Yahoo! has released a new behind the scenes look at Inception which features director Christopher Nolan talking about shooting the film in six different countries.

Nolan, not one to go overboard with CGI, had his cast and crew battling rain, blazing sun and freezing snow. Those mountains we see in the trailers are actual mountains (i’m not sure about the avalanche though, unless they caused it themselves with explosions).

Inception will be released on July 16th and, as well as Leonardo DiCaprio, the film stars Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy and Michael Caine.

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“It is, by definition, epic” – Sir Ben Kinglsey, this new featurette

IGN got their hands on another featurette for Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. This one focuses on how ‘epic’ the film be and we see shots of the vast Moroccan landscape, scenes involving hundreds of extras, and a bunch of guys riding ostriches. While on the subject of mounting exotic creatures, did I mention Gemma Arterton is looking rather…hot?

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will be released on May 28th.

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Do you have 22 minutes free? If not, I suggest you make yourself available for the foreseeable future as Yahoo! has released a 22 minute behind the scenes featurette which shows us…how Avatar was made, basically.

We see James Cameron and the cast in an Hawaiian rainforest in order to get a better grasp at what it would be like to be on Pandora. We are taken through all the stages of the film making process, from Zoe Saldana training for her role as Neytiri, to James Horner crafting his score for the film. It’s definitely a must see for those who loved the film, and even for those who didn’t.

After watching that it just re-enforces why Avatar won the Golden Globe earlier this week for best film, and why it will hopefully win a bunch of Oscars in a few weeks time. While I love Inglourious Basterds and all those other contenders as much as the next guy, a lot more time and effort went into making Avatar. And while it didn’t have the best screenplay out of the bunch, it definitely made up for it in terms of visual effects and just generally setting a benchmark in terms of film making.

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A new Swiss poster for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief has found it’s way online, and it looks rather cool. Logan Lerman plays Percy Jackson who is the son of Poseidon and a demigod. Because of this he has quite a few powers up his sleeve, for instance he can move and control large volumes of water with great force, as seen with the poster below.

A featurette for the film has also been released, and in it the cast talk about their characters and the story.

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief is directed by Chris Columbus and stars Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd, Uma Thurman and Rosario Dawson, and will be released next February.

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By this time next month there is a good chance you will have seen James Cameron’s Avatar. You may have even seen it twice. In which case you will have seen every single scene, however until then you may want to avoid featurettes like this. While they are extremely cool and make you want to see the movie immediately, they do reveal a little bit too much.

This one focuses on the weapons, robots, hardware and aircraft the humans use in the film. We also see James Cameron and producer Jon Landau talking about the science and logistics behind it all, for instance, the reason the aircraft land and take-off vertically is due to the lack of actual landing strips on Pandora. It’s good to see some common sense in a big effects-orientated movie.

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Universal has released a new featurette which gives us a better understanding of the story behind The Wolfman. It begins by showing clips of The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein and other classic monster movies from the black and white era, and then Benico del Toro talks us though the story for this modern take on the “iconic” Wolfman, which will introduce the beast to “a new generation”.

We also see Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt discussing the film, along with some new footage.

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If the release of the new Avatar trailer yesterday was the highlight of your movie week then you will probably love this new Avatar featurette. It’s 4 minutes long and it contains LOTS of new footage (if you want to stay pure until December I would avoid this), along with interviews and sound-bites from James Cameron, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver.

The scope and scale of this movie is huge!

The marketing will soon kick in and we will get even more footage, the only problem with that is I don’t want to be too spoiled before it’s release in 2 months. If you watch every trailer and TV spot you will become saturated with the imagery and it won’t be as special when you see it on the big screen. When the marketing blitz arrives I will post some stuff, but not everything.

What are your thoughts on the featurette? Should they show more of these or should they keep their Avatarholes shut for the next few months?

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If you ever wanted to know the kind of work that goes into making a stop-motion movie then watch the featurette for Fantastic Mr. Fox below. I knew it was a time consuming ordeal as the figures and puppets need to be moved only a small fraction at a time to keep everything looking fluid, but I didn’t know it would take 1 day just to get 30 seconds of footage. No wonder they’ve been making it since 2007! They also had George Clooney rolling around in a field to make the voice sound realistic.

Watch below!

Fantastic Mr. Fox will be released on November 13th in the US and October 23rd in the UK

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If Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released last year when originally intended it would already be out on DVD and Blu-Ray by now, but as it got pushed back 8 months we’ve had 8 months worth of extra marketing. I’ve lost count of how many posters have been release, however I won’t complain about the trailers because they’ve made me a born again Potter fan (I stopped watching after Azkaban but have recently caught up). The Half-Blood Prince marketing guys can finally see the end in sight, and have released a featurette which focuses on Harry and Dumbledore. We also see behind the scenes action and a bucket load of new scenes. Watch below!

This will be the last Half-Blood Prince footage-related post until it is released in two weeks time. Potter fans have waited two years for this, i’m sure they don’t want it spoiling with a barrage of clips days before it is finally released.

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Two weeks ago we got our first look at Olga Kurylenko in Niel Marshall’s Centurion, and now we have an on-set featurette from Rotten Tomatoes who were invited to the set to see filming take place in Scotland. In the video Niel Marshall talks about the back story behind Centurion and the historical events on which it is based. Nothing major happens but it is still interesting to watch.

[Video from FirstShowing as the Rotten Tomatoes player sucks]

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