http://www.btlnews.com Voice of the Crew Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:12:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-matthew-butler-transformers-dark-of-the-moon/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-matthew-butler-transformers-dark-of-the-moon/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:58:13 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24752 Digital Domain’s Matthew Butler finds himself with his first Academy Award nomination, one of the co-VFX supervisors on Transformers: Dark of the Moon, along with Scott Farrar, who suped for ILM’s share of the work, and special effects supervisor John Frazier. Animation director Scott Benza rounds out the quartet.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-matthew-butler-transformers-dark-of-the-moon/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-%e2%80%93-visual-effects-supervisor-erik-nash-real-steel/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-%e2%80%93-visual-effects-supervisor-erik-nash-real-steel/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:55:43 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24619 Erik Nash finds himself nominated as the VFX supervisor for the robotic fisticuffs opus, Real Steel, along with very busy animatronic supevisor John Rosengrant, animation supervisor Dan Taylor, and digital effects supervisor Swen Gillbert.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-%e2%80%93-visual-effects-supervisor-erik-nash-real-steel/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/academy-award-nominations/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/academy-award-nominations/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:09:28 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24407 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/academy-award-nominations/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/local-44-members-join-btl%e2%80%99s-production-listings-discount-program/ http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/local-44-members-join-btl%e2%80%99s-production-listings-discount-program/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:57:27 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24167 Local 44’s business agent Ed Brown and secretary-treasurer Anthony Pawluc recently invited Patrick Graham, owner of leading film industry publication Below the Line to Local 44's annual Holiday Retirees Luncheon, in order to negotiate final details for Local 44 members to take advantage of Below the Line’s popular Production Listings Discount Program. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/local-44-members-join-btl%e2%80%99s-production-listings-discount-program/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/the-year-in-visual-effects/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/the-year-in-visual-effects/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:56:21 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23833 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/the-year-in-visual-effects/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-rob-legato-hugo/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-rob-legato-hugo/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:00:50 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23590 Rob Legato’s been working on something, he emerges in the contender conversation – which seems to happen every other year or so. There were the special and visual effects for Scorcese’s The Aviator, followed by The Departed, after which he headed off to set up a pipeline for this new James Cameron project called Avatar.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-rob-legato-hugo/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-tim-burke-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-tim-burke-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:57:30 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23466 Tim Burke first boarded the Hogwarts Express for the second film in the Harry Potter series, The Chamber of Secrets, signing on as a VFX supervisor for post-house The Mill. Since then, he’s worked in supervisorial roles in all subsequent installments, rising to senior visual effects supervisor for the franchise’s two-part finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-tim-burke-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-director-of-photography-jeff-cronenweth-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-director-of-photography-jeff-cronenweth-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:56:30 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=22428 Jeff Cronenweth, having worked with director David Fincher on Fight Club, and garnering Oscar and ASC nods with the same director for his work on The Social Network was automatically set to shoot the American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-director-of-photography-jeff-cronenweth-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/union-roundup-communal-christmas/ http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/union-roundup-communal-christmas/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:45:25 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=22369 Below the Line’s big giant head, Patrick Graham, and truly yours – libations already in hand, a plate of turkey, gravy and fixin’s in our near future. We were guests of IA Local 44 – Hollywood’s property craftspersons – at their annual Christmas party given for retirees.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/union-roundup/union-roundup-communal-christmas/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/union-roundup-home-invasions/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/union-roundup-home-invasions/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:57:51 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=21921 IA Locals including 44, 729 and 700, Teamsters 399, retirees, producers, and kin of the above, all descended on the home of location manager George Herthel and his wife Pam Boroski. George had become a client of the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s Palliative Care program, which provides relief of suffering “and achievement of the best possible quality of life for patients with advanced illness, and their families.”]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/union-roundup-home-invasions/feed/ 0