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Haunting Melissa Is a Horror Show Crafted for iPad and iPhone
Neal Edelstein, a film producer whose credits include The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and The Ring, turns director with Haunting Melissa, a horror narrative conceived as an iOS app. Neither movie nor TV show, Haunting Melissa is a series of …
Five Questions: From Queens to Cairo Director Sherif Sadek
The Egyptian-American filmmaker Sherif Sadek couldn't be in Cairo as the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 got under way, but he made sure he was there a year later, with both his family and his Nikon D7000 DSLR in tow. The …
Sarah Polley on Secrets, Super 8, and Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell, which opens in New York this week, explores the Canadian actor/director’s family history in a style that melds documentary interviews with fictional home movie interludes. She mines the lives of her parents for melodrama, as …
How Jarrett Creative Finished Boston’s Finest at PostWorks New York
Jarret Creative, producer of the TNT show Boston's Finest, recently finished post-production on the show's eight one-hour episodes at PostWorks New York. The facility in Manhattan's Soho district provided editorial and finishing services for the reality series about the men and …
Local Hero Post’s Leandro Marini on the Promise of Creative DI
I first sat down with colorist and Local Hero Post owner Leandro Marini back in September during IBC. In front of a full Assimilate Scratch system in a curtained corner of Assimilate's booth, he showed me some of the things …
Cinematographer Claudio Miranda on Oblivion and Life of Pi
Already well-known for his work with director David Fincher, including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, cinematographer Claudio Miranda saw his career reach a new peak this year with an Oscar win for Life of Pi, which he shot in stereo …
Director Adam Lisagor on the Art of the Soft Sell
When Yahoo recently acquired Summly, an iPhone app that uniquely aggregates and summarizes news from across the Web, the sale turned the app's teenaged creator Nick D'Aloisio into an instant millionaire and rising tech star. D'Aloisio launched Summly last fall …
ILM’s Bill George on Taking on G.I. Joe: Retaliation
The boys based on Hasbro's G. I. Joe toys are back in town, fighting two enemies now — Cobra and threats from within the government. Channing Tatum returns as Duke, the head of the elite unit in G. I. Joe: …
Cutting from Good Vibes to Bad Behavior for Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers, the latest film from director and provocateur Harmony Korine, is not just one of the weirdest movies to open this year but also one of the most commercially successful, pulling in big numbers last weekend on just three …