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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Animation Mentor, Autodesk Offer Shot Breakdown Workshop

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Education, Events, Movies, Tech, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

Animation Mentor will host an all-day workshop with Autodesk, Breaking Down the Animated Shot: Live & Uncut, June 30 at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Read more

Memorializing Lincoln as Vampire Hunter

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Below the Line, Books, Cinematography, Movies, previs, Production Design, Tech, Trailers, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

In honor of Memorial Day, Fox has not only released a new greenband trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, but has also announced that Benjamin Walker, who portrays the 16th President in the upcoming summer thriller, will visit the sailors serving aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln Naval aircraft carrier in June with fellow cast and crew members. Read more

Immersed in Blu-ray: Arrietty

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Animation, Blu-ray, Clips, Home Entertainment, Movies, Trailers | Leave a comment

 

Studio Ghibli’s The Secret World of Arrietty (with the English dub directed by Pixar’s Gary Rydstrom) arrived on Blu-ray/DVD from Disney Home Ent. Read more

Doing the Men in Black 3 Time Warp

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Below the Line, Movies, Tech, Trailers, VFX | Leave a comment

Men in Black 3 goes back to 1969 and I find out what it’s like for Will Smith and Josh Brolin to do the time warp and what that landmark year means to Tommy Lee Jones in my latest TOH column at Indiewire. Read more

Bond 50 Blu-ray Set for Sept. 25

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, James Bond, Movies, Tech, VFX | Leave a comment

MGM and Fox announced the Sept. 25th release of the Bond 50 Blu-ray set was (featuring nine new 007 titles to the HD format: You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, GoldenEye, and Tomorrow Never Dies). Read more

Deciphering the Skyfall Trailer

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, James Bond, Movies, Tech, Trailers | Leave a comment

I go into more detail about the Skyfall teaser trailer in my TOH column at Indiewire: It says everything and nothing. Read more

Digital Animation Discussed at the Academy

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Clips, Education, Events, Movies, Oscar, performance capture, previs, Shorts, stop-motion, Tech, VFX, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

Tom Sito hosted a fascinating discussion about the  evolution of digital animation last week at the Academy’s Goldwyn Theater as part of the 18th Marc Davis  Celebration of Animation series.  Read more

Trailering The Great Gatsby

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Below the Line, Movies, Music, Tech, Trailers, VFX | Leave a comment

When I was a teenager, I distinctly remember seeing the trailer for Jack Clayton’s The Great Gatsby in ’74. It was glitzy and elegant and punctuated by Irving Berlin’s introspective “What’ll I Do.” What a contrast to have Baz Luhrmann open his trailer with Kanye West/Jay-Z doing “No Church in the Wild.” Read more

Digital Domain Expands into Middle East

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in 3-D, Animation, Movies, performance capture, Tech, VFX, Videogames, Virtual Production | Leave a comment

Digital Domain, which recently came under attack for John Textor’s ill-advised comments about fueling its new feature animation studio in Port St. Lucie, Florida, with student labor from its education program, will expand its VFX, animation, and motion capture resources in Abu Dhabi. An alliance has been struck between the Digital Domain Media Group (DDMG) and twofour54, the Abu Dhabi government-backed media and entertainment hub. Read more

Trailering Skyfall

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Bill Desowitz in Below the Line, Books, James Bond, Movies, Tech, Trailers, VFX | Leave a comment

What are we to make of the Skyfall teaser trailer? It’s a cunning jigsaw puzzle of emotion and action, modernism and classicism; a tantalizing bridge between the past and the present by director Sam Mendes in honor of the 50th anniversary. It tells us everything and nothing, right? Read more

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