Movie City Indie Archive for September, 2008
[PR] Transformers 2 gets iMichael IMAX treatment
MICHAEL BAY TO SHOOT SELECT SCENES OF TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN WITH IMAX® CAMERAS
LOS ANGELES, CA, September 30, 2008 – IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ: IMAX; TSX: IMX), DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures today announced that director Michael Bay will shoot key sequences of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with IMAX® cameras. Bay will integrate the IMAX footage with state of the art CGI to create an unprecedented look and feel for the highly anticipated sequel to last year’s box office hit, Transformers. As previously announced, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be released to IMAX® theatres simultaneously with the movie’s wide release on June 26, 2009.
The movie sequences shot in traditional 35mm will be digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The IMAX DMR scenes will appear in the traditional “letterbox” shape, while scenes shot with IMAX’s cameras will expand vertically to fill the entire IMAX screen.
“The extraordinary level of detail and intensity captured by the IMAX camera creates many exciting possibilities for us with this film,” said Michael Bay, the film’s director. “IMAX’s all-encompassing format will take this story to a new level, and I am once again very excited to share The IMAX Experience with Transformers fans around the world.”
[NSFW] Full Metal Debate
Was John McCain saying things under his breath during the first debate? This is how rumors get started.
Paul Newman for Ned Lamont (2004)
Ned Lamont talks about the lifelong progressive.
Paul Newman in Slap Shot
Trailer. [Bonus below: Slap Shot en Québécois.]
Lake of Udaipur, Le Tone: a travel notebook comes to life
Trailering W.: Based On A True Story's latest incarnation
[If you’re reading this from Indie’s front page, to view in proper ratio, click below on the time stamp link.]
As apt needle-drops go for placing a song to footage, this is splendid. On the nose a bit? Yup.
Filmmaker Todd Sklar on working in Columbia, Missouri
Earlier this week, I traveled to Columbia, Missouri to present two Olivier Assayas films (Irma Vep; Late August, Early September) in the first installment of Ragtag Cinema’s Critic’s Series. It was the first time I met filmmaker Todd Sklar, although I had reviewed his self-distributed feature comedy debut, Box Elder, earlier this year. (It’s still out there, including a scheduled return engagement at Chicago’s Siskel.) Afterwards, we stepped out onto Hitt Street to talk about why Columbia’s good for him and for filmmaking. [The trailer for Box Elder is below; here’s a good making-of piece. Website.]
Dot Matrix Revolution by Superbrothers
DOT MATRIX REVOLUTION* from superbrothers