Marvel Studios upcoming “Thor” and “Captain America” look to be huge hits, but there’s no way of knowing before the films are released into theaters. No one wants to be known for an unsuccessful film, which can potentially follow them their entire careers (John Travolta, no matter what he does, cannot shake the sheer, unrelenting […]
Apple’s Final Cut suite of professional editing programs have been used on films from the Coen brothers remake of “True Grit” to “(500) Days of Summer”. According to Facebook, in 2007 49% of films made were edited with the application.
“African Cats” features the daily going-ons of the continent’s breathtaking feline wildlife. It’s the documentary with no actors and actresses. An unscripted account of their survival methods. The trailer is breathtaking. See for yourself.
Special effects have come a long way in the past 30 years. They’ve evolved from practical elements rotoscoped together to digital effects that stitched together with the power of computer editing. The increasing power and speed of computers means that computers are able to create complex worlds that take up terabytes of data like James Cameron’s “Avatar” […]
It’s the play with the name you can’t fully say. Comedian extraordinaire Chris Rock has got a new gig on Broadway. He’s been on one hell of a promotional tour describing his decision to do theatre, his development as an actor, marriage, family life and a boat load of topics that’ll make you keel over […]
Juno was cerebral, sardonic and even a little rude–in a non-threatening and endearing sort of way. Movie audiences were starved for her originality and frankness. Charlize Theron’s character in Young Adult will reportedly bear close resemblance to that independent spirit. While the film is still in the works, I can’t help but think about how […]
1.-Chance Abner Benaim – Panama, Mexico – 90 mins The luck of the self-absorbed upper-class Gonzalez-Dubois family, is about to change. In this the raucous revenge comedy, Fernando’s a hard-charging politician promising to be “a man of the people” if elected, has secretly burned through the family fortune of shopaholic wife Gloria. Their twin teenage […]
As screenPhiles, we should pay attention not only to how others make film, but how to make film ourselves. To that end, I feel that I should share some valuable lessons learned while filming the Washington, DC International Film Festival two weeks ago. While many of these lessons apply mostly to one-man-band style broadcast and […]
I remember watching a documentary on the History Channel about John Wilkes Booth and became extremely fascinated by the segment describing a female co-conspirator that aided Booth and the others during that historic day. I had no idea a film had already been circling the festival circuit. The Conspirator was released nationwide on April 15 […]
I’ve got mafia-like ties to the folks that write the scripts and the producers and studio honchos that green-light them. (Thank me later.) Hence, I wanted to share all this knowledge in my “Pssst! Scripts on the Cusp…” section. In this first installment, I’d like to share news of the pending “Seeking a Friend for […]
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