January 2009

There’s an old adage in show business that if you want to ensure success, avoid working with kids and animals. Don’t tell that to picture editor Craig Cobb and supervising …

A very summer, my family got invited to the Paramount Studio picnic by my uncle, Al Zuniga. New movie and TV stars would appear; most notably for me were the …

Comedy, as they say, is all in the timing. Therefore, a comic’s best friend has got to be the film editor. But how does one become a good comedy editor? …

John Thornton Caldwell, a Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA, has published an up-to-date field study of contemporary production.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s film legacy is its musicals. Perhaps because it was the most politically conservative of the major studios, MGM was more comfortable with melodramas and musicals than with social issues.

CineMontage sat down with the two collaborators at Cox’s cutting room at Malpaso on the Warner lot as they were finishing post-production on Gran Torino.

“A movie is like a clay statue and editorial is the final part of that molding.” – Clint Eastwood

Though their jobs run the gamut from low-tech to the highest levels of digital file management, they all have certain attributes in common: an ability to step into a variety …