While no one will deny Hollywood’s tendency to overuse clichés like “years in the making” to hype their wares, director James Cameron’s Avatar is one project that truly fits the description.
The Colbert Report is the tastiest news parody show on TV right now, as Stephen Colbert makes clear with his recent shot across the bow of the salad dressing industry. Excoriating a leading salad dressing manufacturer for its blatant diss of American-as-apple-pie mayonnaise, he lands an offbeat punch with almost every line.
The story centers on an American astronaut Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker who lands on Planet 51 to find a peaceful 1950s-style world and himself ironically cast as the invader from outer space.
The high expectations of the upscale population in the resort towns of Palm Desert and Palm Springs, Calif., extend to its preferences for timely, sophisticated news coverage. At Gulf-California Broadcast Company, this presents a few challenges.
17 days of primetime Olympic coverage. For the first time, the winter Olympic games will broadcast all in HD.
As many as five editors worked for more than a year in post, developing the multiple storylines, numerous visual and sound effects, and non-stop action-adventure for this summer blockbuster. A tapeless HD workflow helped keep the post workflow on track.
