StageCraft: How ILM Built the Virtual Stage That Changed Production, Its Limits, and the Stages That Followed
ILM’s StageCraft is the realisation of a vision George Lucas had been articulating for years — a stage of the future in which the walls…
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Live and Let Die Bus Chase: A Bond Girl Turned Accidental Stuntwoman & How to Rig a Top Deck to Slide Off a Double-Decker Bus
Parked among Caribbean palms a few yards from the sea, a repainted double-decker London Transport bus — out of place on the tropical coastline of…
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Creating “Baby Yoda”: As the Opposite of Yoda, Grogu Shouldn’t Work. Instead He’s the Face of The Mandalorian — In More Ways Than One
When The Mandalorian premiered in 2019, it ended on an image that broke the internet: a wide-eyed green infant blinking up out of a floating…
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Three Days at Jaws: How Laird Hamilton Brought Bond to the World’s Most Dangerous Wave
By the time Die Another Day went into production in 2002, James Bond had done almost everything. He had skied on snow — practically trademarked…
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Timothy Dalton’s Aston Martin: The Making of the V8 Chase in The Living Daylights
On 5 October 1986, in Vienna, Timothy Dalton was introduced to the world as James Bond. He stood alongside Maryam d’Abo — his Bond girl,…
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Making Miniatures Look Massive: Looking Back At EEG’s Special Photographic Effects On ‘Blade Runner’
A combination of lighting and atmospheric effects, the right film stock, and a proprietary motion-controlled camera system called the “Ice-Box” gave Blade Runner’s miniatures and…
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Weaponized Elegance: Engineering the Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5
“Beautiful on the outside, vicious on the inside — that was already becoming part of the formula.” — Ken Adam, production designer, Goldfinger It was…
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Burton’s Batmobile: Inside the Creation of Batman’s Iconic Supercar
When the Burton Batmobile reappeared in 2023’s The Flash, it didn’t race through Gotham or fire its afterburners. It just sat in the Bat Cave…
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Over the Edge: The Making of Moonraker’s Amazon Boat Chase
John Richardson hangs beneath a helicopter over Iguaçu Falls when he hears the stitching in his harness begin to go. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Below…
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The Bondola: Slapstick Takes the Wheel in Moonraker’s Venice Gondola Chase
A Venetian Gondola that transforms into a speed boat then a hovercraft — nicknamed ‘the Bondola’ — earned its title as Bond’s most ridiculed gadget…
