TV / Film News

Focus on Celebrity Photo Shoot

Source: Michael Ricci
June 21, 2010

'Double Exposure' offers a picture of the celebrity photo shoot The Monitor: The Bravo series peers into the behind-the-scenes lives of celebrity photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani.

Love it! Beautiful! That's hot! Oh my God, that's amazing! There, do you feel special yet? Apparently, part of celebrity involves having a high tolerance for loudly yapped compliments while cameras are trained on you.

On “Double Exposure" (Bravo, Tuesdays at 10 p.m.), which focuses on the behind-the-scenes lives of celebrity photographers Markus ...

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2D Or Not 3D That is the Question

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2010

The process of converting 2D films to 3D has hit some serious speed bumps on the road to acceptance, but it will remain a key component of filmdom's march into 3D.

That was the message emerging from a panel Thursday assembled by the Intl. 3D Society in association with the Visual Effects Society. Without mentioning the recent brouhaha over the quality of the 3D conversion of “Clash of the Titans," moderator and 3D tech guru Lenny Lipton asked why 2D-to-3D ...

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"Treme's" Unique Star: New Orleans

Source: Michael Ricci
June 17, 2010

The music, the food, the culture, the disasters. The show brings the Big Easy to life in a natural, jazzy way.

Shooting has just wrapped for the season on HBO's “Treme," and Khandi Alexander is packing up, trying to fit Zulu parade coconuts and Mardis Gras beads into her boxes along with an overflow of bittersweet memories. “What we've gone through down here in the past few months it seems surreal. I don't have the vocabulary to describe it," says ...

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Summer Screenings Jack Sheldon's "Trying to Get Good"

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2010

“Jack was in the Edwards Air Force Base Band. He got sick and had to check into the base hospital. He went missing.

The faint sound of a trumpet could be heard and it was finally discovered in a dirty linen closet. Jack had covered himself in old sheets and blankets so he could practice. When a nurse opened the door, he asked her to 'turn out the lights.'

True story. I was in the same band. Jack ...

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Underscoring Richard Wagner's Influence on Film Music

Source: Michael Ricci
June 17, 2010

You may not know his 'Ring,' but if you've seen 'Lord of the Rings' or 'Star Wars' you've entered his musical universe.

Max Steiner's application of music at a critical moment in “Gone With the Wind" can be compared to Wagner's use of Siegfried's funeral music late in “Gotterdammerung." Max Steiner, the pioneering film composer who wrote the music for “King Kong" and “Gone With the Wind," was once complimented as the man who invented modern movie music. “Nonsense," he ...

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Christopher Nolan's Dim View of a Hollywood Craze: 'I'm Not a Huge Fan of 3-D'

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

Christopher Nolan, speaking at the Hero Complex Film Festival, was cheered loudly by the audience when he made a moviegoer confession: “I'm not a huge fan of 3-D."

The director of “The Dark Knight" added that, after doing 3-D tests, his new film “Inception" will not be released in the trendy stereoscopic format because “we didn't have time to do it to the standards that I would be happy with." Then, the professorial 39-year-old filmmaker, who burst on the scene ...

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Federal Commission Approves Box-Office Futures Trading

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

Box-office futures have passed a final regulatory hurdle, clearing the way for the first bets to be placed in the near future, and overcoming objections by Hollywood that sought to block it.

In a 3-2 vote, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday afternoon approved a contract created by the company Media Derivatives that would allow traders to bet on the gross receipts that a movie pulls in during its opening weekend. Media Derivatives already won CFTC approval for the ...

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Simon & Garfunkel Come Together for Unexpected Mrs. Robinson

Source: Michael Ricci
June 14, 2010

Hollywood's A-List turns out to celebrate Mike Nichols at AFI tribute

The ambiance at the Sony Pictures Studios soundstage, where Judy Garland once walked down the Yellow Brick Road, had a couple of differences from the Academy Awards: The tribute for the 78-year-old was more intimate and, as Helen Mirren said while waiting for her car after the festivities, “there was lots of love in the room."

How much?

Enough to warrant a surprise appearance by Simon & Garfunkel performing ...

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