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"Wil, we're ready for you on set!
Wil, are you in here?
Wil? Wil?

Here's some fun Behind the Scenes and Bloopers from Director, Jon Watts' "Spiderman: No Way Home"

Jean-Marc Vallée, director of 'Dallas Buyers Club' and 'Big Little Lies,' dies at 58

When someone so young, so talented dies at such an early age, we always wonder the cause.
If anyone knows, pls respond

Good Times.....

For those who are also big DRAGNET fans, here is a picture from the Police Station set. Left to right: Tom Mankiewicz, Writer/Director; Tom Hanks; David Sosna, First AD, (With his back to camera); ME! Vicki Rhodes, 2nd AD (Obviously NOT having a good time!) and Chevy Chase, who had stopped by to see Dan Aykroyd but was talking to us because David and I had just worked with him on THREE AMIGOS!

Some are just naturals.

Surprising that Henry Thomas' career didn't just take off after ET!

This has been circulating around the internet of late. What a "Wonderful" Photo!

This is the Wrap Picnic for "It’s a Wonderful Life".

The camera was on a tripod about 10’ high. The photographer climbed a ladder and turned a handle. It was the first Widelux. Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart are on the left side. Once the lens was past them, they ran around behind to the right side, so they’re on both sides of the photograph. "It's a Wonderful Life" premiered in New York on 20 December 1946, 75 years ago.

Tap the image and see how many you can recognize!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/

Happy birthday to a legend! Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award honoree Rita Moreno @theritamoreno is one of the few performers to achieve the rare honor of the EGOT. Her library of work ranges from Singin’ in the Rain (1952) to TV's Electric Company and One Day at a Time, to BOTH film versions of West Side Story (1961, 2021). The documentary Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It is streaming now. #BOTD #treasure

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— Bruce A. Simon (@bsimon47) July 2, 2022

I must agree!

Has this been your experience?

To what do you attribute this phenomenon?

Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)

Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-mo…?

While we were impressed by a post recently made in the Director's Department where this guy depicted the role and responsibilities of the Director pretty well, we also found his video on the Producer well worth the view:

We welcome your thoughts and contributions!

While the Internet is filled with all degrees of information, good and bad regarding the craft of the Director. And even though we discovered this video on a site filled with misinformation about many of the jobs on a Film or TV set, we believe this guy describes the role and duties of the Director quite accurately!

What do you think?

I love this piece from the Cinema Shorthand Society:

On this date in 1981, "Ragtime" was released.
Jack Nicholson had to drop out of the film less than a month before filming began, leaving the producers without a name star. Director Milos Forman recruited James Cagney, who he had met the year before at a private dinner in Connecticut. He offered Cagney any part he wanted, including (facetiously) Evelyn Nesbitt.

According to Forman, Cagney initially agreed to play New York City Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo on two conditions: he would not sign a contract of any kind, and he reserved the right to change his mind and quit the film until three days before shooting began on his scenes.

Cagney had been advised by his doctors and caregivers that making a film at this point in his life was very important for his health. The actor never flew, so he and his wife took an ocean liner to London, where his scenes were filmed. Despite his numerous infirmities, he stayed on set during his fellow actors' close ups to give them line readings. Because of the presence of the ailing Cagney, in what became his final big screen appearance, the movie was officially exempted from the long-running actors' strike of the early 1980s. It was the only production to receive that honor.

Cagney used a wheelchair at the time of shooting. Most scenes show him sitting. A stand-in was used for scenes showing him on his feet, shot from the back to obscure the stand-in's face.

Cagney was 81 when he filmed this movie. His character, Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo, was 32 at the time in which the movie was set.
This film reunited Cagney with Pat O'Brien (photo below), his frequent co-star from the 1930s and 1940s. It was the last theatrical film for both of them. In addition, Forman hired Donald O'Connor at the request of Cagney. O'Connor had been having personal and professional problems, and Cagney wanted to help him.(IMDb)

When a legend speaks.... You must listen and learn!
Peter O'Toole on playing Lawrence