Police in Salford are appearing for the public's help to find a pensioner who disappeared more than three weeks ago.
06.08.2023 - 22:27 / deadline.com
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.
It took nine months alone to recreate the breaching of the 9th Ward levee.
“We had to visualize what that was, the breaching of the lower 9th Ward, where a wave of 12 to 20 feet was unleashed. It was like a tidal wave that wiped out everything in its path,” Durst said Sunday at Deadline’s Visual Effects + Screen. “We wanted to be was accurate a possible. This event took 1,400 American lives. We had to be very careful how to do it and not just have a spectacular shot. They had to be powerful but they also had to be emotional.”
Written by EPs Oscar winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse, Five Days at Memorial chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a New Orleans hospital. In the five days following the storm, thousands were trapped inside Memorial Medical Center. When the floodwaters rose, power failed and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at the hospital were forced to make decisions that would follow them for years to come.
To help recreate the flooding, the team worked in a water tank that held one million gallons of water. The city of New Orleans, circa 2005, was then meticulously recreated in the background via special effects.
Old internet photos came in handy, when trying to rebuild those devastating scenes. “When I first went to Google Earth to look
Police in Salford are appearing for the public's help to find a pensioner who disappeared more than three weeks ago.
Oppenheimer‘s VXF supervisor Andrew Jackson has denied claims that there are no special effects in Christopher Nolan‘s latest film.In the lead up to the movie’s release, headlines spread after Nolan stated there were no computer-generated images in Oppenheimer, which lead some people to believe that the film didn’t feature any visual effects at all.“Some people have picked that up and taken it to mean that there are no visual effects, which is clearly not true,” Jackson told The Hollywood Reporter. “Visual effects can encompass a whole lot of things.” That includes computer-generated imagery and “in-camera” special effects created on set.One VFX moment is the scene re-creating the Trinity Test, in which J.
Charlotte Day Wilson has shared a new single titled "Forever." The track is a collaboration with Swedish R&B singer Snoh Aalegra and finds the pair trading verses over stripped-back piano and drums. Together they talk about romantic hesitation, singing "I'm livin' lost in love 'cause I changе my mind too much." "Forever" is described in press materials as being "tethered loosely to a warped interpolation of The Foundations’ 'Baby, Now That I Found You.'" Check it out below.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has announced its plans to hold a new Urban Show in central Manchester.
The Visual Effects Society has composited its first group of 2023 honorees.
Movie lovers have a great reason to go to the movies this weekend.
The windows to a campervan were smashed to rescue a Golden Labrador who had reportedly been locked inside for three days.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor BAFTA-nominated visual effects supervisor Jake Morrison has joined VFX studio DNEG. Morrison, who has worked on films such as “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “Thor: Ragnarok” and Disney’s “Jungle Cruise,” has over 25 years of experience in visual effects.
Days of Our Lives recasts Eric Brady and some fans may be confused. That’s right, this week Greg Vaughan who has been playing the legacy character for the better part of a decade was replaced by actor Jason Gerhardt. The recast is only temporary as Gerhardt stepped into the role at a time when Vaughan was unable to fulfill his duties.
Soaps. General Hospital alum Jason Gerhardt has been tapped to play the role of Eric and will appear in just a few episodes. Of course, Days of Our Lives recasts are quite common.
The Order of Succession is something that cannot be altered by personal preference. While the British royals understand this, it would seem that one foreign country had not grasped this as they made a rather strange offer to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1994. Huge socio-political change in the country at the time prompted them to ask the late Queen's youngest son, Prince Edward, to serve as their head of state.The unusual offer was called "charming" but had to be sensibly declined by Buckingham Palace.
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.
“[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.
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.
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have seen a huge and deserving rise in their popularity in recent years.The couple first met during a charity event at the Queen's Tennis Club in London in 1993 and announced their engagement six years later on January 6, 1999. Ahead of their wedding, the palace announced that the pair would be styled as The Earl and Countess of Wessex.
Anton Du Beke has revealed he spent three days in hospital after he was stabbed in the stomach and the leg by his father on Boxing Day while he was living at the family home in Kent.The Strictly Come Dancing judge, 57, said the revelations will likely come as a shock to his friends and family as it is the first time he has spoken about the childhood incident. Born to a Spanish mother and Hungarian father, Anton lived on a council estate in Sevenoaks, and discovered his flair for dancing after picking his sister up from the local studio.
EXCLUSIVE: DNEG, the visual effects firm behind titles such as Oppenheimer, Dune, and Knives Out, has hired Oscar-Winning VFX vet Tim Burke as Visual Effects Supervisor.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Be For Films has boarded “The Summer With Carmen,” Zacharias Mavroeidis’ colorful Greek comedy that’s set to world premiere at the Venice Days at the Lido. “The Summer With Carmen” takes place at Athens’ queer beach, where 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his friend and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut, inspired by the events surrounding a dog named Carmen.