If you happen to catch “Kong: Skull Island” on HBO or stream it on HBO Go, you may notice something very distracting taking place: The aspect ratio changes to a letterbox format at various times throughout the movie. Sometimes the changes occur within edits in a single scene or set piece, resulting in a very unusual viewing experience. It turns out HBO is airing the airplane edit for “Kong: Skull Island” instead of the theatrical cut.
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Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts took to Twitter to ask HBO why they were not airing or streaming the original edit of “Kong: Skull Island.” Filmmakers often have to provide an airplane edit of a movie so that their films can properly be shown on such small screens. Vogt-Roberts says he switched to a letterbox format for some shots on...
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Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts took to Twitter to ask HBO why they were not airing or streaming the original edit of “Kong: Skull Island.” Filmmakers often have to provide an airplane edit of a movie so that their films can properly be shown on such small screens. Vogt-Roberts says he switched to a letterbox format for some shots on...
- 11/29/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Even though the worlds of film and TV are converging more than ever before, it’s interesting to note just how many of the people behind the biggest films of the year have tried their hand at TV work in the past.
“Get Out” director Jordan Peele never officially directed an episode of his long-running Comedy Central sketch show “Key & Peele,” but his debut film currently sits at No. 7 on the year’s domestic box office list. Go up and down the rest of that chart and you’ll find movies from directors who’ve made valuable contributions to TV comedies and dramas alike.
Most of these episodes were pilots or season premieres, ways for directors to help establish a template or shorthand for what governs life in front of and behind the camera for the duration of these series. While some of these filmmakers took multiple opportunities in the TV director’s seat,...
“Get Out” director Jordan Peele never officially directed an episode of his long-running Comedy Central sketch show “Key & Peele,” but his debut film currently sits at No. 7 on the year’s domestic box office list. Go up and down the rest of that chart and you’ll find movies from directors who’ve made valuable contributions to TV comedies and dramas alike.
Most of these episodes were pilots or season premieres, ways for directors to help establish a template or shorthand for what governs life in front of and behind the camera for the duration of these series. While some of these filmmakers took multiple opportunities in the TV director’s seat,...
- 6/16/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Oh yeah, it’s from the director of ’Kong: Skull Island’
I don’t mean to be hyperbolic, but today’s Short of the Day is one of the greatest things mine eyes have ever beheld. It comes from Jordan Vogt-Roberts who, besides having the raddest beard in all of Hollywood — sorry Joaquin — is also the director of two features you might have heard of: 2013’s Kings of Summer, and this year’s Kong: Skull Island.
But before he was conquering the box office, Vogt-Roberts was just another guy on Vimeo, albeit a ridiculously talented guy. And in one of his earlier works that became a Staff Pic sensation on the website, he combined two of my favorite things in the world — Bad Boys and Boyz II Men — with another thing I can tolerate, Men in Black, to create the short masterpiece Bad Boyz II Men in Black, essentially an action-packed, shoot-em-up...
I don’t mean to be hyperbolic, but today’s Short of the Day is one of the greatest things mine eyes have ever beheld. It comes from Jordan Vogt-Roberts who, besides having the raddest beard in all of Hollywood — sorry Joaquin — is also the director of two features you might have heard of: 2013’s Kings of Summer, and this year’s Kong: Skull Island.
But before he was conquering the box office, Vogt-Roberts was just another guy on Vimeo, albeit a ridiculously talented guy. And in one of his earlier works that became a Staff Pic sensation on the website, he combined two of my favorite things in the world — Bad Boys and Boyz II Men — with another thing I can tolerate, Men in Black, to create the short masterpiece Bad Boyz II Men in Black, essentially an action-packed, shoot-em-up...
- 4/26/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Mike Judge ("Office Space," "Beavis & Butthead," "King of the Hill") is set to bring his irreverent brand of humor to HBO in the new comedy series "Silicon Valley," the network announced today. Partially inspired by Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late '80s, the show kicks off its eight-episode season Sunday, April 6 at 10:30p.m. Et/Pt. The cast of "Silicon Valley" includes Thomas Middleditch ( Search Party , "The Office"), T.J. Miller ("Mash Up," Seeking a Friend for the End of the World ), Zach Woods ( In the Loop , "The Office"), Kumail Nanjiani ("Franklin & Bash," "Portlandia"), Martin Starr ("Freaks and Geeks," "Party...
- 1/9/2014
- Comingsoon.net
This is another edition of Short Starts, where we present a weekly short film(s) from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. In a few days, The Kings of Summer opens in theaters. One of our favorites out of Sundance this year (where it was titled Toy’s House), the coming-of-age dramedy is filled with big laughs, a huge amount of heart and great performances from a handful of young actors who are all sure to go places. Also on the rise now is director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, a veteran of web and TV work who now enters the big time with this feature directorial debut. In an interview with AFI this year, he declared that this is only the beginning for him with feature filmmaking: “That’s why i’m here. I grew up falling in love with movies and the worlds they created. That’s my priority and that’s where I want...
- 5/26/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Last year, Fox picked up a comedy from How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas called The Goodwin Games. It starred Scott Foley (now hunking it up on Scandal), Becki Newton (most recently Barney's stripper ex-fiancée Quinn on Himym), and Jack Lacy (Pete on The Office) as siblings whose father died, and instead of a will left them a bizarre competition pitting them against each other and against other contestants. This comedy then sat around for a year. A year! Tj Miller (a sitcom utility player and host of Comedy Central's Mash Up) replaced Lacy, and now — after an eternity in TV time — Fox is finally dusting it off. The show will officially air May 20, but the whole pilot is online now. It's cute! Not earth-shatteringly so, but certainly watchably so.
- 5/15/2013
- by Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
London - The second annual Sundance London festival put the spotlight on screenwriters and comedians in a couple of well-attended panel discussions Saturday. An afternoon panel on comedy featured such topics as a discussion about differences between U.S. and U.K. humor. The panel featured such people as U.S. comedian Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With Me), writer/director/actress Lake Bell (In A World…), writer/actress Alice Lowe (Hot Fuzz, Sightseers) and writer/director/actor Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Mash Up). Story: Indie Rockers British Sea Power Sign Up for Sundance London Birbiglia, who told the audience that he is in the middle of adapting his
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- 4/27/2013
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As a male just entering his 30s, it is now fully acceptable to get slightly wistful about my mid-teens, despite the tumultuousness of the time period. It always seems to be more pleasurable to remember the overall emotions of the time rather than the specifics. This is why most coming of age tales fall flat, because their stories are weighed down with a load of detailed moments instead of weaving moments through a specific tone. And it doesn.t help that technology is severely changing what it means to be a teenager. The Sundance hit The Kings of Summer just might be the next entry in that small catalog of perfectly pitched coming of age flicks. It.s directed by first time feature-helmer Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who directed episodes of Funny or Die Presents as well as the Comedy Central show Mash Up, and the script was written by first timer...
- 4/16/2013
- cinemablend.com
Yesterday, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and I highlighted our Top 10 New Faces (strictly in the acting domain) of 2013′s Sundance Film Festival and while that list was pretty much a consensus, our Top 20 New Voices (fiction/non-fiction/short scribes, directors and full-out filmmakers/producers) was an amicably, yet hard fought deliberation process and then ranking of who we think the future will shine most bright…in other words, if these people were Wall Street stock options — we’d put our money behind them. Enjoy the mini profiles and adjoined praise.
#20. Sophie Goyette
Part of the pair of Canadian-based, female auteurs to make a pit stop in Park City (the other being Sarah Polley) French-Canadian filmmaker Sophie Goyette and her 2012 Tiff showcased short film Le Futur Proche demonstrates that there is plenty more raw talent and a pulse from Quebec. Here we find a pilot dealing with loss, suppressing his...
#20. Sophie Goyette
Part of the pair of Canadian-based, female auteurs to make a pit stop in Park City (the other being Sarah Polley) French-Canadian filmmaker Sophie Goyette and her 2012 Tiff showcased short film Le Futur Proche demonstrates that there is plenty more raw talent and a pulse from Quebec. Here we find a pilot dealing with loss, suppressing his...
- 2/16/2013
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
Tags: Morning BrewGia CarangiSandy LinterChicago FireIMDb
Good morning!
Today is National Transgender Day of Remembrance, and if you want to participate, check this site to find a vigil near you.
In some other remembering, out model Gia Carangi died 26 years ago yesterday and her ex-girlfriend Sandy Linter posted several video interviews about Gia's life. Here's one in which she shares some memories with model Carol Alt.
You can watch the rest over at Sandy's YouTube channel.
And if you want to watch even more cool videos, Ellen DeGeneres is part of the Makers series and she opens up about growing up, becoming a comedian and coming out. Here's one to get you started.
A new lesbian romantic comedy called Portrait of a Serial Monogamist is in the works and needs your help to get made. It has a kind of Exes & Ohs vibe to it.
Oh shoot. Look who is...
Good morning!
Today is National Transgender Day of Remembrance, and if you want to participate, check this site to find a vigil near you.
In some other remembering, out model Gia Carangi died 26 years ago yesterday and her ex-girlfriend Sandy Linter posted several video interviews about Gia's life. Here's one in which she shares some memories with model Carol Alt.
You can watch the rest over at Sandy's YouTube channel.
And if you want to watch even more cool videos, Ellen DeGeneres is part of the Makers series and she opens up about growing up, becoming a comedian and coming out. Here's one to get you started.
A new lesbian romantic comedy called Portrait of a Serial Monogamist is in the works and needs your help to get made. It has a kind of Exes & Ohs vibe to it.
Oh shoot. Look who is...
- 11/20/2012
- by trishbendix
- AfterEllen.com
Exclusive: Actor-comedian T.J. Miller has been tapped as the third lead opposite Becki Newton and Scott Foley in The Goodwin Games, Fox’s single-camera comedy from the How I Met Your Mother trio of Carter Bays, Craig Thomas and Chris Harris. The role has been recast. The 20th TV-produced project revolves around three siblings (Newton, Foley, Miller) who reconnect after the death of their father when he leaves them his fortune — but only if they agree to his terms. Miller will play the youngest Goodwin sibling Jimmy, a scruffy petty thief described as “all heart, zero impulse control” who is has just gotten out of jail – yet again. He replaces Jake Lacy who played the role in the pilot. 20th TV and Fox originally cast Miller as one of the two leads of the off-cycle comedy pilot Little Brother where he played a similar character, a boisterous, unpredictable ex-con who...
- 6/7/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Not every comedian has the audacity to release a rap video. And even fewer would release a rap video for a song that has their own name as the title. But T.J. Miller is breaking the mold with his new video, "T.J. Miller," a wildly entertaining spectacle whose central gag seems to be that Miller would even consider putting this much time and money into a rap that's mostly a series of joke-filled non-brags about himself.
"I'm like Fema / I always come late," T.J. raps in the first video off his 41-track rap album, "The Extended Play LP." "I'm like Puerto Rico, I'm not really a state."
The song "T.J. Miller" barely has a point beyond Miller making witty (and some just plain odd) comparisons about himself to other things, and Miller seems well aware of the strangeness of the song -- as clever and funny as he is,...
"I'm like Fema / I always come late," T.J. raps in the first video off his 41-track rap album, "The Extended Play LP." "I'm like Puerto Rico, I'm not really a state."
The song "T.J. Miller" barely has a point beyond Miller making witty (and some just plain odd) comparisons about himself to other things, and Miller seems well aware of the strangeness of the song -- as clever and funny as he is,...
- 2/20/2012
- by Ross Luippold
- Huffington Post
Exclusive: Comedy Central has greenlighted Mash Up, a new, half-hour stand-up series hosted by actor-comedian T.J. Miller and directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. The show, which has received an 8-episode order, features performance by both established comics as well as up-and-comers as they act out their own material in hilarious, stylized recreations and sketches. Mash Up started off as a Comedy Central stand-up special hosted by Miller, which aired on March 11 at midnight and featured appearances by comedians Matt Braunger, Hannibal Buress, Kyle Kinane and Kumail Nanjiani. But the project’s origins can be traced back to 2004 in Chicago with Braunger, Kinane, Miller, Nanjiani and other comedians pitching Vogt-Roberts ideas for online videos. Vogt-Roberts proposed adding visualized elements to make the clips more dynamic. After the videos netted millions of online views and screened at festivals, the idea eventually found its way to Comedy Central, which ordered a special and now a series,...
- 2/17/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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