Do you really want to attend that casting call for Star Wars: Episode VII? Really? Then be sure to heed our advice
• Original Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz offers his advice
Say what you like about Star Wars, but you can't deny that it knows its audience. By holding open casting for the film's two lead roles, its producers are giving Star Wars fans a shot at an incredible prize. Anyone who's ever done a ropey Yoda voice, or gone to a fancy dress party in a brown dressing gown, or filmed themselves swinging a broomstick around with dangerous abandon; all they've ever wanted was to be in a Star Wars film. And now they can come closer than ever to achieving that dream.
But if you're planning to attend one of the Star Wars open casting days, it's best to plan ahead. Even the slightest of slip-ups could derail you for good.
• Original Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz offers his advice
Say what you like about Star Wars, but you can't deny that it knows its audience. By holding open casting for the film's two lead roles, its producers are giving Star Wars fans a shot at an incredible prize. Anyone who's ever done a ropey Yoda voice, or gone to a fancy dress party in a brown dressing gown, or filmed themselves swinging a broomstick around with dangerous abandon; all they've ever wanted was to be in a Star Wars film. And now they can come closer than ever to achieving that dream.
But if you're planning to attend one of the Star Wars open casting days, it's best to plan ahead. Even the slightest of slip-ups could derail you for good.
- 11/6/2013
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
At a Comic-Con panel today, Dr. Harry Kloor — who holds doctorate degrees in physics and chemistry — updated the audience on his animated project Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey.
The 3D, CGI animated film releases in large format theaters in February 2010. It includes footage of planets and moons such as Venus, Mercury, Mars and Titan that is based on real radar data provided by the Cassini-Huygens satellite.
The project started at Nasa around 1997, Kloor explained, but it had to wait until 2008 for the satellite to provide the required information.
At that time, Kloor said, scientists were asking why protons and electrons are able to accelerate away from the Sun. Kloor had an idea about how that could happen, and included his explanation — that the particles actually surf on the solar winds — in his script for the film.
Two years later Nasa published a study confirming that protons are able to accelerate by surfing solar winds.
The 3D, CGI animated film releases in large format theaters in February 2010. It includes footage of planets and moons such as Venus, Mercury, Mars and Titan that is based on real radar data provided by the Cassini-Huygens satellite.
The project started at Nasa around 1997, Kloor explained, but it had to wait until 2008 for the satellite to provide the required information.
At that time, Kloor said, scientists were asking why protons and electrons are able to accelerate away from the Sun. Kloor had an idea about how that could happen, and included his explanation — that the particles actually surf on the solar winds — in his script for the film.
Two years later Nasa published a study confirming that protons are able to accelerate by surfing solar winds.
- 7/24/2009
- CinemaSpy
While the rest of the fine Hitfix staff is at Comic-Con in San Diego this week, I will be at the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain covering a film music conference. But as my small contribution to Comic-Con, I wanted to write about my recent day up at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in Marin County outside of San Franciso, where I watched composer Shawn Clement record his score for "Quantum Quest." Clement will speak at Comic-Con on July 23 at noon on a panel dedicated to "Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey" with the movie's co-director and writer/producer...
- 7/20/2009
- Hitfix
Alpine Pictures signs Martin Short and Jim Belushi to star in its upcoming animated musical feature film Dorothy of Oz. Short and Belushi will lend their voices to the Jester and the Lion respectively. Based on Roger S. Baum's books and writing, Dorothy of OZ is the first in a series of animated movies from Alpine Pictures, in association with Box Office Productions III. The movie is being produced by Bonne Radford (Curious George, Road to El Dorado, Balto) and directed by noted director/animator Daniel St. Pierre (Everyone's Hero, and upcoming Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, and Sheepish). Roger S. Baum is the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and other Oz books.
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- 9/17/2008
- by gwen@cynopsis.com
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