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 Thanksgiving, HBO Max’s US audience is getting a new action comedy, Superintelligence, about what happens when an all-pervasive AI (voiced by James Corden) focuses on Ms Average (Melissa McCarthy) to help her to get her life in order, and into the bargain, maybe sort out some of the planet’s and society’s problems in the […]
Pinewood Studios Group has announced the launch of Screen Hub UK, a £450 million expansion of the Iver Heath site. Highlights include: 350,000 square feet of new film production facilitiesa a green campus an area dedicated to nurturing and growing new creative businesses related to film production an educational training and skills hub a film […]
In addition to the 3.8 million homes in Southampton, Manchester, Reading, Birmingham, Coventry, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Leeds, Bradford and Glasgow already receiving its gigabit broadband service, Virgin Media has announced that it will now be available to almost 3 million homes in the Greater London area. Amongst other things, it will mean that overall around 45% […]
Pinewood Atlanta Studios is one of the companies showing the way forward in virtual production with the launch of a new LED-equipped virtual set. The initiative is a partnership involving MBSi, Fuse Technical Group and SGPS/ShowRig. They’re using similar LED wall technology to that used on The Mandalorian. At the moment, the set-up can be […]
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 […]