Film & TV

Film & TV

Visual effects, virtual production and the shots people replay. What was practical, what was rendered, and what it took to make the seam invisible.

17 articles · 2 scored reviews · latest 4 Oct 2026

Film & TV4 Oct 2026

Doomsday off IMAX: Infinity Vision is a room spec

Dune: Part Three took IMAX's domestic screens for 18 December. Disney's answer certifies brightness, size and sound, and says nothing about the frame.

Film & TV2 Oct 2026

House of the Dragon: scaling Tumbleton's fire

Rodeo FX's new talk on the season 3 finale is about scaling a fire sim to a whole battlefield. HBO put a real flamethrower behind the gate.

Film & TV29 Sept 2026

BBC boss on AI Doctor Who: 50 minutes is the test

The BBC's director general watched a fifty-minute AI-generated Doctor Who and called it pretty good. Fifty minutes is where generated video still falls apart.

Film & TV26 Sept 2026

Skinny Steve: Lola VFX shrank Chris Evans in 2D

Lola VFX built Skinny Steve across 300-plus shots by warping the photographed plate instead of building a CG double. Fifteen years on it still holds.

Film & TV24 Sept 2026

Avatar season 2 VFX: Appa's fur is now all CG

Framestore tried practical fur on Appa in season one and it photographed synthetic. Season two put Aang on a blue-black foam dummy instead.

Film & TV21 Sept 2026

Paramount's Warner merger: 30 films a year

Twelve state attorneys general settled on Monday, clearing the $110bn Warner Bros. Discovery deal. The reported terms put a number on how many films get made.

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Film & TV17 Sept 2026

Resident Evil: critics warm to Cregger’s take

Seven outlets put a number on Cregger's Resident Evil. Five said eight, two said six, mean 7.5. Rotten Tomatoes reads the same pile as 98%.

Film & TV25 Aug 2026

The Mandalorian and Grogu lit a 48-inch model ship

Important Looking Pirates has posted its VFX breakdown for the film, covering the environment work and the return of Zeb Orrelios as a CG character.

Film & TV24 Aug 2026

DNEG built Mars for For All Mankind. Aging it took longer.

DNEG published its VFX breakdown for For All Mankind season 5 this week — 338 shots covering an expanded Happy Valley and the Kuznetsov Station explosion.