Writer/director/producer Chris McQuarrie got his start with his acclaimed script for The Usual Suspects, directed by Bryan Singer, which won him an Oscar. In 2000 he made his directorial debut with Th ...
July 27, 2015
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that “nonlinear file-based workflows” was all the buzz as the industry transitioned from traditional tape to more general purpose computer style storage, filing syste ...
July 3, 2015
In Starz's original series, Outlander, 18th century Scotland is alive and well — and looking better than ever. With its expansive highlands, authentic Scottish castles, and lush valleys wrapped in a t ...
July 6, 2015
I’m relatively new to the world of 3D. If you read my review of Maxon’s Cinema 4D Studio R15 a year back, then you know that’s where I dove in full force. And that’s what people do, right? Read consec ...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe just keeps growing. The studio’s latest offering, Ant-Man, marks the 12th release in Marvel Studios' highly successful film franchise. Directed by Peyton Reed and featuri ...
July 20, 2015
At the Jurassic World theme park, the main attraction — the dinosaurs — became, well, too common and failed to elicit the excitement they once did. The Jurassic World filmmakers had the same challenge ...
In Columbia Pictures’ new comedy Pixels, directed by Chris Columbus (his first major feature in five years), aliens misinterpret US video feeds of 1980s classic arcade games as the Earth’s declaration ...
July 24, 2015
Earlier this summer, Warner Bros. Pictures took on the disaster film genre with director Brad Peyton’s San Andreas, starring Dwayne Johnson. Shaking up the box office early on, the film grossed more t ...
MPC Film (www.moving-picture.com) spent a year producing visual effects for the new Terminator Genisys film, but the studio’s involvement dates back even further. MPC and its VFX supervisor Gary Broze ...
Most creative companies at some point face a big project — they have the talent, the technology and the ideas. The one missing piece: workflow efficiency. It’s their big chance to show the industry wh ...
July 7, 2015
NEW YORK — Technicolor-PostWorks (http://www.postworks.com) has been offering flexible remote collaboration services for more than five years. The facility provides a variety of point-to-point and clo ...
Sometimes it’s nice to be the little guy. With the number of David and Goliath business stories being told, it’s easy to lose sight of the advantages small companies claim over their competitors. Ever ...
A common perception is that boutique post houses struggle more, but I have a feeling it's actually the larger companies that are struggling the most lately.
BURBANK, CA — In the latest educational video from The Editors’ Lounge Channel, veteran audio mixer Erik Valenzuela and AlphaDogs’ Curtis Fritsch take a look at five key areas that can dramatically im ...
July 23, 2015