Tag: Godzilla
Imageworks Vancouver Announces Key Hires
Randy Lake, president of Oscar-winning VFX and animation studio Sony Pictures Imageworks, has announced four new hires for the Sony Pictures Ent. unit’s Vancouver...
Lucasfilm Taps Rob Bredow as CTO
Lucasfilm has promoted Rob Bredow to the position of Chief Technology Officer, the production company’s General Manager Lynwen Brennan announced today. Bredow joined Lucasfilm’s...
VFX Veteran Richard Cook Directing ‘All Things’
Richard J. Cook, whose visual effects credits include Godzilla (1998), Independence Day and Star Trek: First Contact, has announced he is directing and producing...
Oscar Watch: Best Visual Effects Contenders
The short list of visual effects films that will head to the annual bake-off won't be known until early in December, but the race...
Academy Reveals 10 VFX Contenders
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the...
Tom Hiddleston to Star in ‘Skull Island’
Legendary Pictures has tapped Tom Hiddleston -- beloved by fans for his portrayals of Loki in the Thor and Avengers flicks -- to star...
‘South Park,’ ‘Godzilla’ Giants Among Video Releases
Two giants of animation and visual-effects stomp their way home today with major releases for Godzilla and the kids of South Park.
South Park: The...
‘Godzilla 2’ Coming in 2018
The giant monster madness will continue thanks to super sized box-office results, with Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures announcing they have slated a sequel...
SIGGRAPH 2014: Vancouver, BC
SIGGRAPH 2014: Vancouver, BC - August 10-14, Vancouver Convention Center, s2014.siggraph.org
Hey, Big Speakers
Keynote: Elliot Kotek, co-founder of Not Impossible Labs
Kotek's organization utilizes crowdsourcing to...
MPC Presenting on Blockbuster VFX at SIGGRAPH
Top feature visual effects house MPC will be celebrating a year's worth of major movie spectacle at SIGGRAPH next week, teaming up with releasing...
‘Transformers’ Opening Hits $100 Million
It looks like the robots in disguise's real talent is to transform a movie into a money-making machine.
Transformers: Age of Extinction became the first...
‘Dragon 2’ Hangs in With Hit Comedies
It was crowded at the top for this weekend's box office results, with the top three features finishing within $5 million of each other...
Comedy ‘Jumps’ ‘Dragon 2’ at Box Office
It was a big weekend at the box office, with two dueling sequels entering the fray with big hopes. In the end, the chips...
‘Stars’ Block ‘Maleficent’ B.O. Repeat
Tears beat fears this weekend as the debut of The Fault in Our Stars pushed Angelina Jolie's Maleficent back to second place with a...
Building a Better Godzilla
Effects crew emphasizes the drama in the classic monster design for director Gareth Edwards' reboot of Japan's most famous feature creature.
Director Gareth Edwards' transition...
‘Maleficent’ Easily Defeats Fox’s ‘X-Men’
Who says the "bad guys" never win?
Maleficent, Disney's much-anticipated live-action take on the Sleeping Beauty tale told from the antagonist's perspective, rocked the box...
‘X-Men’ Soars; ‘Frozen’ Now No. 5 of All Time
Marvel's merry mutants ruled the box office this weekend, as expected, while Disney's Frozen moved up another step on the list of all-time highest...
‘Godzilla’s’ Edwards Directing Stand-Alone ‘Star Wars’
Disney and Lucasfilm announced that Gareth Edwards, director of the current hit Godzilla, will direct the first stand-alone Star Wars film, with a screenplay...
‘Godzilla’ Goes Big for $93M Opening
It was a huge weekend for Godzilla, as the most-recent re-imagining of the classic Japanese monster franchise scored the year's biggest debut to date...
Everything Old is New Again, Part 2: ‘Godzilla’
In a summer filled with old, familiar characters getting high-tech, big-budget, cinematic reboots, the venerable Godzilla looks to stand fire-breathing-head-and-shoulders above just about everyone....
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