Tag: Ridley Scott
Fox Innovation Lab Developing ‘Alien: Covenant’ VR Experience
The Fox Innovation Lab at 20th Century Fox, RSA Films and MPC VR (a Technicolor Company) are joining forces to develop a suspenseful virtual...
Marvel Studios EVP Victoria Alonso Receiving VES Visionary Award
The Visual Effects Society has named acclaimed producer and Marvel Studios Executive Vice President of Physical Production, Victoria Alonso as the next recipient of...
MPC to Showcase FX of ‘Jungle Book,’ ‘Martian’ at FMX
Visual effects house MPC is getting ready for the 2016 FMX event in Stuttgart, taking place April 25-29, with plans to showcase some of...
Oscars Go Indie for Animated Feature Noms
The Academy decided to go indie this year, deviating from most of the season’s other awards choices and nominating only one major studio feature...
Ridley Scott Earns VES Lifetime Achievement Honor
The Visual Effects Society will honor multiple award-winning director-producer Sir Ridley Scott with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his enormous contributions...
‘Hobbit’ Finale Slays B.O. Competition
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies demolished the competition at the box office with a $56 million weekend that brings the Wednesday-opening...
‘Hobbit’ Opens Strong Abroad; ‘Exodus’ Tops Domestic
The visual-effects epics dominated the weekend box office in a relatively quiet week prior to the holiday surge The Hobbit: The Battle of the...
Ridley Scott to Receive VES Lifetime Award
The Visual Effects Society has named multi-award winning director and producer Ridley Scott as its 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, in recognition of his...
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...
Disney Finds Purrfect Bagheera in Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, the celebrated British actor best known for his roles in Gandhi and Schindler's List, has been tapped by Disney to provide...
‘Alien’ Artist H.R. Giger Dies at 74
Swiss surrealist artist Hans Ruedi Giger, better known as H.R. Giger, died at age 74 Monday after being hospitalized for a fall down the...
Double Negative Opens New TV Branch
VFX company Double Negative has launched Double Negative TV, a new division of Dneg dedicated to visual effects creation for television.
Dneg TV will be...
Previz House Proof Adds Katie Wells as Exec Producer
Leading pre-visualization house Proof Inc. has hired Katie Wells as executive producer.
Wells will manage the company's ongoing expansion and work closely with visual effects supervisors...
Italian VFX Artist Carlo Rambaldi Dies at 86
We were saddened by the recent death of Italian special effects wizard Carlo Rambaldi, who is best known for this work on Steven Spielberg’s...
‘Madagascar 3' Rules the Box Office Again
The traveling Zoosters of DreamWorks' Madagascar 3 showed some excellent staying power this weekend, landing at the No. 1 spot for the second week...
‘Madagascar 3' Zoosters Roar with $60.4 Mil. Weekend
The third time was a charm for the lovable animals of DreamWorks' Madagascar franchise as the movie scored an impressive $60.4 million at the...
Welcome to the ‘Madagascar 3' Vs. ‘Prometheus’ Weekend
DreamWorks Animation will find out whether audiences are hungry for more madcap adventures featuring the Bronx Zoo buddies of Madagascar 3 this weekend. The...
‘Men in Black 3' Debut Tops ‘Avengers’ Over Holiday Weekend
It took a vintage comic book movie franchise to topple the Avengers from its box office throne.
Men in Black 3 — arriving a decade...
‘Blade Runner’ Scribe Working on a Sequel
While Ridley Scott’s Alien quasi-sequel Prometheus has built a huge fan base even before its June release, there’s news today about another beloved Scott...
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