Flickering Myth chats with Visual Effects Producer Rachel Wheeler… Rachel Wheeler is an independent Visual Effects Producer whose extensive career spans across the film, TV, advertising and theme park industries. She has produced on multiple feature films over the past thirteen years, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Gravity, Avatar and the Academy […]
Exclusive Interview – Visual Effects Supervisor Stuart Penn on Avengers: Endgame
Harrison Abbott chats with Avengers: Endgame Visual Effects Supervisor Stuart Penn… Having contributed to the dazzling special effects of Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man 3 and The Dark Knight, Stuart Penn is no stranger to big screen comic-book extravaganzas. That being said, he’s dipped his toes into plenty of other genres over the years, […]
Exclusive Interview – Visual Effects Supervisor Christian Kaestner on Captain Marvel
Harrison Abbott chats with Captain Marvel visual effects supervisor Christian Kaestner… As a VFX supervisor for Framestore’s Montreal division, Christian Kaestner has contributed to several high-profile releases including: Alien: Covenant; Paddington; and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. More recently, the award-winning visual artist oversaw some of the critical work on Captain Marvel, helping to […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Alfonso Cuaron
In our latest director beginner’s guide, Tom Jolliffe looks at Alfonso Cuaron… Alfonso Cuaron may be a director you’re familiar with. He’s on something of a high right now having attained at hat-full of Oscar nominations for his latest film Roma. One of the Mexican masters (alongside Guillermo del Toro who took the Oscars by storm […]
Exclusive Interview: Oscar-winning composer Steven Price on American Assassin and film soundtracks
Sean Wilson chats to the composer behind the violent new black ops thriller American Assassin starring Dylan O’Brien and Michael Keaton… Based on the bestselling novel by Vince Flynn, American Assassin plunges viewers into the murky world of CIA black ops. The Maze Runner‘s Dylan O’Brien stars as Mitch Rapp, the fledgling government secret weapon […]
WATCH: Restore your love in movies, here’s short film ‘100 Years/100 Shots’
Filmmaker and self-pronounced cinephile Jacob T. Swinney has a new video essay called 100 Years/100 Shots. The title’s pretty self-explanatory. It’s about the history of Tequila in the 21st century. Swinney has chosen his most memorable shot from each year in the last 100 and placed them next to each other in chronological sequence. Not only does it […]
Top 5 Movies to Stream Online (25.11.15) – Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Gravity, The Imitation Game and more…
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Gravity: Special Edition Blu-ray set for October release
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced a new special edition Blu-ray release for Gravity, the Oscar winning sci-fi spectacular, which set for release on October 12th. PRE-ORDER GRAVITY: SPECIAL EDITION BLU-RAY VIA AMAZON UK OR AMAZON US The two-disc edition of the film will contain the film as well as three new bonus features along […]
The Callow Way – Why Stars Are Worth Their Huge Salaries
This week, Neil Calloway argues that a $25 million salary for a movie might not be as ridiculous as it first seems… This week the latest salaries of Hollywood stars were revealed; the top earner recently was Leonardo DiCaprio, who earned $25 million up front for The Wolf of Wall Street. Your first thought might […]
The most pirated movies of 2014
As 2014 draws to a close, Excipio has posted the list of the 20 most pirated movies of the year, with Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street narrowly edging out Disney’s blockbuster animation Frozen with more than 30 million illegal downloads over the past twelve months. Via Variety, here’s a list of the top […]