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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga arrives in theaters laster this month, and as the press tour kicks off in Sydney, Australia (you can check out some photos of stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth below), Warner Bros. has shared a tonne of new promotional material for George Miller's Fury Road prequel.
In addition to a new international poster and still, we have three action-packed TV spots.
The spots reuse some footage from the previous teasers, but there is also quite a bit of new stuff, including a face-off between Furiosa and Dementus in which the Dark Angel prepares to test the warlord's "high pain threshold."
Her odyssey begins. First stop: Australia. #Furiosa pic.twitter.com/OYgqz2e0GP
— Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (@MadMaxMovie) May 1, 2024
We are being spoiled once more!
New trailer! pic.twitter.com/TcMox3kG0T
— Mad Max Bible (@madmaxbible) April 30, 2024
New trailer!
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga arrives in theaters laster this month, and as the press tour kicks off in Sydney, Australia (you can check out some photos of stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth below), Warner Bros. has shared a tonne of new promotional material for George Miller's Fury Road prequel.
In addition to a new international poster and still, we have three action-packed TV spots.
The spots reuse some footage from the previous teasers, but there is also quite a bit of new stuff, including a face-off between Furiosa and Dementus in which the Dark Angel prepares to test the warlord's "high pain threshold."
Her odyssey begins. First stop: Australia. #Furiosa pic.twitter.com/OYgqz2e0GP
— Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (@MadMaxMovie) May 1, 2024
We are being spoiled once more!
New trailer! pic.twitter.com/TcMox3kG0T
— Mad Max Bible (@madmaxbible) April 30, 2024
New trailer!
- 5/2/2024
- ComicBookMovie.com
April on Broadway, to mangle a phrase from a showtune classic, is bustin’ out all over with no fewer than 14 new plays and musicals set to open before the April 25 Tony Award eligibility cutoff date. So crowded are the final weeks of the 2023-24 theater season that three days each will see the openings of two shows, a Broadway rarity.
Check this page to see Deadline’s takes. Whether you use this page as a guide or as an invitation to argue, drop by often for the latest on Broadway’s offerings. And there’ll be plenty of offerings indeed — here’s the schedule of April openings: The Outsiders (April 11), Lempicka (April 14), The Wiz (April 17), Suffs (April 18), Stereophonic (April 19), Hell’s Kitchen (April 20), Cabaret (April 21), Patriots (April 22), The Heart of Rock and Roll (April 22), Mary Jane (April 23), Illinoise (April 24), Uncle Vanya (April 24), Mother Play (April 25), The Great Gatsby (April 25).
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Check this page to see Deadline’s takes. Whether you use this page as a guide or as an invitation to argue, drop by often for the latest on Broadway’s offerings. And there’ll be plenty of offerings indeed — here’s the schedule of April openings: The Outsiders (April 11), Lempicka (April 14), The Wiz (April 17), Suffs (April 18), Stereophonic (April 19), Hell’s Kitchen (April 20), Cabaret (April 21), Patriots (April 22), The Heart of Rock and Roll (April 22), Mary Jane (April 23), Illinoise (April 24), Uncle Vanya (April 24), Mother Play (April 25), The Great Gatsby (April 25).
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- 4/26/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
On June 4, 2024 William Morrow is thrilled to present The Hidden History Of The White House: Power Struggles, Scandals, and Defining Moments by Corey Mead, with a foreword by bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower. Inspired by Wondery’s popular podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History Of The White House shares the untold stories of some of the most climactic moments in American history in the rooms where they happened.
For more than two centuries, The White House in Washington, D.C., has been the stage for some of the most dramatic scenes in American history. Its walls and portraits have witnessed fierce power struggles, world-altering decisions, shocking scandals, and unforgettable meetings.
In the signature style of Wondery’s hit American History Tellers podcast featuring narrative storytelling putting listeners in the moment and blending unique perspectives from both powerful and everyday people, The Hidden History Of The White House places readers...
For more than two centuries, The White House in Washington, D.C., has been the stage for some of the most dramatic scenes in American history. Its walls and portraits have witnessed fierce power struggles, world-altering decisions, shocking scandals, and unforgettable meetings.
In the signature style of Wondery’s hit American History Tellers podcast featuring narrative storytelling putting listeners in the moment and blending unique perspectives from both powerful and everyday people, The Hidden History Of The White House places readers...
- 3/24/2024
- Podnews.net
“Furiosa,” George Miller’s prequel to his Oscar-winning “Mad Max: Fury Road,” will have its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Anya Taylor-Joy stars as the titular warrior in the epic saga that spans 15 years and charts the title character’s origin story. A young Furiosa is kidnapped from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus, played by Chris Hemsworth. As they trek across the Wasteland, the gang come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war over dominance, Furiosa faces many trials to find her way home. Oh yeah, and she’s definitely out to kill those who murdered her family.
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” will premiere at the festival (and out of competition) on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. “Fury Road” and Miller’s recent “Three Thousand Years of Longing...
Anya Taylor-Joy stars as the titular warrior in the epic saga that spans 15 years and charts the title character’s origin story. A young Furiosa is kidnapped from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus, played by Chris Hemsworth. As they trek across the Wasteland, the gang come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war over dominance, Furiosa faces many trials to find her way home. Oh yeah, and she’s definitely out to kill those who murdered her family.
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” will premiere at the festival (and out of competition) on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. “Fury Road” and Miller’s recent “Three Thousand Years of Longing...
- 3/21/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Turns out, Anya Taylor-Joy has a shaved head in “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa.”
The “Queen’s Gambit” star recently told Empire magazine that director George Miller told her to not shave her head for the role; however, in the new trailer, a buzzed cut is boasted by the star, mirroring Charlize Theron’s look as Furiosa for “Fury Road.” Taylor-Joy is almost certainly sporting a wig in the film; we sure haven’t seen her growing back long locks in the time since.
“I feel very lucky that, from the second I read the script, I just knew this person. I felt so fiercely protective over Furiosa, and fiercely protective of her interests,” Taylor-Joy said of taking over the character from Theron. She also told IndieWire that “Furiosa” was the “dirtiest and the bloodiest” she’s ever been onscreen.
Much of that blood may be from Chris Hemsworth,...
The “Queen’s Gambit” star recently told Empire magazine that director George Miller told her to not shave her head for the role; however, in the new trailer, a buzzed cut is boasted by the star, mirroring Charlize Theron’s look as Furiosa for “Fury Road.” Taylor-Joy is almost certainly sporting a wig in the film; we sure haven’t seen her growing back long locks in the time since.
“I feel very lucky that, from the second I read the script, I just knew this person. I felt so fiercely protective over Furiosa, and fiercely protective of her interests,” Taylor-Joy said of taking over the character from Theron. She also told IndieWire that “Furiosa” was the “dirtiest and the bloodiest” she’s ever been onscreen.
Much of that blood may be from Chris Hemsworth,...
- 3/19/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Warner Bros. Pictures has released the new trailer for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the anticipated May 24, 2024 release starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth.
From Academy Award-winning mastermind George Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a return to the iconic dystopian world he created more than 30 years ago with the seminal Mad Max films.
Miller now turns the page again with an all-new original, standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins of the powerhouse character from the multiple Oscar-winning global smash Mad Max: Fury Road.
The new feature from Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures is produced by Miller and his longtime partner, Oscar-nominated producer Doug Mitchell, under their Australian-based Kennedy Miller Mitchell banner.
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland,...
From Academy Award-winning mastermind George Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a return to the iconic dystopian world he created more than 30 years ago with the seminal Mad Max films.
Miller now turns the page again with an all-new original, standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins of the powerhouse character from the multiple Oscar-winning global smash Mad Max: Fury Road.
The new feature from Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures is produced by Miller and his longtime partner, Oscar-nominated producer Doug Mitchell, under their Australian-based Kennedy Miller Mitchell banner.
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland,...
- 3/19/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
“The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon joked that the murderer of former president Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, would have a lot to say about Donald Trump’s recent claim that he’s been treated the worst compared to other past commanders-in-chief.
After joking about TikTok’s potential ban and former treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin putting together an investor group to buy the Chinese-owned social media app, Fallon threw a comedic jab about Trump into Thursday’s monologue.
“In a new interview, former president Donald Trump complained about how he’s been treated compared to other presidents,” Fallon explained. “Nobody’s been treated like Trump in terms of badly, and Trump should be treated in terms of goodly. He said no president’s been treated worse. Even John Wilkes Booth is like, ‘Hold on, come on. Come on.'”
Booth, an American stage actor assassinated Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington,...
After joking about TikTok’s potential ban and former treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin putting together an investor group to buy the Chinese-owned social media app, Fallon threw a comedic jab about Trump into Thursday’s monologue.
“In a new interview, former president Donald Trump complained about how he’s been treated compared to other presidents,” Fallon explained. “Nobody’s been treated like Trump in terms of badly, and Trump should be treated in terms of goodly. He said no president’s been treated worse. Even John Wilkes Booth is like, ‘Hold on, come on. Come on.'”
Booth, an American stage actor assassinated Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington,...
- 3/15/2024
- by Raquel 'Rocky' Harris
- The Wrap
Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated 2023 film, Oppenheimer, has already generated a lot of buzz and excitement, with a great deal of anticipation for what the acclaimed director has in store for this historical drama. His meticulous attention to detail as well as his knack for developing suspense and intrigue are on full display in this film, which makes it a must-see for any film lover.
And if there’s a particular moment in the film that has already caused quite a stir, it’s the Trinity Test. The first successful nuclear weapon detonation, known as the Trinity Test, occurred in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, and was a historic event. In typical Christopher Nolan fashion, he has recreated this monumental event with such authenticity and attention to detail that audiences have been stunned.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
But here’s the kicker: the Trinity Test scene in the Cillian Murphy-starrer film is not CGI!
And if there’s a particular moment in the film that has already caused quite a stir, it’s the Trinity Test. The first successful nuclear weapon detonation, known as the Trinity Test, occurred in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, and was a historic event. In typical Christopher Nolan fashion, he has recreated this monumental event with such authenticity and attention to detail that audiences have been stunned.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
But here’s the kicker: the Trinity Test scene in the Cillian Murphy-starrer film is not CGI!
- 3/9/2024
- by Siddhika Prajapati
- FandomWire
For audiences of a certain age, it might be amusing, or maybe even disappointing, when, early in “The Ballad of Davy Crockett,” the eponymous hero skins a raccoon to fashion a bandage for a serious leg wound, rather than to make a hat of the sort famously worn by Fess Parker when he played the character in enduringly popular Disney miniseries and movie spin-offs. Maybe this is writer-director Derek Estlin Purvis’ way of winking at the audience. Or, more likely, it’s his way of letting us know from the get-go that this will not be your father’s King of the Wild Frontier.
William Moseley (“The Chronicles of Narnia”) is effectively earnest as the legendary frontiersman in Purvis’ leisurely paced but sporadically exciting historical drama, which focuses on the period when Crockett, then a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Tennessee, became an outspoken critic of...
William Moseley (“The Chronicles of Narnia”) is effectively earnest as the legendary frontiersman in Purvis’ leisurely paced but sporadically exciting historical drama, which focuses on the period when Crockett, then a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Tennessee, became an outspoken critic of...
- 3/8/2024
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
The Creator won big at the 22nd annual Visual Effects Society Awards Wednesday night.
The awards were handed out during a ceremony, hosted by actor-comedian Jay Pharoah, at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
The Creator took home five awards in the feature competition, including outstanding visual effects in a photoreal feature. The Last of Us was also a top winner in the series categories, scoring four awards, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse led the animation competition with four wins.
Other winners of the night included Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Oppenheimer, Nyad, The Mandalorian and The Flash.
It was previously announced that producer Joyce Cox, who produced VFX on movies including Avatar and The Dark Knight, received the Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the ceremony.
Actor-producer-director William Shatner was also previously revealed as the recipient of the award for Creative Excellence in “recognition of his valuable contributions...
The awards were handed out during a ceremony, hosted by actor-comedian Jay Pharoah, at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
The Creator took home five awards in the feature competition, including outstanding visual effects in a photoreal feature. The Last of Us was also a top winner in the series categories, scoring four awards, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse led the animation competition with four wins.
Other winners of the night included Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Oppenheimer, Nyad, The Mandalorian and The Flash.
It was previously announced that producer Joyce Cox, who produced VFX on movies including Avatar and The Dark Knight, received the Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the ceremony.
Actor-producer-director William Shatner was also previously revealed as the recipient of the award for Creative Excellence in “recognition of his valuable contributions...
- 2/22/2024
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gareth Edwards’ “The Creator” was the big winner at the 22nd Visual Effects Society Awards (held February 21 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel). The AI-themed, sci-fi actioner earned five awards, including the top photoreal feature VFX prize. The other awards were for modeling (Nomad), created environment (Floating Village), effects simulations, and compositing & lighting (Bar).
“The Creator” utilized an innovative streamlining process in post, in which Ilm designed and placed the naturalistic VFX over the actors playing AI simulants and the photographic plates as set extensions. This made the $80 million indie look like a $200 million blockbuster, with director Edwards shooting the entire film guerilla-style in 80 locations throughout Southeast Asia as the primary camera operator with a small crew and natural light.
Meanwhile, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” the animated feature Oscar favorite (snubbed by the Academy’s VFX branch), took home four awards, including the top animated VFX prize. Sony Pictures Imageworks innovated...
“The Creator” utilized an innovative streamlining process in post, in which Ilm designed and placed the naturalistic VFX over the actors playing AI simulants and the photographic plates as set extensions. This made the $80 million indie look like a $200 million blockbuster, with director Edwards shooting the entire film guerilla-style in 80 locations throughout Southeast Asia as the primary camera operator with a small crew and natural light.
Meanwhile, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” the animated feature Oscar favorite (snubbed by the Academy’s VFX branch), took home four awards, including the top animated VFX prize. Sony Pictures Imageworks innovated...
- 2/22/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
As had been generally expected, Gareth Edwards’ futuristic sci-fi film “The Creator” proved to be the favorite among visual effects practitioners. The film topped the feature competition at the 22nd Visual Effects Society Awards, claiming five wins including one in the leading category for outstanding VFX in a photoreal feature.
Wednesday night at the Beverly Hilton, it also won the categories for created environment, model, compositing and lighting and effects simulations. Also, in the feature competition, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” collected two awards for the digital character (the emotive Rocket) and virtual cinematography. “Oppenheimer” grabbed the trophy for practical effects, and “Nyad” took home the award for supporting VFX. Sony Pictures Animation’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” was the big winner among the animated features, collecting four awards.
“The Creator,” whose VFX was led by Industrial Light + Magic, and Guardians 3, whose work was shared by roughly 10 VFX companies,...
Wednesday night at the Beverly Hilton, it also won the categories for created environment, model, compositing and lighting and effects simulations. Also, in the feature competition, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” collected two awards for the digital character (the emotive Rocket) and virtual cinematography. “Oppenheimer” grabbed the trophy for practical effects, and “Nyad” took home the award for supporting VFX. Sony Pictures Animation’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” was the big winner among the animated features, collecting four awards.
“The Creator,” whose VFX was led by Industrial Light + Magic, and Guardians 3, whose work was shared by roughly 10 VFX companies,...
- 2/22/2024
- by Carolyn Giardina and Diego Ramos Bechara
- Variety Film + TV
We present our interviews from the red carpet of the 44th Critics’ Circle Film Awards, held at the May Fair Hotel in London. Veteran critic Mark Kermode hosted the awards, which saw Jeffrey Wright presented with the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film, and Colman Domingo with the inaugural Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation. A full list of all winners will be posted when they are announced.
Colin Hart and Scott Davis were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
44th Critics’ Circle Film Awards Red Carpet Interviews
44th Critics’ Circle Film Awards Winners
Film of the Year
The Zone of Interest – Winner
All of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Director of the Year
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest – Winner
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese,...
Colin Hart and Scott Davis were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
44th Critics’ Circle Film Awards Red Carpet Interviews
44th Critics’ Circle Film Awards Winners
Film of the Year
The Zone of Interest – Winner
All of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Director of the Year
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest – Winner
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese,...
- 2/4/2024
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“Oppenheimer,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and “The Last of Us” are among the nominees for the Visual Effects Society (Ves) Awards.
Gareth Edwards’ “The Creator” leads the feature film field with seven nominations. “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is the top animated contender with seven nominations and 24-time Emmy-nominated drama “The Last of Us” leads the episodic field with six nominations.
“The artistry, ingenuity and passion of visual effects practitioners around the world have come together to create remarkable imagery,” Ves chair Kim Davidson said. “We are seeing best-in-class work that elevates the art of storytelling and exemplifies the spirit of innovation. The Ves Awards is the only venue that showcases and honors these outstanding artists across a wide range of disciplines, and we are extremely proud of our nominees.”
The Ves is a global honorary society dedicated to “advancing the arts, sciences and applications of visual effects and to upholding...
Gareth Edwards’ “The Creator” leads the feature film field with seven nominations. “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is the top animated contender with seven nominations and 24-time Emmy-nominated drama “The Last of Us” leads the episodic field with six nominations.
“The artistry, ingenuity and passion of visual effects practitioners around the world have come together to create remarkable imagery,” Ves chair Kim Davidson said. “We are seeing best-in-class work that elevates the art of storytelling and exemplifies the spirit of innovation. The Ves Awards is the only venue that showcases and honors these outstanding artists across a wide range of disciplines, and we are extremely proud of our nominees.”
The Ves is a global honorary society dedicated to “advancing the arts, sciences and applications of visual effects and to upholding...
- 1/16/2024
- by Diego Ramos Bechara
- Variety Film + TV
The Visual Effects Society has composited the nominees for its 22nd annual Ves Awards, which will be handed out next month. Disney’s The Creator and Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse lead the field with seven noms apiece, and HBO’s The Last of Us tops TV with six. See the full list below.
The annual Ves Awards will be handed out during the group’s 22nd annual ceremony February 21 at the Beverly Hilton. They recognize outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in 25 categories spanning features, animation, television, commercials and video games and the VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on artists who bring this work to life.
“The artistry, ingenuity and passion of visual effects practitioners around the world have come together to create remarkable imagery,” said Kim Davidson, newly elected Ves Chair. “We are seeing best-in-class work that elevates the art of storytelling and exemplifies the spirit of innovation.
The annual Ves Awards will be handed out during the group’s 22nd annual ceremony February 21 at the Beverly Hilton. They recognize outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in 25 categories spanning features, animation, television, commercials and video games and the VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on artists who bring this work to life.
“The artistry, ingenuity and passion of visual effects practitioners around the world have come together to create remarkable imagery,” said Kim Davidson, newly elected Ves Chair. “We are seeing best-in-class work that elevates the art of storytelling and exemplifies the spirit of innovation.
- 1/16/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The Spider-Society has webbed in a few honors. The Visual Effects Society has announced their nominations for the 22nd annual Ves Awards, with “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” leading the pack.
Held every winter, the Ves Awards honor the best achievements in visual effects artistry over the previous calendar year, with VFX professionals in film, television, video games, and commercials receiving recognition. Nominees in 25 categories are selected by Ves members through a process of 39 in-person and virtual nomination events, held worldwide and conducted during a 36-hour period. A minimum of three judging panels review each submission for the awards, looking at “Before and Afters” for each prospective nominee. Ves judging panels this year included members of the society from 25 different countries.
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” was the top animated film to receive nominations this year, gaining seven nominations including Outstanding Effects in an Animated Feature and specific nods for modeling, character animation,...
Held every winter, the Ves Awards honor the best achievements in visual effects artistry over the previous calendar year, with VFX professionals in film, television, video games, and commercials receiving recognition. Nominees in 25 categories are selected by Ves members through a process of 39 in-person and virtual nomination events, held worldwide and conducted during a 36-hour period. A minimum of three judging panels review each submission for the awards, looking at “Before and Afters” for each prospective nominee. Ves judging panels this year included members of the society from 25 different countries.
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” was the top animated film to receive nominations this year, gaining seven nominations including Outstanding Effects in an Animated Feature and specific nods for modeling, character animation,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
“When you do Chris’ movies… things you normally would think would be visual effects, you know that they’re going to be doing the stuff practically,” observes special effects supervisor Scott Fisher about collaborating with director Christopher Nolan. He is one of the three individuals behind the visual and special effects of “Oppenheimer” that are spotlighted in a new video that Gold Derby is debuting exclusively. The featurette combines interviews, film footage, and behind-the-scenes clips of how the dynamic scenes of the film came to life, which many of the effects occurring in front of the lens. Watch the “Oppenheimer” exclusive featurette above.
Nolan championed this dual visual and special effects approach on the epic film, which explores the explosive story of the Manhattan Project. He shares, “With our visual effects approach on ‘Oppenheimer,’ there’s one sense in which computer graphics is the obvious way to do it, but going down that route,...
Nolan championed this dual visual and special effects approach on the epic film, which explores the explosive story of the Manhattan Project. He shares, “With our visual effects approach on ‘Oppenheimer,’ there’s one sense in which computer graphics is the obvious way to do it, but going down that route,...
- 12/6/2023
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
On Thursday, Chris Hemsworth, Anya Taylor-Joy and director George Miller showed the crowd at Ccxp the first trailer for Furiosa : A Mad Max Saga.
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star in Academy Award-winning mastermind George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” the much-anticipated return to the iconic dystopian world he created more than 30 years ago with the seminal “Mad Max” films. Miller now turns the page again with an all-new original, standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins of the powerhouse character from the multiple Oscar-winning global smash “Mad Max: Fury Road.” The new feature from Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures is produced by Miller and his longtime partner, Oscar-nominated producer Doug Mitchell, under their Australian-based Kennedy Miller Mitchell banner.
As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus.
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star in Academy Award-winning mastermind George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” the much-anticipated return to the iconic dystopian world he created more than 30 years ago with the seminal “Mad Max” films. Miller now turns the page again with an all-new original, standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins of the powerhouse character from the multiple Oscar-winning global smash “Mad Max: Fury Road.” The new feature from Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures is produced by Miller and his longtime partner, Oscar-nominated producer Doug Mitchell, under their Australian-based Kennedy Miller Mitchell banner.
As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus.
- 12/1/2023
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Nearly a decade after Mad Max: Fury Road rocked cinemas, it's time to buckle up and return to George Miller's dystopian wasteland in the intense trailer for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
A prequel to Fury Road that stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa (the character played by Charlize Theron in Fury Road) and Chris Hemsworth as Warlord Dementus, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be unleashed by Warner Bros. in the US on May 24th, 2024, and you can get an idea of what to expect in the official plot details and trailer below:
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star in Academy Award-winning mastermind George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” the much-anticipated return to the iconic dystopian world he created more than 30 years ago with the seminal “Mad Max” films. Miller now turns the page again with an all-new original, standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins...
A prequel to Fury Road that stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa (the character played by Charlize Theron in Fury Road) and Chris Hemsworth as Warlord Dementus, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be unleashed by Warner Bros. in the US on May 24th, 2024, and you can get an idea of what to expect in the official plot details and trailer below:
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star in Academy Award-winning mastermind George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” the much-anticipated return to the iconic dystopian world he created more than 30 years ago with the seminal “Mad Max” films. Miller now turns the page again with an all-new original, standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins...
- 12/1/2023
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The first official trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures’ Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga confirms two important details. One, Anya Taylor-Joy looks totally badass as the titular character. And two, the long wait between Mad Max films has been worth it.
The two-and-a-half minute trailer’s loaded with gritty action, and Oscar-winning filmmaker George Miller’s epic action thriller captures its predecessor’s vibe.
In addition to Emmy nominee Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit), the Fury Road prequel stars Chris Hemsworth, Alyla Browne, and Tom Burke. Miller co-wrote the screenplay with Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Nico Lathouris.
Miller reunites with production designer Colin Gibson, editor Margaret Sixel, sound mixer Ben Osmo, costume designer Jenny Beavan, and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt for Furiosa. His behind-the-scenes team also includes first assistant director Pj Voeten, second unit director, stunt coordinator Guy Norris, director of photography Simon Duggan, composer Tom Holkenborg, sound designer Robert Mackenzie,...
The two-and-a-half minute trailer’s loaded with gritty action, and Oscar-winning filmmaker George Miller’s epic action thriller captures its predecessor’s vibe.
In addition to Emmy nominee Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit), the Fury Road prequel stars Chris Hemsworth, Alyla Browne, and Tom Burke. Miller co-wrote the screenplay with Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Nico Lathouris.
Miller reunites with production designer Colin Gibson, editor Margaret Sixel, sound mixer Ben Osmo, costume designer Jenny Beavan, and makeup designer Lesley Vanderwalt for Furiosa. His behind-the-scenes team also includes first assistant director Pj Voeten, second unit director, stunt coordinator Guy Norris, director of photography Simon Duggan, composer Tom Holkenborg, sound designer Robert Mackenzie,...
- 12/1/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
It’s not often that you get two films in the same year devoted to a couple of Twentieth-Century giants of science and music as “Oppenheimer” and “Maestro.” But then theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) were both legends deserving of lofty cinematic treatment, and directors Christopher Nolan and Cooper delivered dazzling spectacles of sight and sound. Which is why these Best Picture contenders will likely also be craft juggernauts for Universal and Netflix.
Interestingly, both movies were not only shot on Kodak film, but also in color and black-and-white. This was to distinguish the timelines and to heighten the emotional toll of their titanic achievements. Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, was driven to build it and then tormented by its destruction to the detriment of his marriage to biologist-botanist Kitty (Emily Blunt). By contrast, Bernstein, the Renaissance Man of American Music,...
Interestingly, both movies were not only shot on Kodak film, but also in color and black-and-white. This was to distinguish the timelines and to heighten the emotional toll of their titanic achievements. Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, was driven to build it and then tormented by its destruction to the detriment of his marriage to biologist-botanist Kitty (Emily Blunt). By contrast, Bernstein, the Renaissance Man of American Music,...
- 11/30/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Five of the industry’s top visual effects supervisors joined Gold Derby as part of our Meet the Experts visual effects panel to discuss how much they each value keeping their work as realistic as possible.
“To me, visual effects is about putting something together with something that we shot that is completely invisible,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman explains in our exclusive video interview roundtable. “And if we do that, then we’re telling a completely different story than what we shot, and it’s part of that story.”
“I love working on shows that are grounded in the real world,” “Oppenheimer” visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson adds. “I’ve certainly found myself going away from the idea of using green screens and blue screens these days. And, you know, as roto gets better and easier, it allows the Dp to light the scene...
“To me, visual effects is about putting something together with something that we shot that is completely invisible,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman explains in our exclusive video interview roundtable. “And if we do that, then we’re telling a completely different story than what we shot, and it’s part of that story.”
“I love working on shows that are grounded in the real world,” “Oppenheimer” visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson adds. “I’ve certainly found myself going away from the idea of using green screens and blue screens these days. And, you know, as roto gets better and easier, it allows the Dp to light the scene...
- 11/29/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson has been somewhat of a good luck charm for director Christopher Nolan. Their first collaboration, 2017’s “Dunkirk,” received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. The pair’s follow-up, 2020’s “Tenet,” won an Oscar for Jackson in the Best Visual Effects category – the only award that year for Nolan’s pandemic-era release. But this year, both Jackson and Nolan arguably topped what they had done together before with “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer that is expected to earn multiple Oscar nominations in January.
For the film – a three-hour drama that tells the story of Oppenheimer and recreates the Trinity Test, the first nuclear detonation achieved by the United States – Jackson says Nolan had one specific edict which the visual effects team was required to follow.
SEEEllen Mirojnick interview: ‘Oppenheimer’ costume designer
“For this script, in particular, he wanted all of the effects to...
For the film – a three-hour drama that tells the story of Oppenheimer and recreates the Trinity Test, the first nuclear detonation achieved by the United States – Jackson says Nolan had one specific edict which the visual effects team was required to follow.
SEEEllen Mirojnick interview: ‘Oppenheimer’ costume designer
“For this script, in particular, he wanted all of the effects to...
- 11/29/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Cillian Murphy had to “sit down for a moment” and gather his thoughts when he received the out-of-the-blue call from director and longtime collaborator Christopher Nolan about playing the lead in his epic biographical thriller Oppenheimer.
Murphy said during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles panel for the Universal film, “I knew it was a big one, but it was absolutely kind of electrifying feeling but also terrifying, but that’s the place I always want to be when I’m making work – I don’t ever want it to feel easy or safe, but this was a biggie and I knew it was a huge responsibility and a huge amount of work.”
Murphy plays the titular complicated and brilliant physicist tasked with leading the Manhattan Project, the secret effort to create the atom bomb.
Related: The Contenders Film: Los Angeles – Deadline’s Full Coverage
The story plays out in an unusual first-person approach,...
Murphy said during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles panel for the Universal film, “I knew it was a big one, but it was absolutely kind of electrifying feeling but also terrifying, but that’s the place I always want to be when I’m making work – I don’t ever want it to feel easy or safe, but this was a biggie and I knew it was a huge responsibility and a huge amount of work.”
Murphy plays the titular complicated and brilliant physicist tasked with leading the Manhattan Project, the secret effort to create the atom bomb.
Related: The Contenders Film: Los Angeles – Deadline’s Full Coverage
The story plays out in an unusual first-person approach,...
- 11/18/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles kicks off Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. Pt spotlighting 28 movies, with panel discussions featuring cast and creatives from this awards season’s most talked-about films, including actors scheduled to return to post-strike duty from Margot Robbie, Bradley Cooper, Cillian Murphy, Jeffrey Wright, Colman Domingo, Lily Gladstone, Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Annette Bening to Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, Carey Mulligan, Anna Kendrick, Eve Hewson and America Ferrara.
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During the summer of 2023, with both the writers’ and actors’ strikes in full swing, the future of Contenders was by no means a sure thing. Indeed, SAG-AFTRA’s call to arms immediately preceded the extraordinary double whammy of Barbie and Oppenheimer, right at the moment when it seemed mainstream audiences were ready to go back to the cinema.
After Contenders Film: London in October proved that the films themselves are the real stars,...
Click here to launch the livestream.
During the summer of 2023, with both the writers’ and actors’ strikes in full swing, the future of Contenders was by no means a sure thing. Indeed, SAG-AFTRA’s call to arms immediately preceded the extraordinary double whammy of Barbie and Oppenheimer, right at the moment when it seemed mainstream audiences were ready to go back to the cinema.
After Contenders Film: London in October proved that the films themselves are the real stars,...
- 11/18/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) said that Oklahomans “would be pretty upset” if he had not stood up to Teamsters leader Sean O’Brien during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
Mullin and O’Brien went back and forth at each other amid a conversation about labor unions and even threatened a fight, with Mullin standing up from his chair before Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) stopped him.
Mullin defended his actions during an interview with Sean Hannity later that day.
“He called you out,” Hannity said to Mullin. “You called him out for calling you out. And that’s kind of old school, the way it used to be.”
When asked if his conduct aligned with what is expected of a U.S. senator, Mullin responded that he is “a guy from Oklahoma first.”
“In Oklahoma, you don’t do this,” he said of O’Brien’s social media post from June, in...
Mullin and O’Brien went back and forth at each other amid a conversation about labor unions and even threatened a fight, with Mullin standing up from his chair before Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) stopped him.
Mullin defended his actions during an interview with Sean Hannity later that day.
“He called you out,” Hannity said to Mullin. “You called him out for calling you out. And that’s kind of old school, the way it used to be.”
When asked if his conduct aligned with what is expected of a U.S. senator, Mullin responded that he is “a guy from Oklahoma first.”
“In Oklahoma, you don’t do this,” he said of O’Brien’s social media post from June, in...
- 11/17/2023
- by Ava Lombardi
- Uinterview
Yes, Christopher Nolan wants you to buy the Blu-ray of “Oppenheimer.”
But the event at the Academy’s Linwood G. Dunn Theatre Monday night promoting the November 21 home video launch of the $951 million global hit — which no one in Hollywood predicted — also screened “The Story of Our Time: The Making of Oppenheimer,” a Blu-ray special feature, and added a stellar crafts panel for the press, guild, and Academy voters on hand.
Universal knows that craft nominations could add up for “Oppenheimer,” as they have for other Nolan movies like “Dunkirk” and “Inception,” and that these craft maestros would showcase their expertise and star power. At the reception afterwards, Nolan told IndieWire that he was surprised at how strong the making-of movie was, because he actively avoided having the crew on the set, finding them an unwelcome distraction.
The message of the behind-the-scenes documentary couldn’t be clearer: Nolan wanted everything...
But the event at the Academy’s Linwood G. Dunn Theatre Monday night promoting the November 21 home video launch of the $951 million global hit — which no one in Hollywood predicted — also screened “The Story of Our Time: The Making of Oppenheimer,” a Blu-ray special feature, and added a stellar crafts panel for the press, guild, and Academy voters on hand.
Universal knows that craft nominations could add up for “Oppenheimer,” as they have for other Nolan movies like “Dunkirk” and “Inception,” and that these craft maestros would showcase their expertise and star power. At the reception afterwards, Nolan told IndieWire that he was surprised at how strong the making-of movie was, because he actively avoided having the crew on the set, finding them an unwelcome distraction.
The message of the behind-the-scenes documentary couldn’t be clearer: Nolan wanted everything...
- 11/16/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
In an effort to defend trans rights in the United States, the U.K., and Canada, dozens of artists have recorded cover songs for a new compilation that will raise money for organizations in those countries. Joanna Sternberg recorded Caroline Rose’s “Everywhere I Go I Bring the Rain,” Rostam interpreted Lucinda Williams’ “Change the Locks,” Wednesday took on Elliott Smith’s “Christian Brothers,” and Model/Actriz perform the Ting Tings’ “That’s Not My Name” on the 44-track Fader + Friends Vol. 1 compilation available on Bandcamp for one month, starting today.
- 11/1/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The last two VFX Oscar winners — “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Dune” — were late-season juggernauts. The same was anticipated for “Dune: Part Two” (originally scheduled for a November 3 release). But since Warner Bros. pushed back Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic to March 15, 2024, because of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, that opens up a void.
Now, the spotlight is on other Oscar hopefuls that would’ve been overshadowed: “Wonka”, “The Marvels”, “Napoleon”, “Poor Things” (December 8, Searchlight), and “Rebel Moon —Part One: A Child of Fire”.
Director Paul King (“Paddington”) transforms “Wonka” into the origin story of Roald Dahl’s famed chocolatier (with “Dune” star Timothée Chalamet in the title role), which now becomes the most prestigious late-season VFX contender. It’s a musical companion piece to the 1971 film “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” with Wonka struggling to start his own chocolate shop with his magic touch and secret weapon: Hugh Grant’s Oompa Loompa.
Now, the spotlight is on other Oscar hopefuls that would’ve been overshadowed: “Wonka”, “The Marvels”, “Napoleon”, “Poor Things” (December 8, Searchlight), and “Rebel Moon —Part One: A Child of Fire”.
Director Paul King (“Paddington”) transforms “Wonka” into the origin story of Roald Dahl’s famed chocolatier (with “Dune” star Timothée Chalamet in the title role), which now becomes the most prestigious late-season VFX contender. It’s a musical companion piece to the 1971 film “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” with Wonka struggling to start his own chocolate shop with his magic touch and secret weapon: Hugh Grant’s Oompa Loompa.
- 10/25/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
This year’s edition of the View Conference, an English-speaking event taking place between Oct. 15-20 in the Italian city of Turin, has been greatly influenced by some of the most urgent questions permeating the entertainment industry today.
A world-class event on animation, VFX, games, Ar, VR, Xr, Mr, virtual production, Metaverse and immersive media, the 24th edition of the conference has a heavy focus on animation and artificial intelligence, with a key desire to investigate the future of storytelling.
“The conference is a stage to talk about the impact of innovative technologies on the creative industries, so obviously AI is a big theme,” CEO and executive director of the View conference Maria Elena Gutierrez tells Variety.
Panels such as “AI and Education,” “Out of Distribution: Thriving Creatively in the Age of AI” and “Copyright and How to Secure Your Digital Artworks” invite industry professionals to discuss the current ramifications...
A world-class event on animation, VFX, games, Ar, VR, Xr, Mr, virtual production, Metaverse and immersive media, the 24th edition of the conference has a heavy focus on animation and artificial intelligence, with a key desire to investigate the future of storytelling.
“The conference is a stage to talk about the impact of innovative technologies on the creative industries, so obviously AI is a big theme,” CEO and executive director of the View conference Maria Elena Gutierrez tells Variety.
Panels such as “AI and Education,” “Out of Distribution: Thriving Creatively in the Age of AI” and “Copyright and How to Secure Your Digital Artworks” invite industry professionals to discuss the current ramifications...
- 10/17/2023
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Jackson’s horror short, “Affliction” is now available on VOD and just released on Kapang App. Affliction is the winner of Motion Picture International Film Festival 2020 Audience Choice Award and the winner of Hollywood Hills film Awards 2020 Best Short Film. Affliction – The Movie Short -In a bar at night, a man named …
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- 9/30/2023
- by Mike Joy
- Horror News
Exclusive: Vmi Worldwide has acquired world rights to the action pic The Ballad of Davy Crockett from producer-director Derek Estlin Purvis, starring William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Colm Meaney (Con Air)
Set in 1815, the pic tells the story of an American Legend whose wife has fallen deathly ill, leaving his young children to survive on their own. Davy must set out on a perilous journey fighting off danger and enemies across the wild frontier.
The deal was negotiated by Jessica Bennett, COO Productions and Acquisitions, and Michael Mailer with Derek Purvis. The pic was also produced by Michael Mailer.
“The Ballad of Davy Crockett is an action-packed epic showcase of an American Hero and how far he will go to save his children. We are excited to introduce this to buyers in TIFF,” said Andre Relis, CEO of Vmi Worldwide.
Purvis added: “We wanted to explore the larger-than-life...
Set in 1815, the pic tells the story of an American Legend whose wife has fallen deathly ill, leaving his young children to survive on their own. Davy must set out on a perilous journey fighting off danger and enemies across the wild frontier.
The deal was negotiated by Jessica Bennett, COO Productions and Acquisitions, and Michael Mailer with Derek Purvis. The pic was also produced by Michael Mailer.
“The Ballad of Davy Crockett is an action-packed epic showcase of an American Hero and how far he will go to save his children. We are excited to introduce this to buyers in TIFF,” said Andre Relis, CEO of Vmi Worldwide.
Purvis added: “We wanted to explore the larger-than-life...
- 9/12/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
“Everything that we shot is completely practical” said Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie in a behind-the-scenes video about the film’s high-octane Rome-set car chase. Added star and producer Tom Cruise, “we’re doing it right.”
The comments continue the trend of filmmakers and studio marketing departments emphasizing how productions do things for real. But those in the visual effects field say this publicity strategy does not always paint a full picture. Visual effects make the impossible possible and thrill audiences, but the artists who toil over delicate and groundbreaking work don’t always get to take a bow—or in some cases, even acknowledge the existence of their work.
“When you have a huge movie, you can kind of tell any story about the technology. [Publicity] doesn’t always want that to become part of the story,” says one veteran member of the Academy’s VFX branch.
The comments continue the trend of filmmakers and studio marketing departments emphasizing how productions do things for real. But those in the visual effects field say this publicity strategy does not always paint a full picture. Visual effects make the impossible possible and thrill audiences, but the artists who toil over delicate and groundbreaking work don’t always get to take a bow—or in some cases, even acknowledge the existence of their work.
“When you have a huge movie, you can kind of tell any story about the technology. [Publicity] doesn’t always want that to become part of the story,” says one veteran member of the Academy’s VFX branch.
- 9/1/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There’s a sizable amount of largely “invisible” visual effects work in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, but more than a month after its release, that’s still not obvious to everyone.
In the lead-up to the film, headlines spread after Nolan stated there were no computer-generated images in Oppenheimer — but that’s very different than saying there are no visual effects shots in the film.
“Some people have picked that up and taken it to mean that there are no visual effects, which is clearly not true,” Oppenheimer‘s Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Visual effects can encompass a whole lot of things.” That includes computer-generated imagery and “in-camera” special effects created on set.
One VFX moment is the scene re-creating the Trinity Test during in which scientists, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) detonated the first atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. According to Jackson,...
In the lead-up to the film, headlines spread after Nolan stated there were no computer-generated images in Oppenheimer — but that’s very different than saying there are no visual effects shots in the film.
“Some people have picked that up and taken it to mean that there are no visual effects, which is clearly not true,” Oppenheimer‘s Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Visual effects can encompass a whole lot of things.” That includes computer-generated imagery and “in-camera” special effects created on set.
One VFX moment is the scene re-creating the Trinity Test during in which scientists, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) detonated the first atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. According to Jackson,...
- 8/23/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Presidential historian Jon Meacham chose his words very purposefully on “Morning Joe” the morning after Donald Trump’s fourth indictment, saying what Trump attempted – and is being indicted for – was plainly a coup d’etat.
“You have this whole cast of characters who’ve been indicted now in Fulton County who were attempting – and I use this word very, very advisably, I’m not just popping off here – this was a coup d’etat. This was an attempt to seize power that was not legitimately granted by the electoral processes of the Constitution of the United States. Full stop. That’s what it was.”
On Monday night, Trump and 18 others were indicted in Georgia for a number of charges ranging from racketeering to forgery to soliciting public law officers to violate their oaths. The defendants “knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,...
“You have this whole cast of characters who’ve been indicted now in Fulton County who were attempting – and I use this word very, very advisably, I’m not just popping off here – this was a coup d’etat. This was an attempt to seize power that was not legitimately granted by the electoral processes of the Constitution of the United States. Full stop. That’s what it was.”
On Monday night, Trump and 18 others were indicted in Georgia for a number of charges ranging from racketeering to forgery to soliciting public law officers to violate their oaths. The defendants “knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,...
- 8/15/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
In keeping with Christopher Nolan’s preference for shooting in-camera practical effects whenever possible — and a desire to steer clear of CGI on “Oppenheimer” — the director created his own real-life VFX Manhattan Project to create the subatomic world and Trinity atomic blast. That’s why VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson was the first crew member Nolan asked to read his script.
“He needed me to get on board really early to start investigating what we could do,” Jackson told IndieWire. “And in that first discussion, we looked at the options. At one end of the spectrum, there’s trying to reproduce the subatomic electrons orbiting a nucleus and an atom spinning at trillions of times a second because the film is so much about trying to experience the story through the mind of Oppenheimer [Cillian Murphy], and we were trying to visualize what might be going on in his head at...
“He needed me to get on board really early to start investigating what we could do,” Jackson told IndieWire. “And in that first discussion, we looked at the options. At one end of the spectrum, there’s trying to reproduce the subatomic electrons orbiting a nucleus and an atom spinning at trillions of times a second because the film is so much about trying to experience the story through the mind of Oppenheimer [Cillian Murphy], and we were trying to visualize what might be going on in his head at...
- 8/10/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
When he set out to make "Oppenheimer," director Christopher Nolan opted not to use CGI for the film's central nuclear explosion. "It's difficult to make CG threatening," Nolan told IGN on July 18. "So I first showed the script to Andrew Jackson, my visual effects supervisor, and said, I don't think that tool's going to work for us. So let's see if we can produce all of these effects using analog methods, from the very first imaginings that Oppenheimer has of the quantum world, of atoms, and how they would be interacting with strong force between them. Waves, particles, the duality of that." Ultimately, to show the size and scale of 1945's Trinity test, which was the first time a nuclear weapon had ever been detonated, he chose another route: building an actual bomb.
What Was the Trinity Test?
The Trinity test took place in Los Alamos, the New Mexico town...
What Was the Trinity Test?
The Trinity test took place in Los Alamos, the New Mexico town...
- 7/25/2023
- by Eden Arielle Gordon
- Popsugar.com
In 2020’s “Tenet,” Christopher Nolan blew up a 747, and for his latest feature, “Oppenheimer,” he recreated the Trinity Test without using visual effects, opting to find a way to do it in-camera instead.
“Obviously, we couldn’t make an explosion the size of the actual explosion so we used trickery,” cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema explains, and no, they didn’t detonate a real atomic bomb.
The ten-minute sequence capturing the first-ever successful atomic bomb detonation came together through many experiments. It was a given that Nolan would do the scene in-camera. “We’re suckers for this absolute depth of resolution that IMAX give us,” van Hoytema says. “But when you go to VFX, you have to scan it, and the moment you do that, it loses half of its resolution.”
Their goal was to preserve the quality of the film stock.
Despite not using VFX, Nolan and van Hoytema worked...
“Obviously, we couldn’t make an explosion the size of the actual explosion so we used trickery,” cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema explains, and no, they didn’t detonate a real atomic bomb.
The ten-minute sequence capturing the first-ever successful atomic bomb detonation came together through many experiments. It was a given that Nolan would do the scene in-camera. “We’re suckers for this absolute depth of resolution that IMAX give us,” van Hoytema says. “But when you go to VFX, you have to scan it, and the moment you do that, it loses half of its resolution.”
Their goal was to preserve the quality of the film stock.
Despite not using VFX, Nolan and van Hoytema worked...
- 7/22/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" features a stellar central performance from Cillian Murphy, who delivers career-best work as the haunted, brilliant scientist who became known as the father of the atomic bomb. But while a number of directors may have been able to collaborate with this spectacular, star-studded cast to achieve memorable and complex performances, something Nolan brought to "Oppenheimer" that exceedingly few other filmmakers could is his obsession with filming as many things as possible in a practical way instead of relying on CGI.
That tactile approach extends to the movie's explosive Trinity test of the atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert (which is perhaps the film's most show-stopping scene), as well as some visually dazzling moments of Oppenheimer imagining atoms, particles, and nuclei flying around in space.
"In this film, we're going to try and portray the inner state of the character, we're going to try and show atomic activity,...
That tactile approach extends to the movie's explosive Trinity test of the atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert (which is perhaps the film's most show-stopping scene), as well as some visually dazzling moments of Oppenheimer imagining atoms, particles, and nuclei flying around in space.
"In this film, we're going to try and portray the inner state of the character, we're going to try and show atomic activity,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
The cast of Oppenheimer walked out of the film’s premiere in London on Thursday after the SAG-AFTRA officially voted to strike.
“I have to acknowledge the work of our incredible cast, led by Cillian Murphy,” director Christopher Nolan told the audience at the screening. “You’ve seen them here earlier on the red carpet. Unfortunately, they’re off to write their picket signs for the imminent strike by SAG.”
Ultimately, Nolan signed off with a message of solidarity: “We support them.” A roar of applause from the crowd suggested they felt the same.
The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced its intention to strike on Thursday after failing to negotiate a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). The guidelines of the strike prohibit actors from participating in press or promotional events in service of those projects — hence...
“I have to acknowledge the work of our incredible cast, led by Cillian Murphy,” director Christopher Nolan told the audience at the screening. “You’ve seen them here earlier on the red carpet. Unfortunately, they’re off to write their picket signs for the imminent strike by SAG.”
Ultimately, Nolan signed off with a message of solidarity: “We support them.” A roar of applause from the crowd suggested they felt the same.
The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced its intention to strike on Thursday after failing to negotiate a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). The guidelines of the strike prohibit actors from participating in press or promotional events in service of those projects — hence...
- 7/13/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Film News
Now it’s clear that the peak of Oppenheimer will be the Trinity nuclear scene. All of the film’s energy is concentrated on that scene. Admittedly, in a series of interviews, director Christopher Nolan stated that the Trinity test in the movie is based on practical effects. Moreover, Nolan said that there’re zero CGI shots. Can it be?
The Trinity nuclear test. With no CGI???
Trying to photograph real-world things to give the first detonation of the atomic bomb is one of the most hypnotic, terrifying, and beautiful things and equal measurements. We really needed to find a way in this film to represent that in a way that the audience could feel some of that extraordinary sense of witnessing – that first unleashing of the power.
Christopher Nolan Nolan tries to avoid CGI and VFX
We know Nolan. He’s not a fan of VFX and CGI layers.
The Trinity nuclear test. With no CGI???
Trying to photograph real-world things to give the first detonation of the atomic bomb is one of the most hypnotic, terrifying, and beautiful things and equal measurements. We really needed to find a way in this film to represent that in a way that the audience could feel some of that extraordinary sense of witnessing – that first unleashing of the power.
Christopher Nolan Nolan tries to avoid CGI and VFX
We know Nolan. He’s not a fan of VFX and CGI layers.
- 7/9/2023
- by Yossy Mendelovich
- YMCinema
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is warring it out with the likes of “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) and “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount) at this year’s summer box office. But according to the Oscar-nominated director, his three-hour epic about the invention of the atomic bomb offers something those other films don’t: a script written entirely in the first person.
Nolan revealed to Empire magazine that he wrote the screenplay completely from the point of view of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy in the film in a role the “Batman Begins” actor fought for and stretched his physical limits to portray.
“I actually wrote in the first-person, which I’ve never done before,” Nolan said of his film about the leader of the Manhattan Project. “I don’t know if anyone’s ever done it before. But the point of it is, with the colour sequences,...
Nolan revealed to Empire magazine that he wrote the screenplay completely from the point of view of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy in the film in a role the “Batman Begins” actor fought for and stretched his physical limits to portray.
“I actually wrote in the first-person, which I’ve never done before,” Nolan said of his film about the leader of the Manhattan Project. “I don’t know if anyone’s ever done it before. But the point of it is, with the colour sequences,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Christoper Nolan revealed to Empire magazine that he did something during the development of “Oppenheimer” that he’s never done before in more than two decades of making movies: He wrote a script in the first person.
“There’s the idea of how we get in somebody’s head and see how they were visualizing this radical reinvention of physics,” Nolan said. “One of the things that cinema has struggled with historically is the representation of intelligence or genius. It very often fails to engage people.”
When sending the finished “Oppenheimer” screenplay to his visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson, Nolan stressed to him that “we have to find a way into this guy’s head. We’ve gotta see the world the way he sees it, we’ve gotta see the atoms moving, we’ve gotta see the way he’s imagining waves of energy, the quantum world. And then...
“There’s the idea of how we get in somebody’s head and see how they were visualizing this radical reinvention of physics,” Nolan said. “One of the things that cinema has struggled with historically is the representation of intelligence or genius. It very often fails to engage people.”
When sending the finished “Oppenheimer” screenplay to his visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson, Nolan stressed to him that “we have to find a way into this guy’s head. We’ve gotta see the world the way he sees it, we’ve gotta see the atoms moving, we’ve gotta see the way he’s imagining waves of energy, the quantum world. And then...
- 6/5/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Christopher Nolan), and put the thinking behind that world-changing bomb on screen.
“There’s the idea of how we get in somebody’s head and see how they were visualising this radical reinvention of physics,” Nolan tells Empire, as we visit the director in LA for our world-exclusive new Ahsoka issue. “One of the things that cinema has struggled with historically is the representation of intelligence or genius. It very often fails to engage people.”
There have been many attempts at properly portraying someone’s genius cinematically – think Sherlock Holmes, Hidden Figures, The Theory Of Everything. All take very different approaches to putting a mind at work on screen. “The first person I showed the script to when it was finished after [his producer and wife] Emma [Thomas] read it was Andrew Jackson, the visual effects supervisor,” Nolan recalls. “I said to him, ‘We have to find a way into this guy’s head. We...
“There’s the idea of how we get in somebody’s head and see how they were visualising this radical reinvention of physics,” Nolan tells Empire, as we visit the director in LA for our world-exclusive new Ahsoka issue. “One of the things that cinema has struggled with historically is the representation of intelligence or genius. It very often fails to engage people.”
There have been many attempts at properly portraying someone’s genius cinematically – think Sherlock Holmes, Hidden Figures, The Theory Of Everything. All take very different approaches to putting a mind at work on screen. “The first person I showed the script to when it was finished after [his producer and wife] Emma [Thomas] read it was Andrew Jackson, the visual effects supervisor,” Nolan recalls. “I said to him, ‘We have to find a way into this guy’s head. We...
- 6/5/2023
- by Sophie Butcher
- Empire - Movies
As has been previously written about in the pages of /Film, filmmaker Christopher Nolan has endeavored to make his new film "Oppenheimer" -- a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the men behind the invention of the atomic bomb -- with a minimum of computer-generated images. Nolan has always been very vocal about his fondness for analog filmmaking, preferring to shoot on physical film and rely as much as he can on practical effects. Nolan has used some CGI throughout his career, but will never be one of those directors who finds themselves filming inside greenscreen environs.
This sense of artistic purity, perhaps alarmingly, led Nolan to recreate nuclear explosions in real life for "Oppenheimer." The director, quite naturally, wasn't about to start exploding actual atomic bombs, but he did want to get real-life explosions on camera. This involved a lot of munitions experimentation, needing to find other, non-nuclear...
This sense of artistic purity, perhaps alarmingly, led Nolan to recreate nuclear explosions in real life for "Oppenheimer." The director, quite naturally, wasn't about to start exploding actual atomic bombs, but he did want to get real-life explosions on camera. This involved a lot of munitions experimentation, needing to find other, non-nuclear...
- 5/23/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Christopher Nolan revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he cast real scientists as extras in “Oppenheimer,” a historical drama about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb. The cast is full of stars such as Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon and Florence Pugh, but Nolan made sure to bring in actual scientists for certain scenes to maintain the film’s authenticity.
“We were in the real Los Alamos and we had a lot of real scientists as extras,” Nolan said. “We needed the crowd of extras to give reactions, and improvise, and we were getting sort of impromptu, very educated speeches. It was really fun to listen to.”
Nolan continued, “You’ve been on sets where you’ve got a lot of extras around and they’re more or less thinking about lunch. These guys were thinking about the...
“We were in the real Los Alamos and we had a lot of real scientists as extras,” Nolan said. “We needed the crowd of extras to give reactions, and improvise, and we were getting sort of impromptu, very educated speeches. It was really fun to listen to.”
Nolan continued, “You’ve been on sets where you’ve got a lot of extras around and they’re more or less thinking about lunch. These guys were thinking about the...
- 5/15/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
In the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming blockbuster Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves Jr. (Matt Damon) asks the question that’s on everyone’s minds: “Are we saying there’s a chance that when we push that button we destroy the world?” Cillian Murphy, who plays the “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer, confidently responds that the chances are “near zero.”
The dialogue exchange sums up the tense dynamic of the film, which centers around Murphy and Damon leading the real-life Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb in a race against the Nazi Germans, who have an 18-month head start on the US. To accomplish that goal, they gather an elite team of scientists and their families, including Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Watch the trailer below.
Nolan stuck with his love for practical effects for Oppenheimer, visually recreating a nuclear...
The dialogue exchange sums up the tense dynamic of the film, which centers around Murphy and Damon leading the real-life Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb in a race against the Nazi Germans, who have an 18-month head start on the US. To accomplish that goal, they gather an elite team of scientists and their families, including Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Watch the trailer below.
Nolan stuck with his love for practical effects for Oppenheimer, visually recreating a nuclear...
- 5/8/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Film News
Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated summer blockbuster is one step closer to exploding onscreen.
The latest trailer for “Oppenheimer” captures the emotional implosion behind the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), as he creates the ultimate weapon amid World War II. Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek, Casey Affleck, Gary Oldman, James Remar, Josh Hartnett, and Alden Ehrenreich also star in the ensemble period piece.
Based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s Oppenheimer biography “American Prometheus,” the film is billed as a character study centered around the Manhattan Project. The 1945 bombings of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people, many of them civilians. Physicist Oppenheimer later became an advocate for controlling nuclear power after creating the atomic bomb.
Lead star Murphy opened up about the film being a “huge responsibility” to accurately represent Oppenheimer’s complexities.
The latest trailer for “Oppenheimer” captures the emotional implosion behind the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), as he creates the ultimate weapon amid World War II. Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek, Casey Affleck, Gary Oldman, James Remar, Josh Hartnett, and Alden Ehrenreich also star in the ensemble period piece.
Based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s Oppenheimer biography “American Prometheus,” the film is billed as a character study centered around the Manhattan Project. The 1945 bombings of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people, many of them civilians. Physicist Oppenheimer later became an advocate for controlling nuclear power after creating the atomic bomb.
Lead star Murphy opened up about the film being a “huge responsibility” to accurately represent Oppenheimer’s complexities.
- 5/8/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
In a media landscape saturated with superheros, one show manages to stand out from the rest. Eric Kripke's "The Boys" follows a ragtag group of human vigilantes in a world where superheroes are not only real, but just as flawed as the rest of us. The Prime Video series is bursting with super-abled people, each of whom possesses a unique set of powers. The fun of the series lies in not only watching what these "supes" can do, but seeing how they inevitably use their abilities for mischief and debauchery.
However, while they're incredibly fun, these powers can be hard to fathom; some are downright confounding. A supe called Termite (Brett Geddes), for example, loses control of his ability to miniaturize when he sneezes, while a hero named Love Sausage (Andrew Jackson) has no discernable power aside from amplified control of his massive ... appendage. And these examples are merely the tip of the iceberg.
However, while they're incredibly fun, these powers can be hard to fathom; some are downright confounding. A supe called Termite (Brett Geddes), for example, loses control of his ability to miniaturize when he sneezes, while a hero named Love Sausage (Andrew Jackson) has no discernable power aside from amplified control of his massive ... appendage. And these examples are merely the tip of the iceberg.
- 3/12/2023
- by Jenn Adams
- Slash Film
Richard Widmark reportedly used his clout to amp up this revisionist western, but the result seems forced at best, and hampered by Universal’s TV-grade production values. The sober screenplay brings in good ideas but the execution can’t quite hold its own with the more progressive westerns of the genre-changing years 1968-’69. A cast of familiar faces makes much of it look fresh: Carroll O’Connor’s venal saloon keeper steals the show, while interesting casting gives us Lena Horne as Widmark’s romantic partner.
Death of a Gunfighter
Region B Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 94 min. / working title Patch / Street Date February 27, 2023 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99
Starring: Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O’Connor, David Opatashu, Kent Smith, Jacqueline Scott, Morgan Woodward, Larry Gates, Dub Taylor, John Saxon, Darleen Carr, Michael McGreevey, Royal Dano, James (Jimmy) Lydon, Kathleen Freeman, Harry Carey Jr., Walter Sande, Victor French.
Cinematography:...
Death of a Gunfighter
Region B Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 94 min. / working title Patch / Street Date February 27, 2023 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99
Starring: Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O’Connor, David Opatashu, Kent Smith, Jacqueline Scott, Morgan Woodward, Larry Gates, Dub Taylor, John Saxon, Darleen Carr, Michael McGreevey, Royal Dano, James (Jimmy) Lydon, Kathleen Freeman, Harry Carey Jr., Walter Sande, Victor French.
Cinematography:...
- 3/7/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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