Veteran visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin, who won Oscars for his work on Christopher Nolan films “Interstellar” and “Inception,” has joined VFX and technology company beloFX as creative director. Earlier, he spent 25 years at VFX giant DNEG, the company he co-founded in 1998. In joining beloFX, he’s reuniting with fellow DNEG co-founders Matt Holben […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers about the ending of “Venom: The Last Dance,” now playing in theaters. Since the title of “Venom: The Last Dance” was revealed, fans have been wondering if the threequel really is the curtain call for Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock and his Spider-Man symbiote. Hardy and director Kelly Marcel […]

Samuel L. Jackson was honored Thursday at the Museum of Modern’s 2024 Film Benefit in New York City. “I’ve always believed that cinema has been and continues to be a powerful medium, transcends language, shifts societal paradigms and pushes us as audience and artist to see the world from the perspectives of others as we […]

Mexico’s official entry to the Oscars, “Sujo,” made a sweep of the 22nd Morelia Int’l Film Festival (FICM), winning the festival’s Ojo Awards for Best Film, Director and Screenplay. Co-helmer-scribes Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, whose debut pic “Identifying Features” won a couple of Sundance awards and took the Best International Feature prize at the […]

The Forge has acquired North American rights to Guan Hu’s Cannes award winner “Black Dog,” and worldwide distribution rights to Alison Tavel’s “Resynator,” which won best documentary feature at South by Southwest. The Forge also recently acquired North American rights for French horror-comedy “The Balconettes,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and plays the […]

As technological advances make even more astonishing imagery possible for many of the leading contenders in the animated feature Oscar race, they’re still leaning toward the skilled hands of the artisans who’ve mastered their craft and away from AI or machine learning. While some may use machine learning — a type of AI — in […]

In Hollywood, most movies tell stories. But not “Here.” Adapted from a conceptual graphic novel by Richard McGuire where the perspective is the same on every page — the living room of a century-old American house — while windows within each frame reveal actions from different years, if not entirely separate epochs, “Here” is about […]