“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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- When it comes to special effects in movies, the folks at ILM, Industrial Light & Magic, are considered superstars. The story of how this company came to life is being played out in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a writer, Lawrence Kasdan has crafted stories that would be impossible to tell without the groundbreaking visual effects house ...

George Lucas looks at the Death Star. (Sunset Boulevard / Getty) Ever since I read media scholar Julie Turnock’s The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light & Magic and the Rendering of Realism, I haven’t ...

Just days after Marvel confirmed release dates for a bevy new projects over the next three years, many of us may need a little reminder of just how magical movies can still be. Luckily, there’s ...

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.

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 ...