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The fight for women’s equality in early 20th century Britain offered a different kind of costume design aesthetic in Oscar contender Suffragette. Looking to ordinary people for inspiration, designer Jane Petrie conveyed dressing for survival and empowerment in the gritty drama of factory worker-turned activist Maud (Carey Mulligan). Read more
With next week’s arrival of Inside Out on Blu-ray, it’s a great opportunity to delve into Pixar’s most adult-oriented movie, which has been passionately embraced both critically and commercially and obviously enters the Oscar race as the strongest contender. Inside Out has grossed $355.3 million domestically, making it the third highest grossing movie of the year, the third highest grossing Pixar movie and the seventh highest grossing animated movie of all time. Read more
Shotgun Software released Shotgun 6.3 with a new set of features and updates that will make it easier for teams to review, share and provide feedback on creative projects (view video below). Read more
Just in time for Halloween comes Masaki Kobayashi’s rapturous quartet of ghost stories, Kwaidan, making its Blu-ray debut from Criterion in glorious TohoScope. Read more
Ridley Scott, whose The Martian is Oscar buzzy and a box office hit, will receive Life Achievement recognition at the 14th Annual VES Awards on Feb. 2, 2016 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Read more
Bridge of Spies is a far cry, of course, from 12 Years a Slave and The Grand Budapest Hotel, but for Oscar-winning production designer Adam Stockhausen the big advantage was access to real footage of the construction of the Berlin Wall, which has never been depicted before in a Hollywood movie. This was key in recreating an authentic-looking war-torn East Berlin in the Polish town of Breslau, which borders Germany, along with using the actual Glienicke Bridge in Berlin, where the titular swap of spies occurred. Read more
As director Steve Martino emphasized in our first interview, Blue Sky had to raise its game to get pen line accurate in translating Charles Schulz’s’ iconic 2D aesthetic into the CG version of The Peanuts Movie. Funnily enough, the design team had no idea that it would turn out to be its most difficult challenge. Read more
Brad Bird’s fascinating, if under performing, Tomorrowland arrives on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital HD combo pack from Disney. It’s worth taking a second look at anti-dystopian fantasy starring George Clooney. Read more
Just as the overwhelmingly positive UK reviews are in for SPECTRE (opening next week in the UK and Nov. 6 stateside), we have the music vlog devoted to Sam Smith’s record-breaking main title theme, “Writing’s On the Wall.” Read more
Dean Devlin emphasized breaking up the layers between VFX and the rest of production in his VES Summit keynote last Saturday at the W Hotel in Hollywood, and Virtual Reality took center stage as the new frontier. Read more
