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Questions from Planet Hood
It was quiet on the lot yesterday. Apart from the crews on the stages, most people seemed to have left early to travel for Thanksgiving. I went for a wander and found my way onto the giant set for Miami Trauma, Jeffrey Lieber’s show for Bruckheimer which is now shooting. I don’t think I’m giving…
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Kong at Christie’s
The 22-inch metal armature from one of the animation figures created for the original 1933 King Kong has been sold at auction for £120,000. Because of the perishable nature of the materials used in their construction, little usually survives of stop-motion models once a few years have passed. As with the rest of us, only…
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Callan on DVD
In the UK there’s a boxed set that calls itself season one but is actually season three. Who on earth thought that was a good idea? In the US there’s ‘set one’ and now ‘set two’ while from Australia ‘season four’ includes two episode commentaries from Woodward. Last night I hopped all over the web…
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On the Set
It’s always pleasant to work on a set where visits by family members are welcomed. It makes for a nice atmosphere. On Friday, the father of our cameraman Eric Roizman came in to watch some filming and meet his son’s co-workers. I got to lend him my chair in the video village. If you’re wondering…
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Edward Woodward
I just heard on the news that actor Edward Woodward has died at the age of 79. This is a post that I wrote in September 2008.I came across my old autograph album when I was straightening the study a couple of weeks ago. Back when I was a child I used to study the…
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Titans Will Clash
Have you seen the new trailer for the remake of Clash of the Titans? “Titans Will Clash!” I’m cool with it, because I thought Clash was a way less than perfect movie and was far from Uncle Ray’s best work… that crappy mechanical owl that has to have been inserted by the studio as a…
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Best Clearance Note Ever
From the memo detailing the legal clearances on names, brand names and any other identifiable object involved in my current script:
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Scripts Online
Over at his Complications Ensue blog, Alex Epstein provides a handy link to a site called Pilot School where downloadable scripts for a host of pilot shows can be found. I don’t know where they’re sourced from, but they include one of my drafts for the British pilot of Eleventh Hour along with Mick Davis’s…
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Richard Williams
You could do worse than hop over to Blowing my Thought Wad for this piece inspired by a recent Foyles event featuring ‘veteran animator’, Canadian-born Richard Williams. Williams is an animator of eclectic achievements, the most well-known of which I imagine to be Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I suppose Williams is to drawn animation what…
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Star Wars
Star Wars? I was right there at the beginning, I tell you. Well, when I say the beginning, I mean I got into the press show. In Manchester. All right, so it was hardly the creative coalface, but looking back on it I can feel that I was a witness to something. I saw the…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
