Post-Production Tech and ’Flows

TL;DR Miles Perkins, Industry Manager of Film & Television at Epic Games, discusses how real-time graphics are revolutionizing production for film and television. Virtual production has exploded since 2019, moving […]

https://youtu.be/AiohkY_XQYQ TL;DR Pushing aside “RRR” in the global marketplace, Norway’s “Troll” has become Netflix’s best performing non-English film. Partly inspired by “King Kong” and Godzilla films, “Troll” employs many classic […]

https://youtu.be/Znsa4Deavgg TL;DR Altman Solon’s 2022 Global Film & Video Production Report finds virtual production is on the rise, but the industry faces challenges over sourcing talent and harnessing the power […]

https://youtu.be/cKOegEuCcfw TL;DR Disney+ series “Andor” goes back five years from the events of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” following the journey of Rebellion hero Cassian Andor. Series creator and […]

https://youtu.be/G-KJCBYsIrM TL;DR Film editor Bob Ducsay, ASC, discusses the layers of structure and sleight-of-hand behind “Knives Out: Glass Onion.” Beginning with 2012’s “Looper,” writer-director Rian Johnson has collaborated with Ducsay […]

TL;DR The guide explains media ontologies in simple terms, provides a useful discussion of mapping data across different information systems, and offers practical examples of how media organizations are using […]

https://youtu.be/lGRMlNznQcY TL;DR “The Rings of Power” producer Ron Ames discusses how cloud was a major part of the show’s production process, enabling the production team to “make art with technology […]

https://youtu.be/Dr89pmKrqkI TL;DR “Barbarian” is a below-the-radar title whose shocks and twists have made it a sizeable hit. DP Zach Kuperstein explains how he created the look for a Detroit-set story […]

From Netflix’s insanely popular “Squid Game.” Photo by Youngkyu Park TL;DR Influenced by the popularity of Japanese anime IPs like “One Piece,” the demand for non-English content in the US […]

Ine Marie Wilmann in Norwegian movie “Troll,” courtesy of Netflix TL;DR Localization can unlock existing content for new audiences and new revenue for content producers but only if done with […]

From Netflix’s “Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure” TL;DR The need for translation services for film and TV properties to prosper in an international world will increase. Other markets for the services […]

Presented by ENCO They say the best part about standards is that there are many; the same can be said about captioning standards worldwide. However, the captioning standard you are […]

N.T. Ramo Rao JR as Komaram Bheem and Ram Charan Teja as Alluri Sitarama Raju in “Rise Roar Revolt.” Cr: Netflix TL;DR Breakout hit “Rise Roar Revolt” is the first […]

From “1899,” courtesy of Netflix TL;DR The “1899” script features dialogue in eight languages: Cantonese, Danish, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.  Watching a dubbed version of this show […]

Abel Grimmer’s painting “The Tower of Babel,” courtesy of the Abu Dhabi Louvre TL;DR As streamers expand their operations, demand for language services such as translation and localization is rising. […]

From (human) director Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill: Volume 1” TL;DR Researchers have developed an AI that semi-automates the process of directing and camera management to make the creation of cutscenes […]

Image courtesy of MARS Studios, Bild Studios, and Epic Games TL;DR Real-time technology is providing a competitive advantage for M&E content creators, according to a new survey commissioned by Epic […]

Writer-producer-director Todd Field’s first film in 16 years, “Tár,” starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, explores the cult of personality, power imbalances and cancel culture. Cr: Focus Features Tár, director […]

With camera tools that can be exported to previs or into the final visual effect pipeline, Framestore’s in-house virtual scouting system fARsight was employed on “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of […]

READ MORE: How AI is Changing Post-Production for the Better (Media Silo) AI and ML tools are already having an impact on post-production with software largely aimed at delivering more […]

Marvel Studios has pulled out another gem from their comic’s legacy locker with the adaptation of 1972’s Werewolf by Night, which itself is a tribute to Entertaining Comics (EC Comics) […]

From “Moonage Daydream.” Cr: NEON Brett Morgen’s documentary feature Moonage Daydream, Bill Desowitz writes in IndieWire, is “a kaleidoscopic, mind-blowing journey about the chameleon of rock, built around David Bowie […]

Grotesque and dark visuals were just the start for “Bad Travelling,” director David Fincher’s first foray into animation with Blur Studio for Netflix’s animated anthology series, “Love Death & Robots: […]

Computer artist Glenn Marshall’s AI-driven short film “The Crow” paves the way for a future where entire feature films are produced by text-to-video systems. Cr: Glenn Marshall READ MORE: How […]

https://youtu.be/VagnXf5-FFM See how Vizrt can help you tell more stories, better told. Vizrt®, a leading provider of innovative visual storytelling tools for media content creators in broadcast, enterprise, and new media, is unlocking the […]

From "Bullet Train," courtesy of Sony Pictures On the whole, it’s wrong to try to limit any creative person’s output. Talking to Hollywood editor Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir, ACE about her record […]

Director Jonathan Glazer’s 1999 “Surfer” Guinness commercial, with visual effects by Framestore created using Quantel’s Paintbox READ MORE: Tech Nostalgia Matters Because it’s the History of Us (Lance Ulanoff) Hands […]

It took more than a decade for the hybrid stop-motion/live-action “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” to move from his DIY origins to a full-length feature. Cr: A24 Stop-motion animation […]

Seeking to create a new form of immersive global filmmaking, director Joe Hunting filmed his documentary feature inside the metaverse. Jenny and DustBunny in “We Met in Virtual Reality.” Cr: […]

Director Robert Eggers battles with himself to deliver the definitive Viking movie with “The Northman,” starring Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth. Cr: Focus Features https://youtu.be/oMSdFM12hOw If you’re going to watch The […]

Ennio Morricone, one of the most influential composers in the history of cinema, says “Music is an abstract element added to the film and it’s not necessary – but when […]

Dive deeper with a guided tour of NAB Show this year. We’ve done the legwork for you! Take a curated tour related to new products and workflows. Daily Live Streaming, […]

Cloud production is one of the buzziest terms in the world of media. But what are we really talking about when we use that term? What makes cloud production different […]

From “Navlany” Following Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in his quest to identify the men who poisoned him in August 2020, director Daniel Rohr’s “Nalvany” won both the US Documentary […]

Produced and directed by Adam McKay, HBO’s new docudrama “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” shows how the Lakers changed the way basketball is played. Cr: Warner Media […]

From “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” courtesy of A24 Gain exclusive insights into the creative choices and innovations behind recent hit film and television productions during the 2022 NAB Show, […]

Writers and co-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (collectively known as the Daniels) take audiences on a heart-wrenching trip through the multiverse in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” starring Michelle […]

Emilia Jones as Ruby Rossi in director Siân Heder’s “CODA.” Cr: Apple TV+ Hollywood has begun writing a new script focused on inclusion, and among those leading the push for […]

Virtual production of FX’s “Snowfall” READ MORE: 2021 Film & Video Production Survey (Altman Solon) The relaxation of pandemic restrictions has released the brakes on film and TV production but […]

A spin on the classic “Beauty and the Beast,” Director Mamoru Hosoda’s animated feature “Belle” follows a lonely teen who becomes a global singing star with her alter ego in […]

Coodie Simmons and creative partner Chike Ozah document their friendship spanning more than 20 years with Kanye “Ye” West in “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy.” Cr: Netflix https://youtu.be/i-e_YPO-RYc The fact that […]

READ MORE: The metaverse is ‘particularly hard to predict,’ says Unity’s AR/VR chief (Fast Company) Clunky headgear, walled gardens and tech cul-de-sacs: the metaverse won’t have these bugs fixed until […]

In “The Matrix Resurrections,” cinematographers Daniele Massaccesi and John Toll tapped into director Lana Wachowski's new appreciation for “capturing what you’re seeing” in-camera. Keanu Reeves as Neo/Thomas Anderson and Carrie-Anne […]

Get ready to level-up your skills this April in Las Vegas! Future Media Conferences and NAB Show are teaming up to bring in-person training sessions to NAB Show in Las […]

Meryl Streep as President Orlean in director Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up.” Cr: Niko Tavernise/Netflix https://youtu.be/RbIxYm3mKzI Adam McKay, writer and director of Don’t Look Up, was in shock that he’d […]

AR has moved out of the hype cycle and has now reached the mainstream. Here are some of the ways it happened in 2021 and how AR will evolve in […]

Featuring real singers disguised with digital avatars, FOX’s new talent show “Alter Ego” is powered by Unreal Engine. Cr: FOX Media https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXd9aCB0yKug_EuJ9FunPNRaL02TNePZQ The unstoppable talent show genre has gone from […]

Suranne Jones as Amy Silva in season 1 episode 6 of “Vigil.” Cr: NBCUniversal https://youtu.be/eWV-j_9FAw4 BBC/Peacock murder mystery Vigil, set aboard a nuclear submarine, was the broadcaster’s biggest domestic ratings […]

“The Beatles: Get Back.” Cr: Apple Corps Ltd./Disney Peter Jackson’s long-awaited documentary, The Beatles: Get Back, arrived on Disney+ on November 25, 26 and 27, Greg Evans reports in Deadline. […]

Toni Collette as Marina Barnett in director Joe Penna’s “Stowaway.” Cr: Netflix By Meagan Keane Starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson and Toni Collette, Netflix’s Stowaway follows a […]

Andrew Garfield as Jon and Alexandra Shipp as Susan in director Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “tick, tick…Boom!” Cr: Netflix https://youtu.be/YJserno8tyU With Rent, Jonathan Larson taught a generation of theatergoers how to live […]

J.T. Holt as Mary’s Guard, Regina King as Trudy Smith, Zazie Beetz as Mary Fields, Justin Clarke as Mary’s Guard in “The Harder They Fall.” Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © […]

Zendaya as Chani and Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides in director Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune.” Cr: Warner Bros https://youtu.be/jfgZMmoYvdE Editor Joe Walker’s presence in the same edit room as director Denis […]

https://vimeo.com/716214487 https://player.vimeo.com/video/732175673 A conversation with Foundation’s visual effects team, including Addie Manis, Chris MacLean, Mike Enriquez, Chris Keller, Jess Brown, Nicolas Hernandez, Arnaud Brisebois, and Richard Clegg Quantum math, Apple design, Polynesian tribes, and magnetic sand […]

Jacques Cousteau peers out of the porthole of SP-350 Denise diving saucer, 1960. (Credit: National Geographic/Luis Marden) https://youtu.be/_OGECa4jFME Adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, celebrity and conservationist: the life of Jacques-Yves Cousteau is […]

Moe Tucker, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Lou Reed from archival photography in director Todd Haynes’ “The Velvet Underground.” Cr: Apple TV+ https://youtu.be/hWq7a8Tin8g The Velvet Underground were so underground and, […]

As our physical world blends with the virtual world, the entertainment reality is changing as well. Microsoft thinks this has accelerated to the point that the M&E industry is probably […]

Every television executive and producer wants their show to be the newest buzz-worthy (and binge-worthy) program and the hot topic of discussion around the water cooler. But in order for […]

Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin chronicle the 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach trapped deep inside a flooded cave in “The Rescue,” revealing the […]

“The Village Detective: A Song Cycle,” directed by Bill Morrison. Cr: Kino Lorber In 2016, when an Icelandic trawler 20 miles southeast of the mainland found four 35mm film reels […]

Nick Mohammed in “Ted Lasso” season two, now streaming on Apple TV+. What if feel-good, Emmy-winning international comedy hit Ted Lasso was reimagined as a horror series? A spoof trailer […]

Director Andy Serkis, left, and Tom Hardy on the set of Columbia Pictures' VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE. https://youtu.be/i7X2hX7ecHM https://youtu.be/-FmWuCgJmxo With actor, director and performance capture artist Andy Serkis brought […]

Tony Hale as Mr. Benedict in Episode 4 of “The Mysterious Benedict Society.” Cr: Disney https://youtu.be/MUpFzScK7P8 The Disney+ original series The Mysterious Benedict Society was finished during the pandemic, and […]

Vizrt XR Venue is one of the Vizrt Extended Reality Suites that Vizrt designed for cloud-based deployment via subscription. Although a handful of rights-holders have been operating D2C services for […]

While we can't be together in person this year, our exhibitors are still hosting events and launching products you'll want to know about. The following schedule of events represents press […]

Led by Emily Beecham, the ensemble cast of “1899” includes Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau, Maciej Musiał, Anton Lesser, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Rosalie Craig, Clara Rosager, Maria Erwolter, Yann […]

As part of its plan to allow the Hollywood studios it represents to move production workflows into the cloud, Motion Pictures Laboratories (MovieLabs) has published tools to help developers and […]

BY JAMIE BEAN Public cloud adoption has been expanding rapidly, even before the outbreak of COVID-19. After the pandemic took hold, cloud plans and adoption increased rapidly. From a technology […]

Jean Smart as Deborah Vance in “Hacks.” Cr: Warner Media Hacks, from HBO Max, is already a big success for the streamer with 14 Emmy nominations in the locker, including […]

Ryan Reynolds in “Free Guy,” courtesy of Paramount Pictures Free Guy starring Ryan Reynolds is the latest in a long line of films leaning into computer gaming and virtual reality. […]

https://vimeo.com/716228671 Billie Eilish’s cinematic concert experience, “Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter To Los Angeles.” Cr: Disney+ Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles isn’t just […]

Ferdia Walsh-Peelo as Miles and Emilia Jones as Ruby Rossi in director Siân Heder’s “CODA.” Cr: Apple TV+ https://youtu.be/0pmfrE1YL4I Sundance Film Festival favorite CODA arrived on Apple TV+, a crowd-pleasing […]

Hugh Jackman as Nick Bannister in “Reminiscence.” Cr: Warner Bros. Pictures https://youtu.be/_BggT--yxf0 Paul Cameron, director of photography of the new movie Reminiscence, was wary of pushing his own “look” ideas […]

Nicole Kidman as Masha and Patten as Zoe in Episode 2 of “Nine Perfect Strangers.” Cr: Vince Valitutti/Hulu https://youtu.be/QvqujH6boEI Director Jonathan Levine took the helm of all eight episodes of […]

Ron Mael and Russel Mael in “The Sparks Brothers.” Cr: Focus Features “If you want to look at Ron and Russell, you have to look at them through one prism. […]

Volumetric capture on Neill Blomkamp’s film "Demonic," courtesy of IFC Midnight. An IFC Midnight Release. https://youtu.be/dUUtdDnxRuY Director Neill Blomkamp has embraced volumetric capture for “simulation” or dream scenes in new […]

If Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure were filmed during quarantine and produced by a Japanese theatre troupe, how might it have been different? If the answer seems obvious, throw in […]

An image from Universal Everything’s “Infinity,” a generative streaming video art installation that may have wider application in games or film. Cr: Universal Everything The computer programming behind a streaming […]

Adam Driver as Henry McHenry and Marion Cotillard as Ann Defrasnoux in director Leos Carax’s “Annette.” Cr: Amazon Studios https://youtu.be/l_EaNpL16SU The much-lauded opening film at the 2021 Festival de Cannes, […]

https://youtu.be/ub_vj7g7SOo BY DAN MEIER Download Unreal Engine’s Virtual Production Field Guide, Part 1 Download Unreal Engine’s Virtual Production Field Guide, Part 2 A major trend in recent years has seen […]

Jason Sudeikis in “Ted Lasso,” now streaming on Apple TV+. Picture editing, it transpires, is much like a game of soccer: it’s all about teamwork and passing the ball. That’s […]

Kate Winslet in “Mare of Easttown.” Cr: HBO One of the upsides of the pandemic-forced delay of productions headed for release is the additional time it has afforded filmmakers to […]

Dev Patel in “The Green Knight.” Cr: Eric Zachanowich/A24 BY JULIAN MITCHELL https://youtu.be/sS6ksY8xWCY David Lowery, writer, director and editor of The Green Knight, has admitted that the film was the […]

Get excited about what you'll see on the show floor this year and start making plans to see new products up close. This exclusive preview of the 2021 NAB Show […]

Broadcast equipment sales are expected to top $6.2 billion globally this year and are on track to double in value by 2031. That’s the positive headline from Persistence Market Research‘s […]

"Ernst Grube - The Legacy,” produced by German production company UFA and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) In any other hands a virtual reality experience of the Holocaust might […]

Mark Ronson in “Watch the Sound With Mark Ronson.” Cr: Apple TV+ https://youtu.be/ILJH80RLu_Q Sampling isn’t about “hijacking nostalgia wholesale,” said DJ and music producer Mark Ronson in his influential 2014 […]

Cr: Grass Valley Cr: Grass Valley On the occasion of the Grass Valley Summer 2021 press conference, company CEO and President Tim Shoulders took the opportunity to outline some of […]

James McAvoy in “His Dark Materials.” Image courtesy of HBO. It’s taken three decades for the practice of using real-time computer graphics engines to create cinema. Now there are those […]

Loki (Tom Hiddleston) in Marvel Studios’ “Loki,” exclusively on Disney+. Cr: Marvel Studios https://youtu.be/nW948Va-l10 Ironically, for a show about the multiplication of time, Loki cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw found the […]

David Dastmalchian as Polka Dot Man, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Idris Elba as Bloodsport in Warner Bros. Pictures’ superhero action adventure “The Suicide Squad,” a Warner Bros. Pictures […]

Do you dare enter the Underworld with the cast of Finding Pandora X? Images courtesy of Double Eye Studios This page is updated periodically to reflect Amplify content and events […]

One of cinema’s most chilling villains is the artificial intelligence HAL 9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” 1968. Cr: MGM Worries about digital actors replacing the real thing remain on […]

Anthony Bourdain stars in Morgan Neville’s documentary “Roadrunner.” Cr: CNN/Focus Features Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville’s new documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is an emotionally gripping portrait of the […]

The production ecology has definitely shifted from on-premises to remote in the space of 18 months. Distributed workflows for live events in particular are the new norm. Avid’s contention is […]

VR Olympics: The Telemundo team can rotate the set to be more efficient with the green screen. Cr: Telemundo Telemundo Deportes, the Spanish-language home of the Tokyo Olympics in the […]

From “The Changing Same,” directed by Yasmin Elayat, Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson Immersive is the new goal for just about every piece of video storytelling, whether the outcome is […]

Emma Stone as Cruella in Disney’s live-action “Cruella.” Cr: Laurie Sparham/Disney https://youtu.be/jpZrVxvG3mk Disney’s latest live-action take on a classic animation had the unenviable task of opening in the middle of […]

Producer and interviewer Rick Rubin and Sir Paul McCartney in director Zachary Heinzerling’s documentary series, “McCartney 3, 2, 1.” Cr: Hulu https://youtu.be/KAkqy5QntGQ There’s usually nothing good about soloing a track […]

“F9.” Cr: Universal The crowd pleasing Fast & Furious franchise reaches its Moonraker period when a Pontiac Fiero strapped to a rocket engine targets and destroys a satellite in space. […]

Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in Marvel’s “Black Widow.” Cr: Marvel Studios https://youtu.be/ybji16u608U Set before Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and immediately after the events of Captain America: Civil War […]

Sly Stone performs at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, featured in the documentary “Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised).” Cr: Mass Distraction Media/Searchlight Pictures […]

As working-from-home (WFH) and flexible working become the new norm, video production teams across countless industries have had to think on their feet, get creative, and adopt new approaches to […]

Dark Bay meets ARRI (left to right): Jantje Friese, Baran bo Odar, Philipp Klausing (all Dark Bay), Nik Summerer (DP on “1899”), Christina Caspers-Roemer (Dark Bay), Dr. Michael Neuhaeuser, Dr. […]

Evelyn (Emily Blunt) braves the unknown in "A Quiet Place Part II.” https://youtu.be/BpdDN9d9Jio By his own admission, writer/director John Krasinski did not want to be involved with a sequel to […]

Ruth Wilson and Andrew Scott as married Norwegian diplomats Mona Juul and Terje Rød-Larsen in “Oslo.” Cr: Larry D. Horricks/HBO https://youtu.be/QsRlXQcHd8c One week after a precarious ceasefire was declared between […]

Chris Rock stars as Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks in “Spiral.” Cr: Brooke Palmer/Lionsgate https://youtu.be/gzy6ORqE9IY Company 3 sound mixer Mark “Z” Zsifkovits made heavy use of the Dolby Atmos process in […]

L-r, Marcus (Noah Jupe), Regan (Millicent Simmonds), and Evelyn (Emily Blunt) in "A Quiet Place Part II." https://youtu.be/BpdDN9d9Jio The only way to watch A Quiet Place Part II is to […]

Cinematographer Toyotaro Shigemori recently used the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K to shoot the online film “niko and … WINTER BOOK.” The introduction late last year of Blackmagic Design’s camera […]

image courtesy of NBC David Mazza is Senior VP and CTO of NBC Sports Group and NBC Olympics. “In 1996 at Atlanta we had about 170 hours of content that […]

Kate Winslet in “Mare of Easttown.” Cr: HBO HBO’s limited series Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet as a troubled detective searching for a killer in her small Eastern Pennsylvania […]

There’s a line in an online NDI promo video that says “harness the inevitable,” where every source also becomes a destination thanks to IP — unlike the linear source-destination topography […]

Bob Odenkirk as Hutch Mansell in “Nobody,” directed by Ilya Naishuller. Cr: Allen Fraser/Universal Pictures https://youtu.be/wZti8QKBWPo There’s something deeply satisfying about watching Saul Goodman exact revenge on bad guys with […]

CCTV studio’s curved LED wall is 50 meters long and 10 meters high, covering the entire floor with a half-circle with a diameter of 30 meters. Pixotope, a mixed reality […]

“Crime of the Century,” written and directed by Alex Gibney. Cr: HBO The Crime of the Century, currently streaming on HBO Max, is a new two-part documentary directed by Emmy […]

In Pixar Animation Studios’ “22 vs. Earth,” new soul 22 (voice of Tina Fey) enlists a gang of five other new souls in her rebellious refusal to go to Earth. […]

Henry Cavill as Superman/Clark Kent in ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE. Cr: HBO Max Fresh off its HBO Max debut, Zack Snyder’s director’s cut of Justice League — originally released in […]

Cr: Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California If you’ve got $15 million then you can make a 35-minute VFX-driven drama on par with The Mandalorian but most […]

Ernest Hemingway. Cr: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston A new documentary series directed by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick examines the life […]

Henry Cavill as Superman/Clark Kent in “Zach Snyder’s Justice League” Cr: HBO Max Don't Miss Our NAB Show Premiere Session, “A Cut Above: The Editors Behind Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” […]

Octopus walking on the sea floor in a kelp forest off of the coast of Cape Town, South Africa in “My Octopus Teacher.” Cr: Netflix Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher […]

A live camera to cloud production workflow was the climax of HPA Tech Retreat 2021 and demonstrated both how promising the technology is and also how far there is yet […]

The axiom “we’re all software companies now” is true now more than ever for the media and entertainment industry. With cinema chains locked out of business thanks to COVID-19, many […]

Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “Godzilla vs. Kong,” a Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures release. Alongside the release of Godzilla vs. Kong in select theaters alongside […]

From HBO’s Welcome to Chechnya When the Academy announced its Oscars shortlist for VFX it had pundits scrambling to make sense of one of the nominees. Out were Wonder Woman […]

Albert, the BAFTA-backed environmental organization, has broken the [climate] impact down. It estimates that every hour of TV production generates 9.2 tons of CO2 and each ton of CO2 results […]

Mulan and Hidden Figures cinematographer Mandy Walker, ASC, ACS has expressed confidence in using cloud tools and services for dailies having experienced the technology as part of the HPA Tech […]

Ray Fisher as Cyborg/Victor Stone, Ezra Miller as The Flash/Barry Allen, Ben Affleck as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Henry Cavill as Superman/Clark Kent, Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman and Jason Momoa […]

Edited by Harry Yoon, ACE, “Minari” is a tender and sweeping story based on Korean-American director Lee Isaac Chung’s childhood in rural Arkansas. Image courtesy of A24. Discussing Minari, a […]

Riz Ahmed as Ruben in SOUND OF METAL. Cr: Amazon Studios Racking up accolades including multiple BAFTA and Oscar nominations and a recent Critics Choice Award for Best Editing, Sound […]

Writer/director Radha Blank on location for "The Forty-Year-Old Version," image courtesy of Jeong Park/Netflix Now streaming on Netflix, The Forty-Year-Old Version is a New York story about a very New […]

Carey Mulligan stars as Cassandra in director Emerald Fennell’s PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN. Cr: Focus Features “The black comedy of writer-director Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman effortlessly shifts from comedy to […]

A new white paper from independent industry non-profit consortium MovieLabs establishes new guidelines for software-defined workflows for increased interoperability throughout the production chain. “As recent events have illustrated, the media […]

The media ecosystem has experienced almost unimaginable change since March 2020. For some perspectives on the journey, and a look into the future, Grass Valley and a panel of experts […]

8K barely scratches the surfaces of the industry’s march to resolution and format independence More pixels, better pixels. There is no slowing the need for higher and higher quality imaging. […]

“It’s not surprising that Hollywood has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. After all, movie sets typically require hundreds of people coming together from all around the world to […]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Sam Pollard’s “MLK/FBI.” Cr: IFC Films Remembered today as an American hero, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is lauded as a bridge-builder, a shrewd […]

The Disney+ original feature Safety is all about teamwork. Directed by Reginald Hudlin (House Party, Marshall), it’s the story of defensive back Ramon "Ray Ray" McElrathbey, who took custody of […]

Virtual production as seen in “The Mandalorian,” courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd. “Content has always been king, but it has never been more important to own a larger, higher quality and […]

A vaccine looms before us. The prospect that this global nightmare of COVID-19 might soon be over is nearly beyond belief.  For filmmakers, it has been a time of scrambling […]

We wanted to know what technologists in our industry are excited about and expect (or hope) to see in 2021. Courtesy of the NAB PILOT blog After the challenges of […]

MANK (2020) Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz and Jamie McShane as Shelly Metcalf. Cr: NETFLIX Mank, David Fincher’s period piece set in 1930s Hollywood, has a lot on its mind, […]

Post facility Light Iron developed an all-remote workflow to complete the second season of FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows.”Pictured is Matt Berry, photo by Pari Dukovic/FX “Just as […]

Called “one of the most prescient films of the decade,” She Dies Tomorrow¸ from Neon and writer/director Amy Seimetz, centers on a woman who believes she is about to die […]

George Clooney in “The Midnight Sky,” image courtesy of Netflix “It’s a big movie and a small one,” admits The Midnight Sky cinematographer Martin Rühe, a frequent collaborator of director […]

“Prepare for a brave new digital world to emerge after this pandemic has run its course.” IABM’s Head of Insight and Analysis Lorenzo Zanni shares the organization’s latest research and […]

The Entertainment Technology Center @ USC’s (ETC) short film “Ripple Effect” demonstrates how Previz, Techviz and Safetyviz can help limit crew and cast to create a safer working environment. Recorded during NAB […]

Shot on a bare stage with a fully mobile band, David Byrne’s American Utopia presents the Talking Heads frontman’s classic songs with an ensemble of 11 musicians, singers and dancers […]