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Gotta say, I think this is by far the coolest piece of new gear I've seen in a long time. It's a new camera stabilizer system called the Movi that looks to be considerably easier to use and more versatile than most of the the Steadicam and Glidecam-style stabilizer rigs. It can smoothly capture s...read more
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I've been busy making film education magic the last few weeks, so I'm a little late to the game on reporting this one, but just in case you haven't heard the buzz on the street, there is yet another potentially game-changing large format video camera about to drop...this one is intriguingly titled "...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Digital Bolex
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If you didn't catch my earlier post, Spike Lee is about to drop a new self-financed movie shot on a Sony F3 Super 35mm Video Camera entitled, Red Hook Summer , which just premiered at Sundance 2012. Never one to shy away from controversy, when asked a question by audience member, Chris Rock, abou...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee, Sundance
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No "Ultra Violet" is not the latest big studio action movie, but rather the latest big studio move to get with the times. As I've argued many times on the Double Down Film Show and in previous posts on this blog, Hollywood needs to give up their desperate struggle to cling to an old business model o...read more
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My old school friend Alex Houston of Fiat Lux Productions has been working on a documentary project about amputee snowboarders for some time now (He also gives some great advice on sports shooting in my new book.) This bonified sport just got rejected from the Paralympics. Peep this video for how yo...read more
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Like it or not, the day is soon coming that will mark "The Death of Film". Since the age of DV began more than a decade ago, digital video technology and tools have been getting better and better and is in more wide use, while at the exact same time film technology and usage has been stagnant on a...read more
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Peep the teaser trailer for The Grandmasters, the new Kung-fu flick directed by acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Wong Kar Wai (Chungking Express, Happy Together, 2046, etc.). It's the story of martial arts legend and grand master, Ip Man, who originally schooled Bruce Lee in the ways of Chinese ass-kick...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Martial Arts Movies, Wong Kar Wai
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You read the headline correctly - Spike and Mike are teaming for an Entourage-inspired series, Da Brick, on the life of an inner-city boxer loosely based on Mike Tyson's real life growing up in the ring. Peep the Hollywood Reporter write up HERE....read more
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On this episode of the Double Down Film Show,we’ll be giving our first ever Film and TV State of the Union Address discussing the major developments that have affected our industry in the past year from technical developments, to shifts in distribution models to production workflow......read more
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Last week the film world saw two filmmaking related deaths, as mentioned on last Wednesday's Double Down Film Show. Both are tragedies that shake us up and make us remember how important safety on set is. Tim Hetherington, an American Documentarian/Journalist/Photographer was killed in Libya this w...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Chris Hondros, safety, Tim Hetherington