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Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ death last Thursday on the set of Rust is the latest in a long list of camera crew members who have been killed on the job, making camera work far and away the most dangerous work in Hollywood, more deadly than even stunts.
In the last 10 years, four members of camera teams have been killed on the set in the US – twice the number of stunt fatalities.
Camera crews work directly in front of the action, with nothing but their cameras between them and a speeding car, train or bullet. They’ve been killed in airplane and helicopter crashes; washed overboard and drowned in the ocean; struck and killed by a runaway stunt car; and crushed to death in a camera truck rollover.
The death of 27-year-old camera assistant Sarah Jones, who was killed on Feb.20, 2014 by a speeding freight train while filming a scene for Midnight Rider in Georgia,...
In the last 10 years, four members of camera teams have been killed on the set in the US – twice the number of stunt fatalities.
Camera crews work directly in front of the action, with nothing but their cameras between them and a speeding car, train or bullet. They’ve been killed in airplane and helicopter crashes; washed overboard and drowned in the ocean; struck and killed by a runaway stunt car; and crushed to death in a camera truck rollover.
The death of 27-year-old camera assistant Sarah Jones, who was killed on Feb.20, 2014 by a speeding freight train while filming a scene for Midnight Rider in Georgia,...
- 10/24/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
On this day in history as it relates to showbiz...
1040 King Duncan is killed in battle and King Macbeth succeeds him. Shakespeare fictionalizes everything later for Macbeth. So many theatrical productions and movies follow. Out damn spot!
1932 The 1932 Summer Olympics end. This is the Olympic year when gorgeous Buster Crabbe became a gold medalist (pictured left). Hollywood then snatched him right up for movie serials and action adventure franchises including Tarzan The Fearless
1945 Japan surrenders during Ww II (the six year war will last only two more weeks.) but movie makers all over the world have never stopped telling the war's infinite stories. On that same day Steve Martin is born in Waco Texas. It only takes him another 68 years to get the Oscar he totally deserved
1946 Two actor birthdays: Blacksploitation actor Antonio Fargas who became "Huggybear" on TV's popular Starksy & Hutch and Susan Saint James TV of McMillan & Wife...
1040 King Duncan is killed in battle and King Macbeth succeeds him. Shakespeare fictionalizes everything later for Macbeth. So many theatrical productions and movies follow. Out damn spot!
1932 The 1932 Summer Olympics end. This is the Olympic year when gorgeous Buster Crabbe became a gold medalist (pictured left). Hollywood then snatched him right up for movie serials and action adventure franchises including Tarzan The Fearless
1945 Japan surrenders during Ww II (the six year war will last only two more weeks.) but movie makers all over the world have never stopped telling the war's infinite stories. On that same day Steve Martin is born in Waco Texas. It only takes him another 68 years to get the Oscar he totally deserved
1946 Two actor birthdays: Blacksploitation actor Antonio Fargas who became "Huggybear" on TV's popular Starksy & Hutch and Susan Saint James TV of McMillan & Wife...
- 8/14/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
On this day exactly ten years ago, a movie dropped that would forever change the face of independent film. Love it or hate it, The Blair Witch Project stands proudly as a sterling example that anyone with the right equipment, a boatload of passion, and a bitchin' idea can make a great film outside of Hollywood.
What a ride this flick had, huh? Sadly, it seems en vogue now to hate the movie, but back in the day most fans (myself included) just couldn't get enough of the story, the books, the film, and the brilliant mythology that had been put into place.
For all those involved -- from directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick to talented collaborators like Ben Rock and Neal Fredericks and everyone in-between -- we here at Dread Central would like to take a moment to say thanks not only for the scares but for giving...
What a ride this flick had, huh? Sadly, it seems en vogue now to hate the movie, but back in the day most fans (myself included) just couldn't get enough of the story, the books, the film, and the brilliant mythology that had been put into place.
For all those involved -- from directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick to talented collaborators like Ben Rock and Neal Fredericks and everyone in-between -- we here at Dread Central would like to take a moment to say thanks not only for the scares but for giving...
- 7/15/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
One new movie I haven't heard much about until now is Ramzi Abed's The Devil's Muse, but that's all about to change. On September 30th Halo-8 Entertainment is releasing a deluxe two-disc set of the film. It'll be packed with goodies including a full-length soundtrack CD composed by David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets) and Ego Plum (Nicktoons' Making Fiends).
So, what's The Devil's Muse about? Halo-8 provided this summary:
When beautiful young actress Lisa Small (Kristen Kerr of David Lynch's Inland Empire) is cast as the tragic victim known as The Black Dahlia in a film about Hollywood's most famous unsolved murder, an entire dreamworld awakens around her. Meanwhile, a local sociopath has set out on a copycat murder spree timed out with the 60th anniversary of the original killing. A spider's web grows around Lisa as her nightmares and desires intersect with the death toll rising around her.
So, what's The Devil's Muse about? Halo-8 provided this summary:
When beautiful young actress Lisa Small (Kristen Kerr of David Lynch's Inland Empire) is cast as the tragic victim known as The Black Dahlia in a film about Hollywood's most famous unsolved murder, an entire dreamworld awakens around her. Meanwhile, a local sociopath has set out on a copycat murder spree timed out with the 60th anniversary of the original killing. A spider's web grows around Lisa as her nightmares and desires intersect with the death toll rising around her.
- 9/18/2008
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Cinematographer Neal L. Fredericks, best known for his work on The Blair Witch Project, was killed Saturday while lensing the independent film Cross Bones in the Florida Keys. He was 35. Fredericks was filming aerial shots for the movie from a single-engine Cessna 206 when the plane's engine sputtered twice at an altitude of about 500 feet before going down in about 50 feet of water, according to Cross Bones writer-director Daniel Zirilli. Zirilli, the pilot, a co-producer and a first camera assistant escaped the wreckage through an open door, but Fredericks, who was strapped into a safety harness beneath camera equipment, was unable to free himself from his seat before the plane was submerged.
- 8/17/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Two naive but determined would-be filmmakers from the sticks are lured to Hollywood and flop in a small way -- or do they?
With cinematography by Neal Fredericks ("The Blair Witch Project") as perhaps its biggest claim to fame, the low-budget feature "Dreamers" has won several awards at small festivals since it first appeared last year. But it's little more than a depressing cinematic postcard to anyone who is not as clueless as its lead characters.
When has the business of making movies not been a daily tug of war between gross exploitation and grotesque deification of those responsible for creating our celluloid dreams? First-time writer-director Ann Lu, a native of China who has lived in the United States since 1994, may know that the answer is "never," but her film is neither insightful nor gritty enough to keep one's attention.
The film starts with a dog defecating on a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame as a way of introducing the recurring character of a worshipful Japanese tourist -- named after famed director Yasujiro Ozu -- who only enters the scenario directly at the end. "Dreamers" is about longtime pals Dave (Jeremy Jordan) and Ethan (Mark Ballou) of Jefferson City, Tenn.
Escaping a broken home, Ethan is the first young man to go west. The shy Dave, who was called "retard" by schoolmates when growing up, comes from a religious family. His parents matter-of-factly load him up with condoms as he gets on the bus. On the way to hell ... er, Hollywood, Dave gets sleepy reading Ethan's satirical script about sufferers of CFDS (Chronic Filmmaking Deficiency Syndrome). Does Dave wake up figuratively and literally when he gets to dreamland?
Most of "Dreamers" chronicles Dave's brush with the "realities of the business." Struggling auteur Ethan, living with his half-crazy mother, is already jaded and ready to call it quits when Dave shows up to urge him onward. With a pathetically ineffective producer (Courtney Gains) not helping the situation, unprepared Dave goes to work on a sexploitation movie to gain experience. He learns an illusion-shattering thing or two.
Eventually, Dave has romantic desires for genuine honey and struggling actress Patricia (Portia Dawson). But when he has the urge to help Ethan get money for his movie, Dave loses his innocence to Valerie (Ruth De Sosa), a horny married woman and potential investor. Meanwhile, there are several predictable flashbacks and interludes that might be dreams within a dream, including one where the leads meet a low-budget producer-distributor (wryly played by the late Paul Bartel), who insists the secret to a successful movie is to have "something happen every four minutes."
Much of "Dreamers" is competent in terms of the basics, but Lu really has nothing new to say and can't resist an upbeat ending. Her cause is helped and hindered by the performances, some of which are more focused than others, often as a result of Lu's hit-and-miss screenplay.
DREAMERS
Dark Lantern Pictures
An Artie Glackin production
Screenwriter-director: Ann Lu
Producer: Artie Glackin
Executive producers: Peiti Feng,
Yang-Wen Lu, Carl L. Fredericks, Henry Zhao
Director of photography: Neal Fredericks
Production designer: Jordan Steinberg
Editor: Andrea Zondler
Music: Bob Mithoff
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dave: Jeremy Jordan
Ethan: Mark Ballou
Mike: Courtney Gains
Patricia: Portia Dawson
Valerie: Ruth De Sosa
Matt: Camille Gaston
Pete: Brian Krause
Larry: Paul Bartel
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA Rating...
With cinematography by Neal Fredericks ("The Blair Witch Project") as perhaps its biggest claim to fame, the low-budget feature "Dreamers" has won several awards at small festivals since it first appeared last year. But it's little more than a depressing cinematic postcard to anyone who is not as clueless as its lead characters.
When has the business of making movies not been a daily tug of war between gross exploitation and grotesque deification of those responsible for creating our celluloid dreams? First-time writer-director Ann Lu, a native of China who has lived in the United States since 1994, may know that the answer is "never," but her film is neither insightful nor gritty enough to keep one's attention.
The film starts with a dog defecating on a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame as a way of introducing the recurring character of a worshipful Japanese tourist -- named after famed director Yasujiro Ozu -- who only enters the scenario directly at the end. "Dreamers" is about longtime pals Dave (Jeremy Jordan) and Ethan (Mark Ballou) of Jefferson City, Tenn.
Escaping a broken home, Ethan is the first young man to go west. The shy Dave, who was called "retard" by schoolmates when growing up, comes from a religious family. His parents matter-of-factly load him up with condoms as he gets on the bus. On the way to hell ... er, Hollywood, Dave gets sleepy reading Ethan's satirical script about sufferers of CFDS (Chronic Filmmaking Deficiency Syndrome). Does Dave wake up figuratively and literally when he gets to dreamland?
Most of "Dreamers" chronicles Dave's brush with the "realities of the business." Struggling auteur Ethan, living with his half-crazy mother, is already jaded and ready to call it quits when Dave shows up to urge him onward. With a pathetically ineffective producer (Courtney Gains) not helping the situation, unprepared Dave goes to work on a sexploitation movie to gain experience. He learns an illusion-shattering thing or two.
Eventually, Dave has romantic desires for genuine honey and struggling actress Patricia (Portia Dawson). But when he has the urge to help Ethan get money for his movie, Dave loses his innocence to Valerie (Ruth De Sosa), a horny married woman and potential investor. Meanwhile, there are several predictable flashbacks and interludes that might be dreams within a dream, including one where the leads meet a low-budget producer-distributor (wryly played by the late Paul Bartel), who insists the secret to a successful movie is to have "something happen every four minutes."
Much of "Dreamers" is competent in terms of the basics, but Lu really has nothing new to say and can't resist an upbeat ending. Her cause is helped and hindered by the performances, some of which are more focused than others, often as a result of Lu's hit-and-miss screenplay.
DREAMERS
Dark Lantern Pictures
An Artie Glackin production
Screenwriter-director: Ann Lu
Producer: Artie Glackin
Executive producers: Peiti Feng,
Yang-Wen Lu, Carl L. Fredericks, Henry Zhao
Director of photography: Neal Fredericks
Production designer: Jordan Steinberg
Editor: Andrea Zondler
Music: Bob Mithoff
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dave: Jeremy Jordan
Ethan: Mark Ballou
Mike: Courtney Gains
Patricia: Portia Dawson
Valerie: Ruth De Sosa
Matt: Camille Gaston
Pete: Brian Krause
Larry: Paul Bartel
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA Rating...
- 6/15/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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