Star wars

Bringing the story of ‘the greatest sporting curveball in history’ to the screen

TVBEurope talks to the team behind the film about Eddie Jones and the Japanese rugby team's shock win at the 2015 Rugby World Cup

Audio

Artificial Intelligence takes over as the voice of Darth Vader

LucasFilm is working with Ukrainian company Respeecher to recreate Vader's voice from Star Wars: A New Hope

Production & Post

ILM StageCraft: Creating magic with light

With Disney Plus' Obi-Wan Kenobi set to debut tomorrow, TVBEurope finds out how ILM's virtual production StageCraft technology is helping bring locations from Tatooine...

Production & Post

Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who created Luke Skywalker deepfake

Video has been watched over two million times, and improves the VFX used to de-age Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker

Production & Post

Case study: Breaking new ground in a galaxy far, far away

How Industrial Light and Magic collaborated with Vicon motion capture systems to redefine the extent of our imagination

Media Consumption

4K UHD disc sales jump 20 per cent YoY

The biggest-selling 4K UHD disc of 2020 was Star Wars IV: A New Hope, followed Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Production & Post

X2X crosses fingers for Oscar glory

PIX and/or CODEX solutions were deployed on eight out of nine Best Picture nominees

TVBEverywhere

The Mandalorian pirated “within three hours” of launch

Disney Plus is unavailable in Western Europe until March 2020

TVBEverywhere

How does the Disney empire strike back against space piracy?

Analysts assess the risk of fans pirating the new Star Wars TV series

TVBEverywhere

Disney Plus set for faster global growth than originally thought

Morgan Stanley predicts bullish growth for the streamer

Content

Disney+ to launch in November

First plans for original content unveiled

Production & Post

UK TV and film production spend hit £3.1 billion in 2018

High-end TV spend was up 4 per cent compared to 2017

Business

Former DNEG team to head up new ILM TV division

ILM's new 47,000 square foot London studio will be supported by the Disney-owned company’s global locations in San Francisco, Vancouver and Singapore

TVBEverywhere

Disney+ will launch late 2019

New streaming service finally has a name

Business

Disney’s SVoD service could be cheaper than Netflix

CEO Bob Iger has revealed plans for the company's new streaming platform

TVBEverywhere

Sky partners with Jaunt for immersive VR delivery

Agreement marks the launch of the Jaunt XR platform

Interviews

Extending the Star Wars story

Jonathan Cheetham, visual effects supervisor at Jellyfish Pictures, talks to TVBEurope about working on Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Features

Mainstream VR – virtually a reality?

Virtual reality is still in its infancy but is already attracting significant investment from major tech players including Google, Facebook and Samsung. This big...