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ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair
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Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.
Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
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Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
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The folks who know the least about how movies are made argue the loudest about movie budgets.
December 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The folks who know the least about how movies are made argue the loudest about movie budgets.
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Boss: Did you get that promotional photo of Spielberg and ET???
Photographer: I sure did boss... Real sexy just like you asked!
Photographer: I sure did boss... Real sexy just like you asked!
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Boss: Did you get that promotional photo of Spielberg and ET???
Photographer: I sure did boss... Real sexy just like you asked!
Photographer: I sure did boss... Real sexy just like you asked!
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (2015), visual effects by ILM. Visual effects supervisors Roger Guyett and Pat Tubach.
Every single shot of this guy's entire face was computer graphics.
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Every single shot of this guy's entire face was computer graphics.
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December 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (2015), visual effects by ILM. Visual effects supervisors Roger Guyett and Pat Tubach.
Every single shot of this guy's entire face was computer graphics.
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Every single shot of this guy's entire face was computer graphics.
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Make a bond film casual
No Time To Vacuum
No Time To Vacuum
Make a Bond film casual
The Spy Who Swiped Right On Me
The Spy Who Swiped Right On Me
Make a Bond film casual
Dr. Nah
Dr. Nah
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Make a bond film casual
No Time To Vacuum
No Time To Vacuum
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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abolish ice. theres no middle road on this and democrats will have to be held to it.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
abolish ice. theres no middle road on this and democrats will have to be held to it.
Team Willems does it again. And I echo everything he says about the "Predator" series.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Team Willems does it again. And I echo everything he says about the "Predator" series.
youtu.be/8shQ8YuR4p4?si=TcXFY...
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"I never noticed that Kevin's plane ticket was thrown away!" is the new "I never noticed the sign changed into Lone Pine Mall!"
December 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
"I never noticed that Kevin's plane ticket was thrown away!" is the new "I never noticed the sign changed into Lone Pine Mall!"
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One of the things I was most glad to talk with Rian Johnson about was working with his cinematographer Steve Yedlin (he also shouted out his production designer Rick Heinrichs) on these remarkable sequences 📽️
Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...
Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...
![Text from an interview with Rian Johnson about the lighting in WAKE UP DEAD MAN at RogerEbert.com that reads:
A: The big conversation I had with Steve, I grew up as a kid in Colorado, where the clouds move very fast. It doesn’t happen so much in Southern California, maybe in Chicago it does more often, but you’ll be in a room, it’ll be bright and warm and sunlit, and then the sun will go behind a cloud and like that [snaps fingers] it’ll suddenly be dark. You can barely see each other, and it’s dim and cool. The emotional language of the room changes. It’s something that happens a lot in real life, and you don’t see it in movies very often. I wanted to get very theatrical with those light changes, particularly in the church.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n365qogwt3ny2khkvtkpwzge/bafkreiex5j4bv4wn6syomiy3grpz3oedqv6kak5r4xopkbueztkcwmivxm@jpeg)
![Text from an interview with Rian Johnson about the lighting in WAKE UP DEAD MAN at RogerEbert.com that reads:
A: So Steve did a ton of work, and the church’s interior was a set built by Rick Heinrichs, our production designer. Steve prerigged it with all these lights and worked out the lighting control system where on set, just on his laptop, we could play the light changes like we were playing music. We could shape them to the scene as it was happening and repeat them take after take. My favorite thing is when I talk to a friend and they’re like ‘oh my god, that must have been magical on set when you guys got lucky and the sun just happened to have come out when he was giving that speech.’ I always say, ‘Yeah, yeah, it was really lucky.’ [Laughs] That’s absolutely how I want you to feel. That’s great.
Q: Just the right place, the right time.
A: Exactly. Just a lucky guy.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n365qogwt3ny2khkvtkpwzge/bafkreidefkffhz4abjma3zvl67qdjhdtmaq6xjfemswiecl3p7pj3p3vxe@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
One of the things I was most glad to talk with Rian Johnson about was working with his cinematographer Steve Yedlin (he also shouted out his production designer Rick Heinrichs) on these remarkable sequences 📽️
Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...
Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...
Melinda Dillon is the real star of "A Christmas Story" (1983).
December 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Melinda Dillon is the real star of "A Christmas Story" (1983).
A visual effects nerd’s bookshelf just got a wonderful new addition. Congratulations to my friend Ian Failes on his new book, “Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation”! @beforesmag.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A visual effects nerd’s bookshelf just got a wonderful new addition. Congratulations to my friend Ian Failes on his new book, “Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation”! @beforesmag.bsky.social
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
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Merry Christmas to all, but especially to you, you beautiful old building and loan.
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Merry Christmas to all, but especially to you, you beautiful old building and loan.
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This is what happens when you’re an unrepentant asshole your entire career
Chevy Chase admits in his upcoming documentary that he felt
‘hurt’ being excluded from the SNL50 special, especially during the Weekend Update segment.
‘hurt’ being excluded from the SNL50 special, especially during the Weekend Update segment.
Chevy Chase Felt ‘Hurt’ for Not Being in the SNL 50 Celebration
Chevy Chase admits in his upcoming documentary that he felt
‘hurt’ being excluded from the SNL50 special, especially during the Weekend Update segment.
www.vulture.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is what happens when you’re an unrepentant asshole your entire career
what's funny is that he's absolutely aware of ratings and is probably fuming -- he lied about his TV show's ratings for decades -- and he continually makes fun of the Oscars' ratings but I'll tell ya the Oscars ratings were around 7x higher than this
Data is wonky right now with Nielsen's new "big data" panel. But in prelims, KenCen did just 2.65M viewers. Even with a massive 25% lift, the show still finishes in the mid-3M range-- well below last year. In demos, it's even more of a massacre-- currently it's a 0.14, roughly HALF of 2024 show
December 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
what's funny is that he's absolutely aware of ratings and is probably fuming -- he lied about his TV show's ratings for decades -- and he continually makes fun of the Oscars' ratings but I'll tell ya the Oscars ratings were around 7x higher than this
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WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
Fun fact: this is not a digital visual effects shot
December 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Fun fact: this is not a digital visual effects shot
omg this is deeply accurate
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
omg this is deeply accurate
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SCOTUS just rejected Trump’s illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, confirming what we knew all along - that turning the military on the American people is a disgusting misuse of our armed forces.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
SCOTUS just rejected Trump’s illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, confirming what we knew all along - that turning the military on the American people is a disgusting misuse of our armed forces.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
Politically speaking, these bozos think this strategy will continue to work forever, don’t they?
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Politically speaking, these bozos think this strategy will continue to work forever, don’t they?