Muse VFX, a visual effects and design group headed by founder, creative director and sr. VFX supervisor John Gross, has opened its doors in Hollywood. The new venture's team of artists, designers and producers creates advanced visual effects for TV, feature films, commercials, special venues and online content. Muse VFX is a division of New Antics, LLC, a technology-driven provider of patented interactive video marketing solutions for brands, publishers and online retailers.
Gross is the former senior exec of Eden FX at Point.360, where he oversaw the company's creation of visual effects. While there, his team created VFX for television and feature films and recently completed extensive visual effects for the iMax feature film Mysteries of the Unseen World and the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Current Muse television clients include MTV's Teen Wolf, CBS's NCIS and Disney's Dog with a Blog.
Gross said that Muse VFX offers "a 4K ready boutique environment with incredibly talented people and powerful tools." He noted that "while it may seem to be a volatile time for the formation of a new VFX studio, I'm excited about the potential for the growth of Ultra HD along with new episodic content providers like Amazon, Netflix and Hulu."
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
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 mind. Remarks have... Read More