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There are man-made objects -- mind-blowing feats of engineering and ingenuity, really -- that left our planet decades ago and are still gliding through space, beaming back information to our dinky, little home world. One of those is the Cassini-Huygens. It left Earth orbit in 1997 and arrived in the orbit of Saturn in 2004. Since then it's been taking all kinds of pictures of its new celestial neighborhood and sending them our way. An aspiring filmmaker has taken several thousand of these photos and turned them into a very special film. Created by Stephen Van Vuuren, In Saturn's Rings is a look at a place no man has ever been and is unlikely to reach anytime soon. "But I've seen all this space stuff on the Science Channel," you say with a surprising amount...

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In Saturn’s Rings Trailer. Stephen van Vuuren‘s In Saturn’s Rings (2013) teaser trailer is for a documentary on the images the Cassini–Huygens robotic spacecraft, sent to the Saturn system, captured and relied back to Earth. In Saturn’s Rings‘ plot synopsis: “Takes audience on a 14 billion light year journey of the mind, heart [...]

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This is real. All of it. I would file this under "Sci-Fi", but there's no Fiction, it's 100% pure Science! In 1997 Nasa launched a spacecraft called the Cassini, packed with cameras and instruments (and an orbiter which they sent to Saturn's moon Titan in 2005) to collect data from space. It's mission: to photograph and study our solar system, our galaxy, and specifically Saturn and its rings a distant 750,000 miles away. A computer whiz designed a program to make video out of the photographs at 4K IMAX resolution, and here's our first 3-minute teaser trailer for In Saturn's Rings. I had no idea they were making this, but now I'm dying to see it. This is unbelievably breathtaking, completely real galactic beauty at its finest. Must watch this trailer. Here's the official teaser trailer for Stephen van Vuuren's doc In Saturn's Rings, in high def on YouTube: In Saturn's Rings, written...

Before IMAX went mainsteam and expanded into movie theater chains throughout the country to present big-budget epic movies to the masses, it was a tool used to show nature and space documentaries at science museums. It's still used for that, but it doesn't seem as much these days. I remember taking field trips to the Science Museum in Downtown Los Angeles when I was in elementary school and Jr. High to see some of those documentaries, and I always loved it. I actually recently saw the documentary Hubble there, which contained some pretty mind blowing stuff.

There's now a new documentary for the epic IMAX experience called In Saturn's Rings, and there's a new trailer that is watchable in 4K. The film was directed by Stephen van Vuuren, and it features millions of photos of Saturn. None of the images included in the doc were aided with the help of CGI or visual effects.

See how the wacky world of the Interwebs work. I was searching for Any news on A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), and during my travels I found a lot of porn, plus an article about some film titled, Hellphone. Hellphone is an independent horror/comedy being shot by two filmmakers from Greensboro, North Carolina. The film follows a small southern town deputy sheriff, her Ex and current boyfriend who must battle a vengeful spirit that has possessed a cell phone. Creators Jason Mare Pierce and Stephen van Vuuren hope to premiere the film at some local, state and national screenings before releasing it on DVD sometime in February 2010.