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It’s All About the Viscosity in FOLKS’ ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 4 VFX

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 3:52pm

The visual effects studio goes massive – and monstrous - with ‘The Blob,’ a bulbous, pustulous creature that threatens the very existence of humanity, on the final season of Netflix’s hit action comedy about a dysfunctional family of former child superheroes who must reunite to save the world; all seasons are now streaming.

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Disney+ Drops New ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Trailer

By Dan Sarto | Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 11:43am

In the mystery-thriller, which takes viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era, someone is killing young Jedis… no one is safe, and your own eyes cannot be trusted; the series debuts June 4 with its first 2 episodes.

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‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Gets an Official Trailer and Premiere Date

The mystery-thriller, which take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era, debuts June 4 with its first 2 episodes exclusively on Disney+.

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From Sensei to Biker: Wētā FX Takes Pogo for a Ride in ‘Umbrella Academy’

By Dan Sarto | Monday, August 21, 2023 at 11:49am

The leading visual effects company, led by VFX Supervisor Chris White, revisits one of the Netflix series most compelling – and fully CG – characters in Season 3’s ‘Marigold’ episode, nominated for an Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode Emmy.

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Sneak Peeks Galore for ‘Star Wars’ Series ‘The Acolyte,’ ‘Skeleton Crew,’ and ‘Ahsoka’

The Star Wars Celebration event kicked off its opening day in London late last week with an insane amount of announcements, including teasers and updates for the three highly anticipated Disney+ original series.

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Lucasfilm Sued for Wrongful Termination of ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Producer

‘Ballers’ executive producer Karyn McCarthy alleges she was fired from the project in bad faith just two weeks after a deal was struck, preventing her from earning ‘millions of dollars over the [life] of the series.’

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Cast Revealed for Upcoming Disney+ Series ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’

The Leslye Headland helmed show, which just began production in the U.K., has added Carrie-Anne Moss, Dafne Keen, Rebecca Henderson, Charlie Barnett, and Dean-Charles Chapman to the ensemble cast.

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Netflix Greenlights ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Fourth and Final Season

All good things must come to an end… but fans get one more season of the hugely popular series that will see the return of cast members Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, and Colm Feore; Steve Blackman returns as writer, showrunner, director, and executive producer.

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It’s All About the Kugel in FOLKS’ ‘Umbrella Academy’ Season 3 VFX

By Dan Sarto | Friday, August 19, 2022 at 2:00pm

The visual effect studio creates the Kugelblitz, a pulsating orb that destroys everything in its path with increasing blasts of energy – the Kugel Wave - as well as a numerous ravens summoned from Sparrow Academy Number Three Fei’s body, in the hit dysfunctional superhero comedy adventure, now streaming on Netflix.

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Netflix Teases New ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 3 Trailer and Images

The streamer throws fans a meaty bone with a glimpse at the upcoming season featuring the dysfunctional superhero family that returns from the future convinced they prevented an apocalypse… but The Sparrow Has Landed and things aren’t exactly how they left them.

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Netflix Reveals ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 3 First Look Images

What happens when you mess around with time and space? The dysfunctional superhero family returns home and finds out… the Sparrow Has Landed and things aren’t exactly how they left them; all new episodes stream June 22.

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Neflix Shares ‘The Umbrella Academy’ S3 Teaser, Images and Release Date

The dysfunctional superhero family returns home convinced they prevented the initial apocalypse and fixed time, but…The Sparrow Has Landed and things aren’t exactly how they left them; all new episodes stream June 22.

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‘Umbrella Academy’ Renewed by Netflix for Season 3

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 1:00pm

The streaming giant's hit dysfunctional superhero family adventure series, based on Dark Horse Comics’ Eisner award-winning comics and graphic novels of the same name, gets picked up for another season.