Exposure: Jon Landau
Although producer Jon Landau was born into the Hollywood industry, serendipity still played a role in his career. As COO of James Cameron’s production company Lightstorm Entertainment, Landau produced both Avatar and Titanic. His early career, however, didn’t seem headed in the direction of tent-pole movies. In fact, Landau was raised on the art house hits produced by parents Ely and Edie Landau, which included The Pawnbroker, Long Day’s Journey into Night, and The Man in the Glass Booth. He began as a production manager and in short order rose to be an executive vice president of feature production at Twentieth Century Fox, in the early 1990s. And that’s where the serendipity came in. He was a suit at the West L.A. studio lot when Cameron directed True Lies, and the proverbial “creative sparks” must have flown, because after Landau left Fox, Cameron asked him to join him on a little project called Titanic. “The idea I’d be doing movies like this had never crossed my mind,” Landau says with genuine surprise. “And the fact that I am? I am thrilled.” Debra Kaufman caught up with one of the industry’s most creative producers about the challenges of making Avatar, the new standard-bearer for 3D production around the globe.
The Heart of the Beast
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC use live-action cinematography techniques to help tame DreamWorks new 3D animated feature How To Train Your Dragon By Debra Kaufman
One Wild Tea Party
Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski, ASC goes down the 3D rabbit hole for Tim Burton’s new version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Debra Kaufman
ICG March 2010
FEATURES
ALICE IN WONDERLAND 3D
DP Dariusz Wolski, ASC
By Debra Kaufman
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
DP Roger Deakins, ASC
By Debra Kaufman
PIRANHA 3-D
DP John Leonetti, ASC
By Bob Fisher
NAB PREVIEW
By Pauline Rogers
2010 CES SHOW
By Carolyn Giardina
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3D KIND
By Carolyn Giardina
EXPOSURE: Jon Landau
DEEP FOCUS: Peter Anderson, ASC
REPLAY: Step Up 3D
GEAR GUIDE: 3D Focus
DEPTH OF FIELD: The Caretaker 3D
United Nations of Oscar
March 1, 2010 by editor
Filed under Web Exclusive
Five Cinematographers from Five Different Countries Headline 2010 Academy Award Nominees. By Bob Fisher and David Heuring
