collection Features Five Film Favorites

‘Top Gun,’ ‘Days of Thunder,’ ‘Minority Report,’ ‘Collateral’ and ‘War of the Worlds’ Featured in new Blu-ray Collection Set. The Blu-ray collection set will keep you on edge of your seat with all of the special features, interviews, deleted scenes and video featurettes for these action packed films and is a must-have for any Tom Cruise fan. Even if you …

Minority Report Technology: Facial Recognition Used to Target Billboard Ads

‘Chief John Anderton’ (Tom Cruise) runs through a mall, his path punctuated by ads of his favorite products calling out to him as he tries to escape. Now, imagine yourself standing at a crosswalk, waiting for the light to change, when you notice a nearby billboard displays an ad for a running shoe, followed by a beer promo and then …

Minority Report Listed In Top 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time

Complex magazine has released their list of Top 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies, and among them is Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, which stars movie icon Tom Cruise.  The film is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, who is regarded as one of the most influential sci-fi writers of all time. In addition to the captivating story line, Minority …

TRAILER: Tom Cruise Collaborators Gang Up in Cowboys and Aliens preview!

Tom Cruise worked with several awesome and prolific actors on Knight and Day, including the busy Paul Dano who appears in the upcoming genre mash-up, Cowboys and Aliens! Dano, who collaborated with Tom as the kind and eccentric scientist Simon Feck in Knight and Day, joins an impressive ensemble cast in the upcoming Western-meets-Sci-Fi flick from director Jon Faverau. Cowboys …

Minority Report Technology: Biometric Scanning the Future?

Out of all the Minority Report technology that has hit the market in the last few years, none is more exotic – or creepier – than the use of biometric scanning. But some publications, like Discover Magazine, have poked a few holes in the use of biometrics in quite the same way that the Tom Cruise-Steven Spielberg science fiction movie …