'Dinosaurs' charms, eventually gets old Aug 10, 2008
A Torosaurus from "Walking With Dinosaurs" at the United Center ... But for the more wide-eyed Darwinians among you, there is "Walking with Dinosaurs," the Australian-bred spectacle that opened Thursday night at the United Center -- the latest stop on a yearlong North American tour. (Chicago Sun-Times)
'Walking With Dinosaurs' sets its own pace Aug 9, 2008
Walking With Dinosaurs' sets its own pace. "We hairless mammals," observes the narrator of Walking With Dinosaurs, tend to put too much emphasis on brain size ... For actual-size confirmation of the imbalance between Homo sapiens and arch saurian reptiles, observe the stage entry of the brachiosaur in Walking With DinosaursThe Live Experience. (Theater Loop - Chicago Tribune Blog)
Dinosaurs interact with humans on 'Primeval' Aug 5, 2008
Age of rubber ears is overA science journalist turned filmmaker, Haines produced the Emmy-winning BBC documentary series "Walking with Dinosaurs," a huge hit when it aired on the Discovery Channel in 2000. He also used similar CGI, animatronics and location footage to create plausible images of extinct creatures in the 2001 series "Walking with Beasts" and "Walking with Monsters" in 2005. (MSNBC -- News)
No bones about it, they're alive! Jul 18, 2008
"Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience" offers life-size beasts with skin, sound, mobility and, best of all, attitude, in this dramatic representation of the Earth as it was 200 million to 65 million years ago. An offshoot of the award-winning BBC documentary that aired on the Discovery Channel, "Walking With Dinosaurs" plays at the TD Banknorth Garden through Sunday ... With a light show worthy of a Pink Floyd concert and sound effects that include the roars of the mighty beasts,... (Boston Globe)
The ultimate family DVD list (124) Jul 13, 2008
I was hoping Andrew would make an exception for the "Walking with Dinosaurs" series, but no dice. I still recommend it very highly (though paleontology purists would undoubtedly disagree - but they're good stories, and we know they're meant to be speculative; that's the ENTIRE point, in fact). (Salon)
Jump In: Family May 18, 2008
Walking with Dinosaurs brings life-size dinosaurs, controlled by puppeteers, to TD Banknorth Garden in July ... Walking With Dinosaurs: The Live Experience It's going to be big: Life-size dinosaurs, controlled by master puppeteers, will roam the TD Banknorth Garden floor and even react to the audience. (Boston Globe)
Events listings May 18, 2008
"Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience!" TD Banknorth Garden, Causeway Street, Boston. 617-931-2000. (Boston Globe)
'Dinosaurs' walk to MSG May 8, 2008
Special Report: Hit arena show Walking With Dinosaurs walks to Gotham this summer, with the life-size dino spectacle playing Madison Square Garden July 30-Aug ... Its the first New York stop for the popular live spinoff of the Walking With Dinosaurs TV skein. (Variety)
Walking With Dinos: The Live Experience Apr 23, 2008
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Live Experience ... "It's been the most amazing job for me," creature creator Sonny Tilders says of the lifelike "Walking With Dinosaurs," which is based on the award-winning BBC TV series. (ABC News)
Musical slate way up Down Under Apr 12, 2008
He cites not only Priscilla, but also Walking With Dinosaurs, the hit touring entertainment built from the BBC TV series that fuses theatrical techniques with live arena-scale spectacle. AKA Australia will be headed up by Australian-born Kendra Reid, who has worked in the U.K. for a decade, the last seven years of which as director of press and marketing for Cameron Mackintosh. (Variety)
Two area students win ‘Dinosaur' essay contest Apr 1, 2008
Two students from Fort Bend County will be Walking With Dinosaurs this week as winners of the Houston-area Walking with Dinosaurs Essay Contest ... The winners were announced today at Houston's Toyota Center, which sponsored the contest, and where Walking with Dinosaurs The Live Experience will take place April 2-6 ... Mom Rhonda, dad Ray and younger brother Eric will be among those accompanying him to the Toyota Center to experience Walking With Dinosaurs. (Rosenberg Herald-Coaster, TX)
All the Best Mar 26, 2008
Walking with Dinosaurs The Live Experience will be at the Toyota Center April 2-6. Based on the BBC television series, the tour will feature 15 life-sized dinosaurs interacting in a realistic prehistoric setting created on the arena floor of Toyota Center. (Pearland Journal, TX)
Suspected Fraser Valley serial killer arrested Jan 8, 2008
" CanWest News Service 2008 Ads by Google Top News Videos A government advisory panel concluded that Canada ... Top News Stories The Harper government rejected an advisory panel's recommendation to implement a...Dr. David Johnston's mandate as an independent third party on the Mulroney-Schreiber... Top Entertainment Stories Oscar-winning Australian actress Nicole Kidman is pregnant, her publicist said on Monday.The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is set to announce that... (Canada.com)
Back In Time Dec 29, 2007
"Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience": Today-Mon ... "Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience" takes the acclaimed BBC television series and gives it the Disney-on-Ice treatment, dumbing down the science a bit in favor of smoke machines, mood lighting and giant animatronic prehistoric mayhem ... "Walking With Dinosaurs" - which continues at HP Pavilion through the weekend and moves to Arco Arena next week - started in Australia earlier this year and has been touring the States for... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A look at prehistoric beasts Dec 25, 2007
That was the immediate reaction from veteran stage director Scott Faris when he was asked to produce a live theatrical interpretation of the BBC television series "Walking With Dinosaurs." ... "It was the torosaurus. He's the one that looks like the bull," says Faris, describing the suspect apparently responsible for convincing the Broadway director to join "Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience," which is coming to the HP Pavilion in San Jose this week, then to Sacramento from Jan. 3-6... (San Francisco Chronicle)
DINOSAURS ROAR INTO DETROIT Nov 16, 2007
No, it won't be the caterwauling of the latest teen pop creation that will have them clamoring for the exits, but the 15 prehistoric reptiles in "Walking With Dinosaurs The Live Experience.". Combining education and entertainment, the new live action show opened Wednesday at Cobo Arena in Detroit and continues through Nov. 24. (The News-Herald)
Hear em Roar Sep 29, 2007
Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience, which lumbers into the area this week, is based on the BBC/Discovery Channel show ... Walking with Dinosaurs runs Wednesday through Sunday at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J. For tickets - 27 to 87 - call (212) 307-7171 or go to ticketmaster. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Exhibit brings 50-foot dinosaurs, lifelike through the magic of animatronics, to DC Sep 13, 2007
com - New entertainment site. " Variety has called the dinosaurs "stunning, life-size and faultlessly nimble. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Dinosaurs invade Philips Arena Sep 8, 2007
An allosaurus (at left) and a pair of brachiosauruses strut their considerable stuff on opening night of 'Walking With Dinosaurs The Live Experience' at Philips Arena ... EVENT "Walking With Dinosaurs The Live Experience" 10:30 a.m., 7:30 p.m. today; 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday; 1 p.m. Sunday at Philips Arena ... "Walking With Dinosaurs The Live Experience," which debuted in Atlanta on Wednesday, sticks pretty close to the story of dinosaurs as we know it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
YOU BET JURASSIC! Sep 7, 2007
No time machine required to see T-Rex and friends in their teeth-gnashing, tail-swinging glory: "Walking with Dinosaurs - The Live Experience," a 90-minute show based on the BBC television series features 15 life-size, animatronic creatures and an Indiana Jones-like "paleontologist" who tells their story ... - "Walking with Dinosaurs" at Continental Airlines Arena Oct. 3-6. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
GOP voter discontent allows new entrants for '08 Aug 3, 2007
Arts & Entertainment "Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience" is currently touring US arenas. It consists of life-sized robotic dinosaurs with close attention paid to details such as a Stegosaurus's eye. (Yahoo News -- Presidential Election 2000)
Capital Ex rebounds from attendance drop Jul 31, 2007
Good weather and features such as the multimillion-dollar production Walking With Dinosaurs also helped boost numbers this year, she said. The exhibition wrapped up on Saturday. (CBC.ca)
T. rex goes on tour Jul 23, 2007
Walking With Dinosaurs' Kicks Off Road Show - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com ... The beasts in 'Walking With DinosaursThe Live Experience' aren't really alive ... "Walking With DinosaursThe Live Experience" is designed to thrill, educate and terrify (a little). (MSNBC -- Environment)
'Walking With Dinosaurs' opens in Wash. Jul 12, 2007
Walking With Dinosaurs' opens in Wash ... A close-up of the teeth of one of the dinosaurs used in the "Walking With Dinosaurs Live Experience" is shown Wednesday, June 20, 2007 in Tacoma, Wash ... The dinosaur is one of 15 that will perform in the "Walking With Dinosaurs Live Experience" show on its two-year tour of North America. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
Lifelike dinosaurs invade U.S. in show based on hit TV series Jul 11, 2007
How about spending time with a walking, growling 45-foot tall, 75-foot long Brachiosaurus that seems to be looking around for its next meal _ perhaps among the spectators at "Walking With Dinosaurs," which opens its North American tour on July 11 in Tacoma ... Walking with Dinosaurs: http://www. (Longview Daily News, WA)
It's about time Apr 24, 2007
Picked up by ITV, it's a boy's-own-style drama that mixes computer effects with live action, made by the people behind Walking with Dinosaurs. The idea behind the show is that a "rip in time" has allowed creatures from 250 million years ago to rampage through the modern world. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* Johnny Neihu's NewsWatch: Walking with dinosaurs (and apes) Apr 21, 2007
Johnny Neihu's NewsWatch: Walking with dinosaurs (and apes). By Johnny Neihu j Saturday, Apr 21, 2007, Page 8. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The good life Mar 22, 2007
Recent projects have included contracts as technical co-ordinator for the music on the movie Happy Feet and the stage production of Walking with Dinosaurs. Martin also does some lecturing to sound engineering and production students. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
* Dinosaurs come to life F{s Jan 17, 2007
The horned herbivore is one of 15 animatronic dinosaurs making their world debut in Sydney in a January stage production of the popular British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) documentary Walking with Dinosaurs ... oO@bitBsBBCswmWalking with DinosaursnqiQs@C. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Infotainment Jan 11, 2007
Animatronic models of a stegosaurus SYDNEY: Animatronic models of a stegosaurus (L), tyrannosaurus (C) and torosaur sit backstage during a media call for the show Walking with Dinosaurs. Reuters. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
My must sees for 2007 Jan 7, 2007
It uses effects by the Walking with Dinosaurs team, has a script by Rome s Adrian Hodges and stars Douglas Henshall and Hannah Spearrit from S Club 7. Stephen Armstrong. (The Sunday Times)
Walk among the giants of the Jurassic era, but hold tight Jan 7, 2007
PARENTS are being warned to hang on to their children tightly when dinosaurs come to life in the Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience show that has its world premiere in Sydney this week ... Based on the BBC TV series, Walking With Dinosaurs is the first show of its kind in the world ... Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience opens at the Acer Arena at Homebush Bay on Wednesday and runs for 10 days. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Now, look here! Jan 1, 2007
From the makers of Walking with Dinosaurs and (the slightly less thrilling) Prehistoric Park comes the television version of Jurassic Park III. (A chilling omen. did someone say Tea Leoni. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
more » Dec 27, 2006
"Walking With Dinosaurs," another BBC production, also had a good reason to use CGI. But I've seen movies made on the deep-ocean floor (James Cameron's "Aliens of the Deep"), so it can be done without special effects. Not rated. (CTNow.com)
Leaping lizards! See this before it's extinct Dec 22, 2006
Allo, Allo Allo the cast members of Walking with Dinosaurs will come alive when the show starts at Homebush next month ... When Walking with Dinosaurs - The Live Experience arrives at Acer Arena at Homebush on January 10 the auxiliary puppeteer will have a keyboard to power the dinosaurs with grunts, roars and snorts ... Walking with Dinosaurs, developed as a live show following the BBC documentary, is a colossal undertaking. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
It's our biggest show biz encore in 65 million years Dec 9, 2006
The 50 technicians, mechanics, artists and dreamers behind the Australian production Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience are putting the finishing touches to the production after a year of creating the beasts. Inspired by the smash hit BBC TV show, the life-sized dinosaurs will walk around the Acer Arena at Homebush Bay, snarling and roaring and fighting each other. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Holding Hands With Dinosaurs Sep 30, 2006
The BBC s science documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs has broken all television records around the globe ... Palaeontologists may have been highly imaginative in the way they have built exotic creatures from fossil fragments but the producers of the highly acclaimed television series Walking With Dinosaurs have taken it much further by personalising and humanising these ancient leviathans wherever possible. (FirstScience.com)
ITV to film Frankenstein remake Sep 29, 2006
The programme is being produced by Tim Haines, whose previous projects include BBC One's Walking With Dinosaurs. SEE ALSO 11 Dec 03 | Entertainment 01 May 02 | Scotland 10 Nov 97 | In Depth. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
ITV revives Frankenstein Sep 28, 2006
Frankenstein: ITV's version will be made by Impossible Pictures, the company behind Walking With Dinosaurs. The creator of critically acclaimed medical drama Bodies and the producer behind Walking With Dinosaurs are teaming up to develop a contemporary version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for ITV1 ... ITV1's Frankenstein is being made by Impossible Pictures, the independent production company set up by Tim Haines after he left the BBC, where he oversaw projects combining CGI effects and live... (Guardian Unlimited)
OK, which one of you kids called me fossil features? Aug 2, 2006
Monstrous good entertainment an Australian animatronics team has recreated the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs with animals that breathed, snorted and groaned over preview audiences yesterday ... The pterosaurus and raptor - brought to life by Australian know-how and a combination of cutting-edge animatronics and human operators - are just two of the 15 beasts who will appear in Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience ... Broadcast on ABC television in 1999, Walking with Dinosaurs was... (Sydney Morning Herald)
Natures fury Jul 11, 2006
Expert scientific testimony, specially-commissioned computer models and stunning computer-generated imagery (CGI) from the team behind Walking With Dinosaurs combine to create the most realistic perfect storms imaginable in this new series. A new episode premiers every Tuesday, starting today at 10pm on Discovery Channel (Astro Channel 50). (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Pirates sink Nine's ship Jul 10, 2006
Could this become a hit for ABC like Walking with Dinosaurs a few years ago. Posted by: Johnson at July 10, 2006 12:46 PM. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
ITV to screen 6m dinosaur series Jul 1, 2006
The company behind BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs worked on the animation for Prehistoric. Filming took place in Chile, Canada, Florida, Brazil, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. (BBC News)
ITV signs up Gervais to create Flanimals TV series Jun 29, 2006
Paul Jackson, ITV's controller of entertainment and comedy, told yesterday's Broadcasting Press Guild lunch: "It is something for all the family. Think of 'Walking with Dinosaurs' and Ricky Gervais doing David Attenborough in hushed tones. He will do the narration and possibly some of the creatures.". Gervais created the idea for 'Flanimals' after drawing rough sketches with illustrator Rob Steen. (Media Bulletin)
Brothers share the same passion May 20, 2006
Also in his collection are seven BBC documentary CDs on the programme called Walking with Dinosaurs that was aired over Astro. Then, there is also a cool Dino sunshade and the model head of T-Rex staring menacingly from the writing desk. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Winds of change blow at Mip Apr 10, 2006
Among the bigger Euro series was FremantleMedia's "Prehistoric Park," a CGI docu-drama from the makers of "Walking With Dinosaurs.". But most attendees -- there were 10,633 on day one, comparable with last year -- had their eyes trained somewhat nervously on the future. (Variety)
