June 1, 2018

  • 15-Jun-2018
    June 1, 2018
    In This Issue:

    - Summer Movies: Solo: A Star Wars Story; Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom; Hotel Artemis
    - Adrift director Baltasar Kormakur
    - Workstation Update
    - Display Technologies
    ...and much more!

Departments

  • Director's Chair: Baltasar Kormákur — <i>Adrift</I>
    Director's Chair: Baltasar Kormákur — Adrift

    Baltasar Kormákur seems to be obsessed with sea-faring tales, which is hardly surprising as the Icelandic director and producer was born in Reykjavik, and grew up surrounded by the ocean. He first mad ...

    July 3, 2018

Features

  • Audio: <I>Solo: A Star Wars Story</I>
    Audio: Solo: A Star Wars Story

    There’s no better way to experience gigantic battles in space than in the movie theater. But just in case you need some convincing, Solo: A Star Wars Story’s supervising sound editor Matthew Wood, at ...

    June 19, 2018

  • Marvel's Victoria Alonso on the making of a blockbuster
    Marvel's Victoria Alonso on the making of a blockbuster

    When Post last checked in with Victoria Alonso, producer and executive vice president of physical production at Marvel Studios, she was receiving the prestigious Visionary Award from the Visual Effect ...

    June 27, 2018

  • Summer Movies: <I>Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom</I>
    Summer Movies: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

    In every Jurassic film, there’s that moment when the audience holds their breath and leans in, waiting for the dinosaur attack. That suspenseful build-up is a staple of the franchise. That, and the T. ...

    June 25, 2018

  • Summer Movies: <I>Solo: A Star Wars Story</I>
    Summer Movies: Solo: A Star Wars Story

    With the return of one of cinema’s most beloved heroes, Han Solo, in his own origins story, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Disney and Lucasfilm give audiences a look at the iconic character’s early life in ...

    June 18, 2018

Web Exclusives

  • Cloud: Framestore creates VFX with preemptible machines
    Cloud: Framestore creates VFX with preemptible machines

    Framestore is one of the world’s leading visual effects studios. Nominated for numerous Academy Awards, the facility has won the Best Visual Effects Oscar three times, for its pioneering work on The G ...

    June 26, 2018

  • Documentary: <I>Unbanned</I>
    Documentary: Unbanned

    Unbanned is a new feature documentary that premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival in April. It’s the untold story of Michael Jordan and his first pair of shoes, which were banned by the NBA in 1984. T ...

    June 21, 2018

  • Editing 101: 5 Rules - Part 1
    Editing 101: 5 Rules - Part 1

    An editor is issued countless hours of footage, so the last thing he or she needs is to be handcuffed with rules.

    June 29, 2018

  • Filmmaking: <I>Hotel Artemis</I> director Drew Pearce
    Filmmaking: Hotel Artemis director Drew Pearce

    Drew Pearce makes his directorial debut with Hotel Artemis, a new film set in Los Angeles in 2028, where riots have broken out due to water shortages. Jodie Foster stars as a nurse, who runs a secret, ...

    June 15, 2018

  • SIGGRAPH 2018: Q&A with keynote speaker Rob Bredow
    SIGGRAPH 2018: Q&A with keynote speaker Rob Bredow

    SIGGRAPH 2018 Keynote Rob Bredow (SVP, Executive Creative Director, and Head of Industry Light & Magic (ILM) is a long-standing industry visionary who will take the stage in August to share how me ...

    June 21, 2018

  • Summer Movies: <I>Ocean's 8</I>
    Summer Movies: Ocean's 8

    It’s the heist of all heists — $150 million in diamonds to be worn by actress Daphne Kluger (Anne Hathaway) during the annual Met Gala event in New York City. Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock), a career t ...

    June 25, 2018

  • What's Streaming: Verizon Go90's <I>True North</I>
    What's Streaming: Verizon Go90's True North

    Taylor Gill served as both cinematographer and lead editor for True North, a new docutainment series that’s now streaming on Verizon Go90. The show takes the viewers on a trip deep into the Arctic, te ...

    June 20, 2018

  • What's Streaming: YouTube Premium's <I>Impulse</I>
    What's Streaming: YouTube Premium's Impulse

    TORONTO — The YouTube Premium original series Impulse centers around a 16-year old young woman, who discovers she can teleport. Despite its supernatural premise, the series, a spinoff of director Doug ...

    June 22, 2018