Universal Pictures’ Green Book brings polar opposites together for a road trip of the South in the early 1960s. Tony ‘Lip’ Vallelonga (portrayed by Viggo Mortensen) is an Italian-American bouncer from ...
December 4, 2018
Rob Marshall was probably destined to direct the new Mary Poppins film, a sequel to the 1964 Disney classic. After all, the former dancer and choreographer’s name has virtually become synonymous with ...
Disney released one of its most iconic films in 1964, introducing audiences to Mary Poppins, a story of a charmed nanny who, through music and magic, helped repair a strained relationship between two ...
December 20, 2018
Independent editor Nick Fenton spent the first half of 2018 cutting A Private War, the Matthew Heineman-directed feature about celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin that’s based on an article from ...
January 15, 2019
I majored in Japanese Language Education at college back in 2001 in South Korea. About that time, I fell in love with many Disney's animated movies, so I started learning 3D graphics by double-majorin ...
January 3, 2019
Neon’s new feature film, Vox Lux, begins in 1999, when young teenager Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) survives a violent school shooting and, after singing at a memorial service, begins a path to pop stardom ...
December 14, 2018
Founded in 1953, the Motion Picture Sound Editors is a global organization dedicated to improving the recognition of its members by educating the public and the filmmaking community as to the artistic ...
NEW YORK CITY — Twenty years ago, Sound Lounge (www.soundlounge.com) was born - the vision of Tom Jucarone, Peter Holcomb and Marshall Grupp to create an artist-owned studio that put a premium o ...
Killer Tracks is a leading provider of production music and a global source for pre-cleared music for film, television, advertising and interactive media. Here, VP/head of music production Carl Peel a ...
January 11, 2019
Our team at Tactic has been creating realtime experiences and apps on many platforms, and for many formats, over the years. We bring together a team with many skill sets: artists, engineers, game indu ...
January 2, 2019
In the last 12 months, we’ve seen cloud computing disrupt the visual effects industry in a significant way. While studios were assessing cost, running PoCs, and determining how to best utilize the new ...
January 9, 2019
Technologies like the Unity game engine are arguably the most important developments at a time when our industry is going through a transformational shift, where you not only have digital and cloud, b ...
January 8, 2019
For post and broadcast professionals, the onramp to harnessing cloud compute power for video transcoding seemed daunting in the past. However, as the industry evolves, and as new services become avail ...
January 16, 2019
Near realtime, secure transfer of media content is fundamentally changing content creation workflows while bringing tremendous business benefits to production companies. Fast, efficient streaming file ...
January 21, 2019
The entertainment space is going global. Thanks to rapid technological shifts, content is now available on every type of screen in every region around the world. But while content now has universal re ...
December 17, 2018
In a world that’s increasingly inter-connected on every level from work to entertainment, subtitles or “timed-text services” have become an indispensable and invaluable commodity. Following recent gov ...
The barrier to entry in the post industry continues to decline. Equipment that used to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars is now a fraction of that. Powerfully-creative software is available for an ...
January 4, 2019
It’s no secret that I’ve been a big advocate of cloud computing in media and entertainment for many years. Straight out of the gate, I was excited about the potential for cloud to ‘level the playing f ...
In the world of digital content creation, high-resolution shoots produce massive amounts of data — the likes of which are unprecedented. Large-scale 4K productions have already become the gold standar ...
1stAveMachine directors Nico Casavecchia and Martin Allais eye trends, challenges and future of Virtual Reality. As 2018 draws to a close, it’s becoming clear that the VR industry is finally moving on ...
December 18, 2018
Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis’ ( Forrest Gump, Cast Away ) recent film for Universal Pictures and Dreamworks, Welcome to Marwen, stars Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Merritt ...