Muppet Movie director James Frawley’s camera tests with the Muppets on location, complete with improvised dialogue.
Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown takes actor Danny Lloyd for a ride on his Steadicam just outside The Shining’s Hedge Maze set on the backlot at MGM Elstree Studios. Brown discovered that Danny was about the same weight as the camera, so he would often give the boy rides in a makeshift swing hanging from the device.
Beasts of the Southern Wild trailer. Synopsis: Faced with her father’s fading health and environmental changes that release an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy leaves her Delta-community home in search of her mother.
“Big Hy” — his handle among many loyal customers — would almost certainly be cast as Hollywood Enemy No. 1 but for a few details. He is actually Hyman Strachman, a 92-year-old, 5-foot-5 World War II veteran trying to stay busy after the death of his wife. And he has sent every one of his copied DVDs, almost 4,000 boxes of them to date, free to American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Since “Pulp Fiction,” it seems safe to argue, Jackson has been the busiest actor on the planet… It’s all but impossible to turn on a TV set any night of the week without happening on one of his movies (and sometimes two or three). Hence his anointment by Guinness World Records as “the highest-grossing film actor” of all time. His movies have taken in more than $7.4 billion, most of which, he pointed out, “didn’t end up in my pocket.”
Ridley Scott talks filmmaking and Prometheus with Geoff Boucher on Hero Complex: The Show.
Steven Spielberg’s advice to filmmakers.
The Art of Film & TV Title Design. The credits are often the first thing we see when we watch a great film or TV show, but the complexity and artistry of title design is rarely discussed
