Amazing Forza Motorsport 5 commercial is 'world's fastest zoetrope'

In Filmspeed, the latest ad spot for Forza Motorsport 5, what at first seems like a video aided by computer-generated graphics suddenly becomes much cooler when you realize that it was shot with a high-speed video camera on a racetrack - with no help from computer generation - making it the "world's fastest zoetrope," as Rutledge Wood of Top Gear USA fame puts it. A McLaren MP4-12C acts as the camera car with Tanner Foust (also of Top Gear USA fame) at the wheel, and the camera's subject is a series of 680 aluminum boards with Forza 5 game footage (of the McLaren P1, no less) printed on them and lined around a racetrack. Is it just us, or is it getting difficult to tell the difference between computer generation and reality?

The first order of business was to mount a remote-controlled video camera to the McLaren's engine block, complete with a gyro stabilizer. Automotive photo and film guru Jeff Zwart, the video's director, controls camera functions from inside the car while viewing it all on a small screen. We won't spoil the video(s) for you, which you can watch below, but keep in mind that complicated math and perfect execution – including determining the video camera's shutter speed, the MP4-12C's speed and the size of the aluminum boards – was required to produce the video as it was envisioned. Enjoy!

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Jennifer Lawrence Is "Properly Amazing," Says James McAvoy

Add James McAvoy to the long list of Jennifer Lawrence admirers.

The Scottish actor couldn't help but say kind words about his X-Men costar while talking to E! News at the Toronto International Film Festival, and he also made it very clear that although J.Law is now an Academy Award winner (you go, girl!), she doesn't get any special attention.

"No, no, no. She's still the same ole girl," McAvoy told us, but also added, "We love Jennifer, she's amazing. Properly amazing."

Did you get that? She's properly amazing.

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McAvoy also gushed about his The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her costar Jessica Chastain.

The celebs both attended the film festival to promote the flicks (yes, it's two films), and the actor said working with Chastain was a blast.

"She's a real professional, works real hard. She's a big star and all that—red carpet darling—but she's actually just a very goofy girl and you can have a really good laugh with her, which is important when you're dealing with something so profound and so emotional like The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby...to have that release and have a bit of a goofy boogie."

Goofy boogie...oh, James.

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Chastain also spoke to E! News about the films, telling us that working on the project was like "heaven."

"It's two films we made for very little money, very quickly in the streets of New York and it was heaven. Absolutely. Like, the memories of why you wanna be an actor, with your friends, everyone loved each other. My best friend Jess Weixler's in it, Ned Benson—he wrote one of the scripts on the set of Tree of Life. We all were so connected and so supportive. It was like a dream come true being on set with everyone that I love."

Not to mention getting to work with such a handsome costar, but that's something the Oscar-nominated beauty is used to.

"It doesn't suck to be an actor," she says.

For more on these and other interviews from the Toronto Film Festival, tune in to E! News at 7 p.m. & 11:30 p.m.

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