A THX-certified theater is a great place to hear stuff get blown up. That's not the case with the bandwidth-challenged environment of broadcast television, even in the HD era.... »
A mind-boggling array of possibilities faced Stardust Studios (Santa Monica, CA and New York, NY) as it began production on “From 8 to 1,” the first spot in a new broadcast campaign promoting the WNBA playoffs for agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.... »
Armed with Red camera number 610, The Olson Brothers — that's Obin and Amariah, of Wilmington, NC's DV3 Productions — have just wrapped post on what's almost certainly the first Red production to use the camera's brand-new Adobe Premiere workflow.... »
Co-producers Richard Shaw and Lee Cantalon have been working all their hip-hop connections to collect material for The Wordz from the Street, a collection of original music based on the core teachings of Christianity.... »
The titles, which play at the end of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, serve as a stylish recap that draws on and pays tribute to the Chinese culture that inspired the film. F&V talked to Fong and Fuller about inspiration and execution.... »
Hellboy II: The Golden Army is populated by even more numerous otherworldly monsters than its predecessor, and some of the critters only appear in a shot or two. According to Eamonn Butler, animation supervisor for the project at London’s Double Negative, that amounted to a huge challenge — but it was made easier by Guillermo del Toro’s ability to communicate clearly with the VFX crew, using common reference points to get everyone on the same mental page.... »
Journey to the Center of the Earth, directed by Eric Brevig — a filmmaker with lots of experience in the VFX realm — might not have the same historic impact as The Jazz Singer or Becky Sharp, but as the first live-action VFX-driven feature film to be shot for 3D, it can’t help but break new ground.... »
Kung Fu Panda has captured critics and audiences with its irreverent mix of kung fu and heart, a tale of a slacker panda who dreams of being a kung fu master. Design and branding studio Shine was tasked with creating a main title sequence that conveyed all this while serving as a bookend to the 2D dream sequence that opens the film, and crediting 900 people who worked on it. The result, which clocks in at nine minutes, is a mini-movie in its own right.... »
Gordon's version of the story, which stars Mena Suvari as the driver and Stephen Rea as her victim, is rewritten to give the poor guy a fighting chance. It's a violent B-movie that's as disturbing as it is funny, a black comedy that's genuinely interested in the psychology of a driver who could ignore the dying man stuck in her windshield.... »
