More bucks for F/X bangs
5th Sep 2005, 12:36 GMT
Film News: Studio's continuing appetite for CGI shots leads to bigger-budgeted pix -- They can vaporize cities, mobilize armies of Orcs and show faraway galaxies teeming with life. But there's one trick Hollywood's CGI wizards have yet to perfect: slashing the rising cost of special effects from studios' bloated production budgets.
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