The miniatures from INDEPENDENCE DAY behind the scenes are just… 🤤

Some love for DARK ENCOUNTER 👽🛸

Agreeeed…

Steven Spielberg’s WAR OF THE WORLDS behind the scenes, the ferry sequence…

1969 poster for 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

#Screenwriting survival tip for today…

Stare down that blank page and fill it. There will always be a rewrite. It does not have to be perfect.

No pages — equals no pages. Outline, research and live with your characters, and then take the leap — let them lead you and follow.

Building the Raptor Pen, JURASSIC PARK behind the scenes…

Behind the scene of ARRIVAL, a terrific film that keeps sneaking up on me as if find myself thinking about it...

It’s my hand!

I got half way through this trailer thinking meh—and then I reached the halfway point…

Some behind the scenes pics from CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND…

Two-page New York Times ad for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND a little over seven months before release, 4/10/77

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind visual effects

Behind the scenes of SOLIS, with Steven Ogg checking back on lines... 🎥 👨‍🚀🚀

Good Jesus lord of heaven…

An example from THE LORD OF THE RINGS of in-camera practical trick-photography. It still blows my mind how simple it can be. Great practical filmmaking is just one giant magic trick...

Wow, a real IMAX IRL. The new model is set to be 30% quiter, we hear...

(Note: not the new model but still pretty cool)

Gareth Edward’s in a behind the scenes still from MONSTERS in 2010, wearing one of my own beloved JAWS t-shirts from Last Exit To Nowhere

Jurassic Park (1993)
Art by Alyn Spiller/Phase Runner.

JURASSIC PARK behind the scenes