Found footage films are growing into quite the subgenre lately, and the proliferation continues with New Line/Warner Brothers’ in-production film from the director of Final Destination 5, Steven Quale. The film, currently shooting in Detroit, will be titled Black Sky, according to ComingSoon, and deals with high schoolers surviving a tornado-creating hurricane.
As far as movie premises go, this one is a little dicey. Tornado-centric films have worked in the past (think Twister or Night of the Twisters) but those were in far less cynical times. Nowadays, with big CGI disaster films being the norm, I suppose it only makes sense that the way a studio would try to make the old relevant again would be to dress it up with the found footage style.
Also helpful is the youth-skewing cast, which includes Nathan Kress, Arlen Escarpeta and Jeremy Sumpter, along with Matt Walsh (Veep), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit...
As far as movie premises go, this one is a little dicey. Tornado-centric films have worked in the past (think Twister or Night of the Twisters) but those were in far less cynical times. Nowadays, with big CGI disaster films being the norm, I suppose it only makes sense that the way a studio would try to make the old relevant again would be to dress it up with the found footage style.
Also helpful is the youth-skewing cast, which includes Nathan Kress, Arlen Escarpeta and Jeremy Sumpter, along with Matt Walsh (Veep), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit...
- 8/24/2012
- by Brian Roan
- We Got This Covered
Netflix has one of those features that lets you see which films are popular in your neck of the woods, and so Slacktory decided to do some research and piece together this map of the United States based on which films are most popular (via Netflix rentals) in each state. Not surprisingly we find a lot of movies are popular in states where the film was shot (L.A. Story, New York Stories, Montana Sky, Singles). But then you have the weird stuff -- like North Dakota's fondness of films like No Man's Land and The Devil's Rejects, or Nebraska's interest in Night of the Twisters (because the real things just aren't enough over there). We're digging Minnesota's addiction to comedy, with Ricky Gervais: Out of England, Young Frankenstein and Airplane! all...
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- 7/12/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
Netflix has one of those features that lets you see which films are popular in your neck of the woods, and so Slacktory decided to do some research and piece together this map of the United States based on which films are most popular (via Netflix rentals) in each state. Not surprisingly we find a lot of movies are popular in states where the film was shot (L.A. Story, New York Stories, Montana Sky, Singles). But then you have the weird stuff -- like North Dakota's fondness of films like No Man's Land and The Devil's Rejects, or Nebraska's interest in Night of the Twisters (because the real things just aren't enough over there). We're digging Minnesota's addiction to comedy, with Ricky Gervais: Out of England, Young Frankenstein and Airplane! all...
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- 7/12/2011
- by Movies.com
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