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Watch the Oscars with us!

March 3rd, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala

Right now tanker trucks filled with Botox are running 24/7 to LA to make sure all the important people are wrinkle free next Sunday, for the 82nd Academy Awards.

The Iron Sky gang will still be in Finland, so thankfully we are not required to paralyze our faces. But we’ll be watching. It doesn’t matter how many Botox jokes I make, Oscars are still the highlight of the film year and absolutely unmissable. Especially with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosting the gala.

Thanks to the miracle of time zones the Oscar gala starts at 3AM monday here in Finland. But we’ll be staying up late to watch the Oscars. Our director Timo will be on TV commenting the gala live on Nelonen.

I’ll be on a comfy sofa at home, chatting about the Oscars on Twitter and IRC. Timo will try and join the Tweeting as well. So follow @Energia and @LeonBlank.

If you don’t use Twitter programs I’ll make a blog post on Oscar night and add streams of our tweets and the general Oscar discussions.

See you sunday!

Posted in Celebrities, Films, General | 3 Comments »

Blackstar Halo – Energia’s first Red camera vfx shots

January 5th, 2010 by Samuli Torssonen

My longtime friend Hannu Kumpula has been doing his own “starwreck” with a music album – he has been working for four years now with zero budget and now it is complete: Blackstar Halo: Illuminated.

When he asked me to help in some of the shots in the music video I couldn’t say no. With the help of great vfx trainees Energia delivered its first red camera composite shots – in floating point color space. After messing around 7 years with 8-bit DV footage (star wreck) this felt totally unreal!

And I also felt the pain of using After Effects for this job!

Iron Sky will be also shot in Red camera format so this was a good tryout what we are up against. We are now looking into Nuke as the primary compositing software which is able to handle floating point image sequences better.

So, check out the music video now! I want to praise Ville Salminen (Obscure Entertainment) for the great look and feel! He color corrected & did the post in full HD with some low end laptop, ugh :)

One easy way to support their music is to buy their new album: http://www.blackstarhalo.com/buy

Posted in Energia, General, Music, Videos | 1 Comment »

Dead Snow Zombie Walk in Helsinki 28.10.!

October 17th, 2009 by Timo Vuorensola

When there’s no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the Hellsinki.

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The Norwegian Nazi Zombies are finally crawling to Finland, and what better way to hail their excellency than throw in a proper Zombie Walk! In collaboration with Night Visions and Zombiewalk Helsinki, and my blog Zombie Room is proud to invite all you freaks to join the Zombie Walk from Helsinki Railway Station to Maxim movie theater, and then watch the greatest nazi zombie film ever - Dead Snow.

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Well, it’s simple – Dead Snow Zombies are deceased soldiers and wear military – you know what I mean. Now add some blood, guts and gore and you’re all set. Then show up at Helsinki Railway Station at 20:00 on Wednesday, October 28th – and be sure to book your ticket for the screening beforehand! The price ain’t bad – 7,5€. You can order them in advance (and you should!) from here.

And remember to RSVP to the Facebook event here!

Competition

There’s also a competition here! The Night Visions organizers will pick the most rotten zombie corpse among all of the Zombie Walkers and hand out some cool prices.

Oh, how about the film? Yeah, we’ve seen it – we were actually among the first ~15 people who saw the film – and you can check out a review for the film from here.

TL;DR: Fucking awesome.

Here’s the trailer:

Here are some photos from the movie for inspiration:

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For more info visit the official site www.nightvisions.info
Check out also the Helsinki Zombiewalk official site
And here’s Dead Snow official site.

(Via Zombie Room)

Posted in Films, Finland, General, Nazis | 4 Comments »

Wreckamovie nominated for SIME award!

October 14th, 2009 by Timo Vuorensola

The collaborative film production platform Wreckamovie we’ve been working on for quite some time now, has been chosen as one of the 36 nominees from Nordic countries to compete for the Rising Star of the North -award at SIME09. It’s a great honour for us to be chosen as one of the companies, and we are competing against companies like Spotify.

Last year, Wreckamovie won the Mindtrek award, and this year we were already one of the winners at World Summit Awards - so SIME nomination continues the list nicely!

Posted in General, News, Wreck A Movie | 9 Comments »

Hahaa! Missed us! Diese Schweinehunde!

October 10th, 2009 by Timo Vuorensola

Diese fuckers at ze NASA tried to ruin our operazion yesterday!

MOON NAZI OFFICER
Sir, there’s something going in orbit… There’s a cylinder-shaped object incoming from the Earth…

MOON NAZI COMMANDER
What is it?

MOON NAZI OFFICER
It’s… an unidentified object of some sort… Flying.

MOON NAZI COMMANDER
Scheisse.. Ein UFO?

MOON NAZI OFFICER
Jawohl, mein Fürher.

MOON NAZI COMMANDER
Projected trajectory? ETA?

MOON NAZI OFFICER
Headed STRAIGHT for us. Estimated time to impact 10 minutes, sir.

MOON NAZI COMMANDER
Gott im Himmel! Inform the Führer!

MOON NAZI OFFICER
Sir… Will this destroy our environment? Throw the Moon out of orbit?

MOON NAZI COMMANDER
What the hell are you babbling about? We have no environment, we’re on the fucking Moon!