Mutated animals will go on a Rampage a week sooner than they had planned. Warner Bros. has shifted the opening of the Dwayne Johnson video-game adaptation from from April 20 to April 13. This is in response to Disney-Marvel moving THEIR tentpole movie Avengers: Infinity War from May 4 to April 27. Rampage‘s move gives it […]
Why Does Hollywood Love Disaster Movies?
Film School Rejects gives a few reasons for the rise of the (mostly summer) blockbuster disaster movie, and the genre’s effects on other types of movie—science fiction/fantasy in particular. But all of them boil down to this: We don’t care about the people because of the disaster; we care about the disaster because of the people. […]
Fred Koenekamp, Oscar-Winning Cinematographer, Dead at 94
The man who put the “inferno” in The Towering Inferno has passed away. Fred J. Koenekamp, a veteran of more than 40 feature films alone, died May 31. In addition to winning the Academy Award for Inferno, Koenekamp was nominated for Oscars for his work on Patton and Islands in the Stream. He also garnered two Emmy nominations […]