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- Director Anthony C. Ferrante on Sharknado 2
- ProMax Systems Acquires Cache-A
- New VFX House Origin Digital Studios Opens in Burbank
- Color Specialist Apache Digital Opens in Santa Monica
- Video Tutorial: How to Set Up an ACES Workflow in Assimilate Scratch
- Watch the Fastest Phantom Cam Shoot at 44,000 fps and Higher
- Frame.io Web App Aims to Simplify Collaborative Post Online
- The World Cup Was the Biggest Experiment Yet for 4K and 8K Broadcast
- The Foundry Introduces Colorway for Designers
- Imagineer Systems Releases Mocha Pro 4
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Director Anthony C. Ferrante on Sharknado 2
It's back! Syfy's shark-infested waterspout of a TV movie, Sharknado, was an instant cult classic and social-media...
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Director Anthony C. Ferrante on Sharknado 2
It's back! Syfy's shark-infested waterspout of a TV movie, Sharknado, was an instant cult classic and social-media...
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New VFX House Origin Digital Studios Opens in Burbank
It's not all bad news for VFX in Los Angeles. Today, VFX veteran Mark Miller said he is opening a new VFX house, Origin...
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News Reel
- California Lost Over $1B to Runaway Production Last Year, Film Commission Says
[via Deadline Hollywood]
- Colbert’s Late Show Staying at Letterman’s Ed Sullivan Theater
[via The Wrap]
- Average Movie Ticket Price Hits $8.33 in Second Quarter
[via The Hollywood Reporter]
- Apple Preps 4K Desktop and 12-inch Retina MacBook
[via 9to5Mac]
- Apple to Offer 1 Million Users Beta Version of OS X Yosemite
[via Los Angeles Times]
Videos of the day
Jul 23 Out of Print
Watch this trailer for Julia Marchese's upcoming documentary about L.A.'s New Beverly Cinema, its clientele (including Joe Carnahan, Joe Dante, Rian Johnson, Mark Romanek, Kevin Smith, and many more), and their ongoing love affair with 35mm film.
Jul 22 Aaron David Gleason "Mastermind"
New York-based filmmaker Jeremiah Kipp directed this fever-dream of a music video for artist Aaron David Gleason with appearances by Chris Sarandon and Tony Award-winners Alice Ripley and Joanna Gleason. It's edited by Patrick McGowan and the DP is Kenneth Kotowski.
Jul 21 The Man Who Turned Paper into Pixels
This video essay by Adam Westbrook of Delve.tv looks at the work of Claude Shannon, "the most important man you've probably never heard of" — an information theorist who was among the first to imagine the possiblity of encoding and transmitting information as binary digits.