In notching A24’s highest-grossing opening weekend to date, Alex Garland’s debate-stirring combat film Civil War has made plenty of noise — both figuratively and literally. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny and Wagner Moura, the…
After traveling to dozens of exotic locations around the world to film 20th Century Studios’ The Creator, director Gareth Edwards made one last trek that was among his most consequential: to Industrial Light & Magic in Northern California.…
Hayao Miyazaki’s decades-long producer Toshio Suzuki — also co-founder and president of the animation icon’s Japan-based Studio Ghibli — admits that even he was surprised when Miyazaki, now 83, reached out to him in 2016 to say that he…
A joyful clip of an ecstatic Godzilla Minus One visual effects team recently went viral, featuring the moment Jan. 23 when it was announced that their film had earned a VFX Oscar nomination — something that must have seemed improbable, or…
A jaw-dropping feat occurred Monday night and early Tuesday morning at the California Science Center: Space Shuttle Endeavour was lifted by a 450-foot crane into the site of the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in downtown Los…
The American Cinema Editors unwrapped the nominees for its 74th Eddie Awards. ACE’s live-action theatrical feature competition is divided into two categories, for drama and comedy. Nominees in the category for best edited dramatic…
Special effects supervisor Neil Corbould scored a rare hat trick on Tuesday, grabbing three VFX Oscar nominations, for his work on Gareth Edwards’ sci-fi thriller The Creator, Ridley Scott’s period epic Napoleon and Tom Cruise’s Mission:…
Jeffrey Wright will receive the Advanced Imaging Society’s inaugural Distinguished Artist Award in recognition of his performance in American Fiction. Also during the AIS’ upcoming Lumiere Awards, which will be presented Feb. 9 at the…
Underscoring growth in the animation field, the organizers of The Telly Awards and additional industry entities are launching The Collision Awards, a global program to honor excellence in animation and motion design in areas including film…
There was a lot to unpack Jan. 11 when the International Animated Film Society ASIFA-Hollywood announced the nominees for the 51st Annie Awards for animation: For respected animation vet Tom Sito, whose credits include Disney classics such…
During a resurgence in concert films, Imax is releasing a dynamic, digitally remastered version of a classic Queen performance featuring Freddie Mercury, Brain May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, which will have a limited run Jan. 18-21 in…
David Lowery, Greg Papalia, Wynn P. Thomas and Francine West will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 28th annual Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) Awards, which will be presented Feb. 10 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom. Thomas, who…
When the sound shortlist was revealed Dec. 21, several pros were tapped for their work on two movies, among them rerecording mixer Kevin O’Connell, who, speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, emphasized that he’s incredibly grateful to have…
It’s unusual to see an animated movie make the visual effects Academy Award shortlist — and even more rare for one to earn a nomination. But this season, Sony Pictures Animation’s bold Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse became the first…
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leads the theatrical feature competition of the 71st Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards, with a trio of nominations in the categories for effects/foley, dialogue/ADR and music. Close behind with…
Gareth Edward’s futuristic sci-fi movieThe Creator, with visual effects work primarily completed at Industrial Light and Magic, leads the 22nd Visual Effects Society Awards feature competition with seven nominations. Marvel’s Guardians of…
This weekend the visual effects branch presented its annual bakeoff, a pre-nomination-voting event featuring its category’s 10 shortlisted movies. Branch members got a look at an impressive and diverse range of work from big-budget…
German filmmaker Wim Wenders still remembers the epiphany he had when viewing the experimental concert film U2 3D at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. It was one of the earliest live-action digital 3D productions — Avatar was still two years…
To tell the love story of Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre, Maestro director Bradley Cooper reteamed with his Oscar-nominated A Star Is Born cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, and used various film looks, starting with…
A long shooting schedule, continuity, COVID protocols and a large cast were all challenges met by the hairstyling and makeup teams for Martin Scorsese’s epic Killers of the Flower Moon, which was shot on location in Oklahoma from April…
Layoffs are expected to hit Disney-owned Pixar Animation Studios later this year. Tech Crunch, which first reported the news, suggested that this could affect as much as 20 percent of its 1,300 workforce, though it is understood by The…
Maestro was editor Michelle Tesoro’s first collaboration with director Bradley Cooper, who also stars as iconic composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in the now-streaming Netflix drama. While they worked closely on the edit — “Bradley…
Advances in theatrical exhibition will be among 16 achievements that will be recognized during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards presentation Feb. 23 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.…
In a competitive year in animation, Nimona, based on the graphic novel by ND Stevenson, leads the 51st Annie Awards feature competition with nine nominations includes best feature, direction and writing. In the top category for best…
If you’re a fan of animation, you know the name John Musker, whose four decades at Disney included writing and directing such classics as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Moana. Since retiring from the studio in 2018, he independently…
The UHD Alliance — a coalition whose members include Hollywood studios and consumer electronics manufacturers — came to CES to preview the latest advances to Filmmaker Mode, a TV setting that effectively disables post-processing such as…
IATSE international president Matthew Loeb did not rule out a potential 2024 crew strike when several of his union’s contracts come due this year in an appearance on Tuesday. “Nothing is off the table, and we’re not going to give up our…
Cinematographer Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki, known for winning three consecutive Oscars for Gravity, Birdman and The Revenant, got to know some special subjects for his latest project. Lubezki teamed with conservation photographers Cristina…
As 2023 came to a close, a pair of animated movies — Aardman and Netflix’s Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget and Illumination/Universal’s Migration — delivered stories featuring carefully designed chickens and mallards, respectively, that…
The Costume Designers Guild (IATSE Local 892) has revealed the nominees for its 26th CDG Awards, which will be handed out Feb. 21 at Neuehouse Hollywood. Nominations for features and TV include categories for contemporary, period and sci…