July 15, 2015
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Trainwreck Editor Loves Mistakes: ‘It Feels Real’

...If I can recall and remember those emotions and how the footage affected me, it helps in putting together the scene.” Apatow’s comedies play for test audiences dozens of times as they...

October 28, 2015
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Why The Walk’s VFX Team Used Largest Amount of Cloud Computing in Film History

...it completely makes a difference to add the realism or not. So in the test they added furniture to one floor and left the other floor blank and when we looked at...

December 21, 2017
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Watch Kelly Marie Tran Crush Her Audition For Star Wars: The Last Jedi

...(so to speak) once Finn (John Boyega) and Rose met him in Canto Bight, The Last Jedi was Rose’s coming out party, and boy did she make the most of it. Rose...

March 21, 2018
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Deadpool 2 Reportedly Added More Fan Favorites During Reshoots

...week, test audiences were loving Cable (Josh Brolin) and Domino (Zasie Beetz). It could be that filmmakers took that feedback seriously and upped their face time. Elsewhere in the MCU, Brolin will...

May 17, 2018
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How Avengers: Infinity War's "Head of Digital Humans" Created the Purple Face of Doom

...entry point into computer graphics, points out that his mo-cap collaborators come from all kinds of backgrounds. “Some people are experts in anatomy, others do facial expressions, then you’ve got specialists in...

May 22, 2018
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Your First Look at Zachary Levi in his Shazam! Costume

...do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets...

September 21, 2018
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Joaquin Phoenix Cracks a Smile in Joker Makeup

...full makeup and the short video gives us a few clues. View this post on Instagram Camera test (w/ sound). Joker. A post shared by Todd Phillips (@toddphillips1) on Sep 21, 2018...

October 11, 2018
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First Man Writer Josh Singer on how Great Moments Require Sacrifice

...Neil Armstrong and CONNOR BLODGETT as Mark Armstrong in “First Man.” Photo Credit: Daniel McFadden Armstrong demonstrated remarkable grace under pressure on all of his missions, but events leading to Apollo 11’s...

October 18, 2018
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Final Composite of Apollo 11 launch. We augmented archival 70mm NASA footage of the Apollo 14 launch. To create a more cinematic visual we reframed it, cleaned it up and the extended the sides with CG smoke and sky to match. Courtesy Paul Lambert/Universal Pictures.

First Man's VFX Supervisor on Archival Footage, In-Camera Effects & the Biggest LED Screen Ever

...Gosling as Neil Armstrong inside the X15 cockpit. Craft attached to the gimbal in the foreground with the CG sky environment on the LED screen in background. All shot in camera. Courtesy...

February 6, 2019
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Avengers: Endgame' Runtime is Still 3 Hours

...about Endgame’s current runtime and said it’s still 3-hours long. Not only that, they confirm that Disney is okay with the length of the film. They also reveal the way test audiences...