Focus Features is Honored To Present What the World Needs Now – Won’t You Be My Neighbor
In select theaters on June 8, 2018. View the official trailer here. From Academy Award winning filmmaker, Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom), Won’t You Be My Neighbor? takes an intimate look at America’s favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers. A portrait of a gifted... »
The Producers of Harry Potter Bring You I Kill Giants
Presents I Kill Giants From the producers of Harry Potter, and based on the acclaimed Man of Action graphic novel by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura comes the new feature film, I Kill Giants, now in theatres and On Demand/Digital HD. Check out the trailer at: https://youtu.be/n7Jg-eo8nBo. »
Academy Award Nominated Best Animated Feature – The Breadwinner
Nora Twomey’s adaptation of the well-known young adult novel, The Breadwinner, by Deborah Ellis tackles the ferocious concept of living under the Taliban’s rule through the eyes of an 11-year-old girl, forced to grow up quickly to take care of her family after her home is raided and her father imprisoned. Twomey’s direction of... »
Mother! – A Triumph of Production Design and Editing
“When I read the script, I had never read anything close to that in my life,” revealed Phillip Messina, production designer on Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!, a project of great debate amongst cineastes as to its allegorical leanings. Concerning a young wife, played by Jennifer Lawrence, and her... »
Contender: Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Berardi The Shape of Water
In a dream-like state, the viewer floats through a blue underwater apartment filled with furniture and photographs, settling on the waking face of Eliza (Sally Hawkins). This magical setting opens director Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water. The VFX team, lead by visual effects supervisor Dennis Berardi, helped... »
Below The Line Screening Series Darkest Hour – Words Can Change The World
“Words can and do, change the world.” This is precisely what happened through Winston Churchill in 1940,” said BAFTA Award-winning screening writer and producer, Anthony McCarten. “He was under intense political and personal pressure, yet he was spurred to such heights in so few days – over and over again.” Below the Line’s recent... »
The LEGO Batman Movie Creating the Batcave
Directed by Chris McKay, The LEGO Batman Movie features a bright parade of action sequences, self-reflexive humour, and just enough darkness to round out the dichotomy known as the Batman legend himself. Although the sparkling film can boast the high end talent of magnetic personalities such as Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Ralph... »
Vicon and Framestore Help Raise Armies of the Dead in Marvel Studios’ Thor: Ragnarok
Vicon and Framestore Help Raise Armies of the Dead in Marvel Studios’ Thor: Ragnarok Vicon Motion Capture Cameras and Software Aided in the Creation of Undead Soldiers, Crowded Cities and Even the Hulk, All in a Matter of Days In Marvel Studios’ latest blockbuster, Thor: Ragnarok, an electrified god of thunder fights off an army... »
Director Scott Waugh on 6 Below: Miracle on The Mountain
When you live in a city like LA, you wonder how it’s possible to ever feel completely alone. When the silence you once craved haunts every minute of every hour. When all you have to comfort you is the burning sensation of numbness creeping over your limbs. The whistling of the wind is the... »
Official Below The Line Screening Series featuring Detroit with Q&A in Los Angeles
Released on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 riots, Kathryn Bigelow’s latest psychological thriller, Detroit, tells the true story of what happened when the riots began and how a few bad cops turned a questioning of an unconfirmed shooter into the murder scene of three kids. And shockingly, were ultimately acquitted. Below the Line... »