INTERVIEW: Gary Wheeler Premiere’s “The Trial”
The production value standard for the faith-based film market has just been raised. (Finally!) Gary Wheeler’s “The Trial” sweeps across the screen with stunning imagery, and well-defined characters in a John Grisham-esque story that stays one step ahead of the audience the whole time. Matthew Modine gives a solid performance as Mac, a grief-stricken man tortured by his past who has a chance to help one kid reclaim his future. But Wheeler doesn’t stop there and sell this great story short. Instead, he loads up the rest of this high-stakes drama with a cast of exceptional actors all the way down ...
INTERVIEW: Gary Moore Reveals Mysteries of the Acting Universe
Gary Moore has been busy lately. And busy is good. He currently has three films in post-production: The Trial, The Bill Collector and Main Street. Wired4Film recently caught up with Gary -- which wasn't as difficult as it sounds seeing as we're Facebook buds...nice one, Networking! Anyway, he graciously splayed open that Kevin Spacey-like noggin of his and laid bare the mysteries of the acting universe. Mysteries which we pass on to you now! WIRED4FILM: Hi Gary, thanks for taking some time out of your schedule to talk to Wired4Film. We've explored filmmaking from a variety of angles, but not yet ...
This Present Darkness: The Film That Almost Was
by John J. Schafer On June 23, 2009 I updated my Facebook status to read: “John J. Schafer's dream project... Frank E. Peretti's "This Present Darkness". FX dream team... ILM, Stan Winston Studio, Weta Digital and Weta Workshop. Budget... Priceless;)” I received about a dozen or so comments posted on my wall. I received 43 e-mails on the topic. I decided to dig up an old blog that I had written. The write up was originally posted on July 30, 2006 and has NOT been updated. The original blog was much longer but after being posted on Blogger and on MySpace I had ...
INTERVIEW – Phil Cooke is the Billy Graham of Brand
Wired4Film takes a literary turn as we dive into Phil Cooke's latest tome, The Last TV Evangelist. Subtitled, Why The Next Generation Couldn't Care Less About Religious Media and Why it Matters. Sub-subtitled, After You've Read "Roaring Lambs" Read This Book Before You Attempt Media of any Kind or You Die! Okay, I admit, I made the last one up. But it's true. Well, if by "you die" you mean "suffer public humiliations galore." Anyway, there's a short list of reads that film and media professionals should ingest before they begin their sojourn into media greatness. This is one of those ...
INTERVIEW: Andre in Charge
Move over Michael Bay. Step aside Bruckheimer. There's another action thriller filmmaker who is blowing stuff up and getting things done over at Cloud Ten Pictures. Andre Van Heerden has Directed 5 films and Produced 3 more under the Cloud Ten shingle. Wired4Film caught him between movies to ask him about his Directorial methods, what he does in his off time and Cloud Ten's up-coming production slate. Cloud Ten Pictures has built a reputation and small empire on End-times thrillers (not one, but two franchises: "Left Behind" and "Apocalypse") but we're very excited to hear that they're delving into new ...
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INTERVIEW: Gary Wheeler Premiere’s “The Trial”
The production value standard for the faith-based film market has just been raised. (Finally!) Gary Wheeler’s “The Trial” sweeps across the screen with stunning imagery, and well-defined characters in a John Grisham-esque story that stays one step ahead of the audience the whole time.
INTERVIEW: Gary Moore Reveals Mysteries of the Acting Universe
Gary Moore has been busy lately. And busy is good. Wired4Film recently caught up with Gary and he graciously splayed open that Kevin Spacey-like noggin of his and laid bare the mysteries of the acting universe.
This Present Darkness: The Film That Almost Was
Did you ever what happened to THIS PRESENT DARKNESS the movie? John Schafer has searched the intrawebs and found some tantalizing clues!
INTERVIEW – Phil Cooke is the Billy Graham of Brand
Wired4Film takes a literary turn as we dive into Phil Cooke’s latest tome, The Last TV Evangelist.
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