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Overseeing FX Work in Prince Caspian
Visual effects supervisor Dean Wright’s postproduction pipeline begins in a tube. Or rather, London’s Tube, and the very subway station the Pevensie children use to once again access the world of Narnia in the C.S. Lewis book that chronicles the same enchanted, metaphor-strewn land. The next movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, will... »
Well-Known Crew Create The Unknown Woman
The Unknown Woman is the first new film in eight years from vaunted Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore. It will make its much-anticipated North American debut after winning five Donatellos, Italy’s equivalent of the Oscars. Known best for directing Cinema Paradiso, winner of the best foreign film Oscar in 1988, Tornatore in Unknown Woman (La... »
The Crew that Searched for Bin Laden
The only time I was unable to get into a press screening at the Sundance Film Festival occurred when Morgan Spurlock’s Supersize Me (2004) filled the theater seats with lawyers trying to decide whether the distributor could be sued for releasing the film. Supersize Me—about Spurlock’s 30-day self-imposed diet of only eating items from... »
IATSE to Start Talks, But SAG/AFTRA Split Threatens Labor Peace
A bitter turf battle between the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and a decision in late March by AFTRA to go it alone in negotiations with the studios has thrown a monkey wrench into Hollywood’s hope for a settlement well before the present actors contract expires on... »
ADG Sets Digital Technology Conference
The Art Directors Guild and the University Art Museum of California State University, Long Beach have announced a two-day conference called 5D – The Future of Immersive Design. The conference, to be held Oct. 4-5, will be “the first-ever” dealing with the convergence of visual storytelling and design technology, according to the announcement from... »
NAB’s Hot Items: Mobile Video, 3D and 4K
As we approach NAB This year, the industry faces different kinds of challenges. The effects of the prolonged writers’ strike, the threat of an upcoming actors’ strike, combined with general economic malaise are taking their toll. But as they say in show business, the show must go on. And it’s not all bad news.... »
