The guys who brought us the Red One camera have made a major announcement, and while I am terribly late in reporting on it I figured I would make some mention about it anyway. The cameras are available for the high end with the new Red 5K Epic, and for entry level with the Red 3K Scarlet. After visiting HD For Indies I discovered that the Epic is expected to be priced around $40k while the Scarlet is expected to cost $3K. I’m assuming they are targetting the big hitters like Peter Jackson and company with the Epic, the Red One will be for the indies, and the Scarlet will be for students and hobbyists. Also announced was the Red Ray, which from my understanding is a player capable of playing back 4K footage from Red’s compact flash cards, but I am not exactly sure what this is all about to be honest.

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We recently finished post production on a new music video for a local artist here named Jordan Lee. This song is called “Everyone Is Tired”, hopefully you like it, cause we are certainly proud of it. Enjoy!

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Want to win a free HD camera? How about $4000? Well then you should check out The Microsoft Live @ Edu Film Series Contest. It’s only open to students in the US, which is of no use to us, but maybe it will be useful for some of you. I won’t go into great detail about the contest, you can find out more for yourself. If any of you enter let us know and we will link to our submissions.

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I stumbled across an interesting thing today, a kit you can buy which shows you how to make no budget films.  Now I haven’t really looked into this all that much, but it looks a little bit like “From Reel to Deal” by Dov SS Simens.  Maybe worth looking at.  If anyone knows anything about it, or ends up buying it let me know what you think.  The kit is called No Budget FilmMaking Ultra Pack (like the title of the post says above).  I have no idea if it is any good, so don’t take this as a referral of it’s quality or anything.

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Last January, Chen Shi-Zheng’s Dark Matter premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. But that wasn’t enough to get it a sweet deal, or any normal deal for that matter. It took a year, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, the film finally has a North American distributor in First Independent Pictures. Now the award-winner will get an April release, which will be followed by a DVD release, the details of which are currently being finalized.

The film, which stars Liu Ye, Aidan Quinn (who replaced Val Kilmer), and Meryl Streep, is based on a true story of a Chinese student in 1991 whose mental stability unravels when his hopes for scientific greatness are dashed due to his school’s internal politics. Ye plays the student, Liu Xing, Quinn plays his cosmology professor who brings the international student onto his research team, and Streep plays Xing’s other mentor, a patron of the university. The twist — his mentally-unraveled state leads him to extreme violence.

If you’re curious about the real story, and don’t want to be surprised, you can google “Gang Lu” and get the details of his story. Of course, this film is only based on the events, so it’s sure to have its own twists, turns, and Dark Matter. (Pun alert!) In the meantime, check out the trailer here.

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He created a cult following with Kung Fu Hustle, he might play Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid remake, and now, along with Kung Fu Hustle 2, Stephen Chow has another big flick on the way — CJ7. If his descriptions are anything to go by, this should be one heck of a movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chow had great things to say about the movie at a press conference yesterday, claiming that the film’s locally-produced state-of-the-art digital effects are “up to international standards that will withstand comparison.” Of course, such effects are pretty pricey, and Chow says the flick “the most expensive in my career.” While he won’t give an exact number, the budget is rumored to be about $20 million.

This is a pretty big deal for both Chow and China — CJ7 will have the country’s first cinematic creature that is completely digitally produced. What sort of creature? The flick is a “sci-fi comedy about how the sudden arrival of a strange new pet shakes the lives of a poor laborer father and his young son.” Apparently, this creature is some sort of alien in the shape of a dog. If you think this has a bit of an ET feel to it, you’d be right. The director has admitted that Steven Spielberg’s alien heavily inspired the story, being a favorite film of the actor/director.

While it is hitting Chinese screens at the end of the month, we won’t have very much longer to wait — the film is set to be released in the US on March 7.

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