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Avid Customers at the 2013 Academy Awards®
Avid Customers Steal the Show at the 2013 Academy Awards® Oscar® winners Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Skyfall, Les Misérables, and Life of Pi were all created with Avid solutions BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) […]
‘Sopranos’ Legal Fight: Universal Wants Mo’ Money | THR
Brad Grey on ‘Sopranos’ Legal Fight: Universal Wants Money ‘For Rights It Traded Away’. When studios collide. Bigwig v. bigwig squabbles over a paltry $25 Million, just depending on when you do the counting. Be […]
DaVinci Resolve Provides Color Support For ‘Call Of Duty’ Franchise
It’s great to see Black Magic continue their industry innovation and reach. The software / hardware manufacturer is now getting into the gaming industry as well. Truth be told, the lines between traditional production and […]
2013 WGA Award Winners, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty Take Honors | Flickering Myth
Argo and Zero Dark Thirty honoured at the 2013 WGA Awards | Flickering Myth. Oddly enough, I still have yet to see “Argo”. Heard it was great. “Zero Dark Thirty” on the other hand. Well, […]
Ellen Page To Direct ‘Miss Stevens’
Ellen Page to Direct Anna Faris in Miss Stevens – ComingSoon.net. Should be quite an interesting set up. Both very talented young ladies, it will be interesting to watch Ms. Page make the transition from […]
“Red Tails” Best Picture Nod at NAACP Image Awards! |Manny The Movie Guy
Manny The Movie Guy – “Red Tails” Wins Best Picture at NAACP Image Awards! Check Out Complete List of Winners!. Congratulations to the crew and cast. I actually thought it was an engaging and well […]
Golden Globes Awards: And the winners are… | HollywoodNews.com
Golden Globes Awards: And the winners are… | HollywoodNews.com. The winners are…The Golden Globes television ad revenue, ratings and overall impact on the world in general. Thanks to Mr. Gervais’ wonderful skewing of the whole […]
Valiant’s HARBINGER Has New Life | ComicBookMovie.com
Valiant’s HARBINGER Adaptation Moving Forward, New Writer Hired. Appears Valiant is going it alone after the project stalled over at the Snow Capped Logo. Looks like they brought a little Marvel muscle to the finance […]
Viacom: Profits Slide With Fewer Movies | The Wrap Movies
Viacom Earnings: Revenue, Profits Slide With Fewer Movies | The Wrap Movies. Ah, the studio brass in a quandary over slides in profits. Fewer movies? That sounds a bit disingenuous to me. Though it’s always […]
DaVinci Resolve 9.1 With Retina Support
This is really exciting news for those of you who have already recognized the huge advantages inherent in the use of Apple’s Retina display technology, especially when it comes to serious color grades. As you […]
SAG Awards 2013: Winners, Nominees | The Wrap Movies
SAG Awards 2013: Complete List of Winners, Nominees | The Wrap Movies. The awards season is in high gear. Those darlings of the silver screen all got together to look beautiful together and award themselves […]
Manny The Movie Guy – Oscar Front-Runner: “Argo” Tops Producers Guild of America (PGA) Winners!
Manny The Movie Guy – Oscar Front-Runner: “Argo” Tops Producers Guild of America (PGA) Winners!. Well, the kid’s got some skills in the director’s chair, that’s for sure. Congrats to the cast and crew for […]
Sundance NEXT: Finally Finding It’s Feet? | Indiewire
Sundance Review: Surveying All 10 Films From NEXT, The Festival’s Best Section | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire. I was one of many voices lambasting Sundance and their attempt […]
Fox Searchlight Buys ‘The Way, Way Back’ For Nearly $10 Million | Deadline.com
UPDATE: SUNDANCE DEAL PRECEDENT PART 2 – Fox Searchlight Confirms ‘The Way, Way Back’ Deal For Nearly $10 Million – Deadline.com. Wow, this feels just like the 90’s all over again. Does that really say […]
Weinstein Snags “Fruitvale” – MovieWeb.com
Fruitvale Gets Picked Up by the Weinstein Company – MovieWeb.com. Well, it’s got Forest Whitaker at the helm, an obviously capable creative. The film tells the story of the young man that was negligently killed […]
J.J. Abrams Tapped To Produce Lance Armstrong Pic | FilmoFilia
J.J. Abrams To Produce Lance Armstrong Biopic | FilmoFilia. It just goes to show my total lack of filmmaking talent or vision. I read that and thought, “shouldn’t this be on Lifetime?” Apparently JJ Abrams disagrees. Or […]
Ron Howard Tapped To Helm ‘All I’ve Got’ | MovieWeb.com
Ron Howard to Direct All I’ve Got for J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot – MovieWeb.com. Mr. Howard, Mr. Abrams and the Bad Robot team all getting together over a foreign language remake. The premise seems […]
Four Studios in Lawsuit Over Home Video Royalties | THR
Four Studios Targeted in Class-Action Suit Over Home Video Royalties (Exclusive). Can you say “Out of court settlement”? I can. “Out of court settlement”. See? Oh the bean counters go to war again, breach of […]
‘Reno 911!’ Creators Deliver ‘Hell Baby’ To Sundance | Indiewire
Meet the 2013 Sundance Filmmakers #26: ‘Reno 911!’ Creators Send Up the Horror Genre in ‘Hell Baby’ | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire. It appears that the boys in […]
Timur Bekmambetov To Direct ‘Heatseekers’
Timur Bekmambetov Signed On To Direct HEATSEEKERS | FilmoFilia. Russian director extraordinaire, who hasn’t always seemed to have his head wrapped completely around the 180 degree line, signs on to make the latest Michael Bay […]
Christopher Nolan in Talks to Direct ‘Interstellar’
Uber director and box office phenom Christopher Nolan is apparently in discussions about the prospect of directing his brother Jonathan’s latest sci-fi film Interstellar. There was apparently a bit of contention in attempting to negotiate the […]
Panavision / Loumasystems Introduce New Gear
Woodland Hills, Calif. — The Louma 2, a new‐generation camera movement system built on an open‐architecture platform, is being introduced to the U.S. by Panavision Remote Systems and Loumasystems. The system was previewed this weekend […]
FLIGHT DVD and Blu-Ray Feb 5th | We Are Movie Geeks
FLIGHT On Blu-ray And DVD February 5th | We Are Movie Geeks. Denzel and companies very heartfelt and moving performances are coming to home video February 5. Full story at We Are Movie Geeks.
Canon C300: A Digital Killer Cam for the Hollywood Set
Pretty excited to check out the latest offering from Canon. Going head to head with the ubiquitous Red Camera family, the C300 promises to be, at the very least, a very capable entrant into the […]
