Exhibitors touting AI-driven creative tools at the International Broadcasting Convention, which wrapped earlier this week in Amsterdam with a reported 45,000 attendees from 170 countries, struck a delicate balance in their messaging. Companies such as Adobe and Avid emphasized continued innovation and a desire to empower creatives, while steering clear of anything that might suggest […]

Disney Animation chief creative officer and Oscar winner Jennifer Lee is reshifting her focus back to filmmaking, stepping out of her role as the studio’s CCO to focus fully on writing and directing “Frozen 3” and “Frozen 4.” Jared Bush, who won an Academy Award for “Encanto” and is one of the writers and executive […]

“Ripley” VFX supervisor John Bowers urged the television community to support VFX unionization Sunday on stage at L.A.’s Peacock Theater, as he and his team accepted an Emmy for the Netflix miniseries. He asserted that Hollywood is heavily unionized but there is still no broad union for visual effects artists, who don’t have standard protections […]

The Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE Local 700) has warned members that as contributions to the industry’s pension and health plan drop, the union will no longer offer free benefit extensions to the many members who have faced lean employment options in recent months. Local 700 told members in a memo sent Sept. 4 that […]

Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto will receive the Distinguished Filmmaker Award and M. David Mullen, the Mentor Award, during the International Cinematographers Guild’s annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards. Prieto received Oscar nominations for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “The Irishman,”  and “Silence” and And Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain.” His credits also include last year’s hit “Barbie” and […]

Jensen Huang, whose work as founder and CEO of NVIDIA has steered advancements in accelerated computing and is currently driving pivotal work in generative AI, is set to receive the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award during the 76th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards. Also during the ceremony, which will be held on Oct. […]

The late Ian Holm — who played the role of android Ash, an antagonist in 1979’s “Alien” — has generated plenty of attention with his return in Disney and 20th Century’s “Alien: Romulus,” which over the weekend extended its box office tally to $91 million domestically and $283.5 million worldwide.  Holm’s appearance in the latest “Alien” installment underscores […]

Karen Cynthia “KC” Fox, an Emmy-nominated set decorator and founding member of the Set Decorators Society of America, died from pancreatic cancer on Aug. 28 at her Los Angeles home. She was 70. The SDSA confirmed Fox’s death on its official website on Friday, writing: “Known for her joie de vivre, keen artistic eye, belly […]

“Alien: Romulus” writer/director Fede Alvarez is set to deliver a keynote at View Conference. The 25th edition of the annual VFX and animation event is taking place Oct. 14-19 in Turin, Italy. Alec Gillis, creature FX designer on “Alien: Romulus,” is also scheduled to attend View, where he will make a presentation titled “Practical Character […]