Filmmakers

DJI unveiled its latest high-end drone for professional filmmakers today. The Inspire 3 is a full-frame 8K cinema drone in a “highly portable form factor” that can be yours this summer for a mere $16,499. The DJI Inspire 3 has a Zenmuse X9-8K Air Gimbal Camera with a wide range of dynamic colors and compatibility with various lenses. Its camera system has dual native ISO for clear low-light footage while covering over 14 stops of dynamic range to help capture highlights and shadows in sunrises and sunsets. It has a Tilt…

A dream prospect. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the short-lived, self-destructive wünderkind who made movies about love as masochism, pain as an inevitable condition and history as a dire weight upon his native Germany, has long been in need of an equally forthright celebration. And who better to provide it than one-time NME star, cultural contrarian and film nut Ian Penman, in his first original book since his great comeback suite of music essays, It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track, in 2019? Well, hold your…

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviewsSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter The state of Texas is vying to introduce new tax benefits for filmmakers thanks, in part, to the success of Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone series.The Western drama starring Kevin Costner was filmed in the small town of Venus, Texas, providing a vital boost to the local economy.However, many TV shows and films set in Texas are not actually filmed there because surrounding states offer more…

When Julia (Andie MacDowell) walks into an English hospital for chemotherapy she has her problems — her recent West End play bombed and roles back in America aren’t what they used to be — but Julia still has plenty of fight (and arrogance) left in her, and, with a daughter soon getting married back in America, a lot to live for. In the chemo ward, she meets three women in different phases of their cancer treatments and lives. The marketing material for “My Happy Ending” (Feb. 24th in theaters) talks about how these women…

Two days before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring ... except for this bunch of colleagues, who can’t stop, won’t stop karaoking through the few remaining not-so-silent nights.I’m Glenn Whipp, columnist for the Los Angeles Times, host of The Envelope’s Friday newsletter and the guy wondering how it can possibly be Christmas karaoke without “Must Be Santa.” C'mon ... who doesn’t love a zany polka this time of year? (Don’t answer that.)Ten women directors deserving attention Shortly after the…

The loudest voices always make the most noise, so if you weren’t aware of or familiar with Taika Waititi‘s work prior to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you’d be forgiven for thinking the filmmaker has managed to torpedo his own mainstream career with the polarizing Thor: Love and Thunder. And yet, the New Zealander’s track record of success paints the exact opposite picture; in fact, it definitely wouldn’t be a stretch to call Waititi one of the decade’s greatest filmmakers across both film and television, regardless of…

According to Variety, a US-based entertainment portal, American film producer Donald Kushner spoke about storytelling in the age of metaverse at the Red Sea International Film Festival. "To create engagement, you have to have a story. In the metaverse, the creators will create the stories, and the stories they tell will create the community, just like at the beginning of time. The king's storyteller kept people engaged, Shakespeare kept people engaged," said American film producer Donald Kushner, whose 1982 film…

Lucasfilm seems to change its mind about who should helm Star Wars in this glorious new era nearly as much as George Lucas used to change tiny details in his two trilogies in subtle, but nevertheless controversial ways. Now that more people are starting to realize a trend, the real question is if we can perceive any future for the galaxy far, far away that even remotely comes close to a coherent interconnected narrative like the one in Disney’s other big cinematic franchise. As we ponder the future of the OG sci-fi…

Whenever anything goes wrong in Star Wars, fans almost instantly point the finger of blame of Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, which is fair enough when she’s the one at the very top of the food chain. Andor may have been winning massive plaudits as arguably one of the finest projects ever set in a galaxy far, far away, with Tony Gilroy and his team luxuriating in the sort of creative freedom that’s been hard to come by during the Disney era. In fact, a galling report from The Direct underlines that point by…

One the largest pieces of NASA’s fallen space shuttle Challenger has been discovered on the ocean floor by a TV documentary team searching for a downed World War II aircraft. The artifact, which today remains where it was found by the crew filming The History Channel’s new series “The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters,” was positively identified by NASA based upon the item’s modern construction and presence of 8-inch (20 centimeters) square thermal protection (heat shield) tiles. The segment of Challenger was found in…