Performance-capture acting, and the thesps who’ve tried it, are earning more respect these days. “Avatar” rode performance-capture to generally stellar reviews, record-breaking grosses and rare levels ...

For more than 15 years, Andy Serkis has been Hollywood's go-to performance-capture guy, playing such digitally enhanced characters as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings series, Caesar in the recent ...

In the early 20th century, star of stage and screen Lon Chaney became known as "The Man of a Thousand Faces" thanks to his ground-breaking and transformative make-up techniques. His disguises, as ...

There’s a lot of pressure involved in trying to follow a trilogy as acclaimed and accomplished as the Andy Serkis-led “Planet of the Apes” saga, which culminated with 2017’s “War for the Planet of the ...

Matt Reeves discusses how his VFX supervisor on "War for the Planet of the Apes" helped add realism and emotion to Andy Serkis's performance. Letteri has won four Oscars for his instrumental work in ...

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When the filmmakers behind "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" settled on virtual simians rather than people in monkey suits for their lower primates, their first casting task became obvious: get Andy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In that 2004 New York Times interview, Zemeckis singled out the Glacier Gulch sequence as a key example of the greater creative ...

If you've read about “Avatar,” you know by now that it's the future of movies. And if you've seen it, you know that the future of movies apparently looks a lot like the present of movies — big, ...

When Baldur’s Gate 3 exploded into a cultural juggernaut, much of its acclaim went to the writing, the player freedom, and the unforgettable characters. But at Fan Expo Canada during The Voices of ...