SAN FRANCISCO — Director Gore Verbinski’s latest film for Walt Disney Pictures is not your father’s Lone Ranger, Kemosabe. With Johnny Depp playing Tonto as an American Indian spirit warrior and new l ...
July 8, 2013
HOLLYWOOD — Justin Lin has been driving the Fast & Furious mega-franchise since 2006’s Tokyo Drift, and has become the go-to car-chase and car-stunt filmmaker of his generation. Now he’s back for ...
While our cover story this month is about ILM’s work as lead VFX house on Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, from Disney Studios, London’s MPC (www. moving-picture.com/film) also provided a significant ...
NEW YORK — Chris Phoenix has a fortuitous last name. It brings to mind the fiery flash of reinvention for which his company’s work has become known since taking off in 2010. “We are responsible for ma ...
Ken Ashe is the new GM at ZapBoomBang Studios in Houston, an audio and video production studio and post house that specializes in commercial work, and one that hopes to expand into long-form and corpo ...
LONDON — It’s everyone’s worst nightmare, or at least it should be — a zombie pandemic! And Brad Pitt, playing a former UN employee, seems to be the only one who can stop it. He travels the world and ...
VANCOUVER — When director Roland Emmerich approached long-time collaborators and visual effects supervisors Volker Engel and Marc Weigert from Uncharted Territory to discuss the visual effects for the ...
There are so many variables in mixing a Web series. It’s not an easy job. There are no set guidelines for levels. There are no set guidelines for encoding the audio — something the mixer has no contro ...
What is the best kind of storage? The kind you don’t have to worry about. That is, across the board, the consensus from visual effects pros. With 2K, 4K and stereo projects coming into studios, storag ...
July 12, 2013
DALLAS — While post production facilities and production houses might still be debating whether or not cloud computing fits into their workflow, Dallas Audio Post recently deployed Signiant’s Media Sh ...
July 17, 2013
Choreographer and director Jeffrey Hornaday recently complete work on Disney Channel’s new summer-event special, Teen Beach Movie, which debuts on the network on Friday, July 19. The movie is a styliz ...
July 19, 2013
There I was, mixing the highest profile, most anticipated spot of the year. It was a big-budget extravaganza that introduced Lionel Ritchie as a new musician/spokesperson for Pepsi, a role previously ...
July 11, 2013