Visual effects are often synonymous with fantasy series and science-fiction dramas, and it’s not very often a science-fiction comedy presents itself, so VFX supervisor Peter Crosman was quite chuffed to be offered the opportunity to create the digital world-building of HBO Max’s strangely timely “Made for Love.” Says Crosman: “I’d just come back from doing HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones,” which is also a quirky show, so I have quite a bit of quirky dark humor in my background which I’m delighted to say.”
The series, based on a book also written by its showrunner Alissa Nutting that lifts some elements indirectly through her own experiences, depicts the aftermath of the marriage of Byron and Hazel Gogol (Billy Magnussen and Cristin Milioti), a tech genius and his wife, seen beatifically in promos and press blitzes, but harboring a dark secret: she has been microchipped for tracking...
The series, based on a book also written by its showrunner Alissa Nutting that lifts some elements indirectly through her own experiences, depicts the aftermath of the marriage of Byron and Hazel Gogol (Billy Magnussen and Cristin Milioti), a tech genius and his wife, seen beatifically in promos and press blitzes, but harboring a dark secret: she has been microchipped for tracking...
- 6/15/2021
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
Announcing the nominees for their 16th annual Ves Awards, the Visual Effects Society brought welcome news for Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049” and Matt Reeves’s “War for the Planet of the Apes,” each up for seven statuettes. “Despicable Me 3” is the most-nominated animated film of the year (5), while the most-honored title overall is “Game of Thrones” (11).
The 21-year-old organization consists of 3,400-plus members in 35 nations. Each year, it recognizes visual effects innovators in film, animation, television, commercials, and video games.
In 2017, Disney’s “The Jungle Book” remake claimed five Ves trophies, more than any other feature (nominations leader “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was shutout). It’s director-producer, Jon Favreau, will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award; Weta Digital director and four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri will accept the Georges Méliès Award, named for the late French illusionist and filmmaker. Letteri is also a nominee...
The 21-year-old organization consists of 3,400-plus members in 35 nations. Each year, it recognizes visual effects innovators in film, animation, television, commercials, and video games.
In 2017, Disney’s “The Jungle Book” remake claimed five Ves trophies, more than any other feature (nominations leader “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was shutout). It’s director-producer, Jon Favreau, will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award; Weta Digital director and four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri will accept the Georges Méliès Award, named for the late French illusionist and filmmaker. Letteri is also a nominee...
- 1/16/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
"The Adventures of Tintin" dominated the nominations but it was "Rango" that received the most trophies at the 10th Visual Effects Society (Ves) awards. Stan Lee received the the Lifetime Achievement Award and visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull received the George Melies Award. Patton Oswalt hosted the event held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Antonion Banderas, Lou Ferrigno, director Chris Miller, Marc Webb, and Jennifer Yuh Nelson presented awards. But the surprise appearance by Martin Scorsese was the highlight of the evening.
Here's the full list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 10th Annual Ves Awards, to visit our Awards Avenue coverage of other award-giving bodies, winners and nominees, click here:
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture
Captain America: The First Avenger
Charlie Noble
Mark Soper
Christopher Townsend
Edson Williams
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Tim Burke
Emma Norton
John Richardson
David Vickery...
Here's the full list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 10th Annual Ves Awards, to visit our Awards Avenue coverage of other award-giving bodies, winners and nominees, click here:
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture
Captain America: The First Avenger
Charlie Noble
Mark Soper
Christopher Townsend
Edson Williams
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Tim Burke
Emma Norton
John Richardson
David Vickery...
- 2/9/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The visual effects that we are seeing in movies these days are absolutely mind blowing. At this point it doesn't seem like there's any excuse for a film to have bad visual effects unless the people hired lack talent, or the studio is keeping the cash in their pockets.
There's a lot of good nomination this year such as Captain America, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Out of all of these I think that Planet of the Apes might take home the top prize, those apes were incredibly freaky looking. Weta did an amazing job with this movie, and out of all the other nominations this was the movie I was most impressed by. What are your thoughts? What movie did you think have the best visual effect in 2011?
Here's the full press release with all of the nominations:
Los Angeles,...
There's a lot of good nomination this year such as Captain America, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Out of all of these I think that Planet of the Apes might take home the top prize, those apes were incredibly freaky looking. Weta did an amazing job with this movie, and out of all the other nominations this was the movie I was most impressed by. What are your thoughts? What movie did you think have the best visual effect in 2011?
Here's the full press release with all of the nominations:
Los Angeles,...
- 1/9/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
By Sean O’Connell
hollywoodnews.com: Over the weekend, the Visual Effects Society announced the nominees for its 10th Annual Ves Awards ceremony, recognizing summer tentpoles (“Harry Potter,” “Captain America”) and surprise hits (“Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” “Hugo”) for their outstanding visual effects artistry in 23 categories of film, animation, television, commercials, special venues and video games.
“The standard of the creative work that is being considered this year is unbelievably high across all categories,” said Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society. “The judges faced a huge challenge because all of the work was so far above the norm. We’re honored to have the opportunity to focus the spotlight on the outstanding work that has contributed to some of the highest grossing films and broadcast projects of all time.”
As previously announced, Stan Lee will be honored with the Ves 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award and...
hollywoodnews.com: Over the weekend, the Visual Effects Society announced the nominees for its 10th Annual Ves Awards ceremony, recognizing summer tentpoles (“Harry Potter,” “Captain America”) and surprise hits (“Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” “Hugo”) for their outstanding visual effects artistry in 23 categories of film, animation, television, commercials, special venues and video games.
“The standard of the creative work that is being considered this year is unbelievably high across all categories,” said Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society. “The judges faced a huge challenge because all of the work was so far above the norm. We’re honored to have the opportunity to focus the spotlight on the outstanding work that has contributed to some of the highest grossing films and broadcast projects of all time.”
As previously announced, Stan Lee will be honored with the Ves 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award and...
- 1/9/2012
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
It's been three dozen years since Fred MacMurray first invented that notorious flying rubber in the guise of "The Absent-Minded Professor".
Now, Robin Williams does the honors in "Flubber", with a little refurbishing from John Hughes in the script department and from Industrial Light & Magic in the special-effects department.
Those fun Flubber sequences aside, this latest Disney dust-off has surprisingly little bounce. Both Hughes' uninspired update and Les Mayfield's direction lack zip, while even the usually irrepressible Williams appears relatively sedated.
Given its hefty marketing and merchandising push, the green stuff should nevertheless generate some green stuff at the boxoffice, but "Flubber" will likely fall short of hitting blockbuster heights.
The story remains basically the same. Professor Brainard (Williams) has been so distracted by his formulas and calculations that he's left his sweetheart Sara Marcia Gay Harden) alone at the altar for the third and final time.
But he's hoping the reason for his latest no-show -- the creation of the amazing material that will come to be known as Flubber -- will change Sara's mind, particularly when it could be the answer to Medfield College's serious financial problems; she just happens to be the institution's president.
As Brainard tries to win his way back into Sara's heart, he encounters competition in the form of her smarmy colleague, Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald). Worse, when the spoiled son (Wil Wheaton) of the college's sinister financier (Raymond Barry) fails Brainard's course, his father sends hired goons Smith (Clancy Brown) and Wesson (Ted Levine) to snatch the Flubber from the professor's lab.
Given a great chance to reconceptualize material that, while regarded with warm nostalgia, certainly allowed ample room for improvement, Hughes frankly flubbed it.
Among the few changes from the original Bill Walsh script was replacing Brainard's trusty canine sidekick with a flying robot called WEEBO (voiced by Jodi Benson). The rest of the picture, when not cribbing from Hughes' own "Home Alone", manages to recall elements of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", "Gremlins", "Back to the Future" and "The Mask" (during a Flubber mambo sequence), to name a few inspirations. Mayfield ("Miracle on 34th Street"), meanwhile, brings little imagination to such memorable "Absent-Minded Professor" bits as flying car trips and a Flubberized basketball game, both of which are disappointingly flat.
That leaves Williams to carry the picture, and even his energy seems muted. Perhaps he was too busy concentrating on his tricky sight lines (the computer-generated Flubber sequences were added later).
Fortunately, the gooey lime element delivers. The new, improved substance has a full-throttle personality all its own, and those rebounding, 3-D ILM sequences are a crowd-pleasing delight.
If only Mayfield, Hughes and Williams had chosen to follow Flubber's unstoppable lead.
FLUBBER
Buena Vista
Walt Disney Pictures presents
A Great Oaks production
Director: Les Mayfield
Producers: John Hughes, Ricardo Mestres
Screenwriters: John Hughes, Bill Walsh
Executive producer: David Nicksay
Director of photography: Dean Cundey
Production designer: Andrew McAlpine
Editors: Harvey Rosenstock, Michael Stevenson
Visual effects supervisors: Peter Crosman,
Tom Bertino, Douglas Hans Smith
Costume designer: April Ferry
Music: Danny Elfman
Casting: Nancy Foy
Color/stereo
Cast:
Professor Phillip Brainard: Robin Williams
Sara Jean Reynolds: Marcia Gay Harden
Wilson Croft: Christopher McDonald
Chester Hoenicker: Raymond Barry
Smith: Clancy Brown
Wesson: Ted Levine
Bennett Hoenicker: Wil Wheaton
Martha George: Edie McClurg
Running time -- 83 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Now, Robin Williams does the honors in "Flubber", with a little refurbishing from John Hughes in the script department and from Industrial Light & Magic in the special-effects department.
Those fun Flubber sequences aside, this latest Disney dust-off has surprisingly little bounce. Both Hughes' uninspired update and Les Mayfield's direction lack zip, while even the usually irrepressible Williams appears relatively sedated.
Given its hefty marketing and merchandising push, the green stuff should nevertheless generate some green stuff at the boxoffice, but "Flubber" will likely fall short of hitting blockbuster heights.
The story remains basically the same. Professor Brainard (Williams) has been so distracted by his formulas and calculations that he's left his sweetheart Sara Marcia Gay Harden) alone at the altar for the third and final time.
But he's hoping the reason for his latest no-show -- the creation of the amazing material that will come to be known as Flubber -- will change Sara's mind, particularly when it could be the answer to Medfield College's serious financial problems; she just happens to be the institution's president.
As Brainard tries to win his way back into Sara's heart, he encounters competition in the form of her smarmy colleague, Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald). Worse, when the spoiled son (Wil Wheaton) of the college's sinister financier (Raymond Barry) fails Brainard's course, his father sends hired goons Smith (Clancy Brown) and Wesson (Ted Levine) to snatch the Flubber from the professor's lab.
Given a great chance to reconceptualize material that, while regarded with warm nostalgia, certainly allowed ample room for improvement, Hughes frankly flubbed it.
Among the few changes from the original Bill Walsh script was replacing Brainard's trusty canine sidekick with a flying robot called WEEBO (voiced by Jodi Benson). The rest of the picture, when not cribbing from Hughes' own "Home Alone", manages to recall elements of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", "Gremlins", "Back to the Future" and "The Mask" (during a Flubber mambo sequence), to name a few inspirations. Mayfield ("Miracle on 34th Street"), meanwhile, brings little imagination to such memorable "Absent-Minded Professor" bits as flying car trips and a Flubberized basketball game, both of which are disappointingly flat.
That leaves Williams to carry the picture, and even his energy seems muted. Perhaps he was too busy concentrating on his tricky sight lines (the computer-generated Flubber sequences were added later).
Fortunately, the gooey lime element delivers. The new, improved substance has a full-throttle personality all its own, and those rebounding, 3-D ILM sequences are a crowd-pleasing delight.
If only Mayfield, Hughes and Williams had chosen to follow Flubber's unstoppable lead.
FLUBBER
Buena Vista
Walt Disney Pictures presents
A Great Oaks production
Director: Les Mayfield
Producers: John Hughes, Ricardo Mestres
Screenwriters: John Hughes, Bill Walsh
Executive producer: David Nicksay
Director of photography: Dean Cundey
Production designer: Andrew McAlpine
Editors: Harvey Rosenstock, Michael Stevenson
Visual effects supervisors: Peter Crosman,
Tom Bertino, Douglas Hans Smith
Costume designer: April Ferry
Music: Danny Elfman
Casting: Nancy Foy
Color/stereo
Cast:
Professor Phillip Brainard: Robin Williams
Sara Jean Reynolds: Marcia Gay Harden
Wilson Croft: Christopher McDonald
Chester Hoenicker: Raymond Barry
Smith: Clancy Brown
Wesson: Ted Levine
Bennett Hoenicker: Wil Wheaton
Martha George: Edie McClurg
Running time -- 83 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 11/21/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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