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Want your film to sizzle with danger? Then learn from the master of tension and action. Using Tarantino’s tricks for creating conflict, keeping dialogue taut, and letting all hell break loose, you will enhance your own shooting style. Whatever your budget, get the action pumping with the camera setups and moves revealed in this dynamic book, excerpted here.
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Lots happening in Hollywoodland this week, with Broad Green Pictures signing a big home distribution deal with Universal, big stuff for Alchemy, and LeBron James’ gigantic new agreement with Warner Bros. Click the link for the full skinny.
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OTHER HEADLINES
A New York finance company that supports film promotion has sued Kavanaugh and accused him of being a “con man . . . who through dishonesty and deceit operated a scheme to defraud investors and convert and misappropriate their funds.” Nine days after RKA Film Financing filed another action trying to recover $7.5 million from Kavanaugh, the lender’s second lawsuit goes much further. Meanwhile, Kavanaugh is countersuing for $200 million.
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AT&T's $49 billion acquisition of DirecTV has been approved by the FCC, though the presumably soon-to-be merged company will have to submit to several costly concessions. The FCC said that a merged AT&T-DirecTV is "required" to expand its deployment of high-speed, fiber optic broadband Internet access service to 12.5 million customer locations, roughly 10 times more than exists today via AT&T.
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Continuing a largely unimpeachable line of controversial and ambitious mini-series, films, and projects, HBO is Smith, Jay-Z, and Aaron Kaplan to bring the story to the small screen. Till was a 14-year-old who was kidnapped, beaten, tortured, and shot in 1955 for supposedly flirting with a white 21-year-old woman. The brutal slaying was perpetrated by Roy Bryant, the woman’s husband, and J.W. Milam. They were both acquitted of the murder charge.
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Based on the cult comic series by Beau Smith and published by IDW Publishing, series is set to be filmed in Canada and will star Melanie Scrofano as the titular bad-ass, the great granddaughter of famed lawman Wyatt Earp and the top talent in The Monster Squad, a special, secret department within the US Marshals. The show has been likened to both
Justified and
Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
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Since January, the
Fast & Furious star has been pushing to play John Stewart in the 2020
Green Lantern reboot. What started with Gibson appreciating fan art showing him as one of the protectors of Sector 2814, has led to him hinting that he’s met with Warner Bros. about the role. Now Gibson has dropped the playful hints and is doubling down on his pitch to play the next live action Green Lantern.
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While it would be easy to shoot an entire film like this on a sound stage and use visual effects to complete the scenery, director Baltasar Kormakur wanted the cast (including Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes and Jake Gyllenhaal) to experience the elements firsthand by shooting on location in Nepal on the foothills of Everest, as well as the Italian Alps. Now an
Everest featurette shows what that was like for the stars of the film.
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After weeks of teasing, Lionsgate has released the first full-length trailer to the final chapter of the story of Katniss Everdeen and the nation of Panem. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Willow Shields, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Mahershala Ali, Natalie Dormer, Wes Chatham, Elden Henson and Evan Ross, it opens November 20th.
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