Step by Step: Eagle Eye 

By Ellen Wolff

Eagle Eye is all about the art of a nonstop chase. Director D.J. Caruso keeps upping the ante as the film’s protagonists try to escape all manner of pursuers. Worst among these pursuers is a missile-bearing drone aircraft that dogs the protagonists even after they drive their car into a tunnel. ...

Collaborative Flash 

By Michael Goldman

Marc Abraham had a lengthy track record as a movie producer long before he jumped into directing Flash of Genius, but he had no directing experience. Thus, no one was more surprised than Abraham when his veteran cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, essentially treated him “as though I were David Lean, even though it was my directorial debut.” ...

Step By Step: Tropic Thunder  

By Ellen Wolff

Comic timing is a phrase usually associated with actor pratfalls rather than the effect of a CG helicopter crashing to the ground. But for the DreamWorks/Paramount...

Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

This issue represents a busy month in the field. For our cover story, Ellen Wolff went to the Sanctuary set in Vancouver, British Columbia, to see the...

Fade to Black: Marc Abraham, Director  

By Michael Goldman

With a successful track record as a movie producer (The Road to Wellville, Thirteen Days, and Children of Men, among others), Marc Abraham chose a small...

Green Meets Red 

By Ellen Wolff

In the hallway of a former bicycle factory outside Vancouver, British Columbia, a bloody corpse lies on a gurney, swathed unceremoniously in plastic wrap....

Clint's Collaborators  

By Michael Goldman

The remarkably efficient Clint Eastwood filmmaking machine keeps marching along with, at press time, three feature films in various states of progress....

Filmic Animation  

By Ellen Wolff

One of the most iconic movie images of 2008 shows a rusty robot dwarfed by mountains of trash receding into distant haze. The image captures the plight...

Beta sight: AMCC 3ware Sidecar  

By Michael Lewis
Photo News Media

It was just another typical day for our news-content company. Hurricane Dean had made landfall as a Category 5 storm in Mexico's Costa Maya region. Dean...

BlogLive @ Siggraph 2008 Podcast: John Knoll 

Senior Editor Michael Goldman chats with John Knoll at Siggraph 2008...