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(via SlashGear) A little ahead of the official announcement, news has leaked-out that the new direction of RED’s Scarlet camera, which — about a year ago — offered 3K digital resolution filmmaking at a slashed price ($3000), will a modular mix-and-match system where you can choose your components (and resulting price tag) from a nearly dizzying array of options, then go and shoot until you’re blue in the face…

Harry Knowles, over at AICN is reporting the sad news of the failing health of Forrest J Ackerman, author, agent, co-creator and editor of “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine, inventor of the term “sci-fi”, and the greatest film buff ever born. If one single person has had an influence on who I am today and what I have devoted my life to, it would be this man, who…

Mark your calendars, the RED Scarlet (and it’s 5K big brother, Epic) is not quite dead yet apparently, according to a post on the RED User messageboards from Jim Jannard, RED’s president. He says, “We will announce the new Scarlet and Epic programs on Thursday Nov. 13th. I want to say that no one has any idea how incredible this announcement will be. Call this hype… please.”

I, for…

(via Gizmodo) Okay, so the idea of shooting a feature film (or reasonably-lengthed short) with a still camera was really rubbing me the wrong way, but with the recent death of the RED Scarlet, what very cheap option does a guy like me have? Enter Redrock’s “Cinemizing” (that’s a brand new word there) kit for the Canon 5D Mark II DSLR, which, with a whole hell of…

While items on my to-do list this week included: 1) trying to arrange to get carton of Marlboros from a film office in London (in payment for putting together some storyboards for a big-budget short) and 2) craft concept art for “eF” where characters look like the actors who are being courted to play the parts (not as rewarding as it sounds), Zack Snyder’s list included 1) gathering the…

I have to say, “Let the Right One In” (”Låt den rätte komma in”) is one of the best-reviewed upcoming horror movies I’ve seen hide or hair of in awhile. Now that I’ve seen the red band trailer (super high-res version embedded below), I think I need to see it even more.

The film is directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the novel of the same name by…

I have to admit, trapped in my own selfish world, I didn’t even know that Butch was ill, but, since June, he had been battling lung cancer, which finally took his life Friday. Half of the pair that made up the best movie duo ever to reach the screen, he and Robert Redford appeared only in two films, both by the same director (George Roy Hill) and both unbeatable…

No, I don’t even want to say the words, “RED Scarlet has been canceled”, but, in a note on the RED user boards, Jim Jannard, president of the company, posted a cryptic note: “We have changed everything about Scarlet because the market has changed and we have discovered a lot of things in the process. We have a new vision.” The RED Scarlet page on the site…

Gregory McDonald, author of the “Fletch” series of books, died yesterday at his home in Tennessee. McDonald started his career as a journalist for the Boston Globe, then went on to fiction, penning the successful mystery series (”Fletch”, “Confess Fletch”, “Fletch’s Fortune”, etc.) which was later turned into a couple of films starring Chevy Chase.

His passing at this time is unfortunate, in the light of the possibility…

(via AICN) Very interesting article in Variety recently about some current troubles over at Fox and recent rocky returns, seems to explain a lot of questions — namely, what the heck “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” is doing as a summer release — and raises some gloomy exclamation points for the future (”Young X-Men” anyone?).

The article touches on the details behind some rumored problems on the…