(Above) The set up for the shark’s fiery demise at the conclusion of Jaws 2 (1978). The production still comes from a collection of 180 set photos recently unearthed and published by the Northwest Florida Daily News. The sequel was shot on Florida’s Emerald Coast as opposed to the Martha’s Vineyard locations of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 original. Check out all of the set stills here.
(Above) Al Capone henchman Frank Nitti plummets to his death in this scene from Brian De Palma’s 1987 film The Untouchables. (Photo by unit stills photographer Zade Rosenthal)
The pic above – along with the one below from De Palma’s Battleship Potemkin homage shot at Chicago Union Station – comes from a recently republished article on The Untouchables from American Cinematographer magazine.
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Director J.A. Bayona (The Impossible, A Monster Calls) aims an Alexa 65 into the chompers of a practical dinosaur on the set of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Behind the scenes of the HBO retelling of Ray Bradbury’s classic sci-fi cautionary tale Fahrenheit 451. Shot by cinematographer Kramer Morganthau on Panasonic’s 4K VariCam 35 with Panavision Super Speed and Ultra Speed legacy primes. The lighting units you see on frame right – both sitting on the ground and perched on the stand – are Arri SkyPanels.
The set pic on the left comes from American Cinematographer magazine’s feature on the film from the June issue, which you can read here.
Chazz Palminteri prepares to drag a camera operator across a bar room floor on a sound blanket in order to get a POV shot of Palminteri’s gangster character yanking a biker out of his bar in 1993’s A Bronx Tale. I first saw this one when I rented it from Video Village on VHS when I was 16. It’s still my favorite movie.
Here’s the full bikers vs. gangsters melee from the film.
Cinematographer Bradford Young (Arrival, Selma, A Most Violent Year) frames up a handheld shot of Chewbacca on the set of Solo: A Star Wars Story. That’s actor Warwick Davis behind Chewie. Davis first appeared as the Ewok Wicket in Return of the Jedi and has since played various roles in The Phantom Menace, The Force Awakens, Rogue One, and The Last Jedi.
Steven Spielberg and longtime cinematographer Janusz Kaminski rocking a giant slate on the set of The BFG (2016). Photo via Shot On What.
Unit stills photographer Philippe Antonello captured this silhouetted camera crew on the set of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004). The film held the record for highest grossing R-rated movie at the American box office before being dethroned in February of 2016 by Deadpool.
