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The Miles Davis Movie
A brief update from MTV Says star/director/co-writer Don Cheadle: “The story is really not... a biopic per se. It's not attempting to be any cradle-to-grave depiction of [Miles'] life. It's more my take, as an artist, on what his music has meant. With wall-to-wall truth but not really much concerned about facts." It's “not really much ...
3-D Revolution: From Nitrate to Digital
The film landscape is changing so quickly these days with lively debates over whether to shoot in 3-D or 2-D or use digital or traditional film cameras. But a new UCLA Film and Television Archive series, “From Nitrate to Digital: New Technologies and the Art of Cinema," illustrates that technological change is the norm in Hollywood. ...
Rush: Documentary This Summer
BIG SUMMER TOUR AND CAREER SPANNING FILM “It's true that Rush doesn't mean today what it did in '76 or even '96. It may mean more." - Rolling Stone The Rush documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage will be in theaters nationwide in June. Exact cities and dates to be announced later. This exciting news comes ...
Latest Protester of Comcast - NBC Deal Plays Race Card and Has Ex-FCC Chairman on Board
A recently formed advocacy group has some pretty harsh words for cable giant Comcast Corp. and has hired a former FCC chairman as its counsel. “For decades Comcast has shut the door to African American ownership of cable channels," said Stanley E. Washington, president and chief executive of the National Coalition of African American Owned Media. ...
The Restoration Of 'Metropolis'
It's often been said that silent films are a lost art twice over. Not only are movies without sound not being made anymore, but many of the classics of the period also no longer physically exist. That, however, is not the end of the story. For what's less well known is that pictures long thought to ...
Popularity of 3-D is Affecting How Screenplays Are Written
When Matt Pitts, a writer on “Fringe" and a former assistant to J.J. Abrams, recently began shopping his first film script to movie studios, he knew he had a marketable idea on his hands. The title of his screenplay, after all, was “ Spring Break Zombie Cruise" and its storyline followed, well, just that. But the ...
Uplifting 'Treme' Has Potential to Surpass 'Wire'
Hurricane Katrina was a devastating, depressing debacle whose ramifications are still felt today. Lives were lost, homes were destroyed. You'd think “Treme," a new HBO series that takes place in New Orleans in the months after Katrina, would be a downer, that viewers would be treated to a humbling, depressing television experience. You'd be wrong. “Treme," ...
Top Scribes Reap Pic Rewrite Riches
Once upon a time, the ultimate Hollywood ambition was to direct. Nowadays, clients are more likely to tell their reps: “What I really want to do is polish scripts." For Hollywood's dozen or so top-tier script doctors, that means commanding $250,000- $300,000 a week, being booked months in advance and keeping their efforts largely cloaked in ...
3-D Hollywoods Latest Hot Trend
On a recent afternoon, a dozen cinematographers, directors and camera assistants huddled inside a sound stage on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, wearing black plastic glasses as they watched a monitor. The object of their gaze: the body movements of a USC acting student sitting at a kitchen table on a set a few ...
Furious Exchange on Futures Trading
Proponents of two proposed film futures exchanges defended their proposals on Capitol Hill Thursday amid an increasingly onerous political environment and skepticism among lawmakers about the viability of trading in weekend box office receipts. But the teams behind the exchanges got a boost from an endorsement by Lionsgate's vice chairman Michael Burns, who argued in a ...
