http://www.btlnews.com Voice of the Crew Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:07:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.btlnews.com/news/30th-anniversary-of-raging-bull-%e2%80%93-the-makeup/ http://www.btlnews.com/news/30th-anniversary-of-raging-bull-%e2%80%93-the-makeup/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:18:10 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10852 http://www.btlnews.com/news/30th-anniversary-of-raging-bull-%e2%80%93-the-makeup/feed/ 2 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/below-the-line-trends-hybrid-visual-effects-techniques-%e2%80%93-the-wolfman/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/below-the-line-trends-hybrid-visual-effects-techniques-%e2%80%93-the-wolfman/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:07:43 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10732 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/below-the-line-trends-hybrid-visual-effects-techniques-%e2%80%93-the-wolfman/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/news/40th-anniversary-of-woodstock-the-movie/ http://www.btlnews.com/news/40th-anniversary-of-woodstock-the-movie/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:40:38 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10628 http://www.btlnews.com/news/40th-anniversary-of-woodstock-the-movie/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/makeup-takes-its-29th-turn-at-the-academy-awards/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/makeup-takes-its-29th-turn-at-the-academy-awards/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:47:26 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10524 Alice in Wonderland, many of the performers discussed their lengthy stints “getting into costume.” This is both a travesty and at the same time not surprising. While costumes have been heralded by cinema onlookers for decades, makeup has only recently been given the respect is has long deserved, both by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and by people who work in movie making alike.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/makeup-takes-its-29th-turn-at-the-academy-awards/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/featured/rick-baker%e2%80%99s-new-wolf/ http://www.btlnews.com/featured/rick-baker%e2%80%99s-new-wolf/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:33:44 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9836 Rick Baker has created some of cinema’s most memorable monsters. The six-time Oscar winner for Best Makeup notably realized one of the greatest horror monsters in movie history with An American Werewolf in London. Now, thirty years later, he is bringing another lycanthropic creature to the screen with Universal Pictures’ remake of the 1941 classic, The Wolf Man. This 2010 film, called The Wolfman, was originally set to be directed by Mark Romanek but ended up being helmed by Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III, The Rocketeer, October Sky). For the new film, Baker was tasked with creating the main makeup on star Benicio Del Toro, who like his predecessor, Lon Chaney, Jr., is cursed with turning into a beast when the moon turns full. In this candid interview, Baker discusses the process of turning man into wolf.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/featured/rick-baker%e2%80%99s-new-wolf/feed/ 2 http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/director-series/joe-johnston-conjures-the-wolfman/ http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/director-series/joe-johnston-conjures-the-wolfman/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:29:54 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9838 Industrial Light and Magic art director Joe Johnston became a feature film director over 20 years ago when he came aboard...]]> http://www.btlnews.com/commentary/director-series/joe-johnston-conjures-the-wolfman/feed/ 3 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/annie-awards-a-celebration-of-excellence-in-animation/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/annie-awards-a-celebration-of-excellence-in-animation/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:51:18 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9796 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/annie-awards-a-celebration-of-excellence-in-animation/feed/ 2 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/joe-letteri-on-the-visual-effects-of-avatar/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/joe-letteri-on-the-visual-effects-of-avatar/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:19:53 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9341 Peter Jackson’s final two films in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, Stephen Sommers’ Van Helsing, and Jackson’s King Kong, Joe Letteri might have faced an even greater challenge with James Cameron’s Avatar. For this newest project, which is winning troves of awards and breaking both worldwide and domestic box office records, Letteri faced supervising effects for a movie that was a predominantly virtual production, with fully-realized computer-generated characters and worlds, on top of being shot in 3D with new camera processes.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/joe-letteri-on-the-visual-effects-of-avatar/feed/ 3 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-%e2%80%93-best-foreign-film-warwick-thornton/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-%e2%80%93-best-foreign-film-warwick-thornton/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:54:14 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9200 Warwick Thornton’s new film, Samson and Delilah, set in Australia’s outback among its indigenous people. Surely, there have been other films about Aboriginal Australian culture. The issue is that most of them were made by non-Aborigines: Philip Noyce’s Rabbit-Proof Fence, John Hillcoat’s The Proposition and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-%e2%80%93-best-foreign-film-warwick-thornton/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/the-making-of-avatar/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/the-making-of-avatar/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:05:56 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=6765 James Cameron’s long-awaited epic fantasy Avatar is definitely “titanic” in size and scope. “It’s got a big story—that’s where it starts,” said producer Jon Landau, who also produced Cameron’s last film, Titanic. “Jim created a story that called for a world that did not exist. The technology did not exist before Titanic. The technical hurdle was creating the closeup. In the center of our world, we have CGI characters—and movies are all about the closeup.”]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/the-making-of-avatar/feed/ 6