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Between Saving Private Ryan and Ready Player One—the critically acclaimed adaptation of Ernest Cline's 2011 novel—VFX supervisor Roger Guyett has been along for the ride on two of the most demanding projects of Steven Spielberg's career. An entirely different animal than the former picture—a 1998 war drama which won…

Spoiler Alert: This interview features discussion of critical plot elements from Pixar's Incredibles 2. When The Incredibles came out in 2004, it was a film ahead of its time. Marking a major paradigm shift in animation as a whole, Brad Bird's family-centric superhero story was so ambitious—in the midst of the…

Director Susan Lacy already boasts a shelf full of Emmy statuettes, collected over a career in documentary that extends several decades. She could add to that Emmy hardware this year for her acclaimed film on one of the single greatest talents in motion picture history, Steven Spielberg. Lacy's HBO documentary Spielber…

TUESDAY AM UPDATE, writethru: New Line/Warner Bros' Rampage continued to dominate overseas play over the weekend, adding a better-than-estimated $58M in 61 markets to push the international box office to $217.6M through Sunday. The global tally on the Dwayne Johnson-starrer is $283.3M, also through Sunday. In China, Ra…

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One has lifted its worldwide score across the $500M threshold. That’s after beginning global rollout on March 28 and reps $120.6M in domestic takings with $379.5M at the international box office. The VR-themed pic from Warner Bros, Amblin and Village Roadshow has done remarkable…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Rocking up in 61 offshore markets, New Line/Warner Bros' Rampage grossed $114.1M in its international box office bow. The Dwayne Johnson sci-fi simian movie played on 39,800 screens overseas, and with domestic has a worldwide gross of $148.6M. In China, where Johnson has a solid base, the Brad…

UPDATE, writethru: After beginning its quest in 62 markets last weekend, Warner Bros/Village Roadshow's Ready Player One maintained the high score at the international box office, grossing $81.7M to lead the chart this session. That sets the Steven Spielberg pic on track for $300M overseas and $400M global in the…

Sunday AM Update: Paramount’s A Quiet Place is headed past $50M, according to industry estimates this morning ($50.4M), after a Saturday of $19.2M, which is $200K higher than Friday’s take. Note Friday included $4.3M Thursday previews, so what this means is that A Quiet Place isn’t front-loaded like your standard…

In the battle between SXSW world premieres, Paramount’s silent horror thriller A Quiet Place is set to open in the top spot with a mid-$20M start, a debut that’s in line with the studio’s 10 Cloverfield Lane ($24.7M) two years ago. The film directed by and starring John Krasinski alongside wife Emily Blunt follows a…

EXCLUSIVE:  Dan Mazeau has been tapped to write a draft of Armada based on Ernest Cline’s New York Times best-selling novel for Universal Pictures.  Cline wrote an earlier draft of the screenplay and will remain in collaboration with Mazeau and producers on the forthcoming draft. Cline is coming off a great weekend…

CJ 4DPLEX has opened its 500th 4DX location, with the milestone reached today with the newly opened Pathé Belle Épine Cinema in Thiais, France. The first film to screen at the new venue in the immersive premium format that includes motion seats and environmental effects like rain, fog and various scents: Steven…

Sunday AM: Ready Player One is arriving a little higher at $53.2M over four days after a $15.8M Saturday that’s 4% higher than Friday. Over three days, the Steven Spielberg movie is headed to $41.2M. We’ll talk about whether this is a profitable movie toward the end. However, WB got this Village Roadshow co-production…