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The Golden Globes show not only brings together the world of film and TV but it also includes categories in comedy and musical categories, one of the major differentiating features of the Globes from other awards bodies. That meant that, last year, while Heath Ledger, David Strathairn and Philip Seymour Hoffman battled it out in the drama category, the comedy or musical category could honour Nathan Lane in The Producers, Johnny Depp in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Pierce Brosnan in The Matador, all accompl stanley cup ished comic performances which hardly stood a chance at the Osc stanley italy ars.The heavy-hitters in this years category will no doubt also be Oscar players, like Dreamgirls, The Devil Wears Prada, Little Miss Sunshine and Stranger Than Fiction.But there are a host of broad comic turns which could end up getting shortlisted, not least of which is Sacha Baron Cohen, who would no doubt cause a stir at the show itself were he to be nominated an stanley cup d attend in the guise of his Kazakh alter ego Borat.Baron Cohen, who conducted a press conference with the HFPA in full Borat character, is more likely to be recognised for his bravura work than some of the other comic giants today - Adam Sandler in Click, Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby and Jack Black in both Nacho Libre and Tenacious DIn The Pick Of Destiny.Ferrell also has a shot in the actor category for Stranger Than Fiction. Comic veterans like Steve Martin in The Pink Panther and Robin Williams in Man Of The Rllf Sean McNamara to direct Young Santa
Northern Film Media has funded the new app, which brings the production stripboard system to a mobile device for the first time.Newcastle-based company Soluble Apps has come up with a new app which allows local film-makers to use their iPhones to track shots during shoots.Part-financed by regional screen agency Northern Film Media, the new app, ShotList, has been designed to allow film-makers to react and respond quickly to challenges such as weather conditions or problems with locations on a shoot. stanley kubek The app, which works with the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and will be available end of June, is based on the current production stripboard system. Film-makers will be able to track and schedule shoots, add, edit or re-order scenes across multiple shooting dates, view up to 6 storyboard frames per sc stanley italy ene for instant recall and store hot linked notes for each scene. Film-makers can also email the latest schedule via the app or exchange updated project files with other ShotList users.It w stanley cup ill be the first time the production stripboard system has been available on a mobile device. When a friend went to start work on a project as First AD we were both surprised to find that there was nothing like ShotList to be found anywhere on the App Store. For the first time we have put everything a filmmaker needs to track a scripted shoot, right in their pocket, said Peter Johnson, founder of Soluble Apps. Shotlist provides a low cost, portable, digital shot-tracking solution for fil