Bringing the Music of the Muppets to a New Generation of Muppet Babies
...we end up using the full orchestra. A lot of times it comes back to that initial, small pit band kind of sound.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adwqgm0DLPw The new iteration of Muppet Babies is vibrant...
The Buzziest Non-Marvel Projects From San Diego Comic-Con
...film, which will be released Nov. 1, will be rated R. A behind-the-scenes featurette aired during the movie’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con teased plenty of R-rated content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iTco6JgZ4o The Hall H...
Everyone is Losing it Over the The Last Jedi's Porgs
...the Ewoks, bitterly contest for decades. (We will not speak, of course, of failed attempts at this, like Jar Jar Binks. We should mention, however, the clever reversal of this idea, the intimdating-but-ultimately-heroic...
Visionary Filmmaker & Inventor Douglas Trumbull Talks The Hobbit and his Latest Incredible Invention
...was shoot tests in almost every film format we could find. After we did a bunch of tests, we felt like we came to a dead end, because it didn’t seem that...
This Is Your Brain On Movies: Neuroscientists Weigh In On The Brain Science of Cinema
...“Movies are highly complex, multidimensional stimuli,” said Uri Hasson, a neuroscientist and psychologist at Princeton University. “Some areas of the brain analyze sound bites, some analyze word context, some the sentence content,...
USC’s Paul Debevec‘s Role in The Matrix, Avatar, Gravity & More
...environment so that, as the actor is spinning around, the light spins around them. They completely had to invent a realistic practical production work flow around this quite novel technology set-up, in...
From The Dark Knight Rises to Divergent: Composer Junkie XL
Composer Tom Holkenborg goes by the name Junkie XL. He is a musician, producer, engineer and composer with a tinkerer's compulsion to experiment. His collaboration with the legendary Hans Zimmer on The Dark...
Space Creators: Building the Guardians of the Galaxy
...up of an assortment of alien races, she had to make sure the background actors looked as unique and credible as possible. Byrne looked to the comics first to understand the worlds...
2014 in Review: DP Robert Yeoman on The Grand Budapest Hotel
...he wants the movie to look. We do an extensive color test beforehand, too. All our movies are on film, so we test how all those colors are coming together before we...
Ex Machina Production Designer Mark Digby on Redefining Sci-Fi
...what starts as a field test of his latest invention becomes something much deeper, and potentially dangerous, for all involved. The look and feel of Ex Machina, of which Digby was a...