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Animation is probably the best industry to be in, attractive also! Many people are wanting to get into it because it’s exciting, full of adventures and let’s not forget, super cool! How do you do it? Read below for the route into the industry! • Play around with animation. • Whilst studying in school or … Read more
1. Go Digital While having an official location scout is still necessary for big budget productions, you may be able to virtually scout a location. Using this approach is also useful for doing a preliminary look before you go and see a location in-person. Here’s a few online location tools that you can access from your … Read more
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It seems a little unfair to criticise Marvel Studios, given the Disney-owned production unit’s spectacular success over the past decade. And yet in among the remarkable $1bn-plus box-office returns and critical fervour for movies such as Iron Man 3 and The Avengers, there has been the odd rumbling of discontent from those who have worked … Read more
In the early 1990s, when screenwriter Richard Curtis and producer Duncan Kenworthy were brought together by Working Title to make a film – a mid-budget comedy to be directed by Mike Newell, something about weddings, strong on morning suits, one-liners, obscenity – Curtis made a suggestion. He told Kenworthy: keep bits. Put aside what mementos … Read more
Despite high-profile productions such as Gravity, box office earnings of UK-based films more than $1bn down year-on-year. This year’s Oscars may have been awash with British accents, thanks to the dominance of Gravity and 12 Years a Slave’s best picture win. But the UK’s share of the 2013 global box office actually fell to its … Read more
After the success of True Detective, award-winning film-makers are being lured to TV with the promise of more creative control, Does this herald a new golden age for viewers? There was a time when American movie stars and big-ticket directors wouldn’t touch TV. Now, thanks to hit series such as True Detective, not only movie … Read more
Film company Pinewood is to set up a new studio in Cardiff. The deal was announced today by Wales’s First Minister Carwyn Jones and Pinewood Shepperton chief executive Ivan Dunleavy. A new 180,000 sq ft complex will be established at the former Energy Centre building in Wentloog, Cardiff, and will form part of Pinewood’s global … Read more
“You don’t get very long,” says Tim Webber, VFX (visual effects) supervisor on the blockbuster space thriller Gravity. “Five minutes to talk about it, a 10-minute showreel, and then three minutes of question and answer. When you’ve spent three years on a project, that’s not an awful lot of time to get it across.” Webber … Read more
As someone who was born and grew up in Northern Ireland, I’ve always been aware of the pitfalls of labelling something “British”. I’ve been surprised many times about how messy it gets in the world of film. Everyone remembers Colin Welland’s battle cry when Chariots of Fire triumphed at the Oscars in 1981: “The British … Read more
Keanu Reeves’ samurai flick 47 Ronin looks set to emerge as one of the biggest box-office bombs of 2013 after the $175m (£106m) film took just $7m in its US debut over the Christmas period. Variety reports that Hollywood studio Universal is poised to write off huge losses on Carl Rinsch’s film, which had already … Read more
At one time it was the game industry that wanted to emulate films. But now the movie industry is adopting the technology of video games amid the debate about television stealing the film industry’s thunder, another entertainment form has crept up unnoticed, further threatening Hollywood’s creative hegemony: video games. With a new, much more powerful … Read more
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