Welcome to the Chinaplex 

By S. D. Katz

China, the most populated country in the world, has a shortage of movie theaters. While U.S. exhibitors struggle to justify replacing all those new film...

Fast, Cheap, or Good: Pick One 

By S. D. Katz

Outsourcing is a hot-button issue. It provokes demands for protectionism in Rust Belt states or not-so-mild irritation from consumers speaking to the...

China's Next Generation 

By S. D. Katz

At 17, Daming Chen was expelled from the Peking Opera School for fighting with the principal’s son...

Action in the East 

By S. D. Katz

Rob Minkoff is an animator and director who began his career at Disney. In 1994, he codirected Disney's The Lion King, the most successful cel-animated...

Not Rocking The Boat 

By S. D. Katz

I'm sitting in Vicks, a Beijing club in a KTV (karaoke) room having just finished singing an appalling rendition of Sinatra's My Way. No one is listening...

Xing Xing in the Jing 

By S. D. Katz

Right time, right place. That's what it's like to be an animation company in China today. Production is never easy, but being in the capital city of the...

Money Talks 

By S. D. Katz

Finding a legitimate, studio-authorized DVD in Beijing is not easy...

Audio Podcast: Sean Fairburn's F23 Musings 

As Sony’s F23 camera system continues to excite the cinematography community and infiltrate into the world of feature filmmaking, one of the members of that community particularly excited about the camera is cinematographer B. Sean Fairburn ...

Step by Step: The Fuel In BMW’s Hydrogen  

By Ellen Wolff

When the Visual Effects Society recently chose the year’s outstanding visual effects commercials, the work of Sydney, Australia-based Fuel VFX was among them. The 30 second spot that Fuel created for the BMW Hydrogen 7 automobile features 25 seconds of CG animation...

Audio Podcast: Cutting Iron Man in HD 

Editor Dan Lebental, A.C.E., recently chatted with millimeter about his recent work cutting the newest entry into the superhero feature-film sweepstakes—Marvel’s Iron Man...