The 68th Primetime Emmy® Awards will be held this month in Los Angeles. It is the industry’s opportunity to celebrate extraordinary achievements in the television art form, which continues to be elevated by the storytellers and artists working in the genre.
Based on a true story, Free State of Jones depicts the Civil War-era struggle of farmer-turned-Confederate deserter Newton Knight leading an armed rebellion of local farmers and freed slaves to secede Jones County, Mississippi, from the Confederacy.
Jodie Foster directs George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Money Monster, in which a glib TV financial advisor is taken hostage on the air by an irate investor. Foster tapped Matthew Libatique, ASC to bring her vision to the screen.
In Fear the Walking Dead, AMC’s spinoff to the hit series The Walking Dead, the zombie apocalypse has just begun to affect Los Angeles. In the six-episode first season, L.A. residents try to survive as the military loses containment and the power grid goes down. Leading up to the pilot, cinematographer Michael McDonough, ASC, BSC saw an opportunity to employ the anamorphic format for a series.
A road movie tinged with science-fiction, Midnight Special is a simple story of a father's love for his son that is wrapped in complexity and nuance.
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC was at the camera for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, a tale of greed and excess in the go-go 1980s financial rackets. This time, the duo went back a decade earlier to present a story set in the music industry of the 1970s, as it evolved from kid stuff into big business. The two-hour pilot for the HBO series Vinyl touches on the entire culture of the period – business, fashion, society, and art are all in a state of flux.
The explosion in popularity of the anamorphic format certainly has taxed the anamorphic lens reserves as of late, which left cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen, a die-hard anamorphic and Panavision user, without his favorites for the action-comedy Ride Along 2.
