This new featurette from Disney shows some of the finished effects from Alice in Wonderland alongside the same shots being filmed with a green screen (what I’d like to see: the production meeting where they decided on Johnny Depp’s retarded dance at the end).  It’s pretty cool to see stuff stripped of its FX magic, but also brings back some emotional memories from childhood, when I found out fairies weren’t real and my step dad made me bury my wand and leotard in the back yard.  F*cker.

After the jump, check out some more behind the scenes video of Wes Anderson scrutinizing the set of Fantastic Mr. Fox — something the DP had earlier criticized him for not doing — from the DVD extras.  And in case you were wondering whether he gently strokes his chin while supporting his elbow with the other hand like a finishing school headmistress, hell to the mothereffin yeah he does.  And yet, that movie was awesome.  So congratulations, Wes, you cartoonishly foppish dandy boy you.  This guy grew up in Texas?  He must know karate or something.

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French MSN recently posted a featurette from Iron Man 2, mainly focusing on the racecar sequence they filmed in Monaco.  They even include a new snippet from the film, in which Tony Stark speaks French to the guards, who take him to see Mickey Rourke’s character, Ivan Vanko.  You know, the one he did all that research banging Russian chicks for.  Anyway, my French isn’t perfect, but I believe he said, “How many of zem weess za cheese?  Za snail must drink za garlic. Girdle buttons.”

I think Mickey Rourke is trying to challenge John Malkovich’s Rounders benchmark for ridiculous Russian accent having.

*AC/DC’s “Shoot to Thrill” fades in*
*lights cat on fire*
*helicopters dick*

Since I know you guys have barely heard anything about this project, here’s a new featurette for James Cameron’s Avatar.  A couple thoughts: first, as much as I want to see it, I can’t stop thinking about this comment about it from the other week:

“Good news, we can fly you to an alien planet and graft your DNA with that of an alien, follow that up with a mind-meld thingy, thereby allowing you to infiltrate their species and take them out.”

“And what about my paralysis? How’s that coming?”

“We’re not miracle workers, dude.”

Kind of a big ol’ turd in the Avatar punch bowl when you think about it.  Also, who decided it was a good idea to put Michelle Rodriguez in this?  She’s impossible to take seriously.  She’s like a female Billy Zane.  Except hardcore and Latin (a chill just ran down my spine from imagining a hardcore, Latin Billy Zane).  And lastly, I don’t think I ever noticed this before, but the material the humans are supposed to be mining is called “unobtainium.”  Seriously. It’s said to be found only on Pandora and in Diora Baird’s panties.

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After the jump I’ve got a brand new featurette from Avatar in HD showing a bunch of new footage, along with a bunch of screencaps I’ve helpfully taken so that you don’t have to watch it.  I want to praise this movie, I really do, only I can’t get a word in because everyone involved is too busy praising it themselves. Here are some of the best, totally-not-hyperbolic statements from the video:

“He’s taking you on a journey, and it’s just beyond words.”

“We were creating an entire world from scratch.”

“It just doesn’t have a precedent.”

“One thing I’m always going to take with me from this is that I was a part of a revolutionary experience.” [*puts on Che shirt*  Righteous, man, righteous. *smokes clove*]

“We’re always trying to push the envelope.  This time we were trying to push the envelope, and it pushed back.  And then we pushed harder.  And it took a long time.”  [Push harder! I think I see the head!]

“It doesn’t look like anything you’ve seen before.” [*cough* Ferngully! *cough, cough*  Also - it' amazing that the aliens wear baseball caps and have beads in their hair. I've never seen anything like it.]

“It’s not just a movie, it’s a universe.”

Of course it is.  You guys created a whole universe.  When you think about it, you’re better than God. Because God’s boring old universe didn’t have neon cat people, did it.  Hey, you guys wanna see my impression of everyone involved with Avatar?

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This is a new behind-the-scenes featurette from the set of Iron Man 2.  The first 45 seconds are in French (the boom mic guy can’t keep his equipment out of the shot, but if they fire him they still have to pay his salary for three months, so it looks like they’re stuck with him, c’est la vie), but the rest the interviews are in English.   Although the nerds who control the internet demand I post anything Iron Man-related immediately, I don’t really find these ‘making-of’ videos all that interesting.  To me, making movies is kind of like making sausage.  I don’t want to see what goes into making the sausage, I just want to cook it up and eat it out of a homeless woman’s vagina.  I guess I’m old fashioned like that.

[via ComingSoon]