Austin Butler is forever grateful for his time with Lisa Marie Presley. The 31-year-old actor continues his awards season run at the 2023 SAG Awards, where he is nominated in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor category, for his work in “Elvis”.
“It’s just exciting, it’s just exciting to be a part of this,” the actor told Et’s Denny Directo on Sunday at the 2023 SAG Awards.
Butler has been vocal about the support he received from Elvis’ daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, from the beginning of the film’s production to the time of her death in January.
“It’s just part of that profound privilege that I feel to relate to them in some way,” he said about his time with the Presley family. “Lisa was such an extraordinary woman. The times that I spent with her were some of the greatest gifts of my life. And...
“It’s just exciting, it’s just exciting to be a part of this,” the actor told Et’s Denny Directo on Sunday at the 2023 SAG Awards.
Butler has been vocal about the support he received from Elvis’ daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, from the beginning of the film’s production to the time of her death in January.
“It’s just part of that profound privilege that I feel to relate to them in some way,” he said about his time with the Presley family. “Lisa was such an extraordinary woman. The times that I spent with her were some of the greatest gifts of my life. And...
- 2/27/2023
- by Sarah Curran
- ET Canada
Oscar nominee Austin Butler still uses his 2007 IMDb biography that was written for him by his “proud parents”.
Earlier this week, Riz Ahmed and Alison Williams announced the nominees for the 2023 Academy Awards, which will be held in March.
Among the nominees is Butler for his role as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis.
The 31-year-old actor recently received a Golden Globe award for the same role.
As noted by People, despite his fame, Butler still uses the same IMDb biography that his parents, David Butler and the late Lori Butler, penned for him in 2007.
In the biography, his parents enthused about Butler’s early acting career that began after he landed “a rather permanent background-acting gig” on the Nickelodeon series Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide in 2004.
They wrote that their son’s first speaking role was on Zoey 101 in 2005. Playing “Dannifer” or “Wrong Danny”, Butler got to say “a few lines,...
Earlier this week, Riz Ahmed and Alison Williams announced the nominees for the 2023 Academy Awards, which will be held in March.
Among the nominees is Butler for his role as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis.
The 31-year-old actor recently received a Golden Globe award for the same role.
As noted by People, despite his fame, Butler still uses the same IMDb biography that his parents, David Butler and the late Lori Butler, penned for him in 2007.
In the biography, his parents enthused about Butler’s early acting career that began after he landed “a rather permanent background-acting gig” on the Nickelodeon series Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide in 2004.
They wrote that their son’s first speaking role was on Zoey 101 in 2005. Playing “Dannifer” or “Wrong Danny”, Butler got to say “a few lines,...
- 1/26/2023
- by Annabel Nugent
- The Independent - Film
‘Elvis’ star Austin Butler may have received his first-ever Oscar nomination, but he is not forgetting where he came from. The 31-year-old actor’s IMDb biography was penned by his “proud parents,” David Butler and his late mom Lori Butler in 2007, and has been kept the same to this day, reports People magazine.
In the biography, his parents sweetly raved about their son’s early acting career that began after he landed “a rather permanent background-acting gig” on the Nickelodeon series, Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide in 2004, and “from that point on, he considered himself to be a serious actor.”
According to his parents, Butler’s “first named (albeit uncredited) character was ‘Toby’ in the Hannah Montana episode ‘Oops, I Meddled Again’ in 2006 (girl broke up with him).”
Then his “first speaking role was in ‘Zoey 101’ as ‘Dannifer’ or ‘Wrong Danny’.” They joked that while he got a “meatier...
In the biography, his parents sweetly raved about their son’s early acting career that began after he landed “a rather permanent background-acting gig” on the Nickelodeon series, Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide in 2004, and “from that point on, he considered himself to be a serious actor.”
According to his parents, Butler’s “first named (albeit uncredited) character was ‘Toby’ in the Hannah Montana episode ‘Oops, I Meddled Again’ in 2006 (girl broke up with him).”
Then his “first speaking role was in ‘Zoey 101’ as ‘Dannifer’ or ‘Wrong Danny’.” They joked that while he got a “meatier...
- 1/26/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
The Motion Picture Sound Editors on Monday unveiled nomination for the 70th annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards. Winners will be announced February 26 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.
The organization of professional sound and music editors honors the year’s outstanding feature film, television, animation, computer entertainment, and student productions.
The Mpse will also honor Jerry Bruckheimer with its 2023 Filmmaker Award, and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle with its Career Achievement Award.
Here’s the full noms list:
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Animation
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous: “The Last Stand” (DreamWorks Animation)
Supervising Sound Editors: Rob McIntyre, D.J. Lynch
Sound Designer: Evan Dockter
Sound Effects Editor: Adam Cioffi
Dialogue Editor: Anna Adams
Foley Editor: Aran Tanchum
Foley Artist: Vincent Guisetti
Love, Death & Robots: “In Vaulted Halls Entombed” (Netflix)
Supervising Sound Editor: Brad North Mpse
Foley Editor: Antony Zeller Mpse
Foley Artists: Zane Bruce, Lindsay Pepper...
The organization of professional sound and music editors honors the year’s outstanding feature film, television, animation, computer entertainment, and student productions.
The Mpse will also honor Jerry Bruckheimer with its 2023 Filmmaker Award, and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle with its Career Achievement Award.
Here’s the full noms list:
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Animation
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous: “The Last Stand” (DreamWorks Animation)
Supervising Sound Editors: Rob McIntyre, D.J. Lynch
Sound Designer: Evan Dockter
Sound Effects Editor: Adam Cioffi
Dialogue Editor: Anna Adams
Foley Editor: Aran Tanchum
Foley Artist: Vincent Guisetti
Love, Death & Robots: “In Vaulted Halls Entombed” (Netflix)
Supervising Sound Editor: Brad North Mpse
Foley Editor: Antony Zeller Mpse
Foley Artists: Zane Bruce, Lindsay Pepper...
- 1/9/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
With a trio of nominations, Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the feature competition of the 70th Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (Mpse) Golden Reel Awards, which announced its noms on Monday.
Close behind with two nominations apiece are The Batman, Elvis, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Moonage Daydream and Top Gun: Maverick.
A24’s genre-bending Everything is nominated in the categories of outstanding dialogue and Adr, effects/Foley and music editing in a feature film.
The Batman and Top Gun: Maverick are each nominated for dialogue/Adr and effects/Foley editing. Elvis is nominated for dialogue/Adr and music editing, and Pinocchio is nominated for music editing, as well as for sound editing in an animated movie. Meanwhile, Moonage Daydream received two noms in the documentary categories, for sound editing and music editing.
All six of the aforementioned movies are shortlisted for the Oscar in sound, along with All Quiet on the Western Front...
Close behind with two nominations apiece are The Batman, Elvis, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Moonage Daydream and Top Gun: Maverick.
A24’s genre-bending Everything is nominated in the categories of outstanding dialogue and Adr, effects/Foley and music editing in a feature film.
The Batman and Top Gun: Maverick are each nominated for dialogue/Adr and effects/Foley editing. Elvis is nominated for dialogue/Adr and music editing, and Pinocchio is nominated for music editing, as well as for sound editing in an animated movie. Meanwhile, Moonage Daydream received two noms in the documentary categories, for sound editing and music editing.
All six of the aforementioned movies are shortlisted for the Oscar in sound, along with All Quiet on the Western Front...
- 1/9/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: AMC Networks streamers Sundance Now and Umc have inked a deal for the North American, Caribbean, Canadian, and UK rights to South African horror series Dead Places.
Created by Gareth Crocker, who is behind Shadow, Netflix’s first South African original series, Dead Places is co-produced by France’s Canal+ and Johannesburg-based Motion Story. It premieres in summer next year.
The story centers on an author who has dedicated his career to solving paranormal cases, returning home to South Africa to investigate the biggest mystery of his life: His sister’s death in a water canal 20 years ago.
The series stars Anthony Oseyemi (Agent), Rea Rangaka (Madiba), Shamilla Miller (Blood and Water) David Butler (Maze Runner: The Death Cure), David James (District 9), Luthuli Dlamini (The Furnace), S’Dumo Mtshali (Avenged), and Pallance Dladla (Hard to Get).
Crocker created, wrote, and directed Dead Places. He also serves as an executive...
Created by Gareth Crocker, who is behind Shadow, Netflix’s first South African original series, Dead Places is co-produced by France’s Canal+ and Johannesburg-based Motion Story. It premieres in summer next year.
The story centers on an author who has dedicated his career to solving paranormal cases, returning home to South Africa to investigate the biggest mystery of his life: His sister’s death in a water canal 20 years ago.
The series stars Anthony Oseyemi (Agent), Rea Rangaka (Madiba), Shamilla Miller (Blood and Water) David Butler (Maze Runner: The Death Cure), David James (District 9), Luthuli Dlamini (The Furnace), S’Dumo Mtshali (Avenged), and Pallance Dladla (Hard to Get).
Crocker created, wrote, and directed Dead Places. He also serves as an executive...
- 12/8/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
This Warrior review contains spoilers.
Warrior Season 2 Episode 8 Review
This episode’s cold open has Hong (Chen Tang) telling a story to Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) and Young Jun (Jason Tobin) as they are eating. It’s a tale of a killer who uses violin strings as a weapon to explain why Hong uses his signature whip chain. Ah Sahm and Young Jun tease him by constantly interrupting his story and as the camera pulls back, we discover that they are casually eating over a pile of dead Fung Hai men. With their leader Zing (Dustin Nguyen) in jail, the Fung Hai were easy pickings for the Hop Wei.
Ordinarily, skipping to after the fight scene without showing any action would be disappointing for a martial arts-based show like Warrior, but it’s such an artfully crafted interaction between the Hop Wei threesome that the absence Kung Fu is forgivable this one time.
Warrior Season 2 Episode 8 Review
This episode’s cold open has Hong (Chen Tang) telling a story to Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) and Young Jun (Jason Tobin) as they are eating. It’s a tale of a killer who uses violin strings as a weapon to explain why Hong uses his signature whip chain. Ah Sahm and Young Jun tease him by constantly interrupting his story and as the camera pulls back, we discover that they are casually eating over a pile of dead Fung Hai men. With their leader Zing (Dustin Nguyen) in jail, the Fung Hai were easy pickings for the Hop Wei.
Ordinarily, skipping to after the fight scene without showing any action would be disappointing for a martial arts-based show like Warrior, but it’s such an artfully crafted interaction between the Hop Wei threesome that the absence Kung Fu is forgivable this one time.
- 11/21/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
This Warrior review contains spoilers.
Warrior Season 2 Episode 5
The episode opens with Li Yong (Joe Taslim) doing some shirtless Kung Fu but the scene is too short to determine what style he is doing. Perhaps it’s something just made up for Warrior. Taslim’s background is in in Judo, not Kung Fu, but that doesn’t matter. He looks great doing whatever he’s doing and it’s a promising opening for this episode.
The previous two episodes lacked enough Kung Fu to satisfy dedicated Bruce Lee fans. Fortunately, this episode makes up for that and then some. It’s the strongest episode in Season 2 so far, both dramatically and choreographically.
It’s a rough one for Penny (Joanna Vanderham) as her world collapses. As she inspects the devastation of Mercer Steel after Leary’s (Dean Jagger) terrorist bombing, she asks Jacob (Kenneth Fok) “What is that terrible smell?...
Warrior Season 2 Episode 5
The episode opens with Li Yong (Joe Taslim) doing some shirtless Kung Fu but the scene is too short to determine what style he is doing. Perhaps it’s something just made up for Warrior. Taslim’s background is in in Judo, not Kung Fu, but that doesn’t matter. He looks great doing whatever he’s doing and it’s a promising opening for this episode.
The previous two episodes lacked enough Kung Fu to satisfy dedicated Bruce Lee fans. Fortunately, this episode makes up for that and then some. It’s the strongest episode in Season 2 so far, both dramatically and choreographically.
It’s a rough one for Penny (Joanna Vanderham) as her world collapses. As she inspects the devastation of Mercer Steel after Leary’s (Dean Jagger) terrorist bombing, she asks Jacob (Kenneth Fok) “What is that terrible smell?...
- 10/31/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
The Road to Singapore, Zanzibar,
Morocco and Utopia
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1940, 41, 42, 43, 46 / 1:33:1 / 85, 91, 82, 90 Min. / Street Date – March 26, 2019
Starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
Written by Frank Butler, Don Hartman, Melvin Frank
Cinematography by William C. Mellor, Ted Tetzlaff
Directed by Victor Schertzinger, David Butler, Hal Walker
Between 1940 and 1962, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby starred in seven “Road” pictures directed by such distinct talents as David Butler, Norman McLeod and Hope’s own gag-writer Norman Panama who would lead the comedian kicking and screaming into the sixties with How to Commit Marriage, a poison pen letter to the counterculture released in 1969.
Though produced during a World War, the first four Road films avoided the cynicism of that late 60’s farce – instead they were the essence of disposable fun – populist entertainments peppered with topical wisecracks, potshots at company brass and the occasional talking fish. Beginning with Road to Singapore, a...
Morocco and Utopia
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1940, 41, 42, 43, 46 / 1:33:1 / 85, 91, 82, 90 Min. / Street Date – March 26, 2019
Starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
Written by Frank Butler, Don Hartman, Melvin Frank
Cinematography by William C. Mellor, Ted Tetzlaff
Directed by Victor Schertzinger, David Butler, Hal Walker
Between 1940 and 1962, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby starred in seven “Road” pictures directed by such distinct talents as David Butler, Norman McLeod and Hope’s own gag-writer Norman Panama who would lead the comedian kicking and screaming into the sixties with How to Commit Marriage, a poison pen letter to the counterculture released in 1969.
Though produced during a World War, the first four Road films avoided the cynicism of that late 60’s farce – instead they were the essence of disposable fun – populist entertainments peppered with topical wisecracks, potshots at company brass and the occasional talking fish. Beginning with Road to Singapore, a...
- 3/30/2019
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Royal fans know Prince Harry and Prince William's late mother, Princess Diana, had lots of nicknames including Lady Di, the People's Princess, and the Princess of Hearts. But, according to royal fan David Butler, those closest to Diana called her something else entirely. The Daily Mail recently uncovered a photo Butler shared via his private @DavidIs6 Twitter account of an old Christmas card signed by Diana and her husband, Prince Charles, that revealed Diana's unique family moniker. "Very unusual to see Diana use her nickname on a Christmas card!" Butler captioned the image of the note which included the text, "Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year and lots of love from the four of us, Duch and Charles." (Photo Credit: Twitter) Lucky for us, Diana's former chef Darren McGrady explained to Hello! how the royal was given such an informal nickname. "I remember Sandringham one Christmas.
- 9/4/2018
- by Joyann Jeffrey
- Closer Weekly
Emmy nominated actor Grant Aleksander, best known for portrayal of Phillip Spaulding on Guilding Light is replacing two other daytime drama leading me, Robert Newman (Guiding Light) and Richard Shoberg (All My Children), in Off Broadway's longest running play, "Perfect Crime." Aleksander is returning to the role of Detective Asher (a role he took on this spring) and begins performances tonight at The Theater Center.
Grant Aleksander is a four-time Emmy nominated actor who is best known for his work as Phillip Spaulding on CBS soap opera Guiding Light. His other daytime roles include Alec McIntyre on All My Children and D.J. Phillips on Capitol.
Aleksander's other television credits also include the pilot Dark Mansions, produced by Aaron Spelling, and guest spots on Life on Mars, Who’s the Boss?, Hardcastle and Mccormick and The Fall Guy. His film credits include Fields of Freedom, Big Bad Swim and Tough Guys.
Grant Aleksander is a four-time Emmy nominated actor who is best known for his work as Phillip Spaulding on CBS soap opera Guiding Light. His other daytime roles include Alec McIntyre on All My Children and D.J. Phillips on Capitol.
Aleksander's other television credits also include the pilot Dark Mansions, produced by Aaron Spelling, and guest spots on Life on Mars, Who’s the Boss?, Hardcastle and Mccormick and The Fall Guy. His film credits include Fields of Freedom, Big Bad Swim and Tough Guys.
- 7/10/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Howard Hawk's prelapsarian rom-com, Fig Leaves (1926)Along with the output of Universal, the films of Fox, before the merger with Twentieth Century, have long been among the more mysterious and hard-to-see products of Golden Age Hollywood. When TCM made Warners' pre-Codes readily available to American eyes, these competing studios' outputs remained shut in some vault, unrestored and unavailable. Well, the Museum of Modern Art has liberated some fantastic early Universal films, and now it's the turn of William Fox's lost masterworks to see the light of the projector beam once more in MoMA's "William Fox Presents: Restorations and Rediscoveries from the Fox Film Corporation," May 18 - June 5, 2018.The season showcases little-seen films by John Ford, F.W. Murnau, Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawks and Frank Borzage, five of the starriest names on the studio's roster of directing talent, but also makes a case for genuinely obscure journeyman talents like Sidney Lanfield,...
- 5/17/2018
- MUBI
Canadian-born actress Alexis Smith (born 1921) would have turned 96 years old today, June 8. Turner Classic Movies is celebrating her birthday by presenting nine of her movies, mostly during her time as a Warner Bros. contract player. In addition to Michael Curtiz's box office hit Night and Day, a highly fictionalized Cole Porter biopic starring Cary Grant as a heterosexual version of the famed gay composer. Night and Day is being shown as part of TCM's Gay Pride Month celebration. Alexis Smith died on June 9, 1993, the day after she turned 72. After her film career petered out in the 1950s, she went on to receive acclaim on the Broadway stage, making sporadic film appearances all the way to the year of her death. Smith's last film appearance was in a minor supporting role in Martin Scorsese's overly genteel period drama The Age of Innocence (1993), starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder.
- 6/8/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Worlds collide in this 1940 musical-comedy-horror film directed by David Butler (a Hollywood vet best known for breezy low-budget fare like Road to Morocco) but it’s up to the audience to decide who’s scarier… co-stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Bela Lugosi or bandleader Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge. To their credit Karloff and crew retain their dignity even when faced with Kyser’s right-hand stooge, Ish Kabibble, a half-wit coronet player about whom the phrase “acquired taste” was invented.
- 10/24/2016
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
'Ben-Hur' 1959 with Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston: TCM's '31 Days of Oscar.' '31 Days of Oscar': 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Ben-Hur' are in, Paramount stars are out Today, Feb. 1, '16, Turner Classic Movies is kicking off the 21st edition of its “31 Days of Oscar.” While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is being vociferously reviled for its “lack of diversity” – more on that appallingly myopic, self-serving, and double-standard-embracing furore in an upcoming post – TCM is celebrating nearly nine decades of the Academy Awards. That's the good news. The disappointing news is that if you're expecting to find rare Paramount, Universal, or Fox/20th Century Fox entries in the mix, you're out of luck. So, missing from the TCM schedule are, among others: Best Actress nominees Ruth Chatterton in Sarah and Son, Nancy Carroll in The Devil's Holiday, Claudette Colbert in Private Worlds. Unofficial Best Actor...
- 2/2/2016
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Anne Marie back with the next installment in our new Judy Garland series. Before she was a legend, Frances Gumm was a contract player. This meant that MGM could loan her out to other studios. It was common practice for both large stars and minor players. But what makes you Frances unique is how rare it was for her. Today's musical marks the only time MGM loaned out Judy Garland; the rest of her contract with the studio would be spent snugly - if not comfortably - within the white walls of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Judy's next short would kick off the Garland legend, and jumpstart the young teen's career. The Movie: Pigskin Parade (20th Century Fox, 1936) The Songwriters: Lew Pollack (Music), Sidney D. Mitchell (Lyrics) The Players: Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly, Betty Grable, Jack Haley, Judy Garland, directed by David Butler The Story: Already under contract to MGM...
- 1/13/2016
- by Anne Marie
- FilmExperience
How would you program this year's newest, most interesting films into double features with movies of the past you saw in 2015?Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2015—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2015 to create a unique double feature.All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2015 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
- 1/4/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Patricia Neal ca. 1950. Patricia Neal movies: 'The Day the Earth Stood Still,' 'A Face in the Crowd' Back in 1949, few would have predicted that Gary Cooper's leading lady in King Vidor's The Fountainhead would go on to win a Best Actress Academy Award 15 years later. Patricia Neal was one of those performers – e.g., Jean Arthur, Anne Bancroft – whose film career didn't start out all that well, but who, by way of Broadway, managed to both revive and magnify their Hollywood stardom. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” series, Turner Classic Movies is dedicating Sunday, Aug. 16, '15, to Patricia Neal. This evening, TCM is showing three of her best-known films, in addition to one TCM premiere and an unusual latter-day entry. 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' Robert Wise was hardly a genre director. A former editor (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons...
- 8/16/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
'Father of the Bride': Steve Martin and Kimberly Williams. Top Five Father's Day Movies? From giant Gregory Peck to tyrant John Gielgud What would be the Top Five Father's Day movies ever made? Well, there have been countless films about fathers and/or featuring fathers of various sizes, shapes, and inclinations. In terms of quality, these range from the amusing – e.g., the 1950 version of Cheaper by the Dozen; the Oscar-nominated The Grandfather – to the nauseating – e.g., the 1950 version of Father of the Bride; its atrocious sequel, Father's Little Dividend. Although I'm unable to come up with the absolute Top Five Father's Day Movies – or rather, just plain Father Movies – ever made, below are the first five (actually six, including a remake) "quality" patriarch-centered films that come to mind. Now, the fathers portrayed in these films aren't all heroic, loving, and/or saintly paternal figures. Several are...
- 6/22/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Musicals Collection Blu-ray set from Warner Home Video contains four Hollywood classics of the genre, at least two of them among the greatest of all time: Kiss Me Kate, Calamity Jane, The Band Wagon, and Singin’ in the Rain. And all except for Singin’ in the Rain are making their Blu-ray debut. While the films may not rank equal in terms of quality—those latter two titles are the all-time greats—each of the transfers are outstanding, the movies themselves are still nevertheless enjoyable, and the set is a terrific bargain.
Kiss Me, Kate
Written by Dorothy Kingsley
Directed by George Sidney
USA, 1953
Kiss Me, Kate is offered in 2-D and 3-D versions. Though the 3-D is certainly not the best to grace a Blu-ray, it’s still the version to watch, even with the clichéd, though occasionally amusing gimmick of characters throwing things at the camera. However, it...
Kiss Me, Kate
Written by Dorothy Kingsley
Directed by George Sidney
USA, 1953
Kiss Me, Kate is offered in 2-D and 3-D versions. Though the 3-D is certainly not the best to grace a Blu-ray, it’s still the version to watch, even with the clichéd, though occasionally amusing gimmick of characters throwing things at the camera. However, it...
- 3/17/2015
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
Shirley Temple dead at 85: Was one of the biggest domestic box office draws of the ’30s (photo: Shirley Temple in the late ’40s) Shirley Temple, one of the biggest box office draws of the 1930s in the United States, died Monday night, February 10, 2014, at her home in Woodside, near San Francisco. The cause of death wasn’t made public. Shirley Temple (born in Santa Monica on April 23, 1928) was 85. Shirley Temple became a star in 1934, following the release of Paramount’s Alexander Hall-directed comedy-tearjerker Little Miss Marker, in which Temple had the title role as a little girl who, left in the care of bookies, almost loses her childlike ways before coming around to regenerate Adolphe Menjou and his gang. That same year, Temple became a Fox contract player, and is credited with saving the studio — 20th Century Fox from 1935 on — from bankruptcy. Whether or not that’s true is a different story,...
- 2/11/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
News on a new adaptation of Hedda Gabler, a new film about the Kray brothers, and more.
Aspect on board for Hedda Gabler
Aspect Film has taken on worldwide sales rights to Matthew John’s new period drama adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play Hedda Gabler, currently in post. Rita Ramnani [pictured] takes the lead role, with the cast also including Jon-Paul Gates, Samantha Hunt, David Butler and Francisco Ortiz. Aspect Film’s Managing Director, Hugh Edwards said, “Matthew John has tackled an Ibsen classic with aplomb. To do so as a debutant director and achieve what he has deserves credit. John has pushed the envelope and it will be interesting to see the reaction from both Ibsen purists and newcomers to the Hedda Gabler story alike.” The film was shot at Maunsel House in Somerset, owned by Sir Benjamin Slade, who also executive produces the film.
ScreenLaunch backs Beck
Australia-based sales and distribution company ScreenLaunch is financing...
Aspect on board for Hedda Gabler
Aspect Film has taken on worldwide sales rights to Matthew John’s new period drama adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play Hedda Gabler, currently in post. Rita Ramnani [pictured] takes the lead role, with the cast also including Jon-Paul Gates, Samantha Hunt, David Butler and Francisco Ortiz. Aspect Film’s Managing Director, Hugh Edwards said, “Matthew John has tackled an Ibsen classic with aplomb. To do so as a debutant director and achieve what he has deserves credit. John has pushed the envelope and it will be interesting to see the reaction from both Ibsen purists and newcomers to the Hedda Gabler story alike.” The film was shot at Maunsel House in Somerset, owned by Sir Benjamin Slade, who also executive produces the film.
ScreenLaunch backs Beck
Australia-based sales and distribution company ScreenLaunch is financing...
- 11/11/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Rex Harrison hat on TCM: ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘Anna and the King of Siam’ Rex Harrison is Turner Classic Movies’ final "Summer Under the Stars" star today, August 31, 2013. TCM is currently showing George Cukor’s lavish My Fair Lady (1964), an Academy Award-winning musical that has (in my humble opinion) unfairly lost quite a bit of its prestige in the last several decades. Rex Harrison, invariably a major ham whether playing Saladin, the King of Siam, Julius Caesar, the ghost of a dead sea captain, or Richard Burton’s lover, is for once flawlessly cast as Professor Henry Higgins, who on stage transformed Julie Andrews from cockney duckling to diction-master swan and who in the movie version does the same for Audrey Hepburn. Harrison, by the way, was the year’s Best Actor Oscar winner. (See also: "Audrey Hepburn vs. Julie Andrews: Biggest Oscar Snubs.") Following My Fair Lady, Rex Harrison...
- 8/31/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Feature Louisa Mellor 30 Aug 2013 - 09:30
It’s time for our monthly look at how fans are unofficially celebrating Doctor Who fiftieth anniversary, from weddings to sing-alongs…
In our June and July round-ups of the creative ways in which fans are celebrating Doctor Who’s fiftieth birthday, we’ve featured stage shows, musicals, fan-made trailers, school magazines, quizzes, highly entertaining fan-written scripts, but never anything quite like this...
Anyone hear wedding bells?
Mass Doctor Who wedding
Remember the first UK Klingon wedding at last year's Star Trek convention? Frankly, it was difficult to forget. Now, Doctor Who fans can get in on the action this November.
If you’re a couple wanting to get married, renew your vows, or have your union blessed at “a luxurious venue in London, in November 2013” alongside 49 other Who-fan pairs, then this is your chance. Anyone interested in getting involved should email info@specialeventsgroup.co.
It’s time for our monthly look at how fans are unofficially celebrating Doctor Who fiftieth anniversary, from weddings to sing-alongs…
In our June and July round-ups of the creative ways in which fans are celebrating Doctor Who’s fiftieth birthday, we’ve featured stage shows, musicals, fan-made trailers, school magazines, quizzes, highly entertaining fan-written scripts, but never anything quite like this...
Anyone hear wedding bells?
Mass Doctor Who wedding
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- 8/30/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in ‘Gone with the Wind’: TCM schedule on August 20, 2013 (photo: Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel in ‘Gone with the Wind’) See previous post: “Hattie McDaniel: Oscar Winner Makes History.” 3:00 Am Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943). Director: David Butler. Cast: Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Eddie Cantor, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, George Tobias, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel, Ruth Donnelly, Don Wilson, Spike Jones, Henry Armetta, Leah Baird, Willie Best, Monte Blue, James Burke, David Butler, Stanley Clements, William Desmond, Ralph Dunn, Frank Faylen, James Flavin, Creighton Hale, Sam Harris, Paul Harvey, Mark Hellinger, Brandon Hurst, Charles Irwin, Noble Johnson, Mike Mazurki, Fred Kelsey, Frank Mayo, Joyce Reynolds, Mary Treen, Doodles Weaver. Bw-127 mins. 5:15 Am Janie (1944). Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Doris Day movies: TCM’s ‘Summer Under the Stars 2013′ lineup continues (photo: Doris Day in ‘Calamity Jane’ publicity shot) Doris Day, who turned 89 last April 3, is Turner Classic Movies’ 2013 “Summer Under the Stars” star on Friday, August 2. (Doris Day, by the way, still looks great. Check out "Doris Day Today.") Doris Day movies, of course, are frequently shown on TCM. Why? Well, TCM is owned by the megaconglomerate Time Warner, which also happens to own (among myriad other things) the Warner Bros. film library, which includes not only the Doris Day movies made at Warners from 1948 to 1955, but also Day’s MGM films as well (and the overwhelming majority of MGM releases up to 1986). My point: Don’t expect any Doris Day movie rarity on Friday — in fact, I don’t think such a thing exists. Doris Day is ‘Calamity Jane’ If you haven’t watched David Butler’s musical...
- 8/1/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Review by Sam Moffitt
I can pinpoint the exact moment I became a film fan, a cinema buff, a Movie Geek if you will. It was while watching a television broadcast of Pigskin Parade, a college musical based around football, released by 20th Century Fox in 1936.
But a little background on myself first. Born in southeast Missouri in 1955 I can remember when television was a rare and exotic device. We knew a few neighbors near us in the little town I started growing up in, Hiram, Missouri who had televisions. Getting to watch it was a rare treat ,we knew a little old lady near us who had a television and she let us come over to watch shows like McKenzie’s Raiders and the Grey Ghost.
In 1959 my mother bought a television, a 19″ Motorola cabinet model. I can be sure of the year because I vividly remember the premiere episode of The Twilight Zone,...
I can pinpoint the exact moment I became a film fan, a cinema buff, a Movie Geek if you will. It was while watching a television broadcast of Pigskin Parade, a college musical based around football, released by 20th Century Fox in 1936.
But a little background on myself first. Born in southeast Missouri in 1955 I can remember when television was a rare and exotic device. We knew a few neighbors near us in the little town I started growing up in, Hiram, Missouri who had televisions. Getting to watch it was a rare treat ,we knew a little old lady near us who had a television and she let us come over to watch shows like McKenzie’s Raiders and the Grey Ghost.
In 1959 my mother bought a television, a 19″ Motorola cabinet model. I can be sure of the year because I vividly remember the premiere episode of The Twilight Zone,...
- 1/15/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Doris Day is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month of April 2012. TCM's Doris Day homage begins this evening with eight movies released at the start of Day's career at Warner Bros. In addition to Day's presence, what those movies have in common is the following: little plot, lots of music, and Old Hollywood's fluff-producing machinery at work. If that's your thing, don't miss them! Of those, the better one is probably Roy Del Ruth's On Moonlight Bay (1951, photo). Though nothing at all like Del Ruth's crackling Warner Bros. movies of the early '30s — e.g., The Maltese Falcon, Beauty and the Boss, Blessed Event — this musical comedy set in a small American town prior to World War I offers some genuine nostalgia, great songs, and charming performances, including those of the two good-looking leads, Day and Gordon MacRae. On Moonlight Bay was popular enough to merit a sequel,...
- 4/3/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Colin Firth, Meryl Streep Colin Firth tells Meryl Streep he should have been cast as Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, for he's British and Streep is not. Streep responds by telling him she can play any nationality, including Italian. As proof, she incarnates Anna Magnani in Bellissima. Well, something like that went on backstage at the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony. (Photo: Bryan Crowe / ©A.M.P.A.S.) Meryl Streep's Best Actress Oscar for The Iron Lady was her third. Streep's previous two Oscars were as Best Supporting Actress for Robert Benton's Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), featuring Dustin Hoffman, Jane Alexander, and Justin Henry; and as Best Actress for Alan J. Pakula's Sophie's Choice (1982), with Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol. Only three other performers have won three Academy Awards: Walter Brennan as Best Supporting Actor for Howard Hawks and William Wyler's Come and Get It...
- 4/2/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Meryl Streep Oscar winner Meryl Streep became a three-time Academy Award winner after getting this year's Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady. In the above photo, Streep poses backstage with a naked man holding a strategically placed sword during the 84th Oscar ceremony held February 26. (Photo: Richard D. Salyer / © A.M.P.A.S.) Streep's previous two Oscars were as Best Supporting Actress for Robert Benton's Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), featuring Dustin Hoffman, Jane Alexander, and Justin Henry; and as Best Actress for Alan J. Pakula's Sophie's Choice (1982), with Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol. Her Best Actress competitors this time around were Viola Davis for The Help, Michelle Williams (as Marilyn Monroe) for Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, Rooney Mara (in Noomi Rapace's original role) for David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake,...
- 3/8/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Octavia Spencer, Meryl Streep Octavia Spencer — quite literally — joins Meryl Streep at 2012 post-Oscar ceremony Governors Ball held at Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood, CA, Sunday, February 26. Spencer was the Best Supporting Actress winner for her performance in Tate Taylor's socially conscious comedy-drama The Help. Streep was the Best Actress winner for her performance as former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady. (Photo: Darren Decker / ©A.M.P.A.S.) Octavia Spencer was a first-time nominee. Her Best Supporting Actress competition consisted of fellow first-time nominees Jessica Chastain for The Help, Bérénice Bejo for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, and Melissa McCarthy for Paul Feig's Bridesmaids, in addition to two-time nominee Janet McTeer for Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs. McTeer had been previously shortlisted in the Best Actress category for Gavin O'Connor's Tumbleweeds (1999). Meryl Streep's competitors in the Best Actress...
- 2/29/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep Tom Cruise poses with Meryl Streep during the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony at Hollywood and Highland Center on Sunday, February 26. Cruise, looking very much like his old Top Gun and Cocktail self, was the evening's Best Picture presenter. Streep was the Best Actress Oscar winner for playing Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady. Also worth noting, Cruise and Streep co-starred in Robert Redford's political drama Lions for Lambs in 2006. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) Tom Cruise presented the Best Picture Oscar to Michel Hazanavicius' black-and-white near-silent comedy-drama The Artist. Cruise's movie Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol was a major late-year box-office hit and received quite enthusiastic reviews, but failed to be shortlisted in any Oscar category. Cruise's next film is Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages, featuring an extensive cast that includes Malin Akerman, Bryan Cranston, Best Supporting Actress...
- 2/28/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep Tom Cruise congratulates Best Actress Oscar winner Meryl Streep — for Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady — backstage during the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on Sunday, February 26. Cruise and Streep co-starred in Robert Redford's political/Iraq War drama Lions for Lambs in 2006; the film was a box-office flop in the United States, but did solid business overseas. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / © A.M.P.A.S.) Tom Cruise wasn't nominated for anything this year; he was the presenter of the Best Picture Academy Award, which went to Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. Cruise's movie Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol was a major late-year box-office hit and received quite enthusiastic reviews. Cruise's next vehicle is Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages, featuring an eclectic cast that includes Malin Akerman, Bryan Cranston, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alec Baldwin, Julianne Hough, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Hugh Forte,...
- 2/28/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Doris Day may have been — once again — absurdly bypassed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors, but at least she'll be getting some much deserved recognition from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Lafca). Day, 87, has been named the recipient of the L.A. Critics' Career Achievement Award of 2011 — or 2012, as the ceremony will take place early next year. (This year's winners will be announced on December 11.) The first Lafca award winners were announced in 1975. The annual Career Achievement Award was instituted the following year. Since then, a mere four women have been recognized for their contributions to the motion picture industry: actresses Barbara Stanwyck (1981) and Myrna Loy (1983), editor Dede Allen (1999), and now Doris Day. Male recipients — sometimes two per year — range from auteur John Cassavetes to comedian/auteur Jerry Lewis, from producer John Calley to silent-era pioneer Allan Dwan, from animator Chuck Jones to filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
- 10/30/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Doris Day, Duffy Doris Day, 87, and Duffy in a new photo to be used by Sony Music to promote Day's upcoming record "My Heart," the legendary actress-singer's 29th album and her first after a seventeen-year hiatus. "My Heart" is to be released in the United Kingdom on Sept. 5. It'll be available on CD and digital-download formats. "It was brought to my attention that the recordings were in storage and Sony was interested in releasing them," Day explained. "So I listened to them and at first had some misgivings, but after they were re-mastered, I liked them and hoped my fans would too." Day added that "these are the tunes that reflect my love of animals and my love for my son." The album features the track "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries," produced by Day's son Terry Melcher, who died of cancer in 2004. Doris Day, who began her film...
- 8/31/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Impressive retrospective of Judy Garland.s films will feature 31 titles including a presentation of seldom seen short films and rarities as well as a special .sing-along. screening of The Wizard Of Oz.
On the occasion of what would have been Judy Garland.s 89th birthday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Paley Center have announced the details today for Fslc.s comprehensive retrospective of the peerless film icon.s work, All Singin., All Dancin., All Judy! which will screen at the Walter Reade Theater July 26 . August 9 and The Paley Center.s comprehensive retrospective of Garland.s television work,Judy Garland: The Television Years which will be presented July 20 . August 18.
With autumn marking the 75th anniversary of Judy Garland’s feature film debut (Pigskin Parade, 1936), the Film Society of Lincoln Center will screen 31 titles from July 26 . August 9, including each of her big-screen acting performances, to pay tribute to...
On the occasion of what would have been Judy Garland.s 89th birthday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Paley Center have announced the details today for Fslc.s comprehensive retrospective of the peerless film icon.s work, All Singin., All Dancin., All Judy! which will screen at the Walter Reade Theater July 26 . August 9 and The Paley Center.s comprehensive retrospective of Garland.s television work,Judy Garland: The Television Years which will be presented July 20 . August 18.
With autumn marking the 75th anniversary of Judy Garland’s feature film debut (Pigskin Parade, 1936), the Film Society of Lincoln Center will screen 31 titles from July 26 . August 9, including each of her big-screen acting performances, to pay tribute to...
- 6/10/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It's pretty ballsy to redesign one of the planet's most iconic shapes and completely blow it out of the water. Last we checked, Coke's bottles were some of the most recognizable objects on earth, and so powerful when it came to branding that in 2008, Coke transformed the capsule-like two-liter bottle into the same sexy curves. But dare we say design student Andrew Kim has created a concept that's equally powerful, all in the name of sustainability.
Kim has taken inspiration from companies like Fiji, whose squared-off bottles use shipping space more efficiently, but he also creates the ability for these bottles to be nested, saving space both horizontally and vertically. He also proposes a collapsible, accordion-like action for the bottles after they're used, saving space when being transported to the recycling center. He does have a point: Those curvy bottles don't flatten so well, adding bulk in the blue bin.
Kim has taken inspiration from companies like Fiji, whose squared-off bottles use shipping space more efficiently, but he also creates the ability for these bottles to be nested, saving space both horizontally and vertically. He also proposes a collapsible, accordion-like action for the bottles after they're used, saving space when being transported to the recycling center. He does have a point: Those curvy bottles don't flatten so well, adding bulk in the blue bin.
- 3/31/2010
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
Don't worry about little things like typefaces, says Coke's VP of global design: Think bigger.
When you have to manage 450 brands and 3,000 products in 206 countries you have to start thinking of design in a really different way than just pretty logos and bottle designs, says David Butler, Coke's V.P. of global design (and our Master of Design). Butler encouraged designers at Aiga's national conference in October to think about systems, not aesthetics. "You can't look at results without considering the behavior that drove the results," he says. "You can't look at the behaviors that drive the results until you question and think about the structures that drive the behavior. That's how systems work."
Visit Aiga's site for the video of Butler and dozens of other speakers from their biennial conference.
[Aiga]...
When you have to manage 450 brands and 3,000 products in 206 countries you have to start thinking of design in a really different way than just pretty logos and bottle designs, says David Butler, Coke's V.P. of global design (and our Master of Design). Butler encouraged designers at Aiga's national conference in October to think about systems, not aesthetics. "You can't look at results without considering the behavior that drove the results," he says. "You can't look at the behaviors that drive the results until you question and think about the structures that drive the behavior. That's how systems work."
Visit Aiga's site for the video of Butler and dozens of other speakers from their biennial conference.
[Aiga]...
- 12/9/2009
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
Mind-blowing phrase of the week: "interferometric modulation," which can be loosely translated as "Oh my God! Qualcomm’s Mirasol e-reader has color video!"
Mercedes Benz unveiled an app that lets you control your car with the iPhone. But Intel one-ups the luxe car maker with an implantable chip that lets you control your computer using only your thoughts.Round two of the juice-packaging cage match started late last year with Pepsi’s Tropicana fiasco, and this week Coke’s Minute Maid unveiled a juicy new look (courtesy of Master of Design cover boy David Butler).
Los Angeles took home the crown of Creative Capital of the World, in a recent report. Though we guess the strong surge in sales over at Diy marketplace Etsy proves that any craft-corner in any basement in America is plenty creative enough.Blogging pioneer Anil Dash is bringing crowd expertise to the sizable task of...
Mercedes Benz unveiled an app that lets you control your car with the iPhone. But Intel one-ups the luxe car maker with an implantable chip that lets you control your computer using only your thoughts.Round two of the juice-packaging cage match started late last year with Pepsi’s Tropicana fiasco, and this week Coke’s Minute Maid unveiled a juicy new look (courtesy of Master of Design cover boy David Butler).
Los Angeles took home the crown of Creative Capital of the World, in a recent report. Though we guess the strong surge in sales over at Diy marketplace Etsy proves that any craft-corner in any basement in America is plenty creative enough.Blogging pioneer Anil Dash is bringing crowd expertise to the sizable task of...
- 11/20/2009
- by Kate Rockwood
- Fast Company
In round two of the juice packaging cage match that started late last year with the Tropicana fiasco, Minute Maid unveils a new look that hews to its heritage.
Having watched closely the food fight Peter Arnell triggered with his short-lived Tropicana packaging redesign for Pepsi, Coca-Cola officials have unveiled a fresh-squeezed makeover of their own iconic MinuteMaid brand.
The redesign involves the key brands, primarily MinuteMaid in the U.S., in the beverage behemoth's juice portfolio. Unlike the Tropicana debacle, in which Arnell abandoned the juice brand's visual heritage, MinuteMaid's new design builds on elements of its own former identity, including the black rectangle and white logotype lettering. But it adds a green horizon mark, and fruit photography to buck up the idea that all this orangey flavor is not just chemicals, but the real thing.
Leading the charge on the redesign was Fast Company's own Masters of Design October cover boy,...
Having watched closely the food fight Peter Arnell triggered with his short-lived Tropicana packaging redesign for Pepsi, Coca-Cola officials have unveiled a fresh-squeezed makeover of their own iconic MinuteMaid brand.
The redesign involves the key brands, primarily MinuteMaid in the U.S., in the beverage behemoth's juice portfolio. Unlike the Tropicana debacle, in which Arnell abandoned the juice brand's visual heritage, MinuteMaid's new design builds on elements of its own former identity, including the black rectangle and white logotype lettering. But it adds a green horizon mark, and fruit photography to buck up the idea that all this orangey flavor is not just chemicals, but the real thing.
Leading the charge on the redesign was Fast Company's own Masters of Design October cover boy,...
- 11/17/2009
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
The new-fangled touchscreen gizmo has more in common with medical devices than with traditional soda fountains.
After bringing you the back story of how Coke's Freestyle fountain was invented, we've finally gotten a peek at its inner workings, care of CNBC.
At first, the Freestyle seems like a futuristic novelty: The touchscreen fountain allows you to pick from dozens of Coke products--far more than you could cram into a typical soda fountain. But that belies the real business case for the machine.
As the video reveals, it's the machine's guts that tell the real story. The fountain's flavors come not from big bags of concentrate but from precision inkjet printer cartridges, a concept borrowed from the medical industry. The benefits are two-fold. The printer cartridges contain extremely concentrated syrup, which massively cuts down on shipping costs and on the company's carbon footprint--one 46-ounce cartridge equals an old-time 5-gallon bag.
But just as important,...
After bringing you the back story of how Coke's Freestyle fountain was invented, we've finally gotten a peek at its inner workings, care of CNBC.
At first, the Freestyle seems like a futuristic novelty: The touchscreen fountain allows you to pick from dozens of Coke products--far more than you could cram into a typical soda fountain. But that belies the real business case for the machine.
As the video reveals, it's the machine's guts that tell the real story. The fountain's flavors come not from big bags of concentrate but from precision inkjet printer cartridges, a concept borrowed from the medical industry. The benefits are two-fold. The printer cartridges contain extremely concentrated syrup, which massively cuts down on shipping costs and on the company's carbon footprint--one 46-ounce cartridge equals an old-time 5-gallon bag.
But just as important,...
- 11/10/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
On October 21st at Chelsea Art Museum in New York, Fast Company revealed its annual October Masters of Design issue. Along with Masters of Design partners, Porsche and Morgans Hotel Group, the event featured David Butler, VP of global design for Coca-Cola; David Rockwell, designer of this year's Academy Awards set and the upcoming Ames Hotel in Boston; starchitect David Adjaye; digital designer Lisa Strausfeld; and Smart Design's Femme Den.
- 10/23/2009
- Fast Company
Pop Artist Meet the man with a nearly uncontainable design challenge: making Coke even bigger (and staying ahead of Pepsi).
Photograph by Jake Chessum The image on the Webcam is grainy but unmistakable: a blond woman, likely in her thirties, steps up to a shiny silver soda-fountain machine at a fast-food restaurant in Atlanta and plants a fat kiss on its side. The moment is unscripted and, as far as the woman knows, unwitnessed by anyone except a girl who appears to be her daughter, busily filling her cup. If great design is all about creating a bond between your product and your customer, this is clearly some kind of mechanized Cyrano de Bergerac, brokering the ardor between a consumer and her Diet Cherry Coke.
The reason for this public display of affection? It might be the fountain's astounding array of choices, more than 100 different Coca-Cola variants, including exotic hybrids...
Photograph by Jake Chessum The image on the Webcam is grainy but unmistakable: a blond woman, likely in her thirties, steps up to a shiny silver soda-fountain machine at a fast-food restaurant in Atlanta and plants a fat kiss on its side. The moment is unscripted and, as far as the woman knows, unwitnessed by anyone except a girl who appears to be her daughter, busily filling her cup. If great design is all about creating a bond between your product and your customer, this is clearly some kind of mechanized Cyrano de Bergerac, brokering the ardor between a consumer and her Diet Cherry Coke.
The reason for this public display of affection? It might be the fountain's astounding array of choices, more than 100 different Coca-Cola variants, including exotic hybrids...
- 9/21/2009
- Fast Company
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