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eyeon Fusion Brings 'Max Manus' to the Big Screen
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Jan 29, 2009
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Max Manus represents a breakthrough in Norwegian cinema, and compositing application eyeon Fusion played a key role in the success of the production. Directed by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, Max Manus tells the story of
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Troika Design Group Elevates the Drama for TNT
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Jan 29, 2009
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Troika Design Group, a strategic branding and design agency for companies in media and entertainment, has ushered in a bold new graphic design for cable network TNT. The launch of the Troika redesign coincided with the premiere
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Rhinofx Re-Creates Post-War Germany for 'The Reader'
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Jan 09, 2009
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Rhinofx recently completed visual effects work for the Weinstein Company's The Reader, which stars Ray Fiennes and Kate Winslet. The film tells a complex story of post-WWII Germany, with the secrets and mysteries of the Nazi-era
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Lowry Digital Helps Bring 'Benjamin Button' to Life
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Jan 02, 2009
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Lowry Digital collaborated with Director David Fincher on the Paramount Pictures feature film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Lowry's proprietary image processing techniques were utilized to fine-tune the movie's images;
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I Am Legend: "Beowulf"
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Nov 18, 2007
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The oldest written saga in the English language is coming to the big screen with the help of cutting-edge theatrical exhibition technology. On Nov. 16, Paramount Pictures’ Beowulf will be the first film to be released
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Pixels, Pixar and Post: Mixing the Ingredients for "Ratatouille"
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Jul 30, 2007
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Pixar’s latest effort, Ratatouille, is bound to bring fun to summer movie screens. Written and directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, The Simpsons), Ratatouille tells the tale of Remy, a rat who risks his life in
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Solving the HD Mysteries of "Meadowlands"
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Jul 30, 2007
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What would happen if a family placed in the witness protection program were moved to an idyllic suburban community—only to discover that everyone else there was in the same program? This one-line concept captivated the people at
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Realizing the American Dream for "The Riches"
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Jun 06, 2007
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In FX Network's The Riches, a family of rural Louisiana con artists finds themselves benefiting from a case of mistaken identity when they move into a wealthy suburb. They pretend to be the new family the neighbors were expecting
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Production on Battlestar Galactica
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Dec 22, 2006
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Most people don't like to think about the potential extinction of humanity, but much science fiction has centered on that dark topic. It also happens to be an underlying theme of the Battlestar Galactica franchise, which was born
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Post on "Chasing Ghosts"
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Oct 25, 2005
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The motion picture community has been transitioning from photochemical finishing to electronic post for the past several years. Electronic scanning, conforming and editing color correction visual effects integration—generally
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Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith(2)
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Jul 19, 2005
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Lucasfilm producer Rick McCallum (pictured above) loves a challenge. How do you make a two hour and 15 minute Star Wars epic—in this case, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith—look like it cost $200 million for half that amount?
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Sin City
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May 03, 2005
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Bringing a graphic novel to film: It's an act of courage if you succeed, an act of stupidity if you fail. Fortunately for directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller (who originated the graphic novel), the hard, stark look of Sin
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Out of the Blue (Screen): Production on "Sky Captain"
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Oct 11, 2004
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For five weeks in late 2002, everyone at London's Elstree Studios was seeing blue. The world the crew and actors were to inhabit existed, for the most part, only in the mind of filmmaker Kerry Conran. The first-time director's
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What It Took to Create "Collateral"
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Oct 11, 2004
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Hit man Tom Cruise sits in the back of a taxi, driven by a frightened Jamie Foxx from appointment to appointment. But, in Michael Mann's newest thriller, Collateral (DreamWorks Paramount), Cruise and Foxx are not the only
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Beyond the Digital Intermediate
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Mar 08, 2004
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To the optimist, digital technology offers freedom. To the pessimist, it enslaves you to a computer. There appear to be so many contradictions underlying the use of digital technology in filmmaking that it is sometimes hard to
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