Tag: RIDLEYSCOTT

By now, you've probably heard about the Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald project 'Life in a Day,' a film culled entirely from videos submitted to YouTube. (The project knits together videos that document how approximately 1,125 people spent July 24th, 2010.) The footage was culled from over 80,000 submissions, and whittled down to a feature-length film, which will be making its debut later today ...

Last July, renowned directors Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald implored the public to submit personal videos for a YouTube crowd-sourcing project titled, 'Life in a Day.' According to The Next Web, 1,125 submissions -- which were all captured on July 24th of 2010 -- eventually made the final cut. The finished product will reportedly debut January 27th at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, but ...

We're getting a little sick of crowd-sourcing, but 'Life in a Day' -- a new project by Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald -- seems like it could have some promise, if only due to the cinematic weight that the directors bring to the table. Macdonald, who directed 'The Last King of Scotland,' and Scott, who directed sci-fi favorites like 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien,' have partnered with YouTube to ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Journalistic shield laws apparently don't apply to writers and publishers in San Mateo, California. In the intensely escalating missing-iPhone brouhaha, police reportedly raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home in an attempt to glean information about the iPhone prototype incident. [From: Engadget] 'Avatar' is continuing its ...

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a bidding war broke out Wednesday over a sci-fi short film that was made as part of an experiment sponsored by Phillips called Parallel Lines, in which the electronics giant challenged five filmmakers to each make a short film using set pieces of dialogue. So what's the short film that has studio executives tearing at each others' throats? Titled 'The Gift,' ...