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This story will run Sunday in The Envelope, the Los Angeles Times special section dedicated to Hollywood’s awards season. It’s been 25 years since cameraman Wally Pfister left television news and followed a cinematic path, but last year on the set of “Inception” —  as he filmed a gun battle with a camouflage camping blanket over his head to protect him from flying shards of glass — he looked a lot like a battle-zone journalist. “Yeah, I’m in war-torn mode today, with my knee brace and a face mask on, but that’s sort of how we do it – put the camera on your shoulder and get as close to the action as possible,” the 49-year-old said with a proud grin. “In this scene, we drop some logs on people and they’re fake logs that we drop from a big ...

Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film will be called “The Dark Knight Rises” and though the Gotham City auteur isn’t ready to reveal the villain of his 2012 film, he did eliminate one of the big contenders: “It won’t be the Riddler,” Nolan said in an exclusive interview with Hero Complex. Nolan was most eager to talk about the fact that Warner Bros. had  agreed with his argument that the film should resist the current 3-D craze and instead use high-definition approaches and IMAX cameras to strike out on a different cinematic path than the stereoscopic technology that, for better or worse, has become the dominant conversation in the blockbuster sector. Check back here later in the morning for a more in-depth look at that decision and the Nolan ambitions and reasons behind it. As for the title, it shows the writer-director’s ...

A MONTH OF MAGIC: Hero Complex is counting down to the Nov. 19 release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” — the penultimate film in the history-making “Potter” franchise — with exclusive interviews, photos, videos and reports from the set. Today’s post: Dan Radcliffe explains his excitement about the new project. If you’re desperate to see “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1,” you’re not the only one. Meet Daniel Radcliffe, a “Potter” fan who had an emotional response to the “Hallows” trailer and someone counting down the days to the film’s New York premiere and Nov. 19 release. “When I saw the trailer I almost wept. I was so happy,” Radcliffe said in a recent phone interview. “When you’re on a film for that long, shooting for months and months, you forget half of what you’ve done and you lose ...

A MONTH OF MAGIC: Hero Complex is counting down to the Nov. 19 release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” — the penultimate film in the history-making “Potter” franchise — with exclusive interviews, photos, videos and reports from the set. Today’s post: Tom Felton talks about his favorite installments in the film franchise.  Tom Felton, who has brought memorable sneer and snarl to the character of Draco Malfoy, says that his two favorite “Harry Potter” films have  been the second and the sixth — but he also said that will change with the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” on Nov. 19 and “Part 2″ next summer. “My favorite, story wise, was the ‘Chamber of Secrets’; there’s something about that  concept that I find very intriguing and then, as far as filming, my favorite was ...

A MONTH OF MAGIC: Hero Complex is counting down to the Nov. 19 release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” — the penultimate film in the history-making “Potter” franchise — with exclusive interviews, photos, videos and reports from the set. Today’s post: Costume designer Jany Temime talks about a special scene in the new film. The marriage vows of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour present the “Harry Potter” franchise with its first and only on-screen wedding, and for costume designer Jany Temime there was  both opportunity and challenge in the festive ritual. More than that, she said, it is also the last joyous moment in the franchise with all the battles, destruction and loss that follow. “The film is so dark and the beginning of the really dark time, and it was the last opportunity to have something light and warm and funny and the last light ...