January 20, 2014
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Sundance 2014: Young Hellraiser Fuels Kat Candler’s Impressive Hellion

...apart. Wiggins is excellent, and he’s only helped by Candler’s handling of the engine of his suffering, his mother’s death. We only her in split-second shots of photos, and can glean how...

June 26, 2014
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Two Industrial Light & Magic Wizards on Creating Destruction for Transformers

...every single thing they come into contact with pretty much gets destroyed, and considering they’re running around in downtown Hong Kong, that’s a lot of destruction for Balog and Serrao to handle....

September 4, 2014
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Hope Floats: The True Story Behind Dolphin Tale 2

...a doozy. Third, Dolphin Tale also offered something of an inventor’s tale—people coming together and through ingenuity, skill and compassion creating something to make the world a little bit better. At three months...

September 2, 2015
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Killer Cars: Check out This Mad Max: Fury Road Infographic

...without the machines, Mad Max: Fury Road can't exist. Fusing two Cadillacs bodies together, installing a massive engine and having the thing actually drive was just part of her task. Today, Warner Bros. has...

October 2, 2015
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Building Life on Mars With The Martian’s Production Designer Arthur Max

...on The Martian, because things had to look like they could really work. They had to be banged around in the desert, banged around in storms, just being let loose at the...

November 26, 2015
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To Infinity… And Beyond! Ranking Our Favorite Pixar’s Films

Happy Thanksgiving, readers! With Pixar’s latest The Good Dinosaur just around the corner, we’ve taken on the notoriously difficult task of ranking all 15 films from the beloved Disney animation studio known for...

December 21, 2015
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Let's Talk About Star Wars: The Force Awakens

...going to get with a technology that was invented in 1960. How come your planet-sized weapon can be made completely vulnerable by a single Stormtrooper pressing a single button? Honestly, between the...

July 13, 2017
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Baby Driver's Lily James Joins Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again

 After being the engine that made Baby's heart go in Baby Driver, Variety reports that Lily James is joining the cast of Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. The new film is a sequel...

October 10, 2017
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This New Star Wars: The Last Jedi Poster is Glorious

...was the prime narrative engine to The Force Awakens, and his reluctance to rejoin the Resistance and/or train Rey will be a major focus of Johnson’s film.  Directly below him are the...

October 30, 2017
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The Secrets Behind how Filmmakers Made the Most Memorable Aliens of All-Time

...to storyboard artist Phil Norwood, and conceptual artist Jean “Moebius” Giraud. Under the supervision of visual effects expert Dennis Muren, ILM developed the aqueous computer-generated imagery (CGI), thereby creating never-before-seen animatronics and...