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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis
“He is an entertainer. Everything is made for audiences to experience larger than life,” Mandy Walker ACS ASC, the director of photography, is talking about Baz Luhrmann, the director of Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet but Elvis is now in the building.
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Stranger Things 4 - Behind The Scenes
Caleb Heymann tells IBC365 about the visual direction for the Duffer Brothers’ epic horror fantasy.
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Top Gun: Maverick – behind the scenes
Having raced motorcycles, been strapped outside an Airbus 400 at lift-off, put a helicopter into a controlled spin and signed on to film aboard the ISS, there was no way Tom Cruise was going to be chromakeyed into a F/A 18 jet for his return as Top Gun: Maverick.
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Behind The Scenes: Everything Everywhere All At Once
The idea that we can overcome nihilism by embracing kindness is a beautiful concept, explains editor Paul Rogers
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Behind The Scenes: Heartstopper
Hollyoaks with an art school twist: DOP Diana Olifirova explains how Netflix teen drama Heartstopper wears its heart on its sleeve.
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Editors Assemble: Cutting Hawkeye as a collaborative team
With three directors and crushing deadlines to contend with on Marvel’s limited series about heroic archers, as well as a pandemic to boot, how did the three editors on Hawkeye manage to tell such an enthralling, cohesive story?
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Behind the scenes: 1899
The Netflix drama, shot on a volume stage with revolving turntable, is the new blueprint for episodic virtual production.
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Craft Leaders: Cinematographer Ari Wegner: Ways of seeing
The Academy has only ever nominated two female cinematographers in its 94-year history. This month, Ari Wegner ACS could make history by being the first to win. IBC365 spoke with her.
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Behind the Best VFX Oscar Nominations
Bond, Dune and Spider-Man – the three blockbusters that did most to lure punters back to the cinema – all get nods alongside two Disney films
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Behind the Scenes: The French Dispatch
Transforming Wes Anderson’s idiosyncratic aesthetic into a visually consistent physical format presented a series of challenges for the film’s production designer and director of photography.
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Behind the scenes: Springwatch
As the broadcast of BBC’s seasonal wildlife show Springwatch comes to an end, IBC365 looks at how the live show was produced despite Covid-19 restrictions.
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Behind the scenes: Da 5 Bloods
With racial tensions heightening in the US, IBC365 goes behind the scenes of Spike Lee’s return to Vietnam, which sets the record straight on the white-washed reporting of the war and draws explicit parallels with the rise of fascism today.
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Behind the scenes: Avatar 2 and 3
Avatar broke technical boundaries and commercial records in 2009 by bringing digital 3D into the light. Can history repeat itself with James Cameron’s four sequels currently in production?
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Behind the scenes: Isolation Stories
Coronavirus lockdown has put a halt to productions worldwide. But with Isolation Stories ITV Studios has created a novel drama shoot where the cast and crew maintained social distancing. Adrian Pennington investigates.
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Behind the scenes: Jojo Rabbit
Jojo, a normal kid with a vivid imagination, an absent father and a need to fit in, settles on a pretend friend in the form of Adolf Hitler. In filmmaker Taika Waititi’s World War II satire, this fantasy is experienced as a matter of fact. “The main thing was ...
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Behind the scenes: Cats
From page to stage to screen, how director Tom Hooper and DP Christopher Ross transmogrified the megamusical
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Behind the scenes: The Irishman
Martin Scorsese’s new crime drama sees the Goodfellas director reunite with Robert De Niro. Adrian Pennington spoke to Rodrigo Prieto about shooting a tale that spans six decades.
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Behind the scenes: War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds started on the radio, but the sound is just as important in the latest small screen turn of the HG Wells classic. Adrian Pennington goes behind the scenes of the audio behind the BBC’s new TV adaptation.
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Craft Leaders: Edward Norton, filmmaker
Edward Norton has planned to adapt Motherless Brooklyn for over 20 years. But the actor, director and producer has been quite busy, he tells Adrian Pennington, as the film hits US screens.
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Behind the scenes: Diego Maradona
Editor Chris King and director Asif Kapadia tackle Argentina’s footballing enigma, Diego Maradona, in this documentary which comes to DVD this month
