Featured Editing – “Upload” Prolific showrunner Greg Daniels released the comedic sci-fi series Upload on Amazon Prime Video, May 1, and the show was quickly picked up for a second season. The series focuses on...
The Great Hulu’s period comedy of (grotesque) manners charts the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longestreigning female ruler in Russia’s history. From the pen of Tony McNamara, who wrote Oscar®-winning royal satire The...
The Mandalorian When developing a series based on the Star Wars universe for the fledgling Disney+ streamingservice, The Mandalorian’s creator and executive producer Jon Favreau knew that he had a special property on his hands which required...
Watchmen HBO HBO’s limited series Watchmen reimagines the world of the classic 1987 DC Comics graphic novels created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Series creator Damon Lindelof – who has racked up a string of industry accolades including...
This adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short story slickly combines biting satire with a cartoonishly-entertaining Arnold Schwarzenegger action thriller. Total Recall also is editor Frank J. Urioste’s second of three collaborations with Dutch director...
My first experience with a major composer was when Jerry Goldsmith came to our editing room on the Sony lot to spot the movie Gladiator (no, not that one; the boxing movie). We watched the movie on the KEM, occasionally discussing different ideas,...
Welcome to ACE’s annual television issue, in which we’ll look at some of the dramas, comedies and animated series entertaining audiences at home. In this issue, we also provide a snapshot of how our members are working while following safety...
At any ACE meeting 20 years ago, near the front of the meeting hall was a table of well-dressed white-haired editors engaged in spirited schmooze. We younger folks referred to them endearingly as the ‘alter kockers.’ Alter kockers is a Yiddish phrase...
Matt Allen has been named this year’s Eric Zumbrunnen Fellow. The 27-year-old native of San Diego currently serves as the second assistant editor on the Netflix feature film Sweet Girl, starring Jason Momoa, working alongside editor Matt Chessé, ACE....
