Over the course of 40 years, and some 30 films, British director Mike Leigh has amassed a body of work — including Happy-Go-Lucky, Vera Drake, All Or Nothing, Secrets & Lies, Life is Sweet and Nak ...
January 9, 2015
NBC’s The Blacklist has maintained a high-rating on the Nielson charts since its debut in 2013. The show, which has been as warmly received by critics as viewers with several Emmy Award and Golden Glo ...
I’m always excited doing display reviews because I’m such a screen-queen. When teaching in a lab with only a single monitor, I bristle and break into a sweat digging through stacked-up windows, steppi ...
Immediately following her phone conversation with actress/director Angelina Jolie, Becky Sullivan started researching B-24 bombers. Jolie had just asked Sullivan to serve as the supervising sound edit ...
January 8, 2015
SANTA MONICA, CA — Lexus ably demonstrates “The Point of All-Weather Drive” in a winter-themed spot from agency Team One, with VFX by Santa Monica’s Arsenal FX. The commercial showcases Lexus GS, LS a ...
January 19, 2015
NEW YORK — Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald recently completed work on his latest film, Black Sea, a modern-day, under-sea drama that centers around a marine salvage crew and their attem ...
January 22, 2015
BURBANK, CA — Film editor Gary D. Roach has been working with director Clint Eastwood and fellow editor Joel Cox for 19 years. He began as an apprentice on 1997’s Absolute Power, and then became an as ...
January 21, 2015
During this month’s premiere episode of Glee, now in its final season on Fox, show stars Lea Michelle and Chris Colfer lead the students of McKinley High, along with viewers at home, back to the ‘80s, ...
January 15, 2015
LOS ANGELES — Spot watchers are seeing a lot of Rob Lowe these days. In fact, the actor stars opposite himself playing a bizarre array of Rob Lowes in a DirecTV campaign from Grey New York. Directed b ...
Post production has always been an industry undergoing change and today exciting changes are happening faster than ever. New camera systems are allowing filmmakers to work at higher resolutions and hi ...
The production and post production landscapes have converged. What used to be two separate fields have blurred. And although there will always be a demand for the premium specialist, more post product ...
It seems that just a few years ago, building a collaborative, high definition video production workgroup required serious consideration in every area of the infrastructure, from storage and the storag ...
When trying to forecast storage innovations for the new year, it seems like we could simply take last year’s forecast and just make all the numbers larger. 400GB SSDs are now 4000GB SSDs. 10Gb Etherne ...
NEW YORK - The Post New York Alliance (www.postnewyork.org) experienced considerable growth over the past five years. The organization is made up of post professionals and studios that work on film, t ...
February 3, 2015
We all work with technology and delivery systems that are constantly being improved and refined as each year passes. That is a given. There are also breakthrough technologies that send a stronger ripp ...
Looking ahead to 2015, we see a fundamental shift in how we are connecting with the consumer beyond the traditional :30 spot. For brands, in particular, there’s a change in how they communicate with t ...
The critics have not been kind to Ridley Scott’s film Exodus, but none deny the visual effects. Once Moses leads the Jews away from Egypt and out of slavery, the spectacle begins in full force. There ...
January 28, 2015