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  You Can Sell Kaiju Scale Without a Blockbuster Budget

  Godzilla Minus Zero hits theaters next month, and I don't know about you, but I'm super excited. Its predecessor, Godzilla Minus One, is now a famous, Oscar-winning, scrappy success story. Takashi Yamazaki served as the film's writer, director, and VFX supervisor.

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  Another Blackmagic Camera Update Is Here With Improved Stability and Improvements for Your Cameras

  We have another Blackmagic Camera update to share: Blackmagic Design rolled out update 10.3.1, which adds minor but helpful improvements to two popular cameras, the URSA Broadcast G2 and the PYXIS 12 K.

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  SIRUI’s New Hybrid Tripod/Monopod Kit is Here for Your Versatile Photo and Video Needs

  While no one has completely reinvented the tripod just yet (hey, give it another 100+ years and maybe something new will finally be innovated), there are plenty of tripod systems that offer a huge amount of versatility and features that can make working with a tripod quick, easy, and capable of providing support in almost any shooting situation.

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  Film Quote of the Day: The Clint Eastwood War Movie Line That Echoes the Marines’ Unofficial Motto

  Clint Eastwood's filmography is so extensive that you forget a bunch of movies. He starred in a bunch that are also great. One I particularly love is Heartbreak Ridge, a riff on the old "warrior comes home to train a new batch" trope; that's basically Top Gun: Maverick before even Top Gun came out.

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  Watch This Before Seeing the Uncensored Director’s Cut of ‘The Devils’

  Sacrilegious, censored, and based on real events. Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) has faced intense scrutiny for the on-screen depictions of sexual perversion and religious corruption surrounding a 17th-century convent. It’s been heavily censored, sometimes outright banned, for decades, and in the rare opportunity it did become available to stream, you weren’t seeing the version that Russell intended.

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  10 Times Different Movies Used the Same Locations

  Filming locations can sometimes be in as many movies as the actors bringing scenes to life inside them. Many of these locations can be found in and around Hollywood (especially within the “thirty-mile zone” around the area that determines whether pay rates will be for “local” work, and which gives the celebrity news outlet TMZ its name). However, prominent filming locations can be found all over the world.

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  10 Horror Movie Ripoffs That Are Worth Watching

  “It’s just a ripoff” is an easy dismissal for a movie that you don’t like. However, film history is littered with titles that have liberally ripped off hits that came before them and reconfigure those stolen elements into something truly special in their own right.

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  ​10 of the Best Mirror Scenes in Movie History

  Utilizing reflections in cinema is one of the most underrated forms of communication. Not only does it look super cool, but you achieve a shocking amount of character, visual, and thematic substance when you utilize them properly. Not to mention, for obvious fourth-wall reasons, it’s pretty difficult to do, so hats off to them all.

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  How to Light a Terrifying Horror Scene on an Indie Budget

  We get a lot of emails here at No Film School, and recently, I got one asking for a few tips on making an indie horror film.

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