Dietrich, a short that I wrote and produced, is an official selection of the Film Festival at the 10th Annual Phoenix Comicon! The short was directed & edited by Todd Fowler and is an over-the-top noir-esque nod to live-action comic book adaptations. Dietrich is the story of an ex-cop who searches a corrupt 22nd century city [...]
 
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For some reason, the new edgy seems to be boring the living crap out of the audience. I don’t know when this started, but it seems to be a pattern that emerged somewhere around 2004. Movies and TV shows have found new and interesting ways to slow plots to a crawl, mysteries never seem to resolve, [...] The Oscars have been given out and ‘The Hurt Locker’ brought home the gold. I didn’t watch, since the Academy Awards goes on so long and as a proud member of GenX I have the attention span… Oh, sorry! I was distracted by a shiny object. Anyway, as a child of the information age [...] I found this little gem via Filmmaker Magazine. If you’re like me, you’re psyched about the new Canon Rebel 550 T2i coming out in a couple of weeks. It’s about $800 bucks and has a sensor that rivals the wonderful RED One. True the RED is a superior camera in many different ways, but the T2i [...] Last Saturday The Guardian published an article titled ‘Ten Rules for Writing Fiction’ consolidating advice from noted authors such as Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Helen Dunmore, Richard Ford, and Neil Gaiman. You can read the entire piece here. There’s some great stuff… some you might have heard before, but it’s always fantastic to hear it from [...] It’s happened to all of us. We’re watching an action TV show or movie filled with car chases, alien attacks, secret conspiracies, running gun battles, explosions, and all types of other loud, crazy things to get our blood pumping. The plot builds, we get excited about learning more, and then it happens. Our hero’s cell phone [...] I just caught the trailer for Neil Marshall’s Centurion and it looks simply fantastic! Making a good trailer is an art, and I think this one is an excellent example of a well thought out teaser for the film. The rhythm is good, the music draws you along, and the selected images show you what to [...] I don’t know how else to phrase it. The Dow Jones, or the stock market, or Wall Street, or whatever nomenclature you prefer, does impact independent filmmaking. I think that every once and a while the shiny artistic drive to create film clouds the business reality that’s necessary to get the whole thing done. We as [...] World building in science fiction is a big deal. People study for years to learn how to do it well. It’s the key to capturing your audience and creating a stage where you can present your story with some semblance of continuity and believability. It all has to work and work together to transport the audience [...] Deadline Hollywood has just posted that Sony Pictures will be laying off about 6.5% of their total workforce. You can read the whole story here [link]. In the wake of the positive news from Sundance with regard to increased sales figures over last year, this is a big blow. The economy is underwater and when a big [...] |
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