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- An exploration into the comic book origins of Black Panther via conversations with the creators who have shaped T'Challa's journey, a celebration of the Afro-Futurism of Wakanda, and the worldwide social impact of the character. Hosted by author Nic Stone.
- Tyr Neilsen, the president of the Norwegian Glima Association and senior instructor at the Academy of Viking Martial Arts in Norway, analyzes 11 fight scenes featuring axes and rates them based on their accuracy.
- Since the invention of film, filmmakers have tried to trick viewers into believing that an actor is either shorter or taller than they really are. The most classic techniques are sticking an actor on a platform or having them interact with props built to scale. But those need to be paired with clever camera angles and visual effects. In "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001), director Peter Jackson employed a forced perspective so Gandalf would really look like he was interacting with a hobbit. More complex computer-controlled camera moves and blue-screen compositing helped make the shots more complex and were used further in "The Two Towers" (2002), "The Return of the King" (2003), and the "Hobbit" trilogy (2012 to 2014). Performance capture created even more opportunities for actors to play giants on camera in "Avatar" (2009) and "The BFG" (2016), but creating the proper sense of scale gets trickier when these characters have to interact with normal-sized actors. When playing 8-foot-tall Thanos in "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018) and "Avengers: Endgame" (2019), Josh Brolin wore a cutout on his head to fill the gap. A more sophisticated method used in Marvel's "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" (2022) involved using CG to combine Tatiana Maslany's performance with that of a much taller body double. Now, with "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022), director James Cameron and the artists at Weta FX figured out some of the most precise and convincing ways yet to size up actors through a combination of floating monitors, virtual cameras, and props.
- Kenneth Bombace, the CEO of security firm Global Threat Solutions, reacts to 10 memorable bodyguard scenes from movies and TV and rates them based on their accuracy. Bombace looks at private security details under attack in "Man on Fire" (2004) and "Bodyguard" (2018). He addresses scenes featuring pop stars at concerts and award shows, such as "Taken" (2008) and "The Bodyguard" (1992). He also discusses transporting and taking care of political clients, as seen in "The Hitman's Bodyguard" (2017) and "The West Wing" in Season Three episodes 20 and 21 (2002), and billionaires like Tony Stark in "Iron Man 3" (2013).
- The bus fight from "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" has been praised as Marvel's best fight sequence ever. The action scene, which is set on a moving bus, took over a year to bring to life. This included reconstructing two real buses to fit cameras inside while making room for actors Simu Liu and Florian Munteanu to fight. Fight coordinator Andy Cheng, famous for his stunt work on Jackie Chan's films, explains the steps needed to stage the fight from the previsualized CGI and rehearsals used to create the action to how to fake a bus's movements.
- How has CGI changed over the last ten years? Many of these movies bring up ethical questions - can you just de-age someone? Bring a dead actor to life with technology? And is there such a thing as using so much CGI that you've actually just made an animated movie? Insider tackles these issues..
- This short documentary demonstrates how the animators of "Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse" adapted old-school animation techniques, while inventing new ones to tell their story in a unique way.
- Motion capture uses an actors' body movements to help create incredibly realistic computer-generated characters. It's been used in everything from "Avengers: Infinity War" to "Lord of the Rings" to the recent "Planet of the Apes" movies. Host Caroline Aghajanian meets with Richard Dorton, a motion capture actor who also teaches at The Mocap Vaults, to learn some of the tricks of the trade.
- Hollywood has many tricks to make impossible and dangerous stunts into a reality. Movies like "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "Baby Driver," and "Elf" used a Texas switch to allow an actor and their stunt double to switch places on screen without having to cut. "Avengers: Endgame" and "Men in Black: International" used wire rigs known as ratchet pulls to make it seem like characters were being hit by a serious blow. Meanwhile, a tuning fork can make characters like Maleficent and Captain Marvel look like they're flying, and a tarp known as a magic carpet gave characters in "Underworld" superspeed.
- The 19th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 16, 2014 at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, honoring the finest achievements of 2013 filmmaking.
- Insider takes a look at the ways that underwater scenes are created for movies - whether they're shot in the ocean, in an underwater tank or on dry land later adding underwater qualities using lighting tricks and CGI.
- Eyeworks for Film has produced contact lenses for "Game of Thrones," "James Bond" movies, and "Star Wars." Insider visited co-director Sinead Sweeney in London to find out how the lenses are produced and even get fitted with some of our own. Actors wear contacts to change their color pigment, look older, create imperfections, or even transform into another species. Beverly Hills optometrist Reuben Greenspoon is credited with first using lenses to augment a character's appearance. Greenspoon was tasked with changing an actor's eyes from natural brown to blue in 1939's "Miracles for Sale." He created a glazed blue-ceramic material. The lens was attached and run through a kiln to fuse the glass and ceramic together, leaving a round aperture of 4 millimeters through which actor Henry Hull could see. Since hydrogel contact lenses went into mass production in 1971, lenses with simple color pigments have become pretty accessible, but designing and painting bespoke lenses is still an art form.
- Blacksmith Neil Kamimura rates nine forging scenes from movies and television for realism.
- Sometimes, it's safer for productions to fake vehicles' movements for stunts rather than put them in real action. So special effects artists will use rigs and gimbals to make them move in place. NAC Effects will put a given vehicle or set on top of one of its six-axis motion bases capable of creating realistic movements of all sorts. Effects for scenes involving cars, motorcycles, pickup trucks, boats and airplanes can be achieved safely this way without risking the lives of the actors or their stunt doubles.
- Columbia University explosives engineer Rodger Cornell rates 10 movie explosion scenes based on how realistic they are, examining such action and adventure movies like "Indiana Jones," "Transformers," "Django Unchained," "X-Men," "The Dark Knight," "Desperado," and more.
- Dr. Antonio Webb takes a closer look at spinal injuries in movies and rates them for the character's chance of survival. Webb addresses physical injuries from falls from a height, car-crash injuries, bear attacks and other physical injuries. Webb breaks down some of cinema's most iconic scenes.
- Car crashes in movies like "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" (2021) may look random and chaotic. But pulling off destruction that spectacular on camera requires hyper-tailored prep work - both on the cars themselves, and on other set elements. Insider visited JEM FX to find out how its team of effects wizards primes cars to get destroyed spectacularly on camera.
- Professional stunt performers show us how they execute the falls we've seen in movies over and over again. Lead performer, Stephen Koepfer has worked on movies like "John Wick 3" and shows like "Ray Donavon." He demonstrates the techniques behind falls with real stunt men and women in the industry.
- Safe technician Charlie Santore, the owner of Santore and Son Lock and Safe in Los Angeles. looks at 10 safecracking scenes from popular TV shows and movies and rates them based on realism. He looks at "Army of the Dead" (2021), "Ant-Man" (2015), "The Italian Job" (2003), "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), "Money Heist" S1E1 (2017), "Cradle 2 the Grave" (2003), "Batman Forever" (1995), "The Thieves" (2012), "King of Thieves" (2018), and "Thief" (1981).
- Creating truly convincing fake IDs for film and TV requires an obsessive attention to detail - and things can get thorny with the law. Ross MacDonald, a graphic prop artist in Connecticut, and Jacob Kuban in The Hand Prop Room, a prop house in Los Angeles, demonstrate what it takes to forge realistic ID cards and documents for fictional characters. They break down the ins and outs of creating authentic-looking IDs for movies and TV shows set in every era and walk us through some of the legal issues that this work brings up and explain how they avoid running into trouble with the law.
- An exciting look into the future of Marvel Studios, including never-before-seen footage featuring tales and filmmakers from upcoming Disney+ series.
- This short explains the six infinity stones that are at the heart of the Marvel cinematic universe. "Age of Ultron" executive producer Jeremy Latcham talks about how the stones were adapted from the comics to film.
- The life of Jack Kirby as a comic book artist, from his humble beginnings to being the King of Comics.
- 2021 began with a lot of uncertainty about delayed releases and how we would be able to consume blockbuster movies. Regardless of whether you watched at the theaters or from the comfort of your home, there were many captivating movies that took filmmaking to another level. High-adrenaline flicks like "Shangi-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," "F9" and "No Time to Die" created in-camera stunts that you may have thought were CG. Young audiences got to see 2-D characters come to life like never before in "Clifford the Big Red Dog," and "Space Jam: A New Legacy." And real-life landscapes were constructed in both "Old" and "The French Dispatch" to transport viewers to another world. Here's what 16 movies of 2021 looked like behind the scenes.
- The 54th NAACP Image Awards honoring film and television; Queen Latifah hosts.
- Jack Barsky is a former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the US from 1978 to 1988. After being exposed, he turned FBI informant and has since stayed in the United States, becoming a published author of "Deep Undercover" and an expert on espionage and Russian intelligence. He was recruited into the KGB after being approached by a member of the East German secret police at the University of Jena in 1969. Barsky rates the realism of Russian spying tactics such as message interception, surveillance, and sleeper cells in "The Fourth Protocol" (1987), "Anna" (2019), "Bridge of Spies" (2015), "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011), and the popular TV show "The Americans" (2013-2018). He also breaks down physical training and spies' backgrounds in "Red Sparrow" (2018), "Salt" (2010), and Black Widow's first on-screen appearance in "Iron Man 2" (2010). He also discusses the Bond movie franchise and its depiction of Russian spies in "From Russia With Love" (1963).
- Gives an exclusive look behind the original series, "Ms. Marvel," from its comic book origins to its development on Marvel Studios. Portraying interviews with its awarding-winning filmmaking team and newcomer Iman Vellani.
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- Follows the evolution of the female fronted superhero characters in comics from the 1940s and up to today. Detailing the influences of what made the characters and how they impacted on the comic book world.
- The best national and foreign films of 2022 are honoured at the 76th British Academy Film Awards held at the Royal Festival Hall within London's Southbank Centre.
- Bringing characters like Spider-Man and Captain Marvel to life on screen requires some real-life superheroes off-screen. Specialized teams and experts carefully plan and carry out the stunts, costumes, and special effects that make iconic films like the Avengers the impressive spectacle audiences love. From actual bus crashes in "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" (2021) to detailed makeup and training in "Black Panther" (2018), here's what Marvel movies look like behind the scenes.
- Collabration of musicians and artists from across the globe, creating the music for one of the most anticipated sequels in modern movie history.
- Emily Vancamp hosts this one of a kind experience showing the history and development of Marvel from the first comic book to the latest blockbuster hit.
- Featuring Green Goblin, Kingpin, and Dr. Octopus.
- The Avengers face extreme storms when a mysterious force steals Tony Stark's weather machine to wreak havoc on the world.
- A father seeks redemption by rescuing his daughter, a PRODIGAL, from two organizations hell-bent on acquiring her "special" abilities.
- The groundbreaking success of Black Panther changed the world. What happened after was unprecedented. This podcast is an intimate look into the making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
- An action-documentary about the evolution of stunt women from The Perils of Pauline (1914) and beyond.
- A look at the story behind Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all of the Marvel films, the Marvel One-Shots and "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
- Black Widow and Jessica Jones are racing against time to stop an alien invasion and the resurgence of an old enemy.
- The 89th Annual Academy Awards ceremony celebrates the film industry's best and biggest in cinema for the year 2016 with host Jimmy Kimmel, including awards for best actors, directors, songs, original screenplays and motion picture.