October 25, 2017
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Happy Death Day Cinematographer on Resurrecting the Teen Slasher Genre

...or seventh time, it’s become quite a green and grim, sickly tint over the picture. Then we went through four different stages as she’s waking up. The color and look is reflecting...

October 27, 2017
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Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt on Shooting David Fincher's Serial Killer Series Mindhunter

...master of suspense. “Fincher and I both have an aversion to magenta so with Mindhunter we always erred on the side of green/yellow in our color choices,” says Messerschmidt, who met Fincher...

October 27, 2017
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Anna Kendrick Gears Up for Christmas in Nicole

...E L L E.” Looks like filming is under way on the family holiday flick. We are green with envy over Kendrick’s festive ensemble. Her adorable Nordic dress, matching tights and cozy...

November 9, 2017
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A Presidential Makeover: How Woody Harrelson Became LBJ

...kind of feeling from a green screen and a tennis ball.” Woody Harrleson as LBJ and Kim Allen as Jacqueline Kennedy. Courtesy Electric Entertainment. Featured image: Woody Harrelson as LBJ. Courtesy Electric...

November 14, 2017
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Sony Adds Morbius the Living Vampire to Their Spider-Man Spinoff Slate

...pick with Parker who is infected by an alien sybarite and becomes the fanged, freakish Spidey-hybrid capable of destroying many a superhero, Parker included. Spidey attracted a great many lunatics; The Green Goblin,...

November 21, 2017
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Poirot Sequel to Murder On the Orient Express in the Works

...the Whodunit genre. The only creative talent attached to the project so far is Orient Express screenwriter, Michael Green. Hopefully Kenneth Branagh and his spectacular mustache will be back for Death on...

November 29, 2017
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Costume Designer Luis Sequeira on Giving The Shape of Water its Sartorial Form

...majority was in the blue-green-cool zone. This worked in conjunction with a sort of black and white feel to the film. Then we had specific themes that had completely different color palettes,...

November 30, 2017
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VFX Artist Dream Big & Think Small for Downsizing

...lines. Then we very carefully measured the distance from the camera before we could shoot the green screen element,” Price says. “If the camera was ten feet from the full sized podium,...

December 6, 2017
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Cool New Things in The Last Jedi To Keep an Eye Out For

...tracking down Luke’s lightsaber and returning it to him, which was no simple feat. Luke’s lightsaber is famously green, while Darth Vader wielded his iconic red saber. Darth Maul broke ground with...

December 11, 2017
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Trailer Introduces new Spidey Miles Morales to the World

...Morales’ is hesitant to become Spider-Man—this changes, however, when he watches the Green Goblin kill Spider-Man, pushing him to assume the role. In “Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man,” Parker’s alive and well, and...

December 13, 2017
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Wonder Woman's Cinematographer on Capturing the Dynamic Essence of Diana Prince

...healthy skin tones and the sky is wonderfully blue and the sea is very cyan and the grass is green,” Jensen said. “Once she gets to the man’s world it’s very mechanized....

December 13, 2017
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Transporting, Stellar, Joyous: Critics Hail Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi

...even in the midst of all the extravagant green-screen work, is its best special effect.” Michael Phelps, The Chicago Tribune “This is the longest movie in the franchise. It just doesn’t feel...

December 18, 2017
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Meet the Man (Besides George Lucas) Who Made Star Wars Possible

...Jedi, know that without Laddie, Rian Johnson’s film, and the entire Star Wars franchise, would likely never have happened. As a film executive, it was Laddie who gave George Lucas the green...

December 29, 2017
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Stunt Performer Annabel Wood is a Real Life Wonder Woman

...then on the top there’s often a thin mat, and sometimes they’ll put a green screen over that. Once the box rig is built, it looks impressive, but from an outsiders’ point...

January 1, 2018
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Wonder Woman's Cinematographer on Capturing the Dynamic Essence of Diana Prince

...cyan and the grass is green,” Jensen said. “Once she gets to the man’s world it’s very mechanized. London and a lot of Europe was burning coal for power. A lot of...

December 22, 2017
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How VFX Artists Kept Ryan Gosling's Head From Being Smashed (and More) in Blade Runner 2049

When we interviewed Blade Runner 2049 sound designer Theo Green, one of the sequences he discussed was the very first in the film—the epic brawl between Ryan Gosling’s Officer K and Dave...

January 16, 2018
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Director Doug Liman Says Edge of Tomorrow 2 Script in the Works

...in. Liman told Collider that the timing is panning out, but the script has to be compelling to flip the switch on the green light. The war against the Mimics seems to...

February 12, 2018
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Get Out and The Handmaid's Tale Take Home WGA's

...Anderson, Kristen Bartlett, Jeremy Beiler, Neal Brennan, Zack Bornstein, Joanna Bradley, Megan Callahan, Michael Che, Anna Drezen, Fran Gillespie, Sudi Green, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Rob Klein, Nick Kocher, Michael...

February 20, 2018
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See How the Epic Casino Fight Sequence in Black Panther was Filmed

...Okoye wear black, green and red respectively, the color of the Pan-African flag), the use of wigs to cover the Dora’s cleanly shaved bald heads, and how even T’Challa, Nakia and Okoye’s...

March 1, 2018
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Marrowbone Director Sergio G. Sanchez on Finding the Light in the Darkness

...family.” Sanchez says after Marrowbone, he’s ready to direct again and maybe move into new territory. “All these years trying to get projects green-lit got me a drawer full of scripts that...