Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning film editor Anne V. Coates… “When I was a really small girl I was very horsey; I used to think I’d like to be a race horse trainer,” recalls British film editor Anne V. Coates whose cinematic career spans over six decades. “Once I reached about 16 and became […]

Trevor Hogg chats with VFX Supervisors Alessandro Cioffi, Sean Faden, Richard Higham, Dave Morley, Charlie Noble and Edson Williams about the visual effects industry… There was a time when visual effects were viewed as B-movie trickery. The path to mainstream respectability began with the landmark release of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the establishment […]

Trevor Hogg chats with art director Paul Inglis about ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Prometheus’… “What’s great about the way Dan [Weiss] and David [Benioff], the show’s creators and main writers, adapted the books was that there was a concrete feel on the page, of what those environments needed to be,” states Paul Inglis who served […]

Trevor Hogg chats with art director Paul Inglis… “My parents appreciated the arts,” says British Art Director Paul Inglis who as a child was taken to the theatre and gallery exhibitions by his statistician father. “They were happy for me to take the route I did through art college. I did a master’s degree at […]

Trevor Hogg chats with author Daniel H. Wilson about filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s upcoming cinematic adaptation of his novel Robopocalypse… Hollywood director Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan), upon reading a partially written manuscript about an artificial intelligence known as Archos which takes over modern technology and converts into it a lethal weapon against humanity, optioned the […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Daniel H. Wilson, author of the recent sci-fi novel Robopocalypse… The elder son of an automobile mechanic sheepishly confesses, “I always worked at the shop but I never did learn much about cars.” When asked if his father’s profession had influenced him, writer Daniel H. Wilson reflects, “You would think that […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the sxith of a six part feature… read parts one, two, three, four and five. “When I was working on Young Indy [ABC, 1992 to 1993] with Harrison [Ford], the obvious occurred to me,” recalled George Lucas who had a breakthrough idea for a […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the fifth of a six part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. “One of the exercises I wanted to do after Jedi [1983] was to see if the companies I had built could survive not having Star Wars in their life,” stated […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the fourth of a six part feature… read parts one, two and three. For over a decade filmmaker George Lucas had been developing a project which was a gender reversal of the Biblical story about Moses being hidden as a baby in the bulrushes. […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the third of a six-part feature… read parts one and two. “We both have a tradition that, when we have a film opening for which there are high expectations, we get out of town,” stated filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who vacationed with colleague George Lucas […]