Taking place a fair bit on Studio
backlots with all the hustle and bustle and politics, it will come as no surprise that the cast, is ridiculously stacked.
It's
a backlot with a costume budget and a design team who should have been told to scuff a floor or fray a hem here or there.
Not exact matches
Musk wrapped up 2016
with a presentation of the new roof product (on a studio
backlot in Hollywood!)
Coming Up In This Column: Friends
with Benefits; Crazy, Stupid, Love.; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2; Point Blank (2010); Mr. And Mrs. Smith (2005); The Great Escape; MGM: Hollywood's Greatest
Backlot (book); The Fox Film Corporation, 1915 - 1935: A History and Filmography (book); Covert Affairs, but first...
It is wider than it is tall, and it is packed
with an incredible amount of information about the old MGM studio in Culver City, complete
with a list of what films and television shows were shot on which
backlot sets.
Despite sun - bleached location photography by Marcel Zyskind, The Two Faces of January has the feel of a Forties
backlot thriller — Athens and Istanbul are «exotic» in the most retro sense, laden
with perils and marketplace grifters.
Suddenly, the film starts to tie everything together, capping off
with a wild chase through a studio
backlot.
The production numbers tend to grab at a number of visual ideas, but the simpler ones hybridize an old - fashioned
backlot aesthetic
with newfangled special effects.
Jonathan Mostow: If you're referring to the chase
with Bruce and Radha, here's a great irony — that sequence was one of the few not shot in Boston — in fact, it was shot almost entirely on the Paramount
backlot (to my knowledge, it's the largest and most complex chase scene ever shot on their
backlot — which, if you saw it, you'd realize how tiny an amount of real estate it is — and so puling off a chase of that scope was quite a tricky bit of business).
Newsies is a revisiting of the Old Hollywood
backlot musical, complete
with rousing and utterly interchangeable songs and several athletically choreographed dance sequences.
The pair opened the show
with an outrageous Mad Max: Fury Road homage, entering the Warner Bros.
backlot on an outsized battle rig and surrounded by a horde of War Boys.
With his faithful army of degenerate chainsaw - wielding Good Guy Dolls, Chucky will unleash havoc upon guests as they navigate a portion of the world - famous
backlot.
Gregory Ratoff directs
with an understated sense of shadowy threat — he does love those hard shadows and partially obscured faces and stormy nights — and makes great use of the Victorian - era
backlot street scenes and set.
For daring to dream of an old - school Hollywood musical
with a modern soul, and for applying his talents to some virtuosic
backlot spectacle, Directors Guild winner Damien Chazelle will cap his magic year
with a Best Director statuette.
In mainstream films, especially in the 1980s, the Los Angeles you saw wasn't the real one; it was a character
with this
backlot sort of atmosphere.
Mendez has to set up a production office on a studio
backlot (manned by a pair of old - school movie men, played
with gusto by Alan Arkin and John Goodman), buy ads in the trade mags, create storyboards and a script and then make his way to Tehran, sneak into the Canadian Embassy to meet
with the State Department six and prep them to act like screenwriters, producers, and cinematographers, eager to explore the exotic marketplaces of the city and the scenic desert backdrops that ring Tehran.
The desperation
with which jokes are used to combine the
backlot locations into a mock - up of an actual movie?
Throw in some equally bizarre scenes: one
with Robert Patrick deep in the jungle (that is so obviously a studio
backlot) and another in a cave
with Bigfoot (which obviously looks like a guy in an ape suit) and your monthly allotment for zaniness should just about be reached.
Universal launched their Oscar campaign back in May
with a DVD launch / awards party on the studio
backlot's Wisteria Lane to celebrate the horror comedy about suburbia gone very wrong.
Backlot will offer exclusive content, never - before - seen talent interviews, archival videos from the TCM vault, an exclusive TCM podcast, as well as opportunities to win visits to the TCM set, attend meet and greets
with TCM hosts and the opportunity to influence programming through online votes.
Woven into the story of Sultan's enchantment
with Sunny's (he eventually left his job at the Paris Review offices in Manhattan to work as a bartender at Sunny's once the place began opening more regularly) is the story of the rise, fall, and gentrification of Red Hook, Brooklyn, a once - seedy and crime - filled
backlot to Manhattan's glittering cinemascape.
For the past thirty years, CATS Inc. has ensured that all cats living in the studio
backlots are spayed and neutered, vaccinated, provided
with any needed medical care, and daily provided fresh food and water.
The movie
backlot setting gave developer Hello Games ample opportunity to play around
with Joe Danger's familiar mechanics and explore new territory
with creative gameplay objectives.
And, don't forget about what goes on behind the stage: new wall set, construction props and metropolis wall tiles together
with Planet Coaster's existing themes will allow you to build those far - from - glamourous... but essential
backlots.
Consisting of two or three walls and sometimes a roof, the façades on the
backlot are essentially shells of what is imagined to exist inside — they provide the viewer
with minimum visual information and little more.
As Los Angeles lawmakers, unions and studios prepare to make the case that California needs to beef up production incentives, they are apt to be met
with an obvious counterargument: Fabled Hollywood
backlots aren't exactly shuttered and full of tumbleweeds.
The first promo for the 86th annual Academy Awards has arrived and it features Ellen DeGeneres leading a dance mob through the streets of a
backlot while lip - dubbing along
with «The Walker» by Fitz and the Tantrums.