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Friday Night Double Feature
Texas Tech and filmmaking go together like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Will The Next Stephen Spielberg Please Stand Up?
Texas Tech Library offers a 3-D playground – in real time.
Summertime at last and cineplexes are once again bursting with moviegoers craving a butter-soaked bout of virtual pyrotechnics – Spidey slinging webs, pirates tipping ships over the rim of the earth, rats whipping up fine French cuisine.
Such a retinal assault, such eye candy – enough to make the concession-stand variety pale in comparison – takes some hefty programming muscle. We’re talking the kind of digital firepower that makes Jerry Bruckheimer salivate – and, unfortunately, doesn’t come standard on the average home computer.
America's Next Top Filmmaker
For independent filmmaker and Texas Tech graduate Will Bigham, 2007 is all about rent.
But not the Broadway musical – the reality of affording it in Hollywood.
Bigham, a native of Canyon, may have gotten the break of a lifetime, though – that is, if America picks him as winner of Fox’s “On the Lot.”
The reality TV show pares down 50 undiscovered filmmakers each week who compete to become the next big Hollywood filmmaker and sign a development deal with Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios.