Articles by Adrian Pennington
MSG Entertainment proposes a new entertainment medium, the ’MSG Sphere’ in London

MSG Sphere: Not only in Vegas

Immersive experience venues are changing the face of live events and the Madison Square Garden Sphere aims to top the lot by creating a new entertainment medium, writes Adrian Pennington

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Pinocchio: animation is art

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Behind the Scenes

Guillermo del Toro and the film’s heads of department discuss crafting the stop-motion version of the classic fable.

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Streaming vs cinema: What does the future hold for film?

Back in 2019, Netflix released data claiming that 45 million accounts – nearly a third of its total subscribers – had streamed the Sandra Bullock thriller Bird Box in its first week on the platform, a record for a Netflix film.

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Behind The Scenes: Heartstopper

Hollyoaks with an art school twist: DOP Diana Olifirova explains how Netflix teen drama Heartstopper wears its heart on its sleeve.

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Behind the scenes: Boiling Point

Stephen Graham is a chef with a simmering temper in a feature length one-take kitchen drama filmed at a real-life restaurant. Director Philip Barantini and cinematographer Matthew Lewis explain how it was done.

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Jensen Huang: Nvidia co-founder

Nvidia: Virtual worlds will crop up like websites

Nvidia thinks it has the fabric for building the metaverse on a larger than planet scale.

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James Bond (Daniel Craig) and Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) in Matera, Italy

No Time To Die: Behind the Scenes with cinematographer Linus Sandgren

James Bond is back in No Time To Die, but the 007 agent is wounded. Cinematographer Linus Sandgren delivers the emotional punch with 35mm, 65mm and IMAX film.

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NBC will be taking HD 1080P HDR feeds from Tokyo and upconverting some of it to UHD.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: BBC and NBC reveal remote production plans

With the 33rd summer Olympics set to take place in Tokyo later this month, broadcasters around the world are fine-tuning their production plans and preparing to pack their schedules with hundreds of hours of live sport. NBC and the BBC speak about their plans.

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The production turned a derelict felt factory into a make-shift movie studio

Behind the Scenes: The French Dispatch

Transforming Wes Anderson’s idiosyncratic aesthetic into a visually consistent physical format presented a series of challenges for the film’s production designer and director of photography.

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Zoo Digital: Working on training the next generation of localisation talent

Local content hits home for SVODs

After years of cost squeezing, major efforts are underway to increase the volume and quality of content localisation.

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