As a writer, Lawrence Kasdan has crafted stories that would be impossible to tell without the groundbreaking visual effects house Industrial Light & Magic. Kasdan, who co-wrote "The Empire Strikes ...

Matt Villei is a News Writer for Collider. Having a deep appreciation for the games, films, and books he experienced growing up, Matt wanted to learn the inner workings of how these media pieces were ...

Movie channels have long used original documentaries to augment and thematically connect bunches of films, which is helpful if said movies are, well, mediocre. Any history of ILM, of course, begins ...

For nearly half a century, the supreme wizards at Industrial Light & Magic have been pioneers of cinematic visual effects that dazzle the eye and excite the senses. Since being founded by George Lucas ...

Star Wars redefined what a movie could look like when it first hit the big screen in 1977, and that was largely due to special effects that were best in class at the time the first movie was released.

“Light & Magic” is of course a trip down memory lane about movies people love (beginning with “Star Wars”) and the wizardry behind making them. Yet this six-part docuseries from Lawrence Kasdan, a ...

Light & Magic premieres on Disney+ on July 27, 2022. If you grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s and loved movies, that was a magical time for film magazines. Starlog, Cinefantastique, Fangoria, and Cinefex, ...

Have you seen a movie that had great visual effects and wondered how the virtual production team pulled it off? It’s called movie magic and it gets better every year. But where did it start? Stream ...

I'm a follower of pop culture from gaming, comics, sci-fi, fantasy, film, and TV for over 30 years. I grew up reading magazines like Starlog, Mad, and Fangoria. As a writer for over 10 years, Star ...

In terms of movie magic, there is one company that has done more to help directors suspend reality and create the fantasy lands, unique creatures, and action scenes that simply cannot exist in this ...

Staff Writer, Paul DiSalvo is a writer, comic creator, animation lover, and game design enthusiast currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts. While offensive light magic has been rebranded as an ...