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Amazing things that Fan-based buzz can achieve. The Johnny Cash Project is a crowd-sourced music video, fashioned from drawings done by Johnny Cash fans, which accompany Cash’s final studio recording ; “Ain’t No Grave.” Visit the site and watch the video so far, rate completed frames, and even, if you are so moved, add to [...]

Who knew? The revolutionary title sequence for “Se7en” (1995) by Kyle Cooper was named by New York Times Magazine as “one of the most important design innovations of the 1990s” Hat tip to The Redhead for directing me to this fascinating article on the Art of Film Title Design throughout Film History from Smashing Magazine;

Savage County a small indie horror that tells the tale of a group of teens who have a terrifying run-in with the mysterious Hardell family, will air on a mainstream network (MTV 2) on October 7th. How did such a small film get such a big break? According to Mashable, the deal was this: If [...]

CineLink is the industry development section of the Sarajevo Film Festival and it’s designed to reshape and meet the needs and expectations of Southeast Europe’s film industry. Activities take place throughout the year, including Project Development Workshops, Industry Screenings and a Coproduction Market. It all culminates in the Regional Forum that runs for the next [...]

“Life in a Day” is the Ridley Scott-produced, Kevin MacDonald-directed doccie that’s shooting TODAY – 24th July 2010 – on location near you (and you, and you, and you…) I’m thinking The Qatsi trilogy meets A Day in the Life of…. series of coffee table books, only messier and more inspired. As the blurb says: [...]

Fascinating Podcast from Heart of Hollywood (Retro 1260 KGIL) radio on Runaway Productions and the fight to keep production in California: here. Hollywood can now issue permits realtime. Wow. But it’s still the overwhelming sense of entitlement that astounds me…..

Whilst on the subject of remakes, the US version of the creepy Swedish chiller “Let the Right One In” is also nearing our screens. Made by the same guy who made Cloverfield, it was originally slated to shoot in beloved Colorado, but ended instead in incentives-rich New Mexico. Clearly understanding the maxim that “No Publicity [...]

Honestly, I’ve never paid much attention to the artist currently known as Snoop Dogg; I’ve always just sort of zoned him out as someone entirely crass and lacking in talent – a kind of incomprehensible, ubiquitous Paris Hilton, but black. Sometimes though, he’s just impossible to ignore. Boombox reports that Mr. Dogg recently “directly approached [...]

Here’s a Paramount Pictures map from 1927 showing which Californian filming locations could double for elsewhere? Can anyone say “Runaway Production?”

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