Searchlight Pictures’ Nightmare Alley follows the charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), who finds work at a traveling carnival. It is there that he endears himself to cla ...
February 14, 2022
The 94th Academy Awards are almost here, and the nominations are in. Of course, there are the usual shocks, WTF moments and surprises. No Best Director nom for Denis Villeneuve’s impressive work on Du ...
March 2, 2022
The term ‘virtual production’ means different things to different people. In fact, the Visual Effects Society (VES) and the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) recently partnered to create a ne ...
February 24, 2022
Disney’s animated feature Encanto is nominated for two Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards. The central focus of Encanto is family, as the film explores the compelling but complicated relationships w ...
February 23, 2022
Mark Sadlek is a producer and editor on HBO Max’s Insecure. The show was created by Issa Rae and follows Issa as she navigates her experience as a modern-day Black woman, along with her best friend Mo ...
February 18, 2022
Epic action set pieces are a hallmark of Bond films, none more so than No Time to Die, the 25th outing for James Bond and the final appearance for Daniel Craig as agent 007. The VFX and SFX teams work ...
March 14, 2022
Luma Pictures (www.luma.inc), with offices in Santa Monica, CA, and Melbourne, Australia, made a number of visual effects contributions to the Sony Pictures/Marvel Studios blockbuster Spider-Man: No W ...
Directed by Le-Van Kiet, The Requin is a new thriller set in a remote seaside villa in Vietnam, where Jaelyn (Alicia Silverstone) and Kyle (James Tupper) have planned a romantic getaway. A torrential ...
February 17, 2022
The Tragedy of Macbeth was nominated for three Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards. Directed by Joel Coen, the adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tale of murder, madness and political ambition stars ...
April 11, 2022
Making my own way is in my DNA. I grew up in the rural midwest on a working farm, where my father had a second business inventing and fabricating agricultural equipment. We often talked about the powe ...
In Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, nearly 20 years and three separate Spider-Man franchises converge. Building on the “Multiverse” concept introduced in the Marvel Cinematic ...
Anyone who works on a production for a movie, TV or animation studio knows the story. While most things are born digital today, historically, many physical items have come out of studio productions — ...
Up-and-coming filmmaker Lauren Hadaway got her start in post, where she built a successful career in sound editing and mixing. Her first big break was working as the dialogue supervisor for Quentin Ta ...
February 25, 2022
Ever since COVID-19 burst onto the scene, virtual production (VP) has quickly become the buzzword of the industry. While its value had been quietly debated for years — early VP demos involved little m ...
March 4, 2022
On February 7th Coldplay debuted a new music video for Let Somebody Go, a track off the British rock band’s 2021 album “Music of the Spheres.” The song features Selena Gomez, and in the video, lead si ...
February 16, 2022
As cinematographers and studios demand a flexible, realistic and timely way to transport viewers to imagined or remote destinations, especially with the restrictions presented by the pandemic, virtual ...
March 8, 2022
As a lecturer and book author focused on HD technology, I have observed the evolution of video equipment and production workflows over several decades. My study of the technology led me to open my pro ...