Tag: Production

LeRoy Bennett Keeps Top Acts Like Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande in the Spotlight


You might say that LeRoy Bennett is a shining light among lighting and production designers for pop music. Doing double duty creating both touring sets and their illumination, he started out with a 14-year run as Prince’s collaborator, went on to work with Nine Inch Nails and Madonna and has counted Beyoncé’s and Bruno Mars’ […]

How ‘Us’ Pulled Off Subtle Differences in Costumes, Design, Music for Parallel Characters


“Us,” Jordan Peele’s second outing as a director, following his 2017 critical and box office success “Get Out,” revisits similar psychological horror-thriller territory. But this time the stakes are, well, doubled.  In the new film, to be released by Universal on March 21, Adelaide Wilson, played by Lupita Nyong’o, returns to her childhood beachside home […]

Nimble Studio’s New Pipeline Helps Take Animation to the Cloud


Cloud-based collaboration has transformed the world of digital content, and the technology now extends into animation. One company at the forefront of this change, Nimble Studio, aims to provide high-level tools while eliminating high-cost infrastructure, allowing collaboration all over the world among artists who can work from their homes or even at the neighborhood Starbucks.  […]

Amazon Prime Launches Original Series ‘The End’ With India’s Akshay Kumar


Amazon Prime Video’s India service launched action-thriller original series “The End” in Mumbai on Tuesday. The series marks the streaming debut of bankable Bollywood star Akshay Kumar (“2.0”). Abundantia Entertainment, one of the producers  of Kumar’s 2017 hit “Toilet – Ek Prem Katha,” will produce for Amazon, the second time they are collaborating after 2018 […]

India’s Hotstar Belatedly Joins Original Content Race With Slate of Applause Shows


India’s leading OTT platform, the Fox- and Star-owned Hotstar will launch its recently announced original programming slate, branded Hotstar Specials. It has commissioned four shows produced by Applause Entertainment, the content arm of the $43 billion Aditya Birla conglomerate. “Criminal Justice”, the BAFTA winning British series, the first season of which was remade as the […]