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How Doc Ock Got Ready For His Close-Ups in Spider-Man II

Spider-Man still does everything a spider can, but the blockbuster Spider-Man sequel gets maximum mileage out of a new villain, the tentacled Dr. Octopus, known as Doc Ock for short. The critical task at Sony more »

Mini-Movies Brand Image For IFC

Hollywood is the butt of the joke in two quirky minute-long promos for IFC's celebrity-hosted program Escape From Hollywood. more »

A Spot in Constant Change

To achieve this effect, the spot was shot completely motion-control. Visuals change every five frames (there are an astonishing 248 shots in some 26 seconds), and 95 percent of the spot is CG, including the more »

Getting Sky Captain Off The Ground

Starring Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, Sky Captain pays homage to such influences as Buck Rogers and Fritz Lang. But the ambitious Paramount release, which was independently produced by Jon Avnet, doesn't more »

Three DPs, 22 Questions

Ueli Steiger on The Day After Tomorrow; Peter Levy on The Life and Death of Peter Sellers; Daryn Okada on Paparazzi more »

How DP Dion Beebe adapted to HD for Michael Mann’s Collateral

"Frantically, between takes, we were trying to figure out what was wrong," Beebe recalls. Condensation? No. Did someone smudge the lens? Nope. It turns out that the Collateral crew fell victim to HD more »

The Director Talks About The Island, Shooting Commercials and Why TV Scares Him

F&V: What's your take on the commercial world? When I watched the Lakers play-off games, I was shocked to see how many car commercials there were. It seems that there's only money for big car more »

HydroFlex Takes Sony’s HDW-950 Underwater

HydroFlex President Pete Romano knows a thing or two about underwater cinematography. (He's a former Navy diver whose film credits include Gothika and Pearl Harbor.) more »

Q&A: Nancy Schreiber

What is your personal style? I gear myself to the subject matter of the film and try to never repeat myself. I think many of us are chameleons and I think that's okay. I'm very drawn to the human face. I more »

The Documentary That Took 20 Years of Overtime…

Louis Schwartzberg first visualized the possibilities for producing a non-fiction film about unsung heroes while he was shooting footage for ad campaigns for TV networks and their affiliates some 20 years ago more »