Recent content by trevanian

Have you read the Kaufman treatment? It's a fascinating mess. For decades I thought it and/or the story by the two screenwriters preceeding it was a big missed op relative to what we got, but after finally reading it (or all but one page that was missing), it just seemed way off the mark for the...

Just to clarify on this: all of the costs preceding the actual production on TMP, from GR's office space for several years to the setbuilding for phase 2 and work that went into TITANS and pay-or-play contracts for cast, only came to maybe 5 mil of the total cost of the film. That's a figure...

I've just finished interviewing a bunch of folks who made THE OFFER (making of GODFATHER series), and every single one of them brought up Willis' work even before I got round to asking. Most of them actually recounted how the work changed the way they thought about movies, in terms of potential...

Seconded, still have a good memory of seeing that at the theater, but every time I've ever tried rewatching, the look of the thing just unravels the experience. Felt it could have been called HOW TO BEAT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING PT 2. Oh, my choice in this category is always LOOKING FOR MR...

That's like saying there's no point in doing Bond movies at 4K. Fine grain slow ASA film stock with tons of light pouring onto the sets creating saturated yet contrasty rich results, and even if Finnerman's work sometimes had seven shadows, it was truly painting with light. And that's just the...

I don't supposed this time they honored Roddenberry's promise from 1980 that any reissue would include a lot of the 'accidentally left out' credits, like Brick Price Movie Miniatures which worked on the film for the better part of two years without any onscreen mention at all, despite repeat...

Count me among them, as I find the director's cut version of the wormhole sound to be utterly abysmal, sounding monotonous and also injurious to the scene (and that's just one of dozens of complaints I have with what they did to the film, since most of their 'enhancements' just exchanged one...

I've read a pretty detailed description of some UK mystery series that did an episode in the 90s that SKYFALL duplicates beat for bloody beat. Will have to try to find out the title. I found SKYFALL to be one of the worst Bond movies since VIEW TO A KILL -- except for the brief Shanghai fight...

The stage where the final metamorphosis takes place was used on HEAVEN CAN WAIT for the limbo set, and was just filled with dust. So no matter how hard studiofolk tried to vacuum the air and clean things up, when you turned on a backlight the dust was everywhere. I suppose all stages have...

Don't think I've seen this since the late 80s. I know William Goldman thought the film was miscast, that the leads should have traded parts, but it worked for me. I picked up a copy of the score on vinyl recently (still in the shrinkwrap!) and have been trying to figure out whether I should...

Then I guess I'll absent myself from this forum. If you reward incompetence and outright deceit with the citation that it is somehow good journalism in your book, you don't deserve better. Very disappointed in you both.

Agree with most of your assessments, and caught most of same errors (I had that same apollo XI stamp as a kid) though the thing about when Cooper got shot isn't right. The way it is written, I can see how you draw that timeframe conclusion, but on those 2 pages Frost talks about one thing, then...

If it really only cost 40 or 50 mil, I'd think it almost can't help but break even or succeed, even if they drop a fair amount on ads (that we apparently have seen yet) to boost the break even number. (then again SERENITY was this cheap and somehow got trashed at box office by DOOM and other...

If this were the 1970s, I'd agree, but modelkits are far from a going concern marketing-wise. Plus the marketing on BEYOND was almost nonexistent (not even a tie-in novel, and the only making-of is something from the UK that isn't even out yet), so again par isn't really exploiting this resource...

You're saying Spielberg was there for the 2nd unit stuff with real sharks? I hadn't ever heard that. The Alves thing sounds like a real trouble stirrer upper, like the Saul Bass claim to have shot the PSYCHO shower scene.