Tag: Alex Proyas

‘Knowing’ Teaser, plus RED is making waves!

This has been a film in the making that I personally have been eagerly awaiting. Not the movie itself (although it looks really good) but simply that it’s the next film from director Alex Proyas. Watch the teaser trailer, then read below to learn about the tech-connection the film has with a hot new camera system that’s making huge waves…

Red Digital Cinema / Red One:

[Red Digital Cinema has developed a revolutionary motion picture camera, the Red One. The Red One is the first digital movie camera that matches the detail and richness of analog film.

It records motion in an astounding 4,096 lines of horizontal resolution and 2,304 of vertical. By way of comparison, hi-definition digital movies like Sin City and the Star Wars prequels top out at 1,920 by 1,080. Red One delivers all the dazzle of analog, but it’s easier to use and orders of magnitude cheaper than a film camera. It threatens to make 35-mm movie film obsolete.] — Dr. Mercola (yeah, it’s an odd source that I nabbed from my Google reader but I liked how it laid out what Red is all about in so few words.)

Here’s a nice Internet sample of what RED can do…


skate – shot on red – 120 fps from opus magnum prod. on Vimeo.

To learn more about this new movie technology, go to RED’s official site.

New Sci-Fi Project for Alex Proyas … yay!

Phoenix Pictures has Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City)Â  setup to write and direct a feature film adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s science fiction novella ‘The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag’. This will be Proyas’ next project, receiving a budget of between $40-50 million, which he will begin working on once he finishes ‘Knowing’, his current film starring Nicolas Cage.

[Originally published in 1942, the offbeat tale centers on a man who becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes he cannot account for his activities during the day, or even what he does for a living. He divulges his problem to the husband-and-wife partners of a private detective agency, and their investigation leads to a series of revelations they could never have fathomed.] — Hollywood Reporter

‘Dark City’ Director’s Cut hits DVD, BluRay …

Alex Proyas’ amazing sci-fi/film noir film will finally be getting the treatment it deserves. Having had only a single DVD release very early in the DVD age [you’ll remember when ALL DVDs came in those annoying paper cases and had zero special features], Dark City (1998) will now be re-released on DVD and BluRay in the original Director’s Cut. The theatrical release was 100 minutes long, whereas the director;s cut will have an 111-minute running time. The new release will also feature never-before-seen footage and 3 audio commentary tracks … one of which I understand is from Roger Ebert, who loved the movie. The release date on both of these formats is July 28, 2008.