Top 15 Gene Wilder Movies
Donovan MontierthMany of us were shocked to hear of Gene Wilder's death this week due to complications of Alzheimer's disease, and so it's given us a chance to pause and…
Top 15 Films Directed by Howard Hawks
One of my all time favorite directors is the amazing Howard Hawks! He has so many classics to his name people don't know what category to put him in…
David Swift, Man of Many Hats
David Swift had notable credits as an animator, director, writer, producer, musician and actor...it's as if there was nothing he couldn't do! David started out as an animator for…
Gattaca, The Eighth Day
https://flii.by/file/x419augmstu/ Now, when the script was originally written, it went out to companies without a title. Not that Andrew Niccol, the writer and the director was trying to be…
Animatic, Effective Pitch and Pre-Vis Tool
Traditional techniques for pre-production on anything intended to be filmed, such as a potential TV show or movie is simply to have a script or treatment of it. Nowadays,…
David Huddleston, Star of Reveille, Locker 13 RIP
https://flii.by/file/dygc1weh5rb/ We met David when we were casting for our short film tribute to American vets, Reveille. We had originally cast Gordon Jump from WKRP in Cincinnati, but he had…
Digital Transfer Restoration Comparison
https://flii.by/file/4pzbo7ob370/ Charlie Chan On Broadway 1937: Restoration comparisons screen-to-screen from a digital transfer process. Charlie Chan on Broadway has a digital transfer and cleanup done upon it's release on…
Eat My Dust, Grand Theft Auto
https://flii.by/file/sdgiba5iygm/ https://flii.by/file/jgt7ms6jbm7/ Ron Howard was already a household name when he went to work as a teenager for producer Roger Corman. Roger Corman is famous for knowing how to…
Cannonball Run is Just Plain Fun
So I realized something over the weekend. I examined the topics mentioned the most in this blog and number 1 was a surprise...as I seemed to write about Burt…