Hollywood’s sound pros nominated Birdman and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes for three awards apiece as the Motion Picture Sound Editors unveiled nods for its 62nd Mpse Golden Reel Awards, honoring the best feature film, television, animation and computer entertainment work of the year.
“2014 was a fantastic year for sound,” said Mpse president Frank Morrone. “The advent of new distribution channels, streaming services and gaming platforms is creating additional opportunities for sound artists to practice their craft beyond the traditional venues of film and television. This year’s nominations reflect that change, spanning an amazing diversity of mediums and genres, all executed at the highest level of creativity. We are truly inspired and impressed by the work of our colleagues.”
This year’s Golden Reels will additionally honor Noah director Darren Aronofsky with the Mpse’s annual Filmmaker Award. Oscar winner Skip Lievsay, known for his work...
“2014 was a fantastic year for sound,” said Mpse president Frank Morrone. “The advent of new distribution channels, streaming services and gaming platforms is creating additional opportunities for sound artists to practice their craft beyond the traditional venues of film and television. This year’s nominations reflect that change, spanning an amazing diversity of mediums and genres, all executed at the highest level of creativity. We are truly inspired and impressed by the work of our colleagues.”
This year’s Golden Reels will additionally honor Noah director Darren Aronofsky with the Mpse’s annual Filmmaker Award. Oscar winner Skip Lievsay, known for his work...
- 1/14/2015
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
With help from our talented local humidity, Long Island played Florida last month on the set of the upcoming Tina Fey–Amy Poehler comedy The Nest, about estranged sisters who reunite to throw one last party in their parents’ home before Mom and Dad sell it. Palm trees were planted for the June 24 Dix Hills shoot, at which Fey’ and Poehler’s characters thwarted some predatory real-estate agents by turning sprinklers on them while watching from the porch. “They did two or three takes of that scene,” says Mark Peterson, who took photos for New York. ”One actor who was wearing a suit had to change [between takes] because his coat was soaked. Nobody was shivering, but they may have been acting.”*This article appears in the July 14, 2014 issue of New York Magazine.
- 7/15/2014
- by Vulture Editors
- Vulture
When Michael Cera agreed to play a cameo role in his friend David Cross’s directorial film debut, Hits, it was an easy favor to do. By coincidence, just before he shot his scenes in late August, Cera moved into a new home a few blocks from the film’s set in Brooklyn Heights. “He said, ‘It’s so nice that I can just walk over here to do this movie,’ ” recalls New York photographer Mark Peterson, who spent the day shadowing the cast and crew. In Hits—which explores the nature of fame in the age of viral videos—Cera plays a pot dealer who disappoints his customers by arriving at their brownstone without their preferred type of cannabis and then tries to sell them on a substitute strain. “Before the scene,” says Peterson, “Michael and David were riffing together, trying to think up the goofiest names that they...
- 11/4/2013
- Vulture
by Joseph Leray
We're a small crew here, manning the Good Ship Multiplayer, handcrafting our posts, uploading only the finest videogame trailers, posting artisanal, fair-trade screenshots. Being owned and operated by a huge multinational media company is tough work, so you'll forgive us if, turns out, we forget to post an E3 presentation of one of the highest-profile games in development.
Yeah, we haven't posted about "Destiny" in a while. Whoops.
Thankfully, Bungie have been kind enough to re-upload the E3 reveal, this time with developer commentary from artists Mike Zak, Mark Peterson, and Ryan Ellis. Given the commentators, "Destiny"'s real-time lighting, liquid, and reflection effects are given a fair deal of, ur, screen time, but Bungie's walkthrough is a pretty painless introduction to Old Russia, the beetle-faced Fallen Ones, an Ak called the Thunderlord, and instanced public events.
Bungie's quasi-pseudo-mmo sci-fi bonanza is appealing so far, its individualized...
We're a small crew here, manning the Good Ship Multiplayer, handcrafting our posts, uploading only the finest videogame trailers, posting artisanal, fair-trade screenshots. Being owned and operated by a huge multinational media company is tough work, so you'll forgive us if, turns out, we forget to post an E3 presentation of one of the highest-profile games in development.
Yeah, we haven't posted about "Destiny" in a while. Whoops.
Thankfully, Bungie have been kind enough to re-upload the E3 reveal, this time with developer commentary from artists Mike Zak, Mark Peterson, and Ryan Ellis. Given the commentators, "Destiny"'s real-time lighting, liquid, and reflection effects are given a fair deal of, ur, screen time, but Bungie's walkthrough is a pretty painless introduction to Old Russia, the beetle-faced Fallen Ones, an Ak called the Thunderlord, and instanced public events.
Bungie's quasi-pseudo-mmo sci-fi bonanza is appealing so far, its individualized...
- 7/10/2013
- by MTV Video Games
- MTV Multiplayer
If you smelled suspicious fumes near Central Park South on the morning of May 18, blame David O. Russell. That’s where the director was shooting American Hustle, his seventies-set thriller about the real-life Abscam congressional-corruption scandal, starring a flammably coiffed cast that includes Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Jeremy Renner. “There was so much hairspray,” says photographer Mark Peterson, who braved the haze for New York. “After every take, stylists would descend with hair picks. But the hair wasn’t moving, not even in the wind. Jeremy Renner’s head looked like a bird had landed on it and had kids.”The mood on the set was celebratory, both because of the content of the scenes (“Christian Bale and Amy Adams danced down Park Avenue,” says Peterson. “It looked like they were doing a hustle”) and because it seemed to be the final day of the shoot; after “cut” was called,...
- 5/25/2013
- Vulture
The shooting permits, posted days in advance on light poles, said London Calling, the name of a fake movie intended to throw fans off the scent. So did the production assistants when passersby asked what they were setting up for. But after Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone arrived—not to mention a massive crew and a blue, glow-in-the-dark Jamie Foxx—only the most gullible out-of-towners could have mistaken the set of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (due next summer) for anything else.Foxx’s scene, shot in and around Times Square the night of April 15, drew a crowd of hundreds that didn’t disperse until filming wrapped at 6:30 a.m. As the villain Electro, who’d been transformed by a lightning strike into a human superconductor, Foxx “was glowing and staggering down the street, bumping into extras near Motown: The Musical,” says New York photographer Mark Peterson. “There was a whole block of cars,...
- 4/29/2013
- Vulture
Tom Hooper's musical adaptation "Les Misérables" picked up its first industry award win of the season (save the SAG prize to Anne Hathaway) tonight. It won the prize for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for live action motion pictures at the 49th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards. Production mixer Simon Hayes, re-recording mixers Andy Nelson and Mark Peterson, scoring mixer Jonathan Allen, Adr mixer Robert Edwards and foley mixer Pete Smith all shared in the prize, though it's just Hayes, Nelson and Paterson who are included in the film's Oscar nomination for Best Sound Mixing. Which, speaking of the golden guy,...
- 2/17/2013
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
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