In this Star Wars The Last Jedi featurette, we see how Rian Johnson and his team perfected the salty red planet of Crait. And in a brief interview, special effects supervisor Chris Corbould tells me about the trial and error of getting it right.
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The now-Oscar-nominated VFX team of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is making the press rounds, and they've got a lot of interesting details to share. After the jump: A fan reimagines The Force Awakens as a high school saga. Does the Force Awakens score hint at Rey's parentage? The Force Awakens crosses $1 billion at the…
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Lets take a look at some of the Star Wars: the Force Awakens practical effects that you might have thought were created inside the computer.
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As the Disney earnings call approaches, Disney finally decided to announce publicly that screenwriter Michael Arndt was officially off Star Wars Episode VII, and that director J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan are busy working on the current screenplay. (If you havent yet, read more about that here.) But the press release also featured details of…
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The twenty-third James Bond film, which once again stars Daniel Craig and is directed by Sam Mendes, is called Skyfall. As it turns out, in one sense, the title has a very nearly literal implication. In the culmination of a chase scene that winds through and beneath London, the villain Silva, played by Javier Bardem, causes an…
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