The Visual Effects Society has composited its first group of 2023 honorees.
05.08.2023 - 00:37 / deadline.com
In a new live-event series, Apple TV+ and Deadline are kicking off Visual Effects + Screen this Sunday, Aug. 6, at 2PM at the Pickford Center for Motion Pictures Study in Los Angeles. The event will delve into the VFX process on Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, Silo, Foundation and Five Days at Memorial.
Attendees will be able to see for themselves how the elaborate effects were created and hear insights and stories from such panelists as VFX Compositing Supervisor Bill Parker, who received his third career Emmy nomination this year on Ted Lasso for the episode “Mom City” in the Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode. Parker received two previous Emmy noms for his work on The Man in the High Castle in 2017 and 2019.
Eric Durst will sit down with us to break down his Emmy-nominated work in the mini-series, Five Days at Memorial, based on actual events of Hurricane Katrina. Durst is nominated for the episode “Day Two” in the Primetime Emmy category of Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode. Durst’s credits include Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, Knight & Day, Spider-Man 2, NatGeo’s Genius for which he received an Emmy nomination, as well as HBO’s Perry Mason, Netflix’s Messiah and AMC’s The Terror.
Daniel Rauchwerger, VFX Supervisor, will take us into the world of Apple TV+’s most watched sci-fi drama, Silo. His credits include the Wonder Woman franchise, Inception, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, F9 among several other pics.
Chris MacLean, the VFX Supervisor on the Josh Friedman-David S. Goyer created sci-fi series Foundation, will transport us through the galaxy of the series, whose second season is now streaming. MacLean earned an Emmy nom last year for his work on Foundation in
The Visual Effects Society has composited its first group of 2023 honorees.
Scandoval drama having reached its peak months ago, it seems that exes Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval aren't opposed to being in the same room together. Especially if it's for a good cause.Madix, 38, and Sandoval, 40, were both in attendance at Lisa Vanderpump's chairty fundraiser event — held at her restaurant, Sur, on Tuesday — where cameras were reportedly rolling amid production on season 11.However, despite both showing up to support the charity event — which raised money for Maui Wildfire Relief — Madix and Sandoval did not actually seem to converse, and didn't appear together in any photos at the event.Madix stunned in an all-black ensemble for the party, and reportedly arrived with a male friend.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The European Film Academy has fired the starting gun in the race for the European Film Awards. It has recommended 19 films to its members who will then select the nominees from this list.
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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Keeping that in mind, there I was once again backstage last year in the press room when I realized that no one else was going to ask a similar question to the “Ted Lasso” cast and producers. Having won back-to-back Emmys for outstanding comedy, “Ted Lasso” was on a roll. And yet, there were already signals that “Ted Lasso” might wrap after a third and final season.
Sophia Scorziello editor This season, television was pushed to its limits and into spaces that teetered genres and kept audiences guessing. From an improv show about a fake court trial to mockumentaries about public schools and vampires, a sci-fi drama about nuns, the 2023 Emmy nominations were a grab bag full of interesting television, and artisans helped take them even further.
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The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled its Short Cuts showcase counting 42 live action narrative, documentary, and animated shorts from global filmmakers repping 23 countries.
Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of Hurricane Katrina, there wasn’t a lot of archival footage of some of the more devastating moments that producers wanted to depict in Five Days of Memorial — like when the roof came off the Superdome and the 9th Ward flooding. So VFX Supervisor Eric Durst (Snowpiercer, Perry Mason) said his team went back “forensically” to research those moments before depicting them in the Apple TV limited series.
“We kind of live in Candy Mountain on Foundation, because visual effects has such an important role in the show,” said VFX supervisor Chris MacLean at Apple TV+ and Deadline’s Visual Effects + Screen event.
Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of Hurricane Katrina, there wasn’t a lot of archival footage of some of the more devastating moments that producers wanted to depict in Five Days of Memorial — like when the roof came off the Superdome and the 9th Ward flooding. So VFX Supervisor Eric Durst (Snowpiercer, Perry Mason) said his team went back “forensically” to research those moments before depicting them in the Apple TV limited series.
“[Crowd work] has sort of been a staple thing in VFX for a long time, but I think one of the things that made our show sort of different was the volume and quantity of shots that needed to be done,” said Ted Lasso VFX compositing supervisor Bill Parker at Apple TV+ and Deadline’s Visual Effects + Screen event today.
Before VFX Supervisor Daniel Rauchwerger began his work on Apple TV’s Silo, he was told the actual siulo should be treated like a character — not a massive structure where 10,000 are forced to live.
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With just weeks left to go until the return of Strictly Come Dancing for its 21st season, the first celebrity revealed to be competing in the 2023 series was announced on Friday as Amanda Abbington. Announcing the news on BBC’s The One Show, a delighted Alex Jones revealed that Amanda would be taking part in the show, as she said: “I’m really excited and incredibly nervous!” Amanda is well known for her role as John Watson’s wife in the BBC series Sherlock, with the popular star having been keen to participate in the show for a number of years before finally getting the chance to compete in hopes of securing the coveted glitter ball trophy.
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William Earl Variety has announced the programming for its inaugural Creative Collaborations: The Nominees brunch, featuring two panels with the contending directors and artisans behind the year’s top TV series. The invite-only brunch will take place in Los Angeles on Aug.
TIFF has announced the ten titles in its Platform programme, a sidebar which will be teed off by the A24 Kristoffer Borgli comedy Dream Scenario starring Oscar winner Nicolas Cage. This year’s Platform includes movies from 12 countries across three continents, all of which are making their world premiere at TIFF.