source What are the Duties of an Assisant Director? Joe Njiki asks: There is this unending contoversy about the role of an assistant director and what is supposed to be his job. Some people in the industry have gone as far as creating things such as “Artistic director” simply because nobody wants to an “assistant”  [ Read More ]

I found this article on Variety.com and think it’s really interesting. Source   Location shoots: Rewarding, but risky Shooting goes smoothly for ‘Hereafter’ By PETER CARANICAS peter.caranicas@variety.com Shooting a major feature around the world is something like mounting a military campaign, with location managers coordinating the action on several fronts. Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter” centers on  [ Read More ]

Experience the studio time of New Moon

page 1 page 1 So, a few things have been up on the net in the last few days and here is a little sum up. First, there have been all kind of rumors that New Moon production was halted due to court issues with book author Stephenie Meyer. It was quickly unconfirmed by Summit  [ Read More ]

Source Conditions during the second week of production were much improved over the first, and everyone settled into a rhythm and good vibe that has since carried throughout the production. Normally the weather in Namibia this time of year is quite comfortable, but for the East wind that drops the temperature to around 36 degrees  [ Read More ]

source page1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page1 Question: Why would you say is the reason for the incredible popularity of the series that you started? What do you think the essence of why so many twelve and fourteen year old girls cannot live without reading every one of these books? Stephenie Meyer: I  [ Read More ]

Source Stephenie Meyer: This is me with the humans who don’t get enough love and director Catherine Hardwicke in the “Forks” high school cafeteria. I got to watch the filming of several key lunch scenes, and see how amazingly well the actors were portraying those human characters. Watching them be Mike and Eric and Jessica  [ Read More ]

Source KALAMA – Movie productions typically bring big bucks into the towns they locate in, but it’s unclear what sort of economic boost the filming of “Twilight” will have on Kalama. Aside from the school district – which received a $29,500 check from the production company for facility use, plus a donation to the student  [ Read More ]

source page 1 page 2 page 3 page 1 Collider: I’m curious, I know you just got back recently and I’m sure you’re not thinking about yet, but what can we look forward to on the DVD/Blu-ray? Catherine: Actually, I have been working on the DVD already. So we put together all the deleted scenes  [ Read More ]

Source March 17, 2008 COLUMBUS, Wis– Rubber cobblestone covers parts of two downtown Columbus streets. Buildings now sport old-fashioned awnings and facades. It’s all to take this city 70 miles northwest of Milwaukee back to the 1930s for filming “Public Enemies,” a movie starring Johnny Depp as bank robber John Dillinger, along with Christian Bale  [ Read More ]