March 8, 2013
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Meet Gary Jones, the Man Behind the Fantastical Fashion of Oz The Great and Powerful

...physical side, while Rachel [Weisz]’s costumes for Evanora are a little more of a reigning empress. She is the ultimate glamorous evil queen. We used a mercury green color, all having to...

May 10, 2013
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Eli Roth on Aftershock, Learning to Love Horror, and Woody Allen

...from me and Nicólas. Did your experience on this one make you want to stay in Chile for The Green Inferno? Absolutely. I had the time of my life on Aftershock. What we...

June 21, 2013
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Black Belt, Mother, Zombie Survivalist: Mireille Enos of World War Z

...a week running up these stairs carrying the children. But it was big, big fun. Did you work with a green screen or CGI? Of course, there are CGI sequences, but mostly...

August 1, 2013
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The Rise of Shailene Woodley:The Spectacular Now Star Shines Bright

...into trouble from page, and minute, one. The Fault in Our Stars You’ve probably heard about this novel. Although a ‘young adult’ book, author John Green saw his labor of love ranked...

August 29, 2013
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Talking With Legendary Director William Friedkin

...anyway. At that time I could neither read nor speak French, so I hadn’t read Arnaud’s novel. My knowledge of it, and what [screenwriter] Wally Green and I worked from, was the...

February 12, 2014
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Dinner & A Movie: 10 of the Greatest Dine-In Theaters in America

...Dinner & Movie, Glens Falls, NY Any theater that dishes out “Lord of the Onion Rings,” “Green Bean Mile,” “Sandwitches of Eastwick,” and “Sonny Corleone’s Scampi” (“worth getting whacked for”) knows its...

April 22, 2014
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Earth Day 2014: Hollywood Wants to Write Happy Ending for Planet With Eco Efforts

Hollywood has been celebrating Earth Day for years in order to raise awareness about environmental issues and put their considerable clout behind green initiatives. Who better than the people who make their living telling...

May 5, 2014
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Highlights from the 2nd Annual Creativity Conference

...Despicable Me 2, the Iron Throne from HBO's Game of Thrones, and a live makeover of a young man into a werewolf by makeup artist Tyler Green. The Real Frank Underwood Jonathan Karl, chief White...

May 8, 2014
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Mr. Sunshine: David Lynch, Auteur of the Uncanny, Talks Inspiration

...people might find unsettling, or simply unremarkable. "Rooms in these places were a certain kind of green, and I kind of fell in love with this green," he said. "And there was...

June 25, 2014
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How Industrial Light & Magic Makes Transformers 4: Age of Extinction Shine

...whether it’s how a bright sun in a clear sky would play off Bumblebee’s black and yellow armor or how a cloudy day might look on Crosshairs green and silver cast. Meny...

August 15, 2014
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Creating the Incredible Time Travel Sequence in Lucy

...would eventually lose as you got deeper and deeper. We start with orange and red and move down to greens and yellows, and as you go deeper and the light would stop...

November 13, 2014
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Top Flight Stunt & Effects Team Jacks Up Horrible Bosses 2

...who can't relate to the franchise's core message; answering to other people sucks. Now, about that chase scene; it involved a synthesis of stunts, practical effects and green screen. To make this work, the filmmaking team...

November 24, 2014
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Ridley Scott's 10 Commandments Making Exodus: Gods and Kings Part I

...the making of Exodus, but he didn’t lean on technology to conquer this colossal endeavor. Over 100 horses for battle scenes, 400 frogs for a slimy, green epidemic, and a slew of camels...

April 10, 2015
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Game of Thrones Music Editor David Klotz Makes Melody of Mayhem

...a really early cut where we do see a lot of green screen, especially with the visual effects. Instead of Dany petting her dragons, she's petting a green tennis ball or something....

May 12, 2015
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Learn About Modern Film Composing With the Blair Brothers

...Blair. The Blair Brothers will be coming off their latest premiere, Green Room, their second collaboration with writer/director Jeremy Saulnier after the outstanding Blue Ruin, which premiered at Sundance in 2014. The Blair Brothers have worked...

May 28, 2015
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How'd They Film That? Inside the Fault Lines on San Andreas

...week, I was shooting a boat on a green screen stage, doing all these stunts with water flying around; then it was a helicopter for another week; then a plane. It was...

July 27, 2015
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The Kids are All Right: Casting Director Ronna Kress on Paper Towns

...her breakout role as Margot in Paper Towns, which is based on the book of the same name by bestselling teen author John Green, and the most unusual place she’s discovered new...

August 20, 2015
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Listen to Abel Korzeniowski's Music for Penny Dreadful & More

...Dreadful (starring Eva Green, Josh Hartnett and Timothy Dalton as medium Vanessa Ives, American gunslinger Ethan Chandler and explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, respectively, united to combat supernatural threats in Victorian London),which led to an...

November 24, 2015
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Industrial Light & Magic’s Ed Kramer Discusses What It Takes To Work in CGI

...“Every shot in The Perfect Storm required it’s own research and development.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeSQfi3eLhs Audiences are familiar with behind-the-scenes shots of actors working against a green screen and reacting to something that’s not...

December 7, 2015
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Making Mountains With Everest VFX Supervisor Dadi Einarsson

...crevasse that was very tricky: that was an interior studio green screen set. So we had to create an environment with lots of nuance, snow, ice surfaces, ice flows, and a mini...