“Playing the Palace”: A History Of Motion Picture Palaces
...films. Fox Studios built many incredible movie palaces under its Fox Theatre Chain banner. The Fox Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills, designed in 1930 by architect S. Charles Lee in the Art...
A Look at Four CinemaCon Award Winners & Their Epic Films
...feel like an ad for a local amusement park? Wouldn’t you much prefer to take on the boulder in a room full of 100 other strangers, staring it eye-to-eye in almost lifelike...
Earth Day: The Studios Go Green Behind the Screen
...a ban on plastic bags in commissaries, and required carbon emission reporting have become all but de rigueur on most major lots. As each of the main studios shoot to achieve “100%...
Homegrown: How Star Trek Left the Galaxy Without Ever Leaving California
...And as they fly in additional crew or even ship basic set dressing across the country, studios are fast to learn the cost savings found by staying in California. As an example,...
Chatting with Super Composer Hans Zimmer About Man of Steel
...Williams’ score. The inevitable comparisons are out there, but I couldn’t care less about what anybody says. Find me a composer who isn’t driven by paranoia and neurosis. I don’t ever remember...
Call of the Holly-Wild: Animal Trainer David Meeks
...doing a Ryder Trucks commercial with the actor Steve Landesberg. I had worked with him before in Leader of the Band. We head off to Atlanta with this Asian elephant provided by this trainer...
Retired Director of NASA’s International Space Station on Plausibility of Elysium
...answer is, will we build castles or village commons up there? Featured image: Max (MATT DAMON, center), Julio (DIEGO LUNA, left) and Spider (WAGNER MOURA) meet inside Spider's armory in Columbia Pictures' ELYSIUM....
Famed Scientist Elizabeth Loftus on Plausibility of Four Mind-Bending Films
...it’s not good for that. But the experts in hypnosis might say that there’s a possibility that you can, under hypnosis, plant a directive, and that when the trigger comes up, people...
Lions & Tigers & Bears, Oh My! Sled Reynolds on Filming Ferocious Animals
Credited with more than 70 movies, according to IMDB—including six Best Picture winners—Sled Reynolds has much to “crow” about. The veteran animal wrangler/trainer/coordinator has worked around the globe on such esteemed films...
A Tale of Two Sisters: Meet the Creators of Walt Disney Animation Studios' Frozen
...the conventional animated feature, raising the bar in creating a winter wonderland. Even when it comes to character design and rigging, Frozen is unique compared to its Disney predecessors. “As the character comes...