Method Studios, a subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., has significantly expanded its New York presence in order to meet growing demand in the market for high-end visual effects work for feature films and commercials. The company is looking to further tap into the growing number of New York-based features, having already delivered graphics and VFX for such films as The Avengers, Wrath of the Titans and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Stuart Robinson, formerly executive producer at Smoke & Mirrors, will be at the helm of Method’s NY operation as exec producer. And Dan Seddon has been promoted to serve as creative director, relocating to the Big Apple from L.A. Also moving over from Method’s L.A. facility to the N.Y. shop are eight other artists.
Method continues to maintain its feature and commercial VFX operations in L.A., NY, Vancouver, London and Sydney.
Robinson brings to Method decades of experience developing and executing technical and creative solutions at major VFX houses in the U.K. and the U.S. He eventually combined those talents with his abilities to collaborate with clients and explain complex procedures in straightforward terms, ultimately supervising the production of many commercial and new media projects from pre-production through to delivery.
Seddon joined Method in Los Angeles as a VFX supervisor in 2009, bringing experience that included award-winning creature creation and other CGI work. Seddon’s work has landed him three Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards and two additional nominations, as well as accolades from BAFTA, Cannes Lions and many others. While at Method in Los Angeles, Seddon has worked on a great many VFX-intensive features, including Let Me In, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and he led the CG team on Wrath of the Titans.
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Film
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.
"Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?"
For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media.
The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year.
In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz.
Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his... Read More