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Cutting from Good Vibes to Bad Behavior for Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers, the latest film from director and provocateur Harmony Korine, is not just one of the weirdest movies to open this year but also one of the most commercially successful, pulling in big numbers last weekend on just three …

Collider Conference to Help VFX and Graphics Community Converge in NYC
Based on the success of its Style Frames New York conferences geared to advertising creatives and executives, Stash Media is launching a New York show aimed at the wider community of area visual effects, motion graphics and animation staff and …
Lucien Yang on Rebooting VH1′s Best Week Ever Openers
Lucien Yang, art director at Nice Shoes, began working with VH1 as a freelancer in 2007 and had done a few smaller projects with the MTV sister channel after landing at the New York-based creative design and post facility. His …

Getting All the Angles on an Intimate Paul McCartney Gig
When audiences first saw Paul McCartney on television in 1963, he was singing in black and white. 50 years later, he still is. The former Beatle’s latest album of old standards, Kisses on the Bottom, which recently won a Grammy, …

Hive-FX’s Jim Clark and Guy Cappiccie on Seamless Morphs for Grimm
NBC's Grimm, which resumes its second season on March 8, revolves around a Portland homicide detective descended from an elite line of criminal profilers dating back to the time of the Brothers Grimm. The detective must tread carefully between his real beat …

Director Ang Lee and Editor Tim Squyres on Life of Pi
After finishing Life of Pi, his eleventh film made in collaboration with editor Tim Squyres, ACE, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's ideas about the role of the film editor are changing. "The editor for a movie like this is not just [doing] …

At Sea with the Intense, Immersive Doc Leviathan
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s Leviathan raises the bar for documentary filmmaking: it’s closer to 2001: A Space Odyssey than the typical non-fiction film. Shot with a variety of video cameras, including the extremely small GoPro, it depicts life onboard …

Expanding the Handheld Screen for Mobile Roadie
The world may be vast, but it’s also highly mobile. If you have the right tools, the possibilities are endless. That’s the message of the 60-second spot LA-based mixed-media production studio Roger created for Mobile Roadie. Part of the app …

Technicolor’s Tony Dustin on Grading Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell, stars Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver. All of them are up for an Oscar this year, including the film for Best Picture. The acclaimed ensemble film was …

Weta Digital’s Guy Williams on The Avengers
Guy Williams was the visual effects supervisor at Weta Digital for The Avengers. We spoke to him last May upon the release of the film, and caught up with him again to talk about his Oscar and BAFTA nominations for …