All about my movies: insights, never seen footage and more.
This Poetic Live Action Vid Game Spot was so exciting to direct cause my team were all superconscious old friends. Like Dream Yoga, "Hunt The Thing" is about dying to the moment - asking dream monsters what they need. In this case, it's a flame thrower. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjeoSpYd45A Props to Avishay Goram & Paul ...
Read More →"Passion of the Heist" got on the cover of the Hollywood Reporter in 2004 granting me "filmmaker fthe month" . But, Great jobs by Michael Mistich (co-writer and actor playing Mel Gibson) and Mary Helen Shashy really made the short work! http://youtu.be/ulgZu-bWoM4 http://youtu.be/tVLJvaOvcSM http://youtu.be/jrugzbuK09I
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I travelled into the Malaysian Rain Forest to meet with the SENOI to research this story... it is not that far from fact... rewriting with Ron Osborne's guidance (my Art Center professor who has rewritten for Spielberg and many others), but the basis of this story came from my dreams... ...
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Save RevoLOUtion to your Netflix Cue! http://www.netflix.com/Movie/RevoLOUtion/70003204 NBC Video of our "Pay After The Movie" experiment in 2006. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT3Xy7-I3k0&feature=related
Read More →Quinn Redeker is one of the greatest guys I know. Total positivity. He believes, as do I, now: that literally whatever you think, you create. But I learned some key writing concepts from him: 1. The Hero's journey: -A. A call to adventure signals the hero to a life changing opportunity offered by a ...
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Had to share great notes from my Art Center screenwriting professor: Ron has rewritten for Speilberg and many others, and is working with me on my new script... Get him at http://nobullshitscreenwriting.com/ "if we both choose to move forward on this – on my part in doing two things simultaneously: trying to shape ...
Read More →I asked Michael Bay to hear my idea for a film I dreamt up. He gave me his cell and never responded after many texts and calls. I will keep after him. But I told him I would go back to school at his Alma Matter (Pasadena's Art Center) if ...
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I shot this in twenty minutes. I used 2 people I found walking down the beach. I happen to be in thailand, and was meeting a visual effects designer to discuss underwater dolphin photography and doing some animation, but it's just as easy to shoot a sketch, and I think ...
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Legendary composer Bill Conti (Rocky, The Karate Kid, The Right Stuff, etc.) was in semi retirement when MaryHelen and I were humming theme songs in the car and kept coming back to his "Rocky" theme. She said, "What do we have to lose? Send it to him". We were in ...
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Fox News' Julliette Huddy credits Bret with an amazing Performance and Directing Job and then asks how he is credited with discovering Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts.
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