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Camerimage: ‘The New Boy’ Claims Golden Frog
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‘Ferrari’ Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt on Filming the Drama’s Intense Race Scenes
The Oscar-winning DP of 'Mank' combined aggressive action sequences with a painterly look for the Italian automaker’s personal story.
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Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards: Kevin Haney, Ora T. Green to Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards
Make-up artist Haney ('Driving Miss Daisy') and hair stylist Green ('Star Trek: Nemesis') will be honored at the 11th MUAHS Awards.
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Film Academy CEO Bill Kramer Sees “Great Possibilities” for Camerimage Partnership
The head of the Motion Picture Academy discussed programming opportunities between the Academy Museum and the European Film Center Camerimage, which is now under construction in Toruń, Poland.
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Camerimage: ‘The New Boy’ Claims Golden Frog
The New Boy — the story of a young Aboriginal Australian orphan boy that was written, directed and lensed by Warwick Thornton — collected the Golden Frog in the main competition of the 31st EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival, which closed Saturday night in Torún, Poland. Cinematographer Ed Lachman received the Silver Frog for Pablo […]
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‘Ferrari’ Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt on Filming the Drama’s Intense Race Scenes
There was significant pressure on the day in which director Michael Mann and his team filmed the violent car crash from the 1957 Mille Miglia race for his upcoming film Ferrari. “We only had one shot at it,” says cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, explaining that the special effects team created and rigged a single self-driving car […]
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Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards: Kevin Haney, Ora T. Green to Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards
Kevin Haney, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning make-up artist with credits from Driving Miss Daisy to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3; and Ora T. Green, an Emmy-nominated hair stylist whose work includes Star Trek: Nemesis and Blade, will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards Feb. 18 during the 11th annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards. […]
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Film Academy CEO Bill Kramer Sees “Great Possibilities” for Camerimage Partnership
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer “absolutely sees great possibilities” in a collaboration between the Academy and its Academy Museum with Camerimage, which recently broke ground on a new European Film Center in the Polish festival’s host city of Toruń. Kramer participated in a Wednesday panel about building cultural centers such […]
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Camerimage: Willem Dafoe On Working With ‘Poor Things’ Helmer Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Six Hours in the Makeup Chair
With the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, Willem Dafoe came to the 31st EnergaCamerimage to support director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, which opened the international cinematography film festival this week in Torun, Poland. During the event, the actor sat down for a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, to discuss the adaptation of the 1992 novel […]
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‘Barbie’ Collects Color Grading Honor at Camerimage
The candy-colored look of Barbie delivered colorist Yvan Lucas of Company 3 the FilmLight Color Award for a theatrical feature. The third annual awards — organized by FilmLight, the maker of the Baselight color grading system, in collaboration with Camerimage — were presented Sunday at the EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival in Toruń, Poland. From roughly 400 […]
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Cinematographer John Bailey Remembered During Camerimage Opening Ceremony
There was an emotional start to the 31st EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival as news spread that John Bailey — the cinematographer behind films such as Ordinary People, The Big Chill and As Good As It Gets, and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — died Friday at age 81. During […]
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From ‘Barbie’ to Scorsese: Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto on Nailing Different Visual Styles
Veteran cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s versatility could not be more evident than in his most recent work, which called for filming a 1920s Osage Nation in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and shooting the candy-colored Barbie Land of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Born in Mexico City to a bicultural family (his mom is an American […]
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Avid CEO to Retire During the First Half of 2024
Avid CEO Jeff Rosica revealed his plans to take an early retirement from the tech developer during the first half of 2024, during a quarterly company meeting on Thursday, just days after Avid was acquired for $1.4 billion by an affiliate of private equity firm STG. The maker of the Media Composer editing system and […]
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‘The Marvels’ to Take Over Las Vegas Sphere (Exclusive)
For those who are not attending tonight’s The Marvels premiere in Las Vegas, Goose — the cat-like alien creature that appeared in Captain Marvel and returns in The Marvels — will tower over the city’s skyline on the exterior of the recently-opened Sphere. The promo is a collaboration between software developer Autodesk and Marvel, and […]
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Private Equity Firm STG Completes Acquisition of Avid for $1.4B
An affiliate of private equity firm STG has completed the acquisition of Avid Technology — the maker of the Media Composer editing system and Pro Tools audio postproduction system, both leading tools used in Hollywood for picture editing and sound, respectively — in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, […]
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‘Chicken For Linda!’ Wins Animation Is Film Festival’s Grand Prize
Indie feature Chicken For Linda!, directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach, claimed the grand prize and audience award for the sixth edition of the Animation Is Film Festival, which wrapped last weekend in Hollywood. Also announced on Wednesday, Robot Dreams, which will be released by Neon, took home the special jury prize. For the […]
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VFX Pros Debate AI’s Impact On Jobs, Contracts and Creativity in ‘Behind the Screen’ Podcast
Digital artists and visual effects pros acknowledge that artificial intelligence-driven tools can contribute to the creative process. But they lament that jobs will be lost, ethics will be challenged, and it could lead to a “dehumanization of art” in a new episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s podcast series Behind the Screen. The episode is an […]
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Emmy Winner Thomas Walsh to Trace Early History of Art Direction Through Ben Carre Doc
Emmy-winning production designer and a past president of the Art Directors Guild Thomas Walsh is in prepro and raising funds to make a documentary about pioneering art director and painter Ben Carré (1883-1978), whose little-known story, which begins in Paris with the invention of motion pictures, also serves as an early history of his art […]
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‘Barbie,’ ‘Asteroid City’ Among FilmLight Color Grading Award Nominees
Color grading system developer FilmLight announced the nominees for its Color Awards, which recognize the work of colorists on movies, TV and short-form content. In their third year, the competition attracted roughly 400 entries. Winners, which will be selected by a jury led by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lawrence Sher (Joker), will be announced Nov. 12 at […]
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Among Films in Camerimage Main Competition
Killers of the Flower Moon, All of Us Strangers and Black Flies will be part of the main competition at this year’s EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival. Martin Scorsese’s 1920s-set Killers, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, tracks suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people […]
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