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The United States is reconsidering NAFTA and Donald Trump has started a trade war with Canada and personal attacks upon Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but when it comes to Hollywood, the Great While North can declare victory. For the very first time Canada is the number one production location for movies, according to…

A film whose battles left hordes of primates dead and another that celebrates the Day of the Dead were the big winners at tonight’s 16th annual VES Awards. Fox’s War for the Planet of the Apes took four prizes including the marquee Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. And Disney/Pixar’s Oscar…

Andy Serkis has been selected to receive the Motion Picture Showman of the Year Award next month at the Publicists Awards. The honor will be presented during the International Cinematographers Guild’s annual lunch gala March 2 at the Beverly Hilton. Serkis had a busy year starring in War for the Planet of the Apes…

The nominations are out for the 16th annual VES Awards, and a pair of high-profile sequels lead the movie field, while a wily TV veteran lords over all. Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the 1982 cult classic, and War for the Planet of the Apes, the latest in a 50-year-old franchise, tied with seven noms apiece. Both…

EXCLUSIVE: In the latest bold step for the movie division of Netflix, the company has made one of its most significant overall deals with an A-list feature filmmaker. Matt Reeves, who moved from War For The Planet Of The Apes into writing to direct the next solo Batman movie for Warner Bros and DC, is berthing his 6th…

True to Silicon Valley charm, the San Francisco Film Critics Circle took to Twitter to announce their winners for 2017 with The Florida Project winning for Best Picture and a pleasant surprise win in the Best Actor category. In what may be a first for motion capture performances, the Bay Area-based group recognized…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa, the screenwriting team that has penned some of Hollywood’s biggest recent tentpole hits including Jurassic World and the first in Fox’s Planet of the Apes trilogy, successfully rebooting both franchises. The husband-and-wife duo also is collaborating on James…

Since it was successfully re-rebooted in 2011 after Tim Burton's one-off in 2001, the Planet of the Apes franchise has frequently figured in the award-season conversation. But with War for the Planet of the Apes, the series could finally be seeing nominations for more than the usual technical credits. Andy Serkis'…

From his earliest beginnings at ILM to his current role as Senior Visual Effects Supervisor at Peter Jackson’s pioneering Weta Digital, four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri has had the most accomplished of careers, witnessing the stunning evolution of visual effects over the course of three decades. Working on such…

Andy Serkis says he’s "hanging by a thread" in the run-up to the release of his directorial debut Breathe. Starring Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield in the true story of a couple fighting polio, it's a departure for Serkis, who's won much critical acclaim acting in motion capture roles in such gems as Star Wars: Episode …

While everyone knows him from his performance-capture turns as Caesar in the latest Planet of the Apes movies and Gollum in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings franchises, Andy Serkis also made his feature directorial debut with Breathe at the same time he also went behind the camera to direct Warner Bros’ reboot of The J…

20th Century Fox tentpoles Logan and War for the Planet of the Apes both marked the end of an era for beloved characters. For Logan director James Mangold, the choice to end the stories of the X-Men franchise characters came from an artistic point of view. “We had a goal to make a more humane movie,” said Mangold told…