The 30th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film came to an end after six days full of highlights from the world of animation. The festival culminated April 30 with the ITFS awards ceremony and the announcement of winners of the competition program, which was preceded by the Animated Games Award Germany,[…]
Netflix has shared new details, first-look images, and casting reveals for nine animated films slated for release over the next 18 months. Capacity seems high – remember, last summer, the streamer announced its acquisition of the award-winning independent animation studio Animal Logic. Just saying… Highlights include two new feature films[…]
It’s official. The newest installment in the Monsterverse is Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, and Legendary has dropped a title reveal trailer for the occasion. Godzilla Vs. Kong director Adam Wingard is back for the sequel project, with a script by Terry Rossio and Jeremy Slater from a story[…]
Scream queen Mia Goth is headed to the MCU! The Pearl and X actress has joined the upcoming Blade reboot in an undisclosed role; the film stars Mahershala Ali as the eponymous vampire slayer. Yann Demange (Lovecraft Country, White Boy Rick) has taken the helm of the wayward film, which lost[…]
The fight scenes in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” put a fresh spin on classic kung fu movies. We spoke with stunt coordinator Timothy Eulich and fight choreographers Andy and Brian Le about how the movie’s most impressive action sequences came together. Timothy, Andy, and Brian worked with directing duo[…]
Award-winning Marvel Studios EVP Victoria Alonso, executive producer on many high profile MCU projects beginning with Iron Man, has shocked the industry with her exit last Friday from the company. The reasons for her departure are currently unknown, though there is speculation that recent Disney cutbacks in Marvel Studios’ content[…]
Take a look behind the scenes of recent Hollywood horror movies to see the ingenious methods filmmakers use to scare audiences. Jordan Peele had a set with oversized furniture specially constructed for a terrifying scene in “Nope” (2022), while M. Night Shyamalan had his team build a fake rock wall[…]
Before the widespread use of CGI, filmmakers used surprising in-camera tricks and optical illusions to fool audiences. Early filmmakers like Georges Méliès could add a hidden cut to film a wide array of illusions. Creative composites allowed for an invisible character in 1933’s “The Invisible Man” and for Moses to[…]
“Game of Thrones” is over, but its legacy lives on. And one of the most memorable parts of the iconic show are the dragons.We caught up with the show’s “dragon designer,” Dan Katcher. Katcher created the creatures using a digital sculpting program called Zbrush. Katcher takes us through all of[…]
Back to Middle-earth we go! On a recent earnings call, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav revealed studio leaders Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy have closed a deal to develop “multiple” upcoming films based on the books by J. R. R. Tolkien through the WB label New Line Cinema.[…]
