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The Hateful Eight will be completed for Toronto International Film Festival next year, THR reports.
Watch Richard Brody‘s video essay on Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master, courtesy of New Yorker:
Vulture profiles Hollywood’s most prominent trailer editor Mark Woolen:
Having already finished the full-length trailers, Woollen spends almost an hour with Sengupta and an editor on the first Birdman TV commercial, which has to telegraph more in less time, and to a broader audience. He tries out different songs and takes, calls in a designer to talk kerning (font is really important to him), and orders up new samples of sounds, “just looking for other rhythms and patterns.” The editor suggests an opening voice-over. “I can’t help feeling it just undervalues the material,” says Woollen. (One of the deadliest sins in his book is “cheating” a film — either by overpromising or underselling.) “I think we could have been in that room all day,” Sengupta tells me afterward. “As I like to say, Mark will ‘frame-fuck’ things — one frame this way, one frame that way. You think it wouldn’t make a difference, but it does.”
Watch an hour of Saul Bass title sequences, courtesy of Rope of Silicon:
At /Film, Germain Lussier wonders if Interstellar has major sound mix issues:
From the first press screenings through opening night, fans have been complaining about issues with the film’s sound mix. Reports say multiple scenes have the music and sound effects so loud that dialogue is drowned out. This doesn’t seem to be an isolated incident. It’s a complaint that’s been registered all over the US, Europe, and Canada, with the film’s official site even adding a link to report problems.