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Film is set to receive Stanley Kramer Award from Producers Guild; Plotkin earns Best Editing nominations from Independent Spirit Awards, HPA
LOS ANGELES -- While Get Out (Universal Pictures) marks an auspicious directorial debut for Jordan Peele, editor Gregory Plotkin hardly views him as a first-time filmmaker. “In working with Jordan--who also wrote the screenplay--nothing about him felt like a first-time director,” affirmed Plotkin. “He’s smart, focused, super collaborative, open to exploration. He’s a ‘collaborator’ in every sense of the word. He’s very thorough. We methodically went through every scene every day for months, and over that time...
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Top Ten entries include a Road To Oscar installment, Ad Agency of the Year, filmmakers chosen for SHOOT’s 2017 New Directors Showcase, and Cannes Lions' lineup of future women creative leaders
LOS ANGELES & WESTPORT, CT -- The SHOOT stories that generated the most engagement (clicks to view) in 2017 delved into subject matter ranging from groundbreaking Oscar nominees in animation and VFX, to Agency of the Year coverage, the announcement of filmmakers selected for SHOOT ’s 2017 New Directors Showcase, and the lineup of 15 female future creative leaders assembled for the Cannes Lions See It Be It Program. Topping the click tally for SHOOT in 2017 was The Road To Oscar feature titled “Bucking The Oscar Nomination...
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A rundown of the top 35 videos of the year from our ScreenWork gallery; McCann NY figures prominently in the mix
LOS ANGELES & WESTPORT, CT -- Of the 10 most viewed SHOOT videos of 2017, eight were marked by humor, perhaps reflecting the need for comic relief during what many regard as serious, trying times for society at large. Indeed the need to get away from it all was the theme driving the entry which generated the most views of 2017--Booking.com’s “Kindergarten” directed by Jared Hess of Community Films for Deutsch. In the spot, a beleaguered kindergarten teacher surrounded by classroom chaos talks of how she values her precious...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- After two consecutive record-breaking years at the domestic box office, 2017 was the year the momentum slowed — even with the late adrenaline boost of a new "Star Wars" film. When all is said and done on Jan. 1, the domestic box office is estimated to net out with $11.1 billion in grosses, down around 2.6 percent from 2016's $11.4 billion, according to projections from box office tracker comScore. Looked at another way, it's also likely to be the third highest grossing year in cinema history...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The day after last November's presidential election, Paul Thomas Anderson boarded a plane to London to go make a movie about love. "Phantom Thread," which began shooting days after the inauguration, is a hushed chamber drama made amid a time of wall-to-wall cacophony. For his second — and as it has turned out, likely final — collaboration with Daniel Day-Lewis, the protean 47-year-old Californian filmmaker endeavored to make his British gothic romance — his "Rebecca." "We have a really old-...
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LOS ANGELES -- Strike Anywhere, a production company with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, has added director Katya Bankowsky to its roster for commercials and branded content in the U.S. This marks the first production house roost for Bankowsky, a former agency executive producer and director, having last been at mcgarrybowen. Bankowsky is a California native who became a New Yorker upon graduating from Yale. After college, she took a production job in advertising, which served as her film school...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Willem Dafoe came into "The Florida Project" ready to be transformed, and working in a cheap motel helped him get there. The 62-year-old actor has been collecting accolades — including a Golden Globe Award nod and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination — for his performance in the Sean Baker film, which was set and shot at the Magic Castle hotel in the shadows of Orlando's Disney World. Dafoe said filming at a real hotel that houses homeless families like the one at the heart of the film changed...
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Saoirse Ronan is eyeing the lobster salad at Spago in Beverly Hills and has a difficult decision to make regarding cherry tomatoes. She doesn't like them, but she also doesn't like asking for special accommodations. "It's so Irish," Ronan explains. "In Ireland you feel so guilty for requesting something to not be in the dish. No one would ever do it. But I like that they do it over here. I like the gutsiness!" After a moment of deliberation she decides to go full American and ask the waiter...
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MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Google's one-time "adult supervisor" is getting closer to retirement. Eric Schmidt, who took over as CEO in 2001 three years after investors demanded more mature leadership for the fast-growing tech giant, is stepping down as executive chairman of Google parent Alphabet in January. The 62-year-old billionaire will become a technical adviser and will continue to sit on the board of the company that was formed to contain Google and its sprawling so-called "moonshot" subsidiary businesses in 2015...
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With echoes of "Rebecca" and lavish Max Ophuls productions, writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson spins the tale of an obsessive fashion designer and his muse into a suspenseful and often funny parlor drama with all the trimmings in "Phantom Thread ." Anderson is revered for his grand stage meditations on the American man ("Boogie Nights," ''There Will Be Blood," ''The Master"). But here, and perhaps to the dismay of some of his fans, he both narrows and redirects his gaze elsewhere to a...
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It's hard to say what's better about the first half of Alexander Payne's wonderfully weird — or is it weirdly wonderful? — "Downsizing": the audacity of its premise, or the delicious skill with which Payne executes that premise, detail by comically ingenious detail. The fact that the film shifts discernibly in the second half, going places and tackling ideas one wouldn't necessarily expect, will surely disappoint some and please others. But there's no doubt about one thing: the director's...
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- The Television Academy has announced the newly elected members to the Board of Governors who will serve their two-year terms beginning on January 1, 2018 – December 31, 2019. Governors elected to serve a first-ever two-year term are: Lesley Aletter, Brenda Brkusic, Jeff Calderon, Rich Carter, Terri Carter, John Debney, Keiren Fisher, Greg Kupiec, Eboni Nichols, Laurie Parres, Christopher Reeves, Glenn Rigberg, Jill Sanford, John Simmons, Halina Siwolop, Steven Spignese and Michael Spiller...
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- The Television Academy has announced its 2018 changes in membership requirements as approved by its Board of Governors. Among the changes is the expansion of membership to include personal publicists in the Professional Representatives Peer Group, short form writers in the Writers Peer Group and colorists in the Picture Editors Peer Group. “It’s the Television Academy’s mission to create a membership body that reflects the many diverse professions and endeavors of those working in the...
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Aaron Sorkin has a knack for timing, and not just in the obvious way. The Oscar-winning writer of "The Social Network," ''Moneyball" and other fast-talking, crackling scripts has been celebrated for his mile-a-minute wordplay. But he's also been criticized for not exactly featuring complex, strong female characters in the male-centric worlds of his stories. In "Molly's Game," his first film with a female protagonist and his directorial debut, Sorkin turns that around, presenting one of the more...
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Annette Bening gives Gloria Grahame a nobility rarely shown to faded Hollywood actresses in "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool," a tender if generic portrait of aged glamour. Based on the 1986 memoir by Peter Turner, Paul McGuigan's film joins the dubious movie genre about close encounters with Hollywood royalty. In films like "My Week With Marilyn" (2011) and "Me and Orson Welles" (2008) an outsider is unexpectedly thrust into a short-lived intimacy with a star. The self-aggrandized "me" of...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a 12-year prison term for Samsung's jailed billionaire heir, Lee Jae-yong, who maintained his innocence during an appeal of his conviction on bribery and other charges. In August, a lower court sentenced Lee to five years in prison for offering bribes to former South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her confidante while Park was in office. Both Lee and prosecutors, who earlier had requested a 12-year prison term, appealed that ruling. Prosecutors...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- George Foreman connected with the family of his first Olympic opponent in Lithuania. Henry Winkler made peace with his family history in Berlin. William Shatner rode majestic horses in Madrid. And Terry Bradshaw strode through a Munich city park wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and sneakers. "That was not a good moment for me," the 69-year-old former football star said. After traipsing across Asia in the first season of their travelogue reality show, "Better Late Than Never," the sports and...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Rose Marie, the wisecracking Sally Rogers of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and a show business lifer who began as a bobbed-hair child star in vaudeville and worked for nearly a century in theater, radio, TV and movies, died Thursday. She was 94. Marie had been resting in bed at her Los Angeles-area home when a caretaker found she had stopped breathing, said family spokesman Harlan Boll. "Heaven just got a whole lot funnier" was the tribute posted atop a photo of Marie on her website. She was a child...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ellen DeGeneres, known for keeping her comedy on the nice side, lets her inner meanie out for "Ellen's Game of Games." NBC's new primetime game show, which begins its regular run at 8 p.m. EST Tuesday after a December sneak peek, subjects its contestants to measured torments that delight host and executive producer DeGeneres. "It's hilarious to see the panic and fear on their faces if they get the answer wrong," she said, knowing the possible consequences include being drenched with something...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A current TV funny lady, a vintage one and a time-honored Christmas movie won over viewers in the run-up to the holiday. A preview of Ellen DeGeneres’ new NBC primetime game show, “Ellen’s Game of Games,” and CBS’ pair of “I Love Lucy” episodes starring Lucille Ball landed in the top 20 last week, Nielsen said Wednesday. A Christmas Eve broadcast of “It’s a Wonderful Life” on NBC was the week’s top-rated holiday movie. But it took football and multiple choruses of “The Voice” to power NBC to No...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" claimed the biggest Christmas haul over the four-day holiday weekend, adding almost $100 million to its coffers, according to box office figures released Tuesday. Four new releases couldn't catch the intergalactic juggernaut. Of the new films, "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" fared best. The Sony adventure debuted in second place with $55.4 million. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of...
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DP Phedon Papamichael shares insights into "Downsizing," editor Joe Walker discusses "Blade Runner 2049"
For her first turn as a solo director—the already widely acclaimed Lady Bird (A24)—Greta Gerwig benefited from having had an extensive, thorough “pre-pro,” one which spanned many years as a writer, producer and actress as well as an experience co-directing ( Nights and Weekends with filmmaker Joe Swanberg). Based on her body of work in varied capacities, Gerwig noted that upon embarking on Lady Bird, she already had “a really good sense of how you take a film from words on a page to this moment...
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Insights from editor Kevin Tent, ACE, and casting director John Jackson
LOS ANGELES -- Editor Kevin Tent and casting director John Jackson share a common bond--a lengthy, ongoing collaborative relationship with director/writer Alexander Payne, their latest round of creative togetherness having been on Downsizing (Paramount Pictures), a feature that’s part sci-fi, part romantic comedy, part adventure, part social commentary as well as bits and pieces of other genres. Matt Damon stars as a working class guy seeking a better life through shrinking himself. Damon and assorted others...
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Discusses collaborating with director Patty Jenkins, how TV opened up his feature opportunities
Cinematographer Matthew Jensen’s ascent in feature films, punctuated by the global hit Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.), was prompted in large part by his varied television endeavors. His early career indie feature exploits dovetailed into those initial opportunities in TV spanning a variety of shows, locations, circumstances and directors. Among the most significant of those series was Showtime’s Sleeper Cell which, while low profile, showcased the DP’s talent and penchant for getting the most out...
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Cinematographers share insights into working relationships with directors Cooper, McDonagh
LOS ANGELES -- Cinematographers Masanobu Takayanagi, ASC, and Ben Davis, BSC, enjoy close collaborative relationships, respectively, with writers/directors Scott Cooper and Martin McDonagh. Most recently, Takayanagi teamed with Cooper on Hostiles (Entertainment Studios) while Davis lensed Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Fox Searchlight), for McDonagh. Both films are in the Oscar conversation this awards season. SHOOT connected with the DPs to gain insights into the dramas as well as the creative...
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Agency Barton F. Graf and the Psyop studio teamed on this animated short, “Epic Comeback,” promoting Supercell’s Clash Royale, one of the top grossing games in the world. The idea behind the film is that the only thing better than watching your team win is watching your team snatch victory from the jaws of certain defeat. And when that happens over just three minutes of an intense Clash Royale battle, the feeling is even better. “Epic Comeback” takes Clash Royale fans to the last dramatic...
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We see the fear, anxiety and sorrow of parents who have lost their children for a few minutes in a mall or other public place. Then we’re asked to imagine how one lives with those feelings and torment for years in the aftermath of natural disasters or conflicts in war-torn regions. The Red Cross helps to reunite three families a day who have been long separated in conflict-stricken areas or due to natural disasters. Directed by Simon Ratigan of HLA for adam&eveDDB, London, this :90 titled “...
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$antaCon is a 90-second heist film written and directed by the team of Hugo & Dean, two creative directors from BBH New York. Hugo & Dean wanted to create a film they could “shoot on the biggest film set in the world--Manhattan.” The story was based on a real event in which a thief robbed a bank dressed as Santa. This is Hugo & Dean’s first foray into directing and to pull it off they worked alongside BBH New York’s internal production company Slaughterhouse.
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Set to Bing Crosby’s 1943 hit “I’ll be Home for Christmas,” this film for U.K. road safety organizations the FIA Foundation and AA Charitable Trust shows a father and daughter innocently texting back and forth while he’s driving home for Christmas. She’s eager to see him and get Christmas started. The devastating effects of texting and driving are highlighted when the film shows a haunting image of the father’s fatal accident and culminates in a final, heart-breaking scene as the young girl...
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The majority of car-owning Americans don’t know how to fix a flat and put off buying new tires—and the combination makes for a lot of “oh no!” moments. The newest campaign from Big O Tires takes a humorous look at car repair by turning the big “oh no” moment into a big “oh yes!” The “Big O Yes!” campaign, created by Kansas City-based agency Barkley, portrays the crises that come in assorted instances, including in this spot in which a wobbly tire plays havoc with a platter of green jello being...
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