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10 features and several tv shows...

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Good News !

The Co-Production (Austria/France/Germany) "Lourdes" will be entirely shot on RED. The decision were made today. It will be the first full feature film in the EU shot on RED.
DoP Martin Gschlacht decided it because the look will match very fine the story and as cinematographer there will be an extra challenge to do it first on a such big project.
The film should run next year at the Filmfestival of Cannes. I will blog sometimes from beginning of shooting at 20th of April and let you all informed.
Main Actress will be the sister of Carla Bruni, Valeria Bruni - Tedeschi. We all going into a great experience.
Hopefully Red will give us a good support for this big project.

http://cineuropa.org/newsdetail.aspx?lang=en&documentID=80761

best regards

rainer
 
Did they use RED for part of "The Signal"?
It grossed $250K in US Theaters.
 
Post removed at the insistence of Neil Smith. I'm not sayin' others who have violated the rules here should do the same... It's something you have to wrestle with.
 
Not a feature, but a cousin of mine who's a extra in L.A. said he just worked last week on a short directed by Lena Headey that used the Red and starred John Cleese. It's called "The Sophisticates"
 
rainer said:
Good News !

The Co-Production (Austria/France/Germany) "Lourdes" will be entirely shot on RED. The decision were made today. It will be the first full feature film in the EU shot on RED.
DoP Martin Gschlacht decided it because the look will match very fine the story and as cinematographer there will be an extra challenge to do it first on a such big project.
The film should run next year at the Filmfestival of Cannes. I will blog sometimes from beginning of shooting at 20th of April and let you all informed.
Main Actress will be the sister of Carla Bruni, Valeria Bruni - Tedeschi. We all going into a great experience.
Hopefully Red will give us a good support for this big project.

http://cineuropa.org/newsdetail.aspx?lang=en&documentID=80761

best regards

rainer
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congratulations rainer! i hope to contribute some excellent news here quite soon as well :)
 
Shot on Red-Updated List

Shot on Red-Updated List

Dear friends, I believe this is the last updated list of productions being shot on RED.

1.-Jumper (2008)

2.-Wanted (2008)

3.-G.I. Joe (2009)

4.-Night at the Museum 2: Escape from the Smithsonian (2009)

5.-Game (2009)

6.-The Informant (2009)

7.-Guerrilla (2008)

8.-The Argentine (2008)

9.-Knowing (2008)

10.-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2008)

11.-The Dark Country (2008)

12.-Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)

13.-The Red Canvas (2008)

14.-My Bloody Valentine (2009)

15.-Leverage (2008 TV series)

16.-Woodshop (2008)

17.-Seres: Genesis (2008)

18.-Brave New World: Ravaged Planet (2009)

19.-Asylum Seekers (2008)

20.-3 Days Gone (2008 video)

21.-The Frost (2008)

22.-The Last Dragon (2008)

23.-Invasion of the Not Quite Dead (2008)

24.-Legion of Ghosts (2011)

25.-I Am Curious Gaijin (2008 documentary)

26.-Red Dirt Rising (2008)

27.-True Nature (2008)

28.-Stricken (2008)

29.-The Girlfriend Experience (2009 video)

30.-Veida Xerxes: Curse of the Red Eye (2008)

31.-The Myth of the American Sleepover (2009)

32.-An Engaging Style (2008)


Source: http://pro.imdb.com/search/simple?camera=Red One Camera&view_count=all
 
Not all of those films are exclusively RED (Jumper being an obvious example) but certainly the RED is already finding some use in feature film (at all manner of budgets and levels).
 
Don't Trust Sony

Don't Trust Sony

chuckt said:
Just heard from another Sony insider:
"Sony has no plans to compete with RED. It is a niche market and Sony is into mass marketing. Last year they sold $10 Billion worth of Video equipment. They can't be bothered with puny niche market for 35 mm movie cameras."
So, practically Jim has no competion in the horizon. Smooth sailing..
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Way back in the day (around 1993) I worked at a company that had a post process to make video look like film, I wont mention which one. The owner of the company and I had an idea, we wanted to make a video camera that could record a film like image. Keep in mind this was before progressive was even a dream.

We knew what we wanted to do, but had no R&D money to build a camera from scratch, it takes money to make money! We new we needed a video camera company to get behind our efforts. We contacted all the majors, and politely got turned down. The best response came from the head of product development at Sony. He responded to our inquiry by saying that, "The Japanese love the look of video, why would we ever want to make a video camera have the look of film". A couple of years latter as the first HD cameras were rolling out at 1080i/60 a guy by the name of George Lucas wanted a camera that had the look of film. The rest is history.

It takes a guy like Jim, a visionary with deep pockets, to make things like the RED a reality. I think it's great! It took 14 years since we first tried to do this, but now thanks to Jim my dream of a camera like this is finally a reality. Maybe my pockets will be deep enough someday to get some of my other dreams made.

I have been wanting video to look like film for so long that even in the 80's I would do pull downs on linear editing systems. Talking about time consuming!!
 
Back to Jim's original question ...

Back to Jim's original question ...

" ... I'm sure some of you know more that I haven't heard about... like Offhollywood. :-)" JJ

Unfortunately, we seemed to have strayed away from the original intent of Jim's posting .... to compile an accurate and up-to-date listing of all Independent features already shot (not planned or wished for) on RED ONE.

Mark has kindly started an 'unofficial' list of Independent movies in progress on his thread:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10242

It's in the best interest of the RED ONE community that we continue to update that list with real work-in-progress projects and not just speculation.

I believe RED will soon have an official Indie production page on their web site ... in the meantime, let's continue to keep Mark's list up-to-date and accurate.

Jim, I hope this is in keeping with the spirit of your original posting .... if not, by all means erase or amend my posting.

Thanks,
Neil
 
Hdi said:
" ... I'm sure some of you know more that I haven't heard about... like Offhollywood. :-)" JJ

Unfortunately, we seemed to have strayed away from the original intent of Jim's posting .... to compile an accurate and up-to-date listing of all Independent features already shot (not planned or wished for) on RED ONE.

Mark has kindly started an 'unofficial' list of Independent movies in progress on his thread:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10242

It's in the best interest of the RED ONE community that we continue to update that list with real work-in-progress projects and not just speculation.

I believe RED will soon have an official Indie production page on their web site ... in the meantime, let's continue to keep Mark's list up-to-date and accurate.

Jim, I hope this is in keeping with the spirit of your original posting .... if not, by all means erase or amend my posting.

Thanks,
Neil
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Neil, I removed my post. Welcome to REDuser.net
 
Shane V8F said:
We knew what we wanted to do, but had no R&D money to build a camera from scratch, it takes money to make money! We new we needed a video camera company to get behind our efforts. We contacted all the majors, and politely got turned down. The best response came from the head of product development at Sony. He responded to our inquiry by saying that, "The Japanese love the look of video, why would we ever want to make a video camera have the look of film". A couple of years latter as the first HD cameras were rolling out at 1080i/60 a guy by the name of George Lucas wanted a camera that had the look of film. The rest is history.

It takes a guy like Jim, a visionary with deep pockets, to make things like the RED a reality. I think it's great! It took 14 years since we first tried to do this, but now thanks to Jim my dream of a camera like this is finally a reality. Maybe my pockets will be deep enough someday to get some of my other dreams made.

I have been wanting video to look like film for so long that even in the 80's I would do pull downs on linear editing systems. Talking about time consuming!!
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You had a vision and you waited 14 years for some one else to realize it ? Wow, man! My hat off to you!

If you ask some one else to do something different from what they are doing, they may not do it. Suggestions and ideas are everywhere. Companies including RED will not consider every suggestions and change course. 14 years ago, the technology was not there. Now, you can get a custom chip made for $150,000. EVF, LCD monitor, Software to process the signal from chip, high speed storage, cheap chinese custom manufacturing of components, etc are available now.
Even if you had deep pockets, you would not have been able to make it, 14 years ago.

Jim may have over a billion dollars, but, that would not have been enough to make a RED 14 years ago. In the last 14 years, Sony, Panasonic etc. have spent over a trillion dollars in R&D to reach the level of technology we have today. Today, if you want, you can build a camera like RED for less than the price of your house. For example, SI did not have any funding but they still came up with a revolutionary camera.

So, my dear freind, if you have a dream do not ask others to do it for you (they have their own dreams to follow), try to do it yourself. If your dream is achievable with technology available at the time, you can achieve it; otherwise you have to wait (14 years) before trying again. If you have a better dream than RED, post it and may be you can get a few fellow dreamers to dream with you and then go ahead and make it a reality.

PS: Sony always makes what they invent. They do not listen to outsiders. They think they know what is good for customers. Lucas's suggestion came at a time when Sony was ready to do it anyway. So, it appears that SONY was moved by Lucas. Just like a cock thinks the sun rose because it announced the daybreak! 1080p, 2K, 4K, 8K are all Sony's ideas. They will bring out cameras, monitors, TVs, projectors, etc. that has 2K, 4K and 8K, when Sony is ready.
 
what a douche

what a douche

chuckt said:
Just like a cock thinks the sun rose because it announced the daybreak! 1080p, 2K, 4K, 8K are all Sony's ideas. They will bring out cameras, monitors, TVs, projectors, etc. that has 2K, 4K and 8K, when Sony is ready.
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did anyone else's hairs just stand up on the back of their neck like mine? if that's the sony version of red fanboyism then i'll be the first to apologize for ever coming close to sounding like that.

if not, then i really hope this is a joke.
 
Actually that's not a joke at all, it's fairly accurate. I don't think I've ever agreed with anything chuckt has posted, but he does have Sony's attitude right.

1) Sony makes money by forcing customers to re-buy and re-buy what they already had. Obsoleting formats is Sony's #1 business. Sony cannot make money unless they convince you to throw away what you already have and buy replacements all the time.

2) Sony also is a place where Engineers' dreams come true. They dream something up, and then they build it, and their marketing team then tries to convince you to buy it. Sounds good, but in fact it's actually rather customer-hostile: this statement is quite the opposite from a place where CUSTOMERS' dreams come true!

So yes, Sony will introduce whatever they want, whenever they're ready, regardless of whether the customer wants it or not. And they will make it as proprietary and non-compatible as they can, and just as soon as they've milked you for what they can get, they'll dump it and start all over and start milking you again.

This is a philosophy that has served them rather well over the years, but in the internet instant-feedback, instant-information age, I think Sony's philosophy is going to go the way of other behemoths that have fallen from grace (like IBM, General Motors, etc).
 
Barry, i agree with much of what you have written, but...

Barry Green said:
I think Sony's philosophy is going to go the way of other behemoths that have fallen from grace (like IBM, General Motors, etc).
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IBM fallen from grace?
did i miss something?

apple $24.01 billion revenue, net inc. $3.50 billion
Intel $38.3 billion, net inc. $7.0 billion
microsoft $51.12 billion, net inc. $14.06 billion
dell $57.095 billion, net inc. $2.6 billion
sony $70.303 billion, net inc. $1.1 billion
IBM $98.8 billion, net inc. $10.8 billion
HP $104.3 billion, $7.3 billion.

General Motors $181 billion, minus$38.7 billion

I would put them in one basket with GM, thats for sure :)
 
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