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Veteran visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin, who won Oscars for his work on Christopher Nolan films “Interstellar” and “Inception,” has joined VFX and technology company beloFX as creative director.

Earlier, he spent 25 years at VFX giant Dneg, the company he co-founded in 1998. In joining beloFX, he’s reuniting with fellow Dneg co-founders Matt Holben and Alex Hope.

Holben and Hope co-founded beloFX in 2021 with COO Ellen Walder and Cto Graham Jack, with backing from investor Elisabeth Murdoch. The company operates out of three studios in Canada, the U.K. and India.

Franklin, a long-time collaborator of Nolan, supervised the visual effects for the three films in the “Dark Knight” trilogy. His credits also include “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” “Venom” and more recently “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.”

“His unwavering commitment to pushing visual effects to new heights is exactly the type of forward-thinking approach that defines our mission at beloFX.

On a hike with his snacks of choice — his fiancé Noah Galvin and chocolate mushrooms — Ben Platt saw the light.

“I was feeling really joyful and really present with [Noah] and I think he could really sense that. We were having one of those deep talks on our walk and he was asking me to describe what was allowing me to feel that way, and I started to talk about what it feels like to be in our relationship and my love for him and I started to envision a physical manifestation of what it might look like inside my head,” Platt tells The Hollywood Reporter.

“Because I am super anxiety prone and a very stressed person generally, I imagine there’s lots of jagged edges and lots of sharp things poking out and prodding, and when I envision what love does, it doesn’t necessarily make those things disappear or replace them.

Pollen: "After a senior coworker assaults a bright-eyed young woman, her dream job becomes a living nightmare as she tries to keep her career together while being tormented at work, at home, and in her dreams by a mysterious tree monster."

Directed by: Dw Medoff

Starring: Ava Rose Kinard, Tyler Buckingham, Ashley Ames, Bennett Welsh, Leanna Adams, Ian Covell, Riley Madison Fuller, Kristen Taylor, Sajid Chaudhary

Now available from Gravitas Ventures, Pollen is available on Amazon, AppleTV, GooglePlay, Vudu, Xfinity, Fios and most other VOD platforms.

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A Voice In Violet: "Philly Chick Pictures Releases A Voice In Violet Audio Drama Thriller Series Podcast From Writer & Director Curt Wiser And Producer Brooke Lewis Bellas With A Star-studded Cast Of Voices"

"Violet, a damaged singer whose dreams were shattered, headlines at The Driftwood, an infamous Hollywood club. The comfort of that stage is not enough when her traumatic past comes to visit.

Dec 2, 2022 – Alternative/pop artist Jessie Murph has released new song “Drunk In The Bathtub” – listen Here. Co-written by Jessie and producer Alex Hope, the emotive track perfectly pairs Jessie’s vivid lyricism with atmospheric production, further expanding her repertoire of songs that shed light on issues facing her generation while creating a safe space for listeners. “Drunk In The Bathtub” arrives alongside an official video directed by Patrick Tohill.

After adding a slew of dates and upgrading venues due to popular demand, the rising star has sold out her first-ever North American headline tour slated for Spring 2023. The 29-date run kicks off on February 23 in Columbus, Oh and includes two shows in both New York and Los Angeles as well as stops in Nashville, Toronto, Chicago and more before concluding in Jessie’s hometown of Huntsville, Al on April 7. See full routing below and visit https://www.jessiemurph.com/ for more information.

Carly Rae Jepsen is okay with being on her own – in fact, she’s intrigued by the concept. The singer will explore isolation in her newly-announced fifth studio album The Loneliest Time, set for release on Oct. 21 via Interscope Records.

“I’m quite fascinated by loneliness,” Jepsen tweeted alongside the album announcement. “It can be really beautiful when you turn it over and look at it. Just like love, it can cause some extreme human reactions.”

The Loneliest Time will feature the pop figure’s comeback single “Western Wind,” a...

Media Mogul Elisabeth Murdoch is backing a startup VFX company, BeloFX, which has been founded in Canada and the UK by a group of experienced executives.

The company’s founders are former senior executives at VFX powerhouse Dneg: Matt Holben and Alex Hope, two of Dneg’s founders, Ellen Walder, former COO at Dneg, and Graham Jack, former Cto at Dneg. It will be based in British Columbia, Quebec, and the UK.

They are joined by Hannah Cook (Director of Operations) and Matt Plummer (Managing Director for VFX), who will lead the VFX team alongside supervisor Joel Green. Mike Brazelton also joins as supervisor in early 2022.

The company said it is on the lookout for creative candidates from diverse backgrounds to join them as they seek to build a multi-national team across the UK and Canada.

“BeloFX’s dynamism positions them perfectly to seize the exciting opportunities the global VFX industry offers.

K-pop’s 4th generation ‘It’ boys Tomorrow X Together revealed the official tracklist for their upcoming 2nd studio album, The Chaos Chapter: Freeze. The album is set for release on May 31.

The official tracklist announced eight tracks for The Chaos Chapter: Freeze, including the title track “0X1=Lovesong (I Know I Love You) feat. Seori” (read Zero by One Love Song) as well as “Anti-Romantic,” “Magic,” “Ice Cream,” “What if I had been that Puma,” “No Rules,” “Dear Sputnik,” and “Frost.”

The band’s new title track “0X1=Lovesong (I Know I Love You) feat. Seori” is the unequivocal declaration of a boy’s first love. The song expresses a boy’s certainty in the love he feels for ‘you,’ who came to him in a world of chaos. The title uses numbers to visually represent that in this world of zero (0), ‘you’ are my one (1) and only.

Also noteworthy is “Magic,...

Suzy Shinn grew up listening to bands like Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin, so she was thrilled when Andrew McMahon, the vocalist in both bands, called in December with the beginnings of a solo song. The only problem: They had about three days to finish the track. So she set up in her living room in L.A.’s Los Feliz, called a couple of masked-and-distanced friends to engineer and play violin, and made do. “I was like, ‘All right, now we’re going to make a small symphony...

In a move aimed at developing the U.K.’s stake in the emerging field of virtual production, its Department for International Trade and Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport is backing a new initiative aimed at creating national standards for job training in the field.

The effort will be initiated by ScreenSkills — an industry body funded by organizations such as BFI — led by a steering group chaired by Alex Hope, former joint managing director of VFX studio Dneg (Tenet) and ScreenSkills’ vice-chair. Committed participants include Epic Games (developer of Unreal Engine), Ntropic, Sky Studios, UK ...

In a move aimed at developing the U.K.’s stake in the emerging field of virtual production, its Department for International Trade and Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport is backing a new initiative aimed at creating national standards for job training in the field.

The effort will be initiated by ScreenSkills — an industry body funded by organizations such as BFI — led by a steering group chaired by Alex Hope, former joint managing director of VFX studio Dneg (Tenet) and ScreenSkills’ vice-chair. Committed participants include Epic Games (developer of Unreal Engine), Ntropic, Sky Studios, UK ...

Alanis Morissette has shared a new track from her upcoming album Such Pretty Forks in the Road, titled “Diagnosis.”

In this simple piano ballad, Morissette tackles the challenges and stigma surrounding depression and other forms of mental illness. Co-written with Michael Farrell and produced by Alex Hope, the lyrics sound strangely prescient nowadays: “I’ve not left the house in a while/I’ve not felt a glimpse of ease/And I have not made much headway/Since I have come back from the war.”

Morissette previously released the songs...

As a movie, “Promising Young Woman,” the debut feature from “Killing Eve” writer/director Emerald Fennell out April 17 via Focus Features, defies easy categorization. Anchored by a star turn from Carey Mulligan, the film blends equal parts thriller and pitch-black comedy with occasional dashes of traditional rom-com and ‘90s noir drama structures. It’s all told through the unique, stylized lens of Fennell, who navigates the viewer through a unique take on post-#MeToo society.

The film’s eclectic mix of genres with a strong female perspective will also be at the forefront of its official soundtrack, due April 3 via Capitol Records. The album will feature eight all-new songs created for the film, including four covers and four original songs. Two of the album’s originals are written and performed by Cyn, whose first single and video from the project, “Drinks,” was released Friday (March 6.) The “Drinks” video, directed by Taylor Fauntleroy,...

Tegan and Sara have remade some of the first songs they wrote together as teenagers for their new album, Hey, I’m Just Like You, out September 27th via Sire.

The new LP is based on a trove of cassette tapes the duo discovered while working on their upcoming memoir, High School, out September 24th. “They contained dozens of our first songs, written between the ages of 15 and 17,” Tegan said in a statement. “We immediately recognized the songs as an essential part of our high school story.”

A trailer for Hey,...