WELCOME BACK MOLE!

Thanks Me!

I've been away for quite some time now. I was awarded the position of assistant to the producer of digital effects at a firm that's relocated to Iceland for the creation of the animatics for the second installment of The Chronicles of Narnia. It's been SUPER busy and all I could do is watch the tips and scoops pile up and collect dust.

I'm back in the States for about 45 days helping to set up the system we're using for some of the anamatic shots. The program that has been written is a lot like Massive. I'm very excited to start using it.

On to some of the (still relevant) tips:

I am an ap on the second crew on set of The Island (we're reshooting a scene in the subway). I walked onto set this morning and saw my producer chatting with Sir. Ian McKellen. He is not slated to appear in the film (as far as i can remember), but he was in wardrobe. I don't know what part he's playing, but evidentially he's shooting a cameo.

Mackenzie Crook held up 2 days of shooting on The Brothers Grimm because his dog ran away and he refused to work until he found it. ... He wasn't being an asshole about it, though, he was actually very concerned....3 pa's and myself ended up finding him in a field about a mile west of the trailers.

You probably already know that The Rock has been cast as Johnny Bravo in the film based on the Cartoon Network show. ....I am a secretary at Cartoon Network in Burbank and was stuffing envelopes to send out to the production staff for the movie and I read the letter....
....It congratulated the staff on the acquisition of Johnny Depp. My assumption is that he's playing the villain character.... (pre-production...not a lot of info is being circulated other than conversations among the producers)