Glass Onion Trickeroo
I watched Glass Onion and enjoyed it—what a great cast!—but I did notice that it’s quite unconventional as a “whodunit.” A huge part of...
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Lukas Kendall
- Jan 22
- 2 min
Vineyard Hockey Mini-Doc
Some readers might know—because I’ve talked about it enough—I want to make an indie film on Martha’s Vineyard. So I was interested to see...
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Lukas Kendall
- Jan 2
- 3 min
It Begins! The 2023 Lukas Sell-Off
Happy New Year! My goal this year is simple: I want to make movies! Also television, but that’s harder (you need a “showrunner” and they...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick has landed on Paramount+ (where it’s predictably a big hit), so having heard how great it is the past six months, I...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
Alien$
Empire has published an interview with James Cameron—maybe you’ve heard, his Avatar sequel is now in theaters—but with a twist: the...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 28, 2022
- 2 min
The End of VFX
It’s the end of the year, so it’s the time for the retrospectives on the state of the film business—such as it is. Here’s a good one from...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 27, 2022
- 3 min
Confess, Fletch
I watched Confess, Fletch on Showtime last night. Like the rest of the world, I missed it upon release earlier this year. It was very...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 22, 2022
- 2 min
After Yang
I watched After Yang on Showtime last night. I had come across it in channel listings and thought—like most people, I suppose—what an odd...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
Digital Cinema
Here’s a recent article from BFI about the early days of digital cinema and how its promise has, or hasn’t, played out. Really good...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 15, 2022
- 15 min
Franchise Fatigue 2022
NOTE: I wrote this article a year ago, but for various reasons it was not published at the intended site. So I’m running it here before...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 5, 2022
- 7 min
Screenwriting: The First Page
NOTE: I posted this last week in a Facebook group about screenwriting. Afterwards I invited people to post the first page from their...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 4, 2022
- 2 min
High Concept Hangover
A movie opened this weekend called Violent Night. Maybe you heard of it, or have even seen it. It’s basically Die Hard starring Santa...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 2, 2022
- 4 min
Indiana Jones 5 Trailer
Hello nerds! I assume we all saw the Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny trailer: Want to know my opinion? Given that this is the...
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Lukas Kendall
- Nov 28, 2022
- 2 min
An Update on FSM Studios
Hello, dear friends! I thought I would give an update on FSM Studios which I announced earlier this year. I started a WeFunder campaign...
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Lukas Kendall
- Nov 27, 2022
- 2 min
In Praise of The Wolf of Wall Street
I love this crazy movie. It is often on cable or pay cable and I find myself watching it mid-stream, as I did last night. If you’ve only...
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Lukas Kendall
- Nov 22, 2022
- 2 min
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Screenplay
All ten of the “original” Star Trek (and Next Generation) films are on HBOMax, after having disappeared from Paramount+ in recent months....
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Lukas Kendall
- Nov 7, 2022
- 2 min
R.I.P. Westworld
HBO has canceled Westworld. This surprised me in that the fourth season seemed pretty “final” to me; I didn’t know the creators wanted to...
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Lukas Kendall
- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
Police Squad! Episode 7
Police Squad! is one of my all-time favorite shows. Genius! And The Naked Gun, of course, as far as the feature adaptations (though the...
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Lukas Kendall
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
Nick Meyer on Composition
One of the fun things that happened in producing the FSM CDs was getting to meet writer and director Nicholas Meyer, when we released CDs...
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Lukas Kendall
- Oct 22, 2022
- 1 min
Showbiz Salaries
NOTE: I hope people come on out to the soundtrack swap meet this afternoon, Saturday, October 22, 2022! My grandmother always said,...
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