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Mad Max – Fury Road, the new Star Wars – the films would be inconceivable without CGI. And yet, in marketing speak, Hollywood is returning to the “new reality”: supposedly analogue sets and inexpensive stunts with bloody noses and broken ribs. So VFX is simply too expensive now, at least in the eyes of the studios. The analogue hipsters have reached Hollywood.
More in The New Yorker.
There is also more about J.J. Abrams’s marketing strategy regarding the effects and his “retro” approach before the theatrical release of “Star Wars: The Force Awarkens” in the next issue of DP, published on February 22. It also includes an interview with the film’s Oscar-nominated editors, who, although it was shot on analogue film, naturally edited digitally with Avid Media Composer ;).
