As a location sound recordist specializing in capturing wildlife and natural history audio Chris Watson has traveled all over the world enduring some of the most extreme climates and harshest working conditions on Earth to get compelling sound.
Turner Broadcasting Funny Or Die and HTC have developed a short-form comedy sketch featuring James Van Der Beek (Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 Varsity Blues) to promote HTC’s new Smartphone the HTC One. The sketch which debuted April 12 will extend through a multi-platform promotion across the Turner portfolio of comedy television networks and digital screens leveraging the power of brands like TBS and Adult Swim along with TeamCoco.com. Additionally the comedy piece integrating the new HTC One marks Funny Or Die’s debut in top movie theaters nationwide through NCM Media Netw
Cinematographer John Toll ASC recently made his first feature film foray into digital cinematography on Iron Man 3: Revealing the Mandarin Marvel Entertainment’s latest installment of the hugely successful Iron Man franchise. Toll who won Oscars for Braveheart and Legends of theFall and took home a third nomination for The Thin Red Line teamed with director Shane Black and actor Robert Downey Jr. “I was very interested in doing a movie with digital cameras and exploring the whole medium ” says Toll.
More2Screen has announced that its latest event cinema release Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds Alive On Stage! was in the UK top 10 grossing movies for both of its two screening dates last month. Screened at more than 200 cinemas across the UK and Ireland the multi-media stage show based on HG Wells’ novel was filmed at a sold-out O2 in December.
Rooftop Films has announced the Opening Weekend and select highlights for the 17th Annual Summer Series presented by AT&T featuring more than 45 outdoor screenings promising large crowds live music spectacular venues and the best in new independent and foreign films. This year’s edition kicks off with some of the greatest new short films from all around the world on May 10 at Open Road Rooftop at New Design High School in the Lower East Side.
Slate Media Group has announced that its PostWorks New York has acquired the assets of Mega Playground a post-production facility located at 609 Greenwich Street in New York’s West Village. The company has also entered into a new long-term lease at the location.
As movie exhibitors strive to differentiate themselves among a crowded competitive marketplace they are employing innovative immersive cinema technologies like 3D sound 4K and high frame rate presentation on giant screens to capture a larger share of the entertainment dollar. One of the latest trends takes the show beyond the auditorium into the lobby and outside the theater: video projection mapping.
Designed specifically for Canon’s Cinema EOS line Zacuto has introduced the ENG Grip Relocator and the C-Shooter rig working with the C100 C300 and C500 cameras. Like a traditional ENG style camera the ENG Grip Relocator includes the Zacuto Grip Relocator (for the Canon C100-300-500) with a 15mm rod mount intended to put the grip directly to the side of the rods. To mount this combination to a rig just slide the mount onto a set of 15mm rails that run below the camera and tighten.
The French camera rental company Telline has purchased a Marquise Technologies Mist system to offer on-set services. Following their recent purchase of an Aaton Delta Penelope camera Telline was in need of a reliable and professional solution able to work in real-time and natively with the CinemaDNG files recorded by the camera. The choice for that was the Mist.
Reeves Lehmann chair of the BFA Film Video and Animation Department at School of Visual Arts has announced that the 24th Annual Dusty Film & Animation Festival will be held in New York City May 4-7. The four-day event will showcase more than 100 films and animations from thesis students graduating this spring. Annie Flocco independent producer/filmmaker and SVA faculty member will produce the event; Meredith Engstrom will co-produce.
