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JAMES CAMERONMy search for the best (and most affordable) visual effects designer I could find led me to the Roger Corman Company. Corman is famous for making a lot of movies on very cheap budgets, employing first-timers who become big-timers—from Scorsese to Coppola to Howard. Everyone there was raving about a young hotshot who was the art director and visual effects guru on Roger’s latest $3-dollar (as in extremely low budget) sci-fi epic Battle Beyond the Stars. So I arranged to meet with him.
His name was James Cameron.
Though Jim reeked talent, no one would have guessed he was going to become one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
Category Archives: Great Film Directors
HOLLYWOOD LORE: “Gimme A Bullet Hit Here…Like This!”
When you’re directing television, the most fun and creative challenge is adapting to the rapid transition of style/genre and meeting diverse personnel you encounter from series to series which can result in some of the most bizarre and hilarious adventures … Continue reading
Posted in Book Lovers, Celebrity in America, Entertainment News, Filmmaking, Great Film Directors, Hollywood Industry, Kiss Me Quick Before I Shoot, Movie Magic, Television Production, Uncategorized
Tagged ABC, Chicago, Chris Chulack, Danny Aiello, ER, Guy Magar, Jamie Rose, Johnny Depp, Lady Blue, MGM Television
SPIELBERG & WILLIAMS: The Divine Union of Film & Music
Forty years. Twenty-five films. Thirteen Oscar nominations for original score. In honor of my alma mater, The American Film Institute, and its “Master Class” celebrating the glorious collaboration between Steven Spielberg and John Williams, I salute them as the greatest … Continue reading
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Tagged American Film Institute, Bill Conti, Bruce Springsteen, Chariots of Fire, Clint Eastwood, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Eli Wallach, Elton John, Ennio Morricone, ET, Gone with the Wind, Hugh Hudson, Jaws, Jay Acovone, John Williams, Lookin' Italian, Matt LeBlanc, Robert De Niro, Rocky, Rolling Stones, Sergio Leone, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, The Godfather, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission
James Cameron’s SHRIEK before AVATAR!
(Excerpt from Guy Magar’s film memoir KISS ME QUICK BEFORE I SHOOT: A Filmmaker’s Journey into the Lights of Hollywood and True Love) Finally, I had found the financing for my first feature, SHRIEK. We started hiring a crew, casting … Continue reading
GREEN ZONE: Top Ten of the Decade
Regardless of what Oscars and Golden Globes tell us, it’s difficult in any one year to get full agreement on the best movie of the year, or even the best movies of all time as per the American Film Institute’s … Continue reading
