“Comedy is serious business,” deadpans Michael L. Fink, visual effects supervisor on Ben Stiller’s outrageous new comedy, Tropic Thunder. And Fink should know. An Academy Award winner for his work on last year’s The Golden Compass, Fink has supervised everything from X2 to Wargames, but Tropic Thunder was the proverbial glass of cold water in his veteran’s face.
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Stan Winston, the Oscar-winning special effects, creature and makeup artist whose innovative creations include the full-scale animatronic dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” and the futuristic Terminators, has died. He was 62.
Winston died Sunday at his home in Malibu after a seven-year battle with myeloma, a Stan Winston Studio spokeswoman said.
During a film and TV career that […]

 
Joe Letteri has been behind the scenes on some of the biggest movies in the 90s and into the 21st Century. From his first job on The Abyss to The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord Of The Rings: The Return of The King to King Kong, Letteri has been involved […]

 
The poster for Paramount Pictures’ Cloverfield depicts the Statue of Liberty standing headless, following a monster’s attack on New York City. The image echoes the graphic of the severed head of Miss Liberty that adorned the movie poster for 1981’s Escape From New York — an image that made a lasting impression on Cloverfield producer […]

The rushing floodwaters in Evan Almighty, the heaving seas of the latter two Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the dragon’s flaming breath in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire all featured computer-generated fluids in spectacular action. The science behind those splashy thrills will be recognized Feb. 9 with an Academy Award for Ron […]

 
If the visual effects industry had its way, the Disney tentpole that sailed into theaters May 25 might have been named “Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wits’ End.”
Industrial Light & Magic topper Chrissie England, who’s seen many blockbusters come through her shop, calls the editing/post-production race to the pic’s delivery deadline “about the scariest […]

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The Visual Effects Society has announced the results of the VES 50: The Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Time, which was determined by a vote of VES members.  Star Wars claimed the top spot as the most influential effects movie ever and with good reason. It was the turning point for most effects […]