The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Cinecittà has launched a retrospective of the films featuring the imaginative ...

Sinking the Titanic is no small task, and for one of Cameron's most memorable works, he employed every trick in the book. Titanic enraptured audiences upon release, as beyond the love story at its ...

Cameron pushes the boundary of special effects in a way that changes the cinematic landscape. He is the best in this medium, ...

These days, it seems like 90% of every movie was made inside a computer. Actors will train for years and ruthlessly compete ...

Reprinted by permission of "The Big Frame." Distributed by Imax Corporation, Special Effects reveals the method behind the magic of the movies, and features state-of-the art effects created ...

Ever had the immersion of a movie be ruined by an awful special effect? You're not alone. Whether they feature outdated ...

NOVA: Tell us about your interest in special effects. BURTT: Well, my interest in special effects goes back a lot further that my professional career. When I made films as a child, the very first film ...

It was all building, of course, on the earth-shaking work done by George Lucas’s Star Wars just the year before. Special effects had always been around, to be sure; anyone who’d seen a Georges Méliès ...

A special effects makeup artist is in charge of transforming an actor’s appearance when they have to look undead, not-of-this-Earth, bloody, beaten up, or older—any transformation that requires more ...