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Dreamworks Upheaval Sees Geffen Gone, Spielberg On His Own

Posted by Emmet Gibney on October 7th, 2008

It appears that even when you’re Spielberg you struggle for autonomy from the big bad studios in Hollywood. After years working under Paramount, Spielberg is taking Dreamworks, along with some hefty Indian indie financing, out on his own again.  David Geffen will be leaving Dreamworks and Jeffrey Katzenberg will still be involved with Dreamworks [...]

Cool Website About Becoming a Director

Posted by Emmet Gibney on July 31st, 2006

I found this really cool website about becoming a film director. It’s from a British website I think, so some of the resources don’t really apply to North America, but a good read anyway.

NYFA Purchases HVX-200 (12 of them!)

Posted by Emmet Gibney on May 30th, 2006

The New York Film Academy has apparently just bought 12 Panasonic HVX-200s for their students to shoot their student films on. This really excites me because I really want to shoot my stuff on HD, and this camera is basically the DVX-100 made for HD (I already own a DVX-100 for my wedding videography, [...]