Ben Burtt Aids Star Trek Post-Production
TheForce.Net (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
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Star Trek Post Production Complete + Oscar-winner Ben Burtt Provided Sound Design
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
JJ Abrams’ Star Trek film is officially complete. According to sources, post production on the summer 2009 film was actually completed Christmas week, shortly after JJ Abrams posted his Holiday greeting on Facebook. The final step of the post production was sound editing, and to help out they brought in Academy Award winner Ben Burtt.
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Sound man Ben Burtt is the voice behind WALL-E, R2-D2 and E.T.
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
p/>Ben Burtt may not be a household name, but his work certainly is. As George Lucas’ longtime sound designer, Burtt was responsible for R2-D2’s enthusiastic chirp, Darth Vader’s ominous breath rattle, the crack of Indiana Jones’ whip and, for director Steven Spielberg, the excitable E.T.’s curious burbling sounds.
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Newsbites: The sci-fi and comic-book edition!
FilmChat (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
1. Ben Burtt, who helped create the sound effects for everything from Star Wars to WALL•E , has now added J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie to his résumé. -- TrekMovie.com 2. Screenwriter John August says the Shazam! movie project is dead, dead, dead -- partly, he figures, because of the success of the ultra-grim The Dark Knight and the failure of the kid-oriented Speed Racer , both of...
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17 nominations for 'Kung Fu Panda' seem excessive
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 14/12/2008
... eight nominations — Best Animated Feature, Best Direction (Andrew Stanton) and Best Voice Acting (Ben Burtt, the "voice" of the title character).But still. This makes it sound like the selection committee thought "Kung Fu Panda" was twice as good as "WALL• E." Which it's not.Other films nominated for Best Animated Feature include Disney's "Bolt" (which received five nods), the Israeli animated...
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WALL-E named best film by LA critics
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... Release: 2008 Country: USA Cert (UK): U Runtime: 103 mins Directors: Andrew Stanton Cast: Ben Burtt, Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver , it's the first time in the association's 33-year history that an animated film has taken the top prize. The awards are seen as a useful indicator of Oscar success, even though the critics have been out of sync with the Academy in...
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Bolt, WALL-E Top Annie Nods
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... Kung Fu Panda: Dustin Hoffman as Shifu, James Hong as Mr. Ping and Ian McShane as Tai Lung. Ben Burtt, the voice of Wall*E, also got a nod, as did Mark Walton as the voice of Rhino in Disney's Bolt. Bolt also is up for animated effects, storyboarding and production design. Wall*E got nods for animated effects, storyboarding, production design, character animation, video game and directing....
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'Bolt' of recognition
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... who work on animation - for his voice work in "Bolt."He's in lofty company. His competition is Ben Burtt, the sound-effects wizard who provided the beeps and whistles for "Wall-E," and three actors from "Kung Fu Panda" - Dustin Hoffman, James Hong and Ian McShane.
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DVD Review: PIXAR Outfits The WALL*E 3-DVD Set With A Cornucopia of Goodies!
EclipseMagazine.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... Universe, and Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from the Sound Up – Legendary Sound Designer Ben Burtt Shares Secrets of Creating the Sounds of WALL*E. Disc Two: The PIXAR Story, a ninety-minute documentary by Leslie Iwerks; Deleted Scenes [twelve more minutes – with optional introduction by the director]; Behind the Scenes Featurettes [The Imperfect Lens, Captain’s Log, Notes on a...
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