The wonderful world of Oz comes alive once more in Wicked: For Good, the epic conclusion to last year’s first installment — a cinematic sensation that became the most successful Broadway film adaptati ...
December 17, 2025
A House of Dynamite is a new political thriller from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow. The film is set in Washington, DC, where various levels of the Department of Defense react and respond to a ...
December 9, 2025
Compositing has always been the make-or-break point of filmmaking. Pulling together images from different sources requires exceptional skill and great judgement. Artists are constantly challenged to w ...
December 5, 2025
Blackbird, which specializes in cloud video editing technology, regularly works with some of the world’s biggest broadcasters and events (think Olympics, World Cup), enabling them to edit live footage ...
January 2, 2026
Based in Woodland Hills, CA, Light Sail VR (www.lightsailvr.com) was one of the first studios to put Blackmagic Design’s Ursa Cine Immersive camera to use. The Ursa Cine Immersive is a digital film ca ...
Sarah Watling is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Jali Research (https://jaliresearch.com), a Toronto-based company that offers automated lip-sync and facial-animation software that helps ...
Thomas Burns is the CTO for media & entertainment at Dell Technologies, and says 2025 has been an interesting year, thanks to the implications of artificial intelligence.
The VFX landscape is undergoing one of the most significant shifts in its history. The rapid maturation of generative AI, coupled with the growth of virtual production (VP), is reshaping workflows, cr ...
Ross Shain has been in the industry for more than 20 years, both on the creative post side and in product development. He once served as chief marketing officer at Boris FX, and is currently working w ...
K-Pop Demon Hunters is an animated feature that combines traditional Korean culture and heritage with highly-produced music that’s a signature of the genre. The film from Sony Pictures Animation was r ...
In the Netflix feature Frankenstein, Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, the brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature ...
December 12, 2025
The new Focus Features film Song Sung Blue is based on a true story about two down-on-their-luck musicians (Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson), who partner to form a Neil Diamond tribute band, helping them ...
December 10, 2025
It’s all everyone is buzzing about - Nikon just released the Nikon ZR, the company’s first cinema camera for filmmakers, born from a collaboration with Red. Red’s legendary color science and cinematic ...
Tish Marsh is a VFX line producer at Lux Aeterna (www.lavfx.com), the Bristol, UK-based visual effects studio. She graduated from university with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2021 and has already made ...
December 18, 2025
Across the media and entertainment industry, AI innovation is changing the way we consume content and reimagining how films, series and events are produced, edited, delivered and monetized. Though we’ ...
In an AI-saturated market, the bottleneck isn’t going to be making content - it’s getting people to care about the content you are making and choose yours. Generative tools are already flattening the ...
As the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) continues to grow to encompass new projects and technologies, an important new development this past year was the establishment of a Working Group on Machine ...
January 6, 2026
Recent media reports indicate a “hush” has fallen over Hollywood. Other reports, however, are not so kind, describing what is happening to the US film industry as a “crisis.” US President Donald Trump ...
In a rapidly evolving business environment, where hybrid work, decentralized teams and global operations are the norm, corporations are seeking new ways to create meaningful, efficient and measurable ...
In 2026, more teams are going to rediscover the joy of having their data and workflows close to where the work actually happens. Not because the cloud is bad. The cloud is a great tool. It is just not ...
Independent filmmakers thrive when they produce solid films that connect with a sizable audience and inspire future financial support. Unfortunately, changes in the industry have made it more difficul ...
Remote production has introduced efficiencies, unlocked new talent opportunities and helped align stakeholders across the chain. However, ensuring every remote team member is working from an image tha ...
In 2026, advertising is being shaped by a split into two camps: those chasing efficiency and scale, and those chasing creative distinction.
In response to the influx of AI tools that we saw in 2025, some of which bled into the music sphere, I think the demand for bespoke, human-crafted compositions will increase in 2026.
Imagine typing exactly where you want to shoot your film into a textbox, then instantly being transported there. Just a few years ago, this would have been impossible.
When Netflix started streaming movies and YouTube made it trivial to upload video from a laptop or phone, the skepticism was familiar: existing solutions worked fine, bandwidth was limited and people ...
While COVID-19 increased demand for post production, the AI era has now turned everything on its head. As we enter 2026, streaming giants no longer need to entertain millions stuck at home, and Hollyw ...
As we look ahead to 2026, the entertainment industry continues undergoing consolidation and transformation — and visual effects sit squarely at the center of this evolution. Today, visual effects is t ...
As brands chase more assets across more channels with flatter budgets, the “full stack” creative production agency — one shop spanning strategy, creative, production and post — has shifted from a nice ...
January 5, 2026
There’s been plenty of talk over the years about a cloud-first future for post production, where storage, applications and collaboration all move seamlessly to the cloud. But in reality, that’s not ho ...