March 27, 2023
It’s hard to not put yourself in the place of Robert Redford’s character in J.C. Chandor’s All is Lost. Trying to imagine how you would behave in the situation of being lost at sea. I would have been cursing early and often. I also think I would be talking to myself the entire time. […]
BTV Post recently provided full postproduction services for How Cities Work – a new TV series commissioned by Discovery. The British facility worked closely with Electric Sky Productions to deliver 3D and 2D versions of the show. […]
When the multi-billion dollar expansion of the Panama Canal is complete in 2015, larger ships will be able to go through the waterway and potentially bypass Seattle and other West Coast ports. As part of a news story about the expansion’s potential local economic impact that aired on Nov. 20, KIRO-TV, the Cox Media Group-owned CBS affiliate for Seattle-Tacoma, sent a news team to tour the Panama Canal and talk with shipping industry professionals from the region. […]
When production designer Tim Galvin first looked at locations for Lee Daniels’ The Butler in New Orleans, he and executive producer Adam Merims weren’t sure what they would find. But wherever they found it, they were determined to make it work. “Our biggest challenge was figuring out how to do the White House without having to build it,” Galvin said in an interview by phone, “because we couldn’t afford to build it, plain and simple. This was very much an independent film, and financing took time. When we all started in on this project, we vowed whatever it takes to make this film, we’ve got to make it happen.” […]
At a special meeting Saturday, the Directors Guild of America’s national board voted unanimously to approve and recommend a new three-year collective bargaining agreement. The tentative deal, announced Friday evening, will now be put to the membership for a vote. The term of the agreement is three years, covering July 1, 2014, when the current contract expires, through June 30, 2017. […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 86th Academy Awards. One hundred twenty pictures had originally qualified in the category. […]
On Monday, the Weinstein Company will host simultaneous screenings of August: Osage County in New York and Los Angeles followed by an interactive panel discussion with director John Wells, writer Tracy Letts as well as cast members Meryl Streep, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Chris Cooper and Dermot Mulroney from New York. […]
Discovery recently turned to longtime collaborator L.A.-based agency Radley Studios for a complete rebrand of the network. The agency handled all design, animation, sound and production for seven on-air 3D packages totaling more than 400 deliverables. The package features vibrant graphic explosions centered upon an ever-changing globe careening through snakes, sharks, ice, flames and hails of bullets. […]
Visual effects and design boutique Muse VFX has opened its doors in Hollywood, Calif. The company will specialize in advanced visual effects for television, feature films, commercials, special venues and online content. The facility will be led by founder, president, creative director and senior VFX supervisor John Gross and founder, vice-president and VFX supervisor Fred Pienkos. […]
Manolo Rojas has been working as a Steadicam operator for more than 22 years on high-profile feature film, commercial and music video projects including Godzilla, Don Jon and Walking with Dinosaurs 3D. On a recent shoot that required monitoring live picture from 1080I/24 camera video signal, he noticed that the gradation of black shades within the frame was getting crunched. […]