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...
Breaking Braddock: New Christian Bale Film Puts Spotlight on Hard Hit Town
...Pennsylvania, Bale’s Russell Baze works at a mill that is likely going under, soon. His brother Rodney (Affleck), a four-tour Iraq veteran, racks up gambling debts before landing for a stint in...
Polar Vortex Film List: Behind-the-Chill of Some Seriously Cold Films
...Tauntuan and several layers of Gortex to get around if you live in the Midwest. Around 500 people got stuck on three Amtrak trains in Illinois on Monday thanks to the polar vortex....
Georgian Filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili on her Powerful Debut In Bloom
...film depicts breadlines, the pressures to marry for young girls… A lot of things have changed. At the time, under president [Mikheil] Saakashvili, we had no electricity, sometimes no water, and sometimes...
In Their Words: Some of This Year’s Oscar Nominees on Their Craft, Part II
...attention to detail the Frozen team displayed. Frank Hanner, character CG supervisor, gave us an example—in the number of hairs they put on Elsa’s head. “The average human has about 100,000 hairs...
Flying the Unfriendly Skies with Non-Stop Stunt Coordinator Mark Vanselow
...comically small airplane bathroom, a complicated fight choreography made even more difficult to pull off because Vanselow couldn’t rehearse it in a lavatory that sat in the middle of a live set....
Earth Day 2014: Hollywood Wants to Write Happy Ending for Planet With Eco Efforts
...“100% sustainable” status in the coming years. In honor of Earth Day, we take a look at some of the ways Hollywood is committed to ‘greening’ up their practices: Click to Enlarge...
Comedy Central's Growing Roster of Female Showstoppers
...by the network as number 70 on the list of the 100 greatest all-time stand up comedians and won a Comedy Central Commie Award for “Funniest TV Actress” that same year. She...
Garrett Brown: An Interview With a Visionary—Part II
...for a more commercial version of his revolutionary camera stabilizer. He talked about shooting his first-ever feature film using a Steadicam on Bound for Glory. And he described his improvised solution for...
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...
International Cast & Crew Cook Up The Hundred-Foot Journey
...where they are assisted by the charming Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon). Opposed by the older children of the family, the stubborn father, played by Puri, buys a run-down former restaurant in the...
Into the Storm Brews a Mighty Economic Wind in Michigan
...status—the highest metric on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with winds of more than 200 miles per hour) behave erratically and do things they haven’t done before, sending terrified residents under ground (if...
The Very Real Effect Fictional Characters Have on Tourism
...popular movies and TV shows really influence tourism? According to research company Tourism Competitive Intelligence, they do. They found in 2012 that 40 million international tourists chose their destination primarily because they saw...
Creating the Incredible Time Travel Sequence in Lucy
...what we understand as she starts understanding more, until we end at a point where the audience can really no longer comprehend anything. What are those colored dots that appear before the...
Extreme Personalities: Four Fall Films About People on the Edge
...what J.K. Simmons, as band leader and instructor Terence Fletcher, instills in his students in Chazelle’s feature. We saw it when it was a short in last year’s New York Film Festival...
As TIFF Draws to a Close, Films & Performances Drawing Heat
...production company sagely snapped up Gillian Flynn's 2012 thriller, the hottest book of that summer by far, for one of the most eagerly anticipated films of the year. And here comes Jennifer...
Longtime Collaborators Helped David Fincher Find Gone Girl
...novel is perhaps perfectly suited for his particular skill set. Gone Girl combines his instinctual way around pitch-black thrillers (Se7en, Zodiac, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), and offbeat, grimy comedies (Fight...
Win Your Halloween Costume Contest With Duds From Actual Films
...community farms in Brooklyn. And we’re talking about tons of material, to the tune of 122 tons in 2013 alone, representing 711 productions. This included more than 200 films, 165 commercials, 100...
Beyond Interstellar: 12 Films to Put On Your Calendar
...major wars, each of which considered a major contender come awards season; Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. Meanwhile, Rob Marshall's adaptation of Steven Sondheim's Into the Woods hits theaters...