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Awards Spotlight: Behind the Invention of the Light Box with Gravity's Oscar Nominated DP Emmanuel Lubezki
Lubezki, a six-time Oscar nominee and recent winner of the Cinematographer’s Guild Award, was delighted to sit down and walk us through the process of how he and his team designed the technology that’s already become an industry game-changer. (SSN)
Awards Spotlight: Oscar DP Nominee Philippe Le Sourd's 3 Year Journey with 'Grandmaster' Director Wong Kar-Wai
When French cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd first met director Wong Kar-Wai, he was told that The Grandmaster shoot would last six months. The martial arts epic, shot in China, took nearly three years. SSN spoke with Wong Kar-Wai and Le Sourd about the challenges and rewards of shooting The Grandmaster. (SSN)
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TV Castings For 2/5/14: Lori Petty To Guest Star On 'Orange Is The New Black' For Netflix
SSN’s weekly TV castings report for new, pilot, current and event series. Talent this week includes: Sissy Spacek, Dianne Wiest, Penny Marshall, Lorraine Bracco, Lori Petty, Scot Bakula, Jeremy Davies, Linda Cardellini, CCH Pounder, Goran Visnjic, Jennifer Carpenter, David Schwimmer, Franka Potente and David Strathairn. (SSN)
TODAY’S HEADLINES
Clooney’s Monuments Men: How The Oscar Timetable Really Factors In
Jay Fernandez writes for Word & Film about the release date factor when it comes to Oscar contention – with a look at those movies that bucked the pre-Labor Day trend (Silence of the Lambs, Hurt Locker, Gladiator, Crash) and the ‘sweet spot’ of the October-December window. (W&F)
From College Professor To Executive Producer & Series Creator In 4 Years: True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto
He was a teacher with one book of short stories who wrote six scripts the summer of 2010 – Matthew McConaughey read the one called True Detective and everything changed. Pizzollato talks with The Daily Beast about the literal freedom of writing and the overnight success myth: “There were 30 years of Chef Boyardee and no money that none of you are hearing about.” (TDB)
Winter Olympics Upstaged In Social Media & News By Lack of Preparation In Sochi
ABC News on the basic problems and issue greeting visitors for the Winter Olympics, including just-paved roads, insects in condiment packages, tap water the color of pilsner, doors without handles and a slopestyle course, being retooled now, that has injured three athletes and led Shaun White to withdraw from that event after falling on it. (ABC)
Business 411: Netflix Didn’t Kill Blockbuster - How Blockbuster Lost Over $7 Billion In Value
Indie Wire reports on Blockbuster’s missed opportunities – it could’ve bought Netflix eight years ago for $50M – and Netflix’s ascendancy in the home entertainment space. Also in the infographic: the 2012 -2017 global spending numbers on physical home entertainment, streaming sites and electronic home delivery of content. (IW)
Screenwriters: 10 Horror Screenplay Rules
From ‘The Hook’ to ‘The Showdown’ – here are 10 rules for horror screenplays needed to satisfy the genre’s multi-million dollar fan base. (GW)
8 Successful Actor-Turned-Director Film Debuts
The top 8 debuts by actors who directed their first film and surprised out of the gate, including Robert Redford’s Ordinary People, Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus and Clint Eastwood’s Play Misty For Me. (FF)
Yahoo Received Most User Data Requests From U.S, Government As Tech Titans Reveal Numbers
The Beverly Hills Courier on the public disclosures made this week by Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft and Yahoo in relation to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests made from Jan. – June 2013. Yahoo and Microsoft received the most requests while Facebook received the least. (BHC)