If it was sooooo top secret...how'd anyone know it was done? Let alone at night...
Who told team Murray it was even done? Who leaked it to TMZ ..AGAIN??
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Michael Jackson's "This Is It," which opened last Tuesday for an limited cinematic run of two weeks, was the king of the box office this weekend, leading both the U.S. and international charts with profits of about $101 million worldwide.
One of the million things i love about Mike. He brings in $101 million worldwide just from rehearsal footage lol. Imagine what it would have made if it were actual concert footage <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D --> <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D -->. The man's still got it so give us a break already with this 'frail and weak and dying' shit <!-- s --><!-- s -->. He's 50, not 90! And anothr thing thats gotta make you wonder: if it took them a few days to realize his 'death' may be a homicide and needed serious criminal investigation, how was the Estate allowed to release footage of MJ in his last few days? Wouldn't every second of footage be confiscated as evidence? <!-- s:? -->:?<!-- s:? -->
Michael was so healthy and strong in TII but could he show some acting skills to show up at the trial? Yeah, why not. It would help Murray to be acquitted. So be ready for an acting frail, sick Michael. I would definitely not be surprised.
Michael was so healthy and strong in TII but could he show some acting skills to show up at the trial? Yeah, why not. It would help Murray to be acquitted. So be ready for an acting frail, sick Michael. I would definitely not be surprised.
Sorta how he acted weak and helpless as the Scarecrow in The Wiz. (Notice the crows like in Dumbo and the Sunflowers. Connection or coincidence?)
Wrap it up already Mike! I'm dying to see it. <!-- slolol/ -->lolol/<!-- slolol/ -->
By the way, I think there is LOTS of footage from lots of years. That is why there are probably also that many tapes.
you could be on to something there.
20 boxes, a box a year. BIG hoax, BIG movie, BIG shock. That's why there will be a BAM.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
HOLD UP!!!!!!! IF THIS COMPANY WAS BEHIND THE EDITING OF THIS IS IT MOVIE, WHY IS IT KENNY ORTEGA WAS PAID ONE MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE SAME JOB!!! YEP BECAUSE THAT MONEY WAS NOT, I REPEAT NOT FOR EDITING BUT IT WAS A PAY OFF!!!!
Tustin man edited Jackson film 'This Is It'
February 12, 2010|By ELYSSE JAMESTUSTIN "This Is It," the documentary film of Michael Jackson's pre-tour rehearsals, grossed more than $260 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.
That's due in part to the work of Tustin resident Brandon Key, who, along with Don Brochu, Tim Patterson and Kevin Stitt, spent weeks sifting through 120 hours of Michael Jackson rehearsal footage after the pop star's death on June 25.
The editing team has been nominated for an ACE Eddie Award on Sunday, up for Best Edited Documentary against Geoffrey Richman for "The Cove" and Kim Roberts for "Food, Inc."
The rehearsal footage was planned to promote the star's planned 50-show run in London. Jackson liked to document his whole process, Key said, so Patterson had been filming the rehearsals.
"All of a sudden, M.J. died," Key said. "Suddenly this became the most valuable footage on the planet."
Key was called in to help Patterson sort through the hours of material and create a clip to help prove Jackson had been physically ready for the tour, a prevailing question among fans.
"There was speculation about whether we had cut around anything to make Michael look good. It comes through in the film he was ready to do this concert and put his heart and soul into this big comeback," Key said. "It would have been the most spectacular show of the decade, if not the last 20-30 years."
Over the next two weeks, Key and Patterson combined clips of select songs to show the executives at the entertainment company AEG. Don Brochu and Kevin Stitt joined the team.
"I think that's when it happened," Key said. "They started thinking, 'We have enough to make a feature film.'"
The editors spent the next few weeks dissecting the film song by song, he said. They worked 16 hour days, 7 days a week until they had gathered 3 ½ hours of behind-the-scenes material into a rough draft where each song told a story. The 2-hour film opened in theaters on Oct. 28.
Key is particularly proud of the "Billie Jean" rehearsal scene.
"It's just him dancing alone on the stage with no other story, props, anything," Key said. "The dancers are in the audience and you can see the adoration they have for him."
The first draft of the movie was shown to AEG executives and director Kenny Ortega.
"Kenny was speechless," Key said. "It was always for the fans. He wanted to give them a last look at (Michael's) humanity. He wanted the world to know Michael Jackson as he knew Michael Jackson, which was as an innocent, caring, humble individual."
Twenty-two documentaries were eligible for the ACE Eddie Award, said American Cinema Editors spokeswoman Lea Yardum. The list was narrowed down to three based on votes by the group's 600 members.
"This Is It" is Key's first feature film. Previously, he's worked on commercials, corporate productions, stage shows and special events through his post production company, Digital Cut.
"We were used to creating something out of nothing. This was shot without any plan, that was unique," Key said. "It was kind of fun being at the center of pop culture for a few weeks."
To me Michael never looked frail or exhausted! He was like a 20 year old young guy dancing and moving, may be these tapes will finally expose the hoax and what happened on june 25, may be this is the end of the beginning, who knows?
HOLD UP!!!!!!! IF THIS COMPANY WAS BEHIND THE EDITING OF THIS IS IT MOVIE, WHY IS IT KENNY ORTEGA WAS PAID ONE MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE SAME JOB!!! YEP BECAUSE THAT MONEY WAS NOT, I REPEAT NOT FOR EDITING BUT IT WAS A PAY OFF!!!!
Tustin man edited Jackson film 'This Is It'
February 12, 2010|By ELYSSE JAMESTUSTIN "This Is It," the documentary film of Michael Jackson's pre-tour rehearsals, grossed more than $260 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.
That's due in part to the work of Tustin resident Brandon Key, who, along with Don Brochu, Tim Patterson and Kevin Stitt, spent weeks sifting through 120 hours of Michael Jackson rehearsal footage after the pop star's death on June 25.
The editing team has been nominated for an ACE Eddie Award on Sunday, up for Best Edited Documentary against Geoffrey Richman for "The Cove" and Kim Roberts for "Food, Inc."
The rehearsal footage was planned to promote the star's planned 50-show run in London. Jackson liked to document his whole process, Key said, so Patterson had been filming the rehearsals.
"All of a sudden, M.J. died," Key said. "Suddenly this became the most valuable footage on the planet."
Key was called in to help Patterson sort through the hours of material and create a clip to help prove Jackson had been physically ready for the tour, a prevailing question among fans.
"There was speculation about whether we had cut around anything to make Michael look good. It comes through in the film he was ready to do this concert and put his heart and soul into this big comeback," Key said. "It would have been the most spectacular show of the decade, if not the last 20-30 years."
Over the next two weeks, Key and Patterson combined clips of select songs to show the executives at the entertainment company AEG. Don Brochu and Kevin Stitt joined the team.
"I think that's when it happened," Key said. "They started thinking, 'We have enough to make a feature film.'"
The editors spent the next few weeks dissecting the film song by song, he said. They worked 16 hour days, 7 days a week until they had gathered 3 ½ hours of behind-the-scenes material into a rough draft where each song told a story. The 2-hour film opened in theaters on Oct. 28.
Key is particularly proud of the "Billie Jean" rehearsal scene.
"It's just him dancing alone on the stage with no other story, props, anything," Key said. "The dancers are in the audience and you can see the adoration they have for him."
The first draft of the movie was shown to AEG executives and director Kenny Ortega.
"Kenny was speechless," Key said. "It was always for the fans. He wanted to give them a last look at (Michael's) humanity. He wanted the world to know Michael Jackson as he knew Michael Jackson, which was as an innocent, caring, humble individual."
Twenty-two documentaries were eligible for the ACE Eddie Award, said American Cinema Editors spokeswoman Lea Yardum. The list was narrowed down to three based on votes by the group's 600 members.
"This Is It" is Key's first feature film. Previously, he's worked on commercials, corporate productions, stage shows and special events through his post production company, Digital Cut.
"We were used to creating something out of nothing. This was shot without any plan, that was unique," Key said. "It was kind of fun being at the center of pop culture for a few weeks."
"After Jackson's death, Ortega was hired to edit together 80 hours of video taken on stage and behind the scenes of the "This Is It" rehearsals for the 111-minute movie."
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Michael was so healthy and strong in TII but could he show some acting skills to show up at the trial? Yeah, why not. It would help Murray to be acquitted. So be ready for an acting frail, sick Michael. I would definitely not be surprised.
Sorta how he acted weak and helpless as the Scarecrow in The Wiz. (Notice the crows like in Dumbo and the Sunflowers. Connection or coincidence?)
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off topic. i saw the wiz last night for the first time ever ( as far as i can remeber) . michael seemed to just become that charactor.
Who the fuck uses tape anymore. No one. This would all be digital footage.
This is a direct link to the "missing tapes" CCTV footage from Carrolwood... which in my opinion is a direct tie in or link to something else.
I believe there ARE missing tapes, or secret tapes, or tapes that are very valuable, and hold some secret, some giant key to this entire puzzle... but I believe they are from years ago... say... 2003ish... and I believe they will come to light... and they are just flirting with us.
Michael was so healthy and strong in TII but could he show some acting skills to show up at the trial? Yeah, why not. It would help Murray to be acquitted. So be ready for an acting frail, sick Michael. I would definitely not be surprised.
Sorta how he acted weak and helpless as the Scarecrow in The Wiz. (Notice the crows like in Dumbo and the Sunflowers. Connection or coincidence?) [youtube:1iubrooc]
off topic. i saw the wiz last night for the first time ever ( as far as i can remeber) . michael seemed to just become that charactor.
It played on BET a few nights ago. Although it was a blockbuster failure, I still love that movie very much. Ecspecially the part when they fix Mike up @ the Wicked Witch scene and he gets up and does a cute little dance to show he's 'alright' haha!
Ok, back on topic, I read the hearing that was on June 16 and they have officially confused the hell out of me and themselves. The definition 'raw' footage is in question, I guess. Has anyone else read it?
Michael was so healthy and strong in TII but could he show some acting skills to show up at the trial? Yeah, why not. It would help Murray to be acquitted. So be ready for an acting frail, sick Michael. I would definitely not be surprised.
Sorta how he acted weak and helpless as the Scarecrow in The Wiz. (Notice the crows like in Dumbo and the Sunflowers. Connection or coincidence?) [youtube:9165s74n]
off topic. i saw the wiz last night for the first time ever ( as far as i can remeber) . michael seemed to just become that charactor.
It played on BET a few nights ago. Although it was a blockbuster failure, I still love that movie very much. Ecspecially the part when they fix Mike up @ the Wicked Witch scene and he gets up and does a cute little dance to show he's 'alright' haha!
Ok, back on topic, I read the hearing that was on June 16 and they have officially confused the hell out of me and themselves. The definition 'raw' footage is in question, I guess. Has anyone else read it?
Could you please give me a link to where i can read it?
Michael was so healthy and strong in TII but could he show some acting skills to show up at the trial? Yeah, why not. It would help Murray to be acquitted. So be ready for an acting frail, sick Michael. I would definitely not be surprised.
Sorta how he acted weak and helpless as the Scarecrow in The Wiz. (Notice the crows like in Dumbo and the Sunflowers. Connection or coincidence?) [youtube:1d8qsrt5]
off topic. i saw the wiz last night for the first time ever ( as far as i can remeber) . michael seemed to just become that charactor.
It played on BET a few nights ago. Although it was a blockbuster failure, I still love that movie very much. Ecspecially the part when they fix Mike up @ the Wicked Witch scene and he gets up and does a cute little dance to show he's 'alright' haha!
Ok, back on topic, I read the hearing that was on June 16 and they have officially confused the hell out of me and themselves. The definition 'raw' footage is in question, I guess. Has anyone else read it?
Could you please give me a link to where i can read it?
As I was reading through the posts I noticed that the cameraman who shot This Is It (Tim Patterson) worked on the History tour. Maybe this is why he was entrusted with This Is It?<br /><br />Here is an article from late November 2009. There is no mention of him working on any Michael project in the past, only that he occasionally worked in the music business. <br /><br />http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-05/entertainment/0911040729_1_footage-concert-promoter-aeg-live-rehearsals<br /><br />A personal thriller for commercial director<br />November 05, 2009|By Ben Fritz, Tribune Newspapers<br /><br />LOS ANGELES — On June 25, just hours after Michael Jackson died, Tim Patterson drove from his suburban home to downtown Los Angeles with $60 million worth of film footage in his trunk.<br /><br />As he sped down Interstate 5 in his green Lexus convertible, Patterson carried virtually all of the 140 hours of rehearsal footage from the late singer's planned "This Is It" concert series that would eventually be whittled down to the 112-minute movie that opened last week.<br /><br />Patterson, a director of commercials who has occasionally worked in music over his 29-year career, was one of two camera operators hired by concert promoter AEG Live to record "This Is It" rehearsals.<br /><br />Every night after work, he transferred hours of video shot by himself and collaborator Sandrine Orabona to two hard drives in his home office. The afternoon that Jackson died, Paul Gongaware, a producer of the concert and movie, called him with an urgent request: The footage, which had suddenly become uniquely valuable, had to be delivered to AEG's downtown offices immediately.<br /><br />"I could have easily gone to TMZ and made a few million dollars," Patterson recalled with a laugh.<br /><br />Instead, he began an unlikely odyssey in which a commercial director who had never worked on a feature film before became the only person besides Jackson's close artistic collaborators involved in "This Is It" from beginning to end. Together with longtime collaborator Brandon Key, also a commercial director and producer, Patterson worked on every cut of "This Is It," from the original footage given to the news media days after Jackson's death to DVD extras just recently completed.<br /><br />"This will be the most important and incredible thing I do in my career," the 53-year-old said from his home office. "I never imagined I would get involved in concert rehearsals and end up making a motion picture." Patterson's involvement began in May when he e-mailed Gongaware, whom he has known since the early 1980s, to ask whether there might be some role for him in preparations for the "This Is It" concert while he was on a break from other work.<br /><br />Gongaware was by chance planning to start compiling behind-the-scenes footage. He hired Patterson and Orabona and put together a budget of $80,000. Over the next six months, using two $6,000 Sony cameras Patterson bought for the project, they worked six days a week, often until midnight, shooting performances and candid moments and interviewing dancers, musicians and others working on the concert.<br /><br />It was a simple, almost amateur production, because it wasn't intended at the time for anything more than promotional Internet videos and Jackson's private archives. Many important moments were shot by only one person, and when the performers' body microphones were turned off, fuzzy sound was captured with a boom mic attached to the camera.<br /><br />"If we had known it was going to be a movie," said Patterson with a laugh, "we would have shot with nine or 12 cameras and gotten coverage on everything." The week after Jackson died, Patterson and Key were working in a makeshift office at AEG headquarters with equipment strewn on the floor, rapidly trying to figure out just what they had. Within a week of the singer's death, they cut together the initial 97-second clip from "This Is It" that was released to the media and became a cable and Internet sensation.<br /><br />Over the next couple of weeks, Patterson and Key, 44, continued sorting through the clips, editing together rough cuts of several different performances and backstage discussions. By mid-July, a parade of top executives from studios including 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures came to one of the cramped rooms where they were working, and Patterson showed off what they had.<br /><br />A couple of weeks later, Sony agreed to pay $60 million to turn the footage into a movie.<br /><br />In the interim, Patterson and Key worked with Don Brochu, who edited director Kenny Ortega's "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," to assemble a first cut of about two hours and 45 minutes -- 2 1/4 hours of performances and half an hour of discussions<br /><br />Patterson, who had come onto the project as a behind-the-scenes cameraman, and Key, who'd responded to an urgent call from a friend to help make sense of the footage, had unexpectedly become editors on one of the highest-profile movies of the year, one created entirely in the editing room.<br /><br />As they made a film that had no script and on which the director had rarely paid attention to what was being shot, Patterson was in the incredibly unusual position of being the only person present who knew just what they had to work with. Over the course of about a month, the duo worked seven-day weeks at Sony, clipping and tweaking their 2 3/4 -hour cut into the finished movie.<br /><br />The two have now returned to the lives they were living six months ago, far away from feature films and studio lots. But as they took a break from commercial work to discuss the "This Is It" experience in Patterson's home office, it was clear they're eager to work on another concert movie and yet aware that nothing can live up to their physically and emotionally exhausting experience this summer -- creating a tribute to a pop legend's life.<br /><br />"I never imagined," said Patterson, whose biggest regular gig is making ads for a golf-equipment company, "that I'd ever work on a project where I would break down and cry in the edit bay."<br /><br /><br />Why would he cry? Is he aware of things?<br /><br /><br />This is part of the article paula-c posted that included the mentioning of HIStory:<br /><br />Over the years, Patterson had worked with Gongaware from time to time, on various projects including music videos and Warren Miller films. In the mid-'90s, he'd worked on promotions for Jackson's "HIStory" tour.<br /><br />He couldn't have caught Gongaware at a better time. It turned out that he and other producers had just been discussing the possibility of filming some behind the scenes footage for the tour.<br /><br />"I really enjoyed working with Michael on the "HIStory tour," Patterson said. "I thought it would be really cool to be involved with his last tour."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Love you Michael!<br />
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Who told team Murray it was even done? Who leaked it to TMZ ..AGAIN??
More propaganda, but aimed at Who is the question and by whom <!-- s:) -->:)<!-- s:) -->
Sorta how he acted weak and helpless as the Scarecrow in The Wiz. (Notice the crows like in Dumbo and the Sunflowers. Connection or coincidence?)
[youtube:2hfs26ww]
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you could be on to something there.
20 boxes, a box a year. BIG hoax, BIG movie, BIG shock. That's why there will be a BAM.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."I agree, you are on the right track Souza!
Tustin man edited Jackson film 'This Is It'
February 12, 2010|By ELYSSE JAMESTUSTIN "This Is It," the documentary film of Michael Jackson's pre-tour rehearsals, grossed more than $260 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.
That's due in part to the work of Tustin resident Brandon Key, who, along with Don Brochu, Tim Patterson and Kevin Stitt, spent weeks sifting through 120 hours of Michael Jackson rehearsal footage after the pop star's death on June 25.
The editing team has been nominated for an ACE Eddie Award on Sunday, up for Best Edited Documentary against Geoffrey Richman for "The Cove" and Kim Roberts for "Food, Inc."
The rehearsal footage was planned to promote the star's planned 50-show run in London. Jackson liked to document his whole process, Key said, so Patterson had been filming the rehearsals.
"All of a sudden, M.J. died," Key said. "Suddenly this became the most valuable footage on the planet."
Key was called in to help Patterson sort through the hours of material and create a clip to help prove Jackson had been physically ready for the tour, a prevailing question among fans.
"There was speculation about whether we had cut around anything to make Michael look good. It comes through in the film he was ready to do this concert and put his heart and soul into this big comeback," Key said. "It would have been the most spectacular show of the decade, if not the last 20-30 years."
Over the next two weeks, Key and Patterson combined clips of select songs to show the executives at the entertainment company AEG. Don Brochu and Kevin Stitt joined the team.
"I think that's when it happened," Key said. "They started thinking, 'We have enough to make a feature film.'"
The editors spent the next few weeks dissecting the film song by song, he said. They worked 16 hour days, 7 days a week until they had gathered 3 ½ hours of behind-the-scenes material into a rough draft where each song told a story. The 2-hour film opened in theaters on Oct. 28.
Key is particularly proud of the "Billie Jean" rehearsal scene.
"It's just him dancing alone on the stage with no other story, props, anything," Key said. "The dancers are in the audience and you can see the adoration they have for him."
The first draft of the movie was shown to AEG executives and director Kenny Ortega.
"Kenny was speechless," Key said. "It was always for the fans. He wanted to give them a last look at (Michael's) humanity. He wanted the world to know Michael Jackson as he knew Michael Jackson, which was as an innocent, caring, humble individual."
Twenty-two documentaries were eligible for the ACE Eddie Award, said American Cinema Editors spokeswoman Lea Yardum. The list was narrowed down to three based on votes by the group's 600 members.
"This Is It" is Key's first feature film. Previously, he's worked on commercials, corporate productions, stage shows and special events through his post production company, Digital Cut.
"We were used to creating something out of nothing. This was shot without any plan, that was unique," Key said. "It was kind of fun being at the center of pop culture for a few weeks."
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Yeahhh...I agree...is an adventure, a great adventure !!!!! <!-- slolol/ -->lolol/<!-- slolol/ -->
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Hmmmmm....
Editing
AKA: Visual Editing, Film Editing
Reconstructing the sequence of events in a movie.
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Film Editing by
Don Brochu
Brandon Key
Tim Patterson
Kevin Stitt
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"After Jackson's death, Ortega was hired to edit together 80 hours of video taken on stage and behind the scenes of the "This Is It" rehearsals for the 111-minute movie."
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off topic. i saw the wiz last night for the first time ever ( as far as i can remeber) . michael seemed to just become that charactor.
Beautifully said, Bec! My thoughts exactly!
God bless all! <!-- s:) -->:)<!-- s:) -->
It played on BET a few nights ago. Although it was a blockbuster failure, I still love that movie very much. Ecspecially the part when they fix Mike up @ the Wicked Witch scene and he gets up and does a cute little dance to show he's 'alright' haha!
Ok, back on topic, I read the hearing that was on June 16 and they have officially confused the hell out of me and themselves. The definition 'raw' footage is in question, I guess. Has anyone else read it?
Could you please give me a link to where i can read it?
http://www.teammichaeljackson.com/tmj_327.htm