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Industry journalist and StudioDaily contributor Michael Goldman interviews filmmakers from a variety of disciplines about their work on current major feature film releases.
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Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, Gives The Irishman His All
For its critical success, awards buzz, and technical breakthroughs revolving around the unique use of brand-new digital de-aging techniques on lead actors for extended sequences, it might be easy to forget Martin Scorsese’s new Netflix financed-and-streamed gangster epic The Irishman is largely a classically shot film. At least that’s the point of view of the film’s […]
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VFX Supervisor Bill Westenhofer on Gemini Man and Making a Digital Movie Star
In 2012, veteran VFX supervisor Bill Westenhofer shared an Academy Award for spearheading the stunning VFX work that led to the creation of a believable living, breathing tiger in director Ang Lee’s award-winning film, Life of Pi. Fast forward several years, with the state of the art hurtling past previous roadblocks, and Westenhofer found himself receiving […]
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Production Designer Barbara Ling on How Quentin Tarantino’s Team Brought 1969 L.A. Back to Life
One of the conceits of Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, is the director’s skill at dropping unique fictional characters and a strange fictional story straight out of the director’s oeuvre neatly into a particularly loving photograph of reality in the form of Los Angeles, circa 1969.
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Engine Room Founder Dan Schmit on QuickFX and VFX Services in the Cloud
Los Angeles VFX studio Engine Room has launched QuickFX.com, a cloud-based service platform for visual effects project management. According to Engine Room owner Dan Schmit, QuickFX has the potential to bring down the cost of VFX work and, in turn, make local L.A. talent more competitive on the global stage. QuickFX is a web-based front […]
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Executive Producer/Director Douglas Mackinnon Explains How Best-Selling Novel Good Omens Finally Made it to Screens as an Amazon Limited Series
According to Douglas Mackinnon, executive producer and director of the new Amazon limited series, Good Omens, the recent success in adapting the best-selling book penned in the late 1980’s by Neil Gaiman (now screenwriter of the series) and Terry Pratchett, was long overdue. He points out that “a survey done by the BBC a few […]
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Podcast: Cinematographer Nicola Pecorini on (Finally) Shooting Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Cinematographer Nicola Pecorini chuckles in looking back at his 20-plus years collaborating with director Terry Gilliam, originally for 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ...