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National Geographic real-life floating house: Pixar's Up! can be done. By Rachel Quigley Updated: 10:12 GMT, 8 March 2011 It was another one of those Disney moments of magic. When 78-year-old retiree Carl Frederickson's house takes off into the air aided by the help of hundreds of helium balloons in Up! , viewers saw it is a heart-warming moment of pure fiction. But for some people, it became more than that. Scroll down for video report Magic: The Up! House which will be part of a new National Geographic TV series called How Hard Can It Be?

Record: Dozens of volunteers worked around the clock in the Californain desert to get the custom-built house airborne with the aid of 300 eight-foot-high helium balloons Film: Carl Fredricksen attached the balloons to his house to fulfil his life-long dream of discovering the wild in South America The team from National Geographic have built a house inspired by the Pixar movie Up! Of course it was not a real house, but a custom-built light weight one. Up! Up! Away! The new series will premier in the autumn. How hard can it be? 73 Best Survival Movies. From surviving natural disasters, nuclear wars, and shipwrecks to sci-fi alien invasions and zombie plagues, survival movies cover a wide range of genres. Here is our list of the Best Survival Movies ever made. Wilderness Survival Movies 127 Hours – Based on the true story of Aron Ralston whose journey into Utah’s Canyonlands National Park would become one of the most horrific tales of endurance and courage ever told.Alive – Based on the real-life events of an Uruguayan rugby team that crash landed in the Andes.

Survival by Sea / Castaway Cast Away – One man’s story of survival after crash landing near a deserted island.Shackleton – The Greatest Survival Story of All Time – Based on the real-life adventure of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s whose 1914 Antarctic expedition turned out to be one of the greatest survival stories of all time.Lost – I know it’s a T.V. series, and not technically a movie, but I couldn’t leave it off the list. Zombie Apocalypse Movies Post-Apocalyptic Movies Misc. In Search of Humans | OddBall Animation. We now have a dedicated project page for In Search Humans. If you like what you see here, you’ll want to go to www.oddballanimation.com/isoh. In Search of Humans is a animated/live-action feature film project being developed with Gran Via Productions. Wes Ball will be directing. Below is some of the early concept art created for pitching purposes. The Only 2011 Movie Calendar You Need.

Middle East Movies » Blog Archive » Top 10 Little Known Horror Films For Halloween. Nerd Blerp - 10 Great Horror Films You've Never Seen. Being a fan of all things horror, I thought it high-time I showed some love for the genre on this site. Horror films are great because they appeal to our most base natures, but also because they are allowed to be as loopy and imaginative as they want...well, at lest they used to be.

These days, imagination has been replaced by lots of gore and cheap 'jump-out-of-your-seat' shocks. Horror films no longer follow you home and haunt your dreams in the stillness of the night. So, here are ten great horror films that you've never seen before (I hope). They will provide you with a much needed antidote to the teeny-bopper and remake hell that we are stuck in today. More importantly, each one of these films is very imaginative and will provide you with the nightmares you've been lacking. 10. This twisted gem from the eighties owes a lot to Freddy Krueger, but is also original and creepy in its own way. 9. This Finnish horror film moves at a delibarately slow pace, but is unsettling as all hell. The Horror and Halloween Search Engine. 55 Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies to Watch Out For in 2011.