New Man of Steel Featurette


A new Man of Steel (June 14) featurette explores Zack Snyder's new post-9/11 vision of Superman. Playing off the alien angle for the first time Man of Steel first exposes the outsider in Clark Kent so we can be a part of his existential journey. Then once he becomes

Star Wars Rebels Gets Animated


Goodbye Clone Wars, hello Star Wars Rebels. Disney unveiled plans to produce a new Lucasfilm animated TV series, Star Wars Rebels, which will premiere as a one-hour special fall 2014 on the Disney Channel followed by airing as a series on Disney XD. Set for the

Immersed in Blu-ray/DVD


The Great Escape, Richard III, Badlands, Sansho the Bailiff, and the original Fast and Furious are the latest home entertainment releases I've enjoyed. The Great Escape (Fox/MGM) This 50th anniversary Blu-ray release of the World War II classic may not be

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SIGGRAPH Previews Production Sessions

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Education, Events, Festivals, Movies, Oscar, Shorts, stop-motion, Tech, Trailers, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

The tech behind Pacific Rim, Frozen, Monsters University, and Oz the Great and Powerful will be on display at SIGGRAPH 2013. Held this year in Anaheim on July 21-25, the production sessions are part of the Computer Animation Festival. Read more

Trailering The Congress

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Bill Desowitz in Animation, Books, Tech, Trailers, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

Watch the international trailer for The Congress, in which Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir) continues his trippy experiment with live-action and animation. Read more

A Spiritual Man of Steel UK Spot

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Costume, Movies, performance capture, previs, Production Design, Tech, Trailers, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

The Christ metaphor is further accentuated in the latest UK TV spot for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (June 14). Read more

Catherine Martin Talks Designing Gatsby in 3-D

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Below the Line, Books, Movies, previs, Production Design, Tech, Trailers, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

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Star Wars: Episode VII Shooting in the UK

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Clips, Movies, previs, Tech, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

It’s no surprise, given tax breaks and tradition, that production of Star Wars: Episode VII will take place in the UK. This is also in keeping with an earlier report about ILM considering doing the VFX in London. The installation of fiber optic cable in a London office would also allow the work to still be overseen at the Presidio headquarters in San Francisco. Read more

Trailering and Explaining Gravity

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Movies, previs, Tech, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

We get our first glimpse of Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity (Oct. 4) in a breathtaking teaser with astronauts Sandra Bullock and George Clooney lost in space after a satellite disaster. Read more

Reminiscing About Richard Zanuck

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Movies | Leave a comment

Laurent Bouzereau and I discuss the late, great producer Richard Zanuck in his wonderful new doc, Don’t Say No Until I Finish Talking, premiering this week on TCM. Read more

First Look at Big Hero 6 from Disney

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Clips, Movies, Production Design, Tech, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

After much speculation about Disney and Marvel teaming up for the obscure Big Hero 6, the studio officially announced that the animated feature directed by Don Hall (Winnie the Pooh) will hit theaters Nov. 7, 2014. Not surprisingly, the first superhero collaboration is a lush Miyazaki-inspired adventure about robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada and his robot sidekick Baymax, who join forces with a reluctant team of newbie crime fighters to save the mythical San Fransokyo from destruction. Read more

Shane Black to Tackle Doc Savage

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Movies, Tech, VFX | Leave a comment

After tapping into Tony Stark’s dark side with the blockbuster hit, Iron Man 3, director Shane Black will now try to re-energize Doc Savage as a new franchise for Sony Pictures. The pulp superhero has been off the radar for quite some time (the last movie was the uneventful Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze in ’75 with Ron Ely). So you can bet he’ll get Black’s noirish treatment along with gallows humor — an adult action/adventure, a postmodern Indiana Jones. But who will play him? Read more

Adobe Acclerates Creative Cloud

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Bill Desowitz in Animation, Clips, Events, Movies, Tech | Leave a comment

At Monday’s Adobe Max conference in L.A., Adobe offered a major update to Creative Cloud with a new set of of desktop applications and sophisticated cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities available in June. Read more

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