CGI is no longer just a visual tool; it is a critical partner, enabling actors to deliver performances that are impossible ...

Andy Serkis will direct a new film adaptation of the 1945 novel Animal Farm, it has been announced. The novel, written by George Orwell, is an allegorical tale about a group of farm animals who revolt ...

Serkis said the technology was hardly a hindrance to his performance; by now he's become quite comfortable in the marker-covered bodysuits that motion-capture actors must wear. "If you'd done this in ...

Marvel Movies Fantastic Four gag reel shows a whole new side to Marvel's First Family: "How do you say 'Oh f*ck' in Marvel land?" Marvel Movies Original Fantastic Four stars Michael Chiklis and Ioan ...

That’s right—the artist formerly known as Sherlock is playing Bengal tiger Shere Khan in Serkis’s upcoming adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, slated for a 2018 release. “Ours is not a ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — “I don’t think there’s such a thing as a performance-capture or motion-capture actor,” Andy Serkis says. “Any actor can do it. I’ve just embraced it, is all.” Indeed he has. The ...

Andy Serkis has wanted to make “Animal Farm” since he first read the book on a school bus as a kid. Now, after its premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, he has realized his ...

Motion-capture performances really took hold of Hollywood in the 2000s, when the treacherous hobbit Gollum helped Sam and Frodo make their way to Mordor to destroy the one ring to rule them all. As ...

Andy Serkis' animated adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm was first officially announced only a few years ago, but the producer, director, and actor has been ruminating on this tale since he ...

Ever since he blasted into the spotlight for his brilliant work as Gollum in Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings' movie trilogy, Andy Serkis has been a mainstay of Hollywood. Whether he's acting ...

When moviegoers slip on their 3-D glasses this weekend to watch The Hobbit, they’ll see some familiar faces: Gandalf the Grey, Elrond the Elf and, of course, Gollum. The man behind those creepy ...