A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

Industrial Light & Magic expanding its offering of best-in-class visual effects and animation services to include the streaming and episodic television market with a new division: ILM TV. The division will be based out of ILM’s new 47,000 square foot London studio and supported by the company’s global locations in San Francisco, Vancouver and Singapore.

The ILM TV team will be lead by Visual Effects Supervisors Hayden Jones and Jonathan Privett alongside Executive Producers, Louise Hussey and Stefan Drury. Previously, the team set up and oversaw DNEG’s television division; winning a BAFTA for Special, Visual and Graphic Effects for their work on BLACK MIRROR.

ILM TV’s first projects will be Lucasfilm’s eagerly anticipated live action series based in the Star Wars universe, THE MANDALORIAN, being developed by Jon Favreau and Superman prequel series KRYPTON, now in its second season, based on DC characters from Warner Horizon Scripted Television for SYFY.

“It’s not often you get to create a new division at Industrial Light & Magic”, explained Rob Bredow, Executive Creative Director and Head of ILM, “We are seeing a real convergence in our creative approach used on films and in our immersive entertainment division ILMxLAB, and now we’re proud to be able to offer these ILM innovations in a way that’s suitable for streaming and television work to creatives around the world.”

ILM’s legacy in television dates back to the studio’s revolutionary and Emmy award-winning work for THE YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES, which brought feature film quality effects to an episodic series for the first time.“We are extremely excited to be re-igniting ILM’s involvement in this market and to showcase the team’s expertise, unrivaled technology and production management globally.” adds VFX Supervisor Hayden Jones, “The television and streaming segments have grown exponentially in recent years and we are seeing substantial demand for high calibre visual effects that can be delivered on schedule and within budget, all of which lie at the core of our teams expertise and proven track record.”

ILM TV will offer producers and showrunners access to Industrial Light & Magic’s legendary VFX talent, infrastructure and technology combined with a fresh approach to visual effects, designed to suit the condensed production schedules and rapid turnaround times that episodic series and online streaming programs demand.

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I’ve really enjoyed the last couple of episodes. I’d dare to say that nuWho has finally reached Big Finish’s level of quality.

It’s something I’ve proposed before but I don’t have the time to try and figure it out myself. Would love if someone did attempt it though.

The Last Jedi Re Edit Full First Trailer

To call this ambitious would be putting it mildly.

Is it good? Too early to say, is it better than Moffat? Yes.

Doesn’t really matter, there’s zero crossover there. Watching concurrently would highlight how ridiculous Voyager is though. =P

For anyone that’s curious, here’s a tour of the new TARDIS console room.

I very much think that the Skywalker Saga is definitely over after IX. However I don’t think it will be the end of numbered episodes. And by that I mean, I think we’ll see the start of new “sagas” with their own numberings.

First Man (2018)

Gorgeously shot film, should win an Oscar for that alone. An interesting character study of Neil Armstrong.

Frankly that’s not surprising. EA’s handling of the license has been absolutely terrible. Their exclusivity deal should be pulled.

I wouldn’t worry about it. There’s going to be a huge presence there for IX. All the usual suspects will be in attendance, JJ, the cast, Kennedy. I doubt you’ll even hear a single “Boo!” from the crowd.

nl0428 said:

I am not planning on going to Star Wars Celebration mainly because of the toxic fanbase. I don’t want to go there to be bullied, whether it be verbally or physically.

Having attended near to half of them, I can assure you there’s no risk of that. The fans that attend are the kind that are there to celebrate the franchise in its entirety.

The toxic “fans” only exist online.

Kathleen Kennedy Reportedly Confirms the Boba Fett Movie Is Dead

Kathleen Kennedy just confirmed to me Boba Fett movie is 100% dead, 100% focusing on THE MANDALORIAN #StarWars

— (@ErickWeber) October 26, 2018

HALLOWEEN 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Almost a soft reboot of the franchise. Decent entry with a fantastic ending.

HALLOWEEN 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Wow. They somehow figured out how to completely waste all the potential generated by the ending of the last film. Absolutely the worst possible way to continue on from the last film. Not even Loomis could save this.

Mom and Dad (2018)
Season of the Witch, is that you?

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008)

Hadn’t seen this since it originally aired. Decided it was time to revisit and picked up the new blu-ray release. Still a fantastic series, well worth watching if you’ve never seen it before.

HALLOWEEN II (1981)

Donald Pleasence was fun in an otherwise…bland sequel.

HALLOWEEN III: Season of the Witch (1982)

What the heck was that?

HALLOWEEN (1978)

Very barebones but excellently executed slasher. Easy to tell why its become so iconic.

HALLOWEEN (2018)

Solid follow up to the original film.

If you ever want to be absolutely devastated and dead inside watch Grave of the Fireflies.

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

This has been on my watch list for years. Finally got the chance to watch and it was well worth the wait. Great film.

Eh, the War Doctor improved a little but not by a lot. Which is a real shame.

I love that we’ve gotten two decades worth of material with 8. Though I wish they’d go back to the 8DA format instead of the boxsets.

I’m still mourning the loss of Jago & Litefoot. By far the best Doctor Who spin-off in any format.

Is anyone else here a Big Finish listener?

Esquire has written a piece about it.