Creating Content in Houses of Worship
Veteran filmmaker Ken Wales will share insights on the impact of entertainment technology on storytelling as the keynote speaker of Createasphere’s Executive Marketplace for Houses of Worship this July.
Ken was the Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed and award-winning CBS Television series Christy. He enjoyed a long running partnership with director Blake Edwards, producing many films with him including The Great Race, Darling Lili, and The Revenge of the Pink Panther among others. Ken also produced the Emmy nominated, Golden Globe winner miniseries John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, and was associate producer for the first season of Cagney and Lacey. He spent time in the studio system at Walt Disney Pictures, where he was Vice President of Production. Ken has most recently earned acclaim for the powerful film Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce’s grueling but victorious campaign to end Britain’s slave trade. Read more..
John Underkoffler, Oblong Industries, Opens the World with the Wave of a Hand
A gripping keynote at Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management Conference
When John Underkoffler presented last month’s Keynote Address at Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management Conference in Universal City, he was met with the conference equivalent of “Bravo! Encore!” from an enthusiastic audience. Underkoffler had taken attendees into the world of gestural interfaces, his viewpoint of the evolution of the personal computer, and offered insights about the profound meaning of data.
Underkoffler is the Founder and Chief Scientist for Oblong Industries, a company aiming to transform the way we work, create and collaborate. Their g-speak spatial operating environment (SOE) is a radically new platform that made its public debut in the tech-forward movie Minority Report. Read more..
LOUIS CIOFFI, ACE: DEXTER, IN THE CUT
Missing your favorite show? Check out this interview from Louis Cioffi, ACE while you wait for the new season to begin this fall.
Louis Cioffi, ACE, has found “Dexter” to be an enthralling assignment for the past 4 seasons. An award-winning editor for his work on the highly acclaimed series, Cioffi joined “Dexter” in 2007. Cioffi has worked extensively in network, cable and features and is currently working on independent film, “Hidden Moon.”
Createasphere: What was your first job in “the industry? Read more..
Raging Bulls
Oscar winner Mauro Fiore, ASC jumps back into the VFX ring for the robot-boxing drama Real Steel.
In Real Steel, Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a boxer who, in trade parlance, “could have been a contender.” But in the not-too-distant future, after human prizefighting is outlawed, boxing becomes a ‘robots only’ sport, forcing Charlie to keep his hand in the only way he can: managing low-end battle ‘bots. Reuniting with his estranged pre-teen son (Dakota Goyo), Charlie is inspired to build a fighting machine that can knock everyone’s block off, and go the distance.
While evoking every classic boxing movie from The Champ to Rocky, Real Steel’s storyline actually derives from Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee Richard Matheson’s short story Steel, which the author adapted into a poignant Twilight Zone episode starring Lee Marvin. Nearly 40 years ago, Matheson’s adaptation of his story Duel resulted in a memorably harrowing TV-movie that launched the career of Steven Spielberg, who executive produced Real Steel and convinced Shawn Levy to direct. Cinematographer Mauro Fiore, ASC, came aboard shortly thereafter, as he recalls: “I had a two-hour meeting where Shawn described the film conceptually. He had this melancholy view of the future that involved looking back at imagery of a nostalgic past.” READ the rest of the article on ICGmagazine.com
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