New York-based Simon Pulman of Pryor Cashman has posted on Linkedin about what it’s going to be like in the aftermath of the actors’ strike, assuming the union and the employers can reach an agreement. He hints at the post-strike opportunities awaiting us from 2024 to 2026 and the attributes required to be able to […]
As strike action in Hollywood passes its 100th. day, union members have been issued a warning by SAG-AFTRA ahead of Halloween – don’t dress up as a film or TV character from a show affected by the industrial action and post images of yourself on social media. “Let’s use our collective power to send a […]
With the support of finance partners Aleph Capital and Crestview Partners, Framestore has bought Company 3 and Method Studio from Deluxe for an undisclosed figure. The new, expanded business will now have facilities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Montreal, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, London, Mumbai and Melbourne. Here, Framestore CEEO Sir William Sargent is interviewed […]
This isn’t new (it dates from 2010) or at all newsworthy, but Models and Skeletons, The Special Effects of Total Recall is a VFX buff’s dream and well worth bringing to some people’s attention for the first time here, especially as the work of many of the people responsible was criminally overlooked in the credits […]
Universal Filmed Entertainment and Microsoft are jointly developing a new range of live-action and animation production processes in the Azure cloud, taking advantage of and expanding on DreamWorks’ existing remote collaborative workflow processes. The DreamWorks system sits on a local, private network and is being used to continue production on upcoming projects, including 2021 release […]
With Los Angeles, and much of the U.S., still suffering as a result of the current administration’s response to the pandemic and many domestically located productions still on hold, some filmmakers have been able to resume work elsewhere in the world. Here’s a list of what is either currently shooting or has recently finished, and […]