Cinesite served as one of the lead visual effects houses on the 20th Century Fox feature Marmaduke, which opened in theatres last month. The live-action film is based on the comic strip and centres around a Great Dane, voiced by Owen Wilson, and the animal friends he makes when his family moves to a new […]

16 September 2009 Cinesite has won an Emmy Award for its VFX work on the HBO mini-seriesGeneration Kill, which was created by The Wire’s David Simon and Ed Burns. The award for Outstanding Achievement In Special Visual Effects for A TV Special Or Miniseries wasn’t a surprise for the post house as its were competing against its own work on Into The Storm and were therefore guaranteed […]

15 September 2009 Cinesite’s work on HBO’s Into the Storm was also nominated in the same category. The Emmy award marks the company’s second for visual effects, having previously been recognized in 2005 for the HBO miniseries Rome. Generation Kill is a seven-episode series based on the book by Evan Wright. It follows the First Marine Reconnaissance Battalion at […]

When it comes to making films and documentaries about our world’s great wars and conflicts, HBO has positioned itself as one of the preeminent networks. From the Emmy Award-winningBand of Brothers to their latest miniseries Generation Kill, HBO demands authenticity in the telling of their war stories, which makes them such “must see” events. This summer HBO shifts its […]