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Writer/Director Peter Hyams on "Capricorn One"

BREAKING PODCAST NEWS – I think it’s pretty axiomatic these days that film budgets on the large action and super-hero movies have run totally amok – and could probably feed small countries for a time. The studios and streamers, which can fund these mammoths are at a loss as to how to curtail runaway budgets. And then along comes Sam Manos and his take on Pre-Visualization Technology or Pre-Viz. This week’s guest on my podcast, Steven Jay Rubin’s Saturday Night at the Movies, Sam is a former champion skydiver and stuntman (“Last Action Hero,” “Clifffhanger”) who started a company called CineLogic to help companies pair down their skyrocketing production costs. Sam is a disrupter, and he feels strongly that movies that cost $200 million today could cost $20 million with proper preliminary work – involving extraordinary digital technology to re-configure production in a much more practical and organized way. How many directors come to the set without a specific plan to shoot action – using the filmmaking process as their laboratory – a practice that can lead to incredible waste and expense. Tune in for a quick education. Here’s a link – as always, this episode should be up by 7 P.M. PST. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83ZDAyYmViYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwjImoqP_532AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&hl=en

Sidney Poitier gives a killer performance in "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961)