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Hong Kong immigrant filmmaker Wayne Wang is best known for films like his indie breakout “Chan Is Missing” or his break into Hollywood filmmaking with Amy Tan’s “Joy Luck Club” adaptation. But he stoked controversy in 1990 when his crime drama “Life Is Cheap… But Toilet Paper Is Expensive” earned an X rating from the then-mpaa.

Its distributor rejected that rating and released it unrated, with critics including Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert applauding that decision and praising its merits as greater than the sum of its controversies. Still, the film’s graphic footage, while politically motivated, subverts audience expectations of sex and violence.

Structured around a neo-noir set-up — smoky rooms, mob bosses, and a femme fatale abound — “Life Is Cheap” melds guerrilla docu-fiction with political urgency. Not to mention the vivid imagery courtesy of Dp Amir Mokri, who has since worked on films including the “Transformers” and “Bad Boys” franchises.

‘Feel the Beat’s’ Wolfgang Novogratz with Elissa Down.

Elissa Down’s teen dance movie Feel the Beat premieres worldwide on Netflix this week. Sofia Carson stars as April, a self-centred dancer who, after blowing a Broadway audition, reluctantly returns home and agrees to coach a squad of young misfits for a big competition.

The director tells If how she landed her first Netflix gig, which was produced by What Women Want’s Susan Cartsonis; collaborating with fellow Aussies, composer Michael Yezerski and editor Jane Moran; and how her career has ebbed and flowed since her debut film The Black Balloon.

Q: How did you get the gig?

A: I met with producer Susan Cartsonis to discuss the project and we connected right away. Susan responded to the vision I had for the movie and she then presented me to Netflix to pitch – which had to be done over Google...

Loosely inspired by true events, and particularly an article by Michael Dorgan, which was first published on Official Karate in 1980, “Birth of the Dragon” attempts a recreation of the events that led to the infamous fight between Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man in San Francisco, in 1964.

Birth of The Dragon is being released in UK cinemas from Altitude Film Entertainment, starting February 23rd

At the time the film takes place, 24-year-old Bruce Lee owns and operates a martial arts school, and is on the verge of making a break into the show business, with “Green Hornet”. He is hip, cocky, and willing to go to extremes to introduce himself and kung fu to the world. However, everything changes when Wong Jack Man, a Buddhist monk who is also a martial arts master and a man, who, according to Lee, can unravel everything he has accomplished, arrives in town. Lee...

Author: Euan Franklin

Biopics never have a firm grasp on the truth, and any reasonably intelligent moviegoer understands this. Often, it’s obvious (merely by watching) what’s fact and what’s fantasy and it doesn’t hinder our enjoyment. In George Nolfi’s Birth of the Dragon, facts are kicked into the dirt of gangster-ridden Chinatown.

Set nine years before the release of Enter the Dragon, a young Bruce Lee (Philip Ng) is a martial-arts teacher (known as a sifu) in San Francisco. He is performative and egotistical, eager to introduce kung-fu to the Western world. But when Wong Jack Man (Xiu Yu) arrives in San Francisco, as penance for a sin committed in China, he threatens Lee’s aspirations – believing kung-fu shouldn’t be taught to Westerners. This builds to the famous (real) fight between the two of them – the results from which remain ambiguous.

The fantasies of...

Just a couple of days back, we had reported that the Azhar star Emraan Hashmi would soon be turning producer. Well now we hear that Emraan who has already commenced work on his debut production venture has roped in the Fast & Furious cinematographer Amir Mokri for his film. While there were reports that the acclaimed Iranian cinematographer, Amir Mokri who has worked on films like Fast & Furious, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon and Man Of Steel (2013), to name a few, was to join Tony D'Souza's Azhar, he dropped out citing date issues. However, considering that Emraan is setting up his production banner Emraan Hashmi Films in collaboration with Tony, the duo approached Mokri to come on board for their maiden venture. Though Emraan is in the process of finalizing two scripts, the actor is currently gearing up for his next release as an actor. As for the production venture...

Bad Moms

Stx Entertainment has released the first photo from their summer comedy "Bad Moms" which opens July 29th. Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Christina Applegate, Jada Pinkett Smith and Annie Mumolo star in the film about a mother pushed too far by the alpha moms at her kid's school - prompting her to team with two other misfit moms to get a taste of freedom. [Source: FM]

Transformers 5

Jonathan Sela, the cinematographer on "John Wick," has joined the crew of Michael Bay's fifth "Transformers" film at Paramount Pictures. He takes over from Amir Mokri ("Man of Steel") who serve as cinematographer on the previous two films. [Source: Variety]

Queen of Katwe

Disney has given the Mira Nair-directed chess drama "Queen of Katwe" an awards-season release date of September 23rd. The film will initially score a limited release before expanding the following week.

Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo and Madina Nalwanga...

The most recent Transformers sequels, Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction, had Man of Steel director of photography Amir Mokri helping Michael Bay behind the camera. But for the filmmaker’s final outing on the franchise with Transformers 5, he’s bringing in some new blood. John Wick cinematographer Jonathan Sela has boarded Transformers 5, […]

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Ethan Hawke stars in Good Kill, a drama-thriller from Gattaca director Andrew Niccol. Here's Ryan's review of a gripping film...

Writer-director Andrew Niccol is best known for his contribution to the sci-fi genre: In Time, the classic Gattaca and the elegant script for Peter Weir’s The Truman Show to name a few.

Good Kill isn’t a science fiction film, but its premise could easily come from a dystopian novel - or a darkly prophetic story by Philip K Dick.

Ethan Hawke plays Major Thomas Egan, a veteran pilot who controls unmanned aerial vehicles (or drones, as they’re often dubbed by the media) as they circle the skies of the Middle East. At the orders of those higher up the command chain, these drones can strike targets from 10,000km in the air - so high that someone on the ground could look up and not even see the craft gliding above them.

The Hurt Locker producer gives ten tips for producing award-winning films at the right budget.

Voltage Pictures president Nicolas Chartier, producer of The Hurt Locker and executive producer of Dallas Buyers Club, used his keynote speech at the Zurich Summit to offer ten tips for ‘producing award-winning films at the right budget’.

The tongue-in-cheek speech, which went down a storm, included plenty of sage advice.

Chartier agreed to share the speech with Screen and below is the near-entire transcript…

‘Good morning. So yesterday on the plane I was reading Hope For Film, the biography of Ted Hope who for those who don’t know him, was one of the founders of Good Machine, a great independent company which produced Crouching Tiger, Ice Storm, In the Bedroom, Brothers McMullen and many other independent films.

He wrote, I quote: “To make art, survive independently, and make a living that is tied to modest financial gain, you have to...

Traveling back from the Toronto Film Festival meant spending a fair amount of time in airports, and in each of those airports, the same revolving barrage of news went by, including discussions of new drone missions over Syria. It made it very unsettling as I had "Good Kill" still bouncing about inside me, one of the last movies I saw at the fest this year, and as timely a film as I could imagine seeing. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol, the film is a close-up character portrait of Tommy Egan, a former fighter jet pilot who has been relocated to a Las Vegas suburban neighborhood. Every day, he reports to a local base where he and his crew file into a small trailer and then spend their shift watching and occasionally killing people on the other side of the world. At the end of their shifts, they get to...

‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ review: Michael Bay’s latest ‘Transformers’ movie is ‘the least aggravating of a very aggravating lot’ (photo: Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor in ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’) Suffice it to say, there are many special effects in the Transformers movies of which Transformers: Age of Extinction is the latest and, get ready for some high praise, the least aggravating of a very aggravating lot. In fact, its greatest special effect, much like the previous three films, is its ability to deflect all criticism; these movies are not just critic proof, they’re quality proof. As long as the Autobots or Decepticons or emoticons or Comic-Cons or whatever they’re called keep laying waste to cities and brain cells, its target audience of global fanboys and Viacom shareholders will be sated and the rest of us can go down with the ship watching some arthouse limited release.

When "Man of Steel" was released this past summer, it didn't feature a key member of director Zack Snyder's creative brain trust: cinematographer Larry Fong, a contemporary of J.J. Abrams' (they grew up together) who furnished Snyder with the almost plastic visuals for "300," "Watchmen" and "Sucker Punch." Fong was replaced by "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" cinematographer Amir Mokri, but that appears to have been a blip: Fong is back for the still-untitled "Man of Steel" sequel that will pit Batman against Superman in a no-holds-barred superhero rumble. And if you like superheroes coming together, wait for the story about how Wolverine was almost in "Spider-Man." Yes, it seems Snyder is in the process of assembling his creative team for the superhero sequel, which begins shooting next year in Detroit. The shoot should last from February until August (good lord), with Snyder directing from another script by David S. Goyer.

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According to Super Hero Hype, director Zack Snyder will be reuniting with an old friend for the still-untitled "Man of Steel" sequel. It looks like Larry Fong, cinematographer on previous Snyder films "300," "Watchmen," and "Sucker Punch," will once again turn his eye towards superheroes with 2015's Superman and Batman slug-and/or-hugfest.

This marks one of the first major changes for the sequel, considering that both "Man of Steel's" director (Snyder) and screenwriter (David Goyer) are back for more. Fong, who also acted as director of photography for J.J. Abrams' "Super 8" and this summer's big surprise hit "Now You See Me," replaces "Man of Steel" cinematographer Amir Mokri. Mokri is currently working on "Transformers: Age of Extinction," which could be taking up the bulk of his schedule at the moment.

Whatever your thoughts on "Watchmen," you have to admit that it did look really really good.

It seems Amir Mokri (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon) won't be returning to shoot Man Of Steel 2, as cinematographer Larry Fong's resume at Worldwide Production Agency has been updated to include his involvement in Zack Snyder's Superman Vs Batman themed sequel to this year's Supes reboot. Fong has previously worked with Snyder on 300, Watchmen, and Sucker Punch, and most recently shot Now You See Me and Super 8 for J.J. Abrams. Plot details are still unknown, but Man Of Steel 2 will see Henry Cavill reprise the role of Clark Kent/Superman, with Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane back on board too. Oh and they'll be joined by some dude from Boston as Batman. Production is expected to begin in February of 2014 in Detroit.

No fancy cars, but here’s a great pic of some of the cast and crew on the set of Transformers 4. The picture is hi-res and gets better and better the more you zoom in so be sure and click to enlarge. Here’s the caption that was attached to the pic.

Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-Camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri.

Transformers 4 starring Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Jack Reynor, Han Geng, Li Bingbing and Kelsey Grammer is slated to hit theaters June 27, 2014.

Of the many, many blockbusters due to hit screens next summer, Transformers 4 is, without a doubt, one of the biggest.

Having got the green light from Paramount to helm this year’s hit, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay has in turn returned to the helm for the fourth instalment in the franchise, and he’s assembled a stellar new cast to do it with.

Mark Wahlberg is reuniting with his Pain & Gain helmer for the upcoming Transformers 4, and Bay took to his site last week to share the first official photo from the set, sharing a glimpse at Wahlberg alongside co-star Jack Reynor and a handful of the crew, including Bay himself.

Little is known about the plot, but it is known that the sequel will take place four years on from the events of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and that it will be the launching point for a new trilogy.

What… no photo bombing by Optimus Prime?

Michael Bay.com has released this “Just Another Day On The Set Of Transformers 4″ photo from Paramount Pictures Transformers 4. Featured in the photo are the film’s stars Jack Reynor and Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-Camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri.

Shooting (and explosions) of the film have begun.

Be on the the lookout for the first teaser coming soon. In the meantime, check out the new array of cars Here.

Transformers 4 stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Han Geng, Nicola Peltz, Li Bingbing and Sophia Myles are shooting now in multiple locations in the U.S. and China.

The film re-unites the filmmaking team from the hit franchise, including producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura,...

If Pacific Rim didn’t feature enough giant robot action to fill the hole in your heart left by the absence of a Michael Bay special-effects extravaganza this summer, you’ll be gratified to know that the next entry in Bay’s massively successful Transformers franchise is on the way.

Now, we have the first official picture from Transformers 4, which will attempt to reboot the franchise by focusing around a new group of human characters. Replacing Shia Labeouf this time around is Mark Wahlberg, who will portray Flynn Vincent, a single father and inventor caught up in all kinds of robot carnage when he makes a startling discovery.

Check out the first photo below:

The caption for the picture, from MichaelBay.com, reads:

Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-camera...

We've seen car photos and some set photos, but Michael Bay has now posted the first official still from the upcoming fourth "Transformers" film. The shot features Bay himself, actors Jack Reynor and Mark Wahlberg, and various crew members including cinematographer Amir Mokri.

The shot comes as a report at Coming Soon is that scenes rumoured to be involving Dinobot Transformers will be shot around Chicago’s McCormick Square around about now.

"Just Another Day On The Set Of Transformers 4" reads the headline on MichaelBay.com that accompanies this new "Transformers" set photo. No word if Bay's Superman pose is a reference to "Man of Steel" or just part of that "just another day" mentality.

From the site: "Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey 'Walrus' Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri."

"Transformers 4" is set for release in June of 2014.

Michael Bay has delivered the first official image from Transformers 4 (via Michael Bay.com). And from the Irish point of view its rather special because it features the first image of Jack Reynor (next to Mark Wahlberg). Not much is known of the plot besides this bit on IMDb A mechanic and his daughter make a discovery that brings down Autobots and Decepticons - and a paranoid government official - on them. It is known that Reynor plays a character called Shane, and Wahlberg plays Cade. I’d hazard a guess they’re related in some one! Other than that, thats it, the image is below and click it for a super hi-res version. Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri.

A new picture from the set of “Transformers 4″ has been released by Paramount and Michael Bay, and while not a lot is shown except for a mysterious obelisk with strange markings on it and Bay with some of the cast and crew, there’s not much in the way of spoilers. The picture, as I said, features Bay with his stars, Mark Wahlberg and Jack Reynor. Also featured are some of the guys behind the camera that are making the film happen–2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-Camera Operator Lukasz Bielan and Director of Photography Amir Mokri. The big question is [ Read More ]

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Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri. Titled “Just Another Day On the Set of Transformers 4″, take a gander at an official image from, well, the set of Michael Bay’s “Transformers 4″ that the Bayster recently released via his official site. I assume that’s co-stars Jack Reynor and Mark Wahlberg in “costume”, though they look like stylish bros just being bros. Bay, on the other hand, looks exactly like how you’d think Bay normally looks in real life — like he’s ready to blow something up. Set a few years after “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”, the untitled “Transformers 4″ will star Wahlberg as a mechanic who, along with his daughter (“The Last Airbender’s...

From left to right we have Jack Reynor, Mark Wahlberg, 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard, 1st Assistant A-Camera John Kairis with back to camera, B-camera Operator Lukasz Bielan, Director Michael Bay, and Director of Photography Amir Mokri...plus pyramid shaped metal robot thing. In addition, Coming Soon.net have received word that a scene set to shoot at McCormick Square in Chicago later today will indeed feature the Dinobots, who were rumored to be making an appearance in this movie a while back. Obviously the Dinobots themselves won't be present on set so it might be a while before we know this for sure, but we'll update if and when there are any further developments. Transformers 4 hits theaters June 27, 2014. Follow @RorMachine !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.

Check out this new photo from the set of Paramount's fourth Transformers film. Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-Camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri. Also in the cast are Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Li Bingbing, Sophia Myles, Titus Welliver and Kelsey Grammer, among many others.

James Mangold’s The Wolverine is the first X-Men movie I can heartily recommend without any major reservations.

Given the sheer magnitude of this series in modern popular culture, I am surprised to see myself writing those words, but when I look back at everything the film franchised has produced thus far, I see myself frequently on the edge of satisfaction, without ever once going all the way over. The original Bryan Singer films are good, X2 in particular, but every time I revisit them, I find they hold up less and less; they were absolutely revolutionary for their time, and no one can deny the iconic excellence of the ensemble, but Singer’s movies are uneven and overstuffed, and that only becomes more obvious with the more terrific superhero films we have now to compare them to.

But The Last Stand is, of course, where the real trouble started.

Before Man of Steel, the most interesting non-comics Superman stories have been told in animation. They capture his essence, the magnificence, and power of the character without the limitations of live-action. Even though there was a Warner Bros. television series about his childhood in Smallville and his exploits at the Daily Planet with Lois & Clark, the versions of Superman in both were written to reach a mainstream audience. Thankfully, Man of Steel ditches these aspects of the lore and the compromises made in this reboot help keep the focus on Superman’s emergence and determining how best to take that route, since mankind does not take kindly to anything it doesn’t know or understand. The purpose of this re-imagined origin is to tell the story of an alien attempting to live up to becoming the man his two fathers (and two mothers) believed he would be.

For one family,...

I have seen the future of blockbuster cinema, and the future is Man of Steel.

When audiences flock to theatres this Friday, they will be treated to an experience absolutely unlike anything they have ever seen before. This is not hyperbole. On every level, in every way, by every critical criterion I have to judge the effectiveness of film, and every benchmark of spectacle and wonder I have experienced in my time reviewing movies, Man of Steel is completely, utterly singular. I have never seen anything like it. At once vaster in scope than any superhero movie yet produced, and as intimately, crushingly emotional as any other entry in the genre, Man of Steel speaks in a fresh cinematic language viewers will be largely unaccustomed to. The scale of its action is completely unprecedented, an enormously, viscerally powerful shock to the system, yet in its narrative design and treatment of character,...

A new 3 minute trailer has arrived for 'Man Of Steel' on the back of a viral video message from General Zod (Michael Shannon), in which the Kryptonian demands that the people of Earth hand Kal-El over to him.

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures comes “Man of Steel,” starring Henry Cavill (“Immortals,” TV’s “The Tudors”) in the role of Clark Kent/Superman, under the direction of Zack Snyder (“300,” “Watchmen”).

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

The film also stars four-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams (“The Master”) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane,...

A number of big stories broke on the comic-book front over the past few days. We’re compiling all of the news superhero fans need to know about some of their most-anticipated blockbusters. - Breaking news! Superman knows how to fight! The full trailer for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel landed on the Internet today with a thud, a whack and a smash. Though the clip sets a somber tone for the latest Superman film, the second half of the teaser finally shows shots of the mighty Kal-El in action. You know, fighting villains and saving Metropolis from danger? The clear-cut winner is cinematographer Amir Mokri, who invents gorgeous ways to photograph Superman. The clip is above, and the movie will be in theaters on June 14. - 20th...

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Production begins on The Wolverine in Sydney on July 31 -- that is, on a Tuesday in two weeks -- with Hugh Jackman starring in the title role.

Logan/Wolverine travels to Japan to train with a Samurai warrior in this new episode, the sixth outing for Jackman as this character, although he only had a cameo in X-Men: First Class.

Director James Mangold and his cast and crew are working out of Fox Studio Australia and will travel all around Sydney, including Kurnell, to get the settings they require. A few weeks of filming will also occur in Japan.

Media outlets around the world have run with the news that Jessica Biel and Will Yun Lee have both been cast as villains in the upcoming film . Biel as Viper and Lee as The Silver Samurai . and that Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima and Brian Tee are also in the cast.

Don't expect the Dark of the Moon to shed light on any of your car-burning questions about the Transformers plot

Transformers 3 – or Transformers: Dark of the Moon to use its official title – looks set to be one of this year's most successful blockbusters. And now, thanks to the 30-second TV spot that aired during Sunday night's Super Bowl, we've finally got some idea of what it'll actually be about.

The good news is that Transformers 3 won't just be a cynically thoughtless rehash of the previous two outings designed explicitly to pander to the basest desires of teenage boys. On the basis of the Super Bowl spot, it'll actually go out of its way to answer as many questions as possible. Questions like these ...

1) What happened between Transformers 2 and Transformers 3?

Fans of the Transformers franchise will remember that, after a mighty struggle at the end of the last film,...

When Iranian cinematography legend Amir Mokri saw Blue on Oct 9 on the ‘Clint Eastwood Recording Sound Stage No 6’ at the Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles, director Anthony(Tony) D’Souza, a huge self-confessed and unabashed fan of Mokri’s work played a little game with Mokri.

Tony quietly let his precious film unfold for his favorite cinematographer and waited for him to recognize the sequence that Tony had shot as per instruction from Mokri in La. Of course Mokri immediately recognized the sequence whose shots were copied from Bad Boys 2 which Mokri had photographed.

Says.

When Iranian cinematography legend Amir Mokri saw Blue on Oct 9 on the 'Clint Eastwood Recording Sound Stage No 6' at the Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles, director Anthony D'Souza, a huge self-confessed and unabashed fan of Mokri's work played a little game with Mokri. Anthony quietly let his precious film unfold for his favourite cinematographer and waited for him to recognize the sequence that Tony had shot as per instruction from Mokri in La. Of course Mokri immediately recognized the sequence whose shots were similar from Bad Boys 2 which Mokri had photographed. Says Anthony, ''Of course Amir recognized the shots immediately. I had seen the way actors Will Smith and Martin Lawrence zigzagged through windows and doors for a particular sequence in Bad Boys 2. I wanted to use those shots for a sequence between Sanjay Sir (Dutt) and Lara Dutta in Blue. I got in touch with...

When Iranian cinematography legend Amir Mokri saw Blue on Oct 9 on the 'Clint Eastwood Recording Sound Stage No 6' at the Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles, director Anthony D'Souza, a huge self-confessed and unabashed fan of Mokri's work played a little game with Mokri. Anthony quietly let his precious film unfold for his favourite cinematographer and waited for him to recognize the sequence that Tony had shot as per instruction from Mokri in La. Of course Mokri immediately recognized the sequence whose shots were similar from Bad Boys 2 which Mokri had photographed. Says Anthony, ''Of course Amir recognized the shots immediately. I had seen the way actors Will Smith and Martin Lawrence zigzagged through windows and doors for a particular sequence in Bad Boys 2. I wanted to use those shots for a sequence between Sanjay Sir (Dutt) and Lara Dutta in Blue. I got in touch with...

A first for Bollywood is about to happen at the posh Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. Internationally-renowned cinematographer Amir Mokri (who’s shot Hollywood blockbusters like ‘Vantage Point’, ‘Bad Boys 2’ and ‘Fast and Furious’) will be watching our own desi action flick ‘Blue’ on October 3.

Joining Mokri will be Mitchell Amundsen the American cinematographer who recently shot ‘Mission Impossible 3’.

‘Blue’ director Tony D’Souza who worked in La when he directed the television series ‘Ripley’s Believe It Or Not’ has been close friends with Mokri and.

Download Blue wallpapers A first for Bollywood is about to happen at the posh Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. Internationally-renowned cinematographer Amir Mokri (who's shot Hollywood blockbusters like Vantage Point, Bad Boys 2 and Fast & Furious) will be watching our own desi action flick Blue on October 3. Joining Mokri will be Mitchell Amundsen, the American cinematographer who recently shot Mission Impossible 3. Blue director Anthony D'Souza, who worked in La when he directed the television series Ripley's Believe It Or Not, has been close friends with Mokri and Amundsen for years and a big fan of director Michael Bay who is also likely to join the two cinematographers to watch the special screening of Blue in La. A print of Blue is being flown to La for maverick Hollywood director Michael Bay's viewing pleasure. Anthony has been a fan of the director of the blockbuster Bad Boys and Transformers...

A first for Bollywood is about to happen at the posh Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. Internationally-renowned cinematographer Amir Mokri (who's shot Hollywood blockbusters like Vantage Point, Bad Boys 2 and Fast & Furious) will be watching our own desi action flick Blue on October 3. Joining Mokri will be Mitchell Amundsen, the American cinematographer who recently shot Mission Impossible 3. Blue director Anthony D'Souza, who worked in La when he directed the television series Ripley's Believe It Or Not, has been close friends with Mokri and Amundsen for years and a big fan of director Michael Bay who is also likely to join the two cinematographers to watch the special screening of Blue in La. A print of Blue is being flown to La for maverick Hollywood director Michael Bay's viewing pleasure. Anthony has been a fan of the director of the blockbuster Bad Boys and Transformers series and has seen these films repeatedly.

Release Date: April 3

Director: Justin Lin

Writer: Chris Morgan

Cinematographer: Amir Mokri

Starring: Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster

Studio/Run Time: Universal, 106 mins.

Ah, the mysterious soul of the buddy-action movie

At times it’s hard to comprehend the baffling idea that some new, unspoken trend in American culture created the “bromance” as it exists today. Somewhere in between decades of buddy-action movies and that part in 2 Fast 2 Furious where Paul Walker and Tyrese roll around on top of each other in a cloud of dust, there would seem to be a long history of such movies, albeit ones that avoid uncomfortable questions with explosions rather than queasy jokes. If there was ever a doubt, the latest, Fast & Furious, supplies a helpful exchange: “Are you one of those guys who prefers cars to girls?” a nominal female love interest asks one of the heroes. “I appreciate a fine body,...