While young Simba was working on his roar in the new âLion King,â his designers and animators were laboring over a good deal more. All the hairs on the cubâs body, the detailed color patterns of his fur and the movement of his little legs through the savanna were the efforts of a Pride Rock-size army of visual effects artists.
One scene in the new Transformers movie âBumblebeeâ finds the title character alone in a house. His teen caregiver (Hailee Steinfeld) has been hiding him in the garage, but he finds his way out, touching everything he shouldnât and, because heâs giant and metal, causing a lot of inadvertent destruction. This bumbling, charming moment plays out as it might in a classic animated comedy, not in a high-stakes action movie.
The South by Southwest Film Festival has chosen one of this springâs most anticipated movies for its opening night: Jordan Peeleâs new horror thriller, âUs.â The directorâs follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2017 hit âGet Outâ follows a family (headed by âBlack Pantherâ veterans Lupita Nyongâo and Winston Duke) terrorized by what seem to be evil doppelgĂ€ngers of themselves. The filmâs trailer, which debuted Christmas Day, has been discussed and analyzed by fans on social media for clues to the pl...
As I was watching the new animated film âWonder Park,â about a young girlâs imagined amusement park come to life, I wasnât buying the physics of a roller coaster. âThe hills are way too high and steep,â I thought, âthe curves too sharp.â And for a moment, it was lost on me that I was analyzing something carrying a giant blue talking bear.
As the director of elaborate fantasy epics like the âLord of the Ringsâ and âHobbitâ trilogies, Peter Jackson has become known for meticulous attention to detail. Now he has put the same amount of care into making a documentary.
As the director of elaborate fantasy epics like the âLord of the Ringsâ and âHobbitâ trilogies, Peter Jackson has become known for meticulous attention to detail. Now he has put the same amount of care into making a documentary.
AUSTIN, Texas â Surprises abounded at this yearâs South by Southwest film festival, with movies featuring depraved demons, devilish doppelgĂ€ngers and sadistic senseis all doing despicable things.
AUSTIN, Texas â When Jordan Peele took the stage to present the world premiere of his new horror film, âUs,â at South by Southwest, he had jokes.
Mission accomplished for comedian, actor and musician Jon Lajoie, who was asked to write a movie song that would elicit mixed feelings: âmaybe 49 percent annoying and 51 percent fun to listen to,â he said.
Beachler found out about the nomination â one of seven for âBlack Pantherâ â while working on set in Cincinnati for Todd Haynesâ latest feature.
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