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...only pre-premiere insights to the film came from two people who had been close to Jackson. His father Joe told the British tabloid News of the World, "This movie features body doubles, no doubt about it." (Given Joe's wrangles with his family and with AEG, the concert's promoters, he may not be an unimpeachable source.) Michael's stalwart buddy Elizabeth Taylor, who attended an early screening last week, effusively tweeted that This Is It was "the single most brilliant piece of filmmaking I have ever seen." And she was in The Sandpiper. (Read a Q&A with...
...what is This Is It? A concert film without the concert. A backstage musical that takes place almost entirely onstage. A no-warts hagiography that still gets the audience closer to the real Michael Jackson - MJ the performer, that is - than anything in the man's avidly documented history. Wisely and decently ignoring the circumstances of his death and the circus that followed it, Ortega focuses on the re-creation of about a dozen Jackson standards for the concert. ("Beat It," "Billie Jean," "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "Black and White" and "I'll Be There" are all here.) At times...
...summer blockbuster used the campus of Penn as a stand-in for what appears to be Princeton, the makers of "The Social Network," affectionately known as "the Facebook movie," are pulling a similar campus switch. Unable to shoot on Harvard's campus, the movie's producers have decided to film three outdoor campus scenes, referring to Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg's time at Harvard, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore...
...seems there is no similar outcry from Hopkins, where students and faculty may actually be excited about the project. In a Student Announcement from Dennis O'Shea, in Communications and Public Affairs at Hopkins, the school officially welcomes the film team, citing the boost such a project can bring to a local film industry struggling amid the recession...
...extras for stand-in Harvard students. Good luck trying to procure enough J.Crew loafers and North Face backpacks to make that work. Though, come to think of it, this financial boost thing seems rather practical. Maybe Harvard should've started recouping endowment losses sooner by opening its gates to film crews...