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...Rodriguez, 37, the Lone Star maverick who writes, directs, shoots, cuts and scores his own movies as well as supervises the special effects, doing it all at his home ranch on the Pedernales River and at a small Austin, Texas, studio. Using high-definition cameras, he shot his Sin City actors against a green screen, filling in the backgrounds digitally, and rarely went beyond a second or third take. That's one secret to making a gorgeous all-star movie for $40 million--less than half the average Hollywood budget...
...doesn't love the new movie deal? Well, some studio chiefs, who are worried that a movie on disc is much easier to dupe, and piracy is a huge drain on their income. But mainly theater owners. When they hear the word digital, they reach for their digitalis. Already feeling the hit from the 13% slump in moviegoing over the past three years, they aren't eager to spend the more than $3 billion or so that it would cost to convert approximately 36,000 film projectors to digital...
...someone over 65," says Crawford, "and there's no reason why they have to. On one issue, you can make four or five ads targeting entirely different groups. It's cheap because you don't have to pay for airtime, and because I don't need to book a studio"--Crawford edits everything on her Mac and does her own voice-overs--"it's rapid response. I can turn it around in 24 hours." The Democratic National Committee plans to use its list to make a series of inductive leaps. "If you know what magazines a 40-year-old female...
...Strokes concluded a three-night stand at the 3,000 person venue.The Strokes have clearly grown up since the release of their stripped-raw 2001 debut “Is This It.” Then, the skinny-tie-wearing partiers, barely beyond their teens, rejected million-dollar studio techniques for a bare, garage-rock sound. But the five subsequent years have witnessed a significant evolution for the band. They’ve developed a fuller sound, both on record and on stage, and perform more challenging instrumental parts and more expressive, emotional lyrics. What the Strokes have since lost...
...friend once told me he'd be happy to hear Neko Case sing passages from the phone book. It's no wonder. As on Case's previous three studio albums, the voice on her latest release, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, sucks you in with its seemingly effortless power and range, an intoxicating quality that blends the best of country and gospel. Her voice is the strongest instrument on the album. Every song feels as if it were written around...