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Panel to Showcase Sound for Hit Series ‘Stranger Things’

January 12, 2017

On January 31 at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, a joint AES/SMPTE meeting will showcase the intricate sound editorial and re-recording of the Netflix miniseries ‘Stranger Things’.

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Recreating the Boston Marathon Bombing in ‘Patriots Day’

December 21, 2016

CineMontage recently attended a screening of Patriots Day, followed by a panel of major below-the-line craftspeople, including picture editor Colby Parker, Jr, ACE; re-recording mixer, sound designer and supervising sound editor Dror Mohar; and sound designer and supervising sound editor Piero Mura.

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‘Passengers’: The Custom-Designed Soundscape of a Starship

December 5, 2016

It is a late Friday afternoon in November and the post-production crew is carefully refining the soundtrack for a scene from Reel 6 of director Morten Tyldum’s Passengers.

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MPEG Breaks the Ice on Diversity

October 21, 2016

On a Sunday morning in mid-September the Dede Allen Seminar Room at the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s Los Angeles offices was the setting for Break the Ice, the first roundtable discussion meeting open to the Guild membership, organized by the Guild’s Diversity Committee.

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‘Stranger Things’ Has Happened – Finding the Gateway in the Cutting Room

September 8, 2016

CineMontage chatted with the editorial team of Stranger Things and discovered interesting strategies they brought into the cutting room — like D&D dice and a lava lamp.

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Editors and Industry Leaders Laud MPEG Chief Kutak at Retirement Gala

September 21, 2016

Outgoing Motion Picture Editors Guild National Executive Director Ron Kutak celebrated his retirement on September 17 at Cicada, a restaurant and architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles.

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MPEG Members, Families, Enjoy Annual “Post” Labor Day Picnic

October 7, 2016

Motion Picture Editors Guild members and their families enjoyed a fun day at Calamigos Ranch at the LA Equestrian Center in Burbank on Saturday, September 10, for the Guild’s Sixth Annual “Post” Labor Day Picnic.

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Imagining a Philip Roth Novel for the Big Screen

October 21, 2016

Philip Roth’s American Pastoral was published in 1997 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. The film adaptation, from a screenplay by John Romano, directed by and starring Ewan McGregor, with editing by Melissa Kent and sound editing supervision by Christopher S. Aud, premiered September 9 at the Toronto International Film Festival and opened in limited release October 21.

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Awakening the Force in the Cutting Room

December 24, 2015

Maryann Brandon, ACE, and Mary Jo Markey, ACE, spoke about their collaboration with director J.J. Abrams, and how he has incredible trust in his editors, giving them the time and space to shape the film in the cutting room.

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A Passion for Sound: Mix Magazine’s Annual Film & TV Conference

September 22, 2016

On Saturday, September 17, Mix magazine presented its third annual Sound for Film and Television conference at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, in cooperation with the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) and the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE).

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