Eric Steelberg ASC Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 JUNO premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last night. To be there with all the others who made the film, most of whom I call friends, and see the enthusiastic response by the audience made the night unforgettable. I knew it was going to be special when I saw people lining up from two blocks away. There must have been 2000 people. I knew we were getting buzz but this was incredible. All the actors were there doing their thing on the red carpet as I found my way inside...oh look, it's Roger Ebert sitting in the back row. (deep breath...and exhale) Big screen. And a balcony. (deep breath) The actors came in and sat..Jen brought Ben so there was a bit of a commotion trying to get everyone seated so we could begin. Girls seemed to be equally interested in a view of Michael Cera. Jason, director, gives the intro. Lights down, the Fox Seachlight logo/intro...love that theme. Goosebumps, fingers crossed the projection is good. Guys running around in night vision goggles looking for pirates. 90 mins later, fade to black. Standing ovation. Still going...and going....and going....credits at the "Thank You.." and lights come up. Jason basks in the response as he is invited back up to the stage. He brings up myself, producers, editor, PD...then actors one by one. The view from stage was amazing. 99% of the seats still filled, good for any Q&A. Big theater. The party after was amazing and underscored a night to remember. Lots of pictures and good conversation. Next morning, waiting for my plane, I overheard a few people talking about how it was the best film they've seen all year. Ebert's brief review another report from the premiere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted September 10, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted September 10, 2007 Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Brad Grimmett Posted September 10, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted September 10, 2007 Sounds great Eric. Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Chris Keth Posted September 10, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted September 10, 2007 "...to the off beat and colorful cinematography..." Sounds like you did well and set the film apart from other comedies. Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Steelberg ASC Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 "...to the off beat and colorful cinematography..." Sounds like you did well and set the film apart from other comedies. Congrats! That was definitley a goal of mine. The script, to me, felt more dramatic punctuated by hilarious beats...very dry humor. Colorful I get, not sure what off beat means....maybe not typical for a comedy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jayson Crothers Posted September 10, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted September 10, 2007 Congratulations Eric - such a fantastic experience and from all of your hard work, well deserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chayse Irvin ASC, CSC Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Congrads Eric! I can't wait to see it in theaters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Williamson Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Congratulations Eric! Sounds like it's about everything you could ask for at a screening, I look forwards to seeing it in theaters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Steelberg ASC Posted September 11, 2007 Author Share Posted September 11, 2007 Opens December 14th but was also just announced as part of AFI Fest in November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan Schneider Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Now that the film has premiered, will you be able to post any shots of your setups? Congradulations on the great reception in Toronto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Really great news Eric. R, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Steelberg ASC Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 Now that the film has premiered, will you be able to post any shots of your setups? Congradulations on the great reception in Toronto. Hmm, good question.... I don't think I can show any of the actors or the stand ins....and I can't find the few pics I took of the overall lighting setups. I only found one pic I think I can get away with showing, though it's not very revealing.. There is also a recent pic the director took of me on his iPhone during the DI. He calls it 'Minority Report' and posted it on his blog on the Juno website. I looked at the DCI (digital projection) master of the trailer today. I can't wait for digital projection. It looked gorgeous. The process used to make the DCI is that the DI files (2k in my case) are projected as they are during the DI, but this time instead of a Kodak LUT, they use a LUT that represents the DCI xyz color space. There is an interesting article discussing the DCI conversion process here here. What I would give to have the actual film shown digitally in selected theaters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Wendell_Greene Posted September 12, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted September 12, 2007 Kudos, Eric! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Max Jacoby Posted September 12, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted September 12, 2007 Congratulations Eric, looking forward to seeing the film in the theatre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piotr Ciacka Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Congrats Eric, the movie sounds like it's just right up my alley. Want to see it. Badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arni Heimir Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 That's wonderful. Congratulation on your success. Cheers Árni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Max Jacoby Posted September 15, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted September 15, 2007 For those in the UK, Eric's film will be shown on the London Film Festival in October/November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Steelberg ASC Posted September 16, 2007 Author Share Posted September 16, 2007 Trailer now online... JUNO trailer (flash) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick McGowan Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 The trailer looks great Eric, I can't wait to see it. The cast is really impressive, and J.K. Simmons is probably my favorite character actor working right now. Congrats on the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Steelberg ASC Posted September 16, 2007 Author Share Posted September 16, 2007 The trailer looks great Eric, I can't wait to see it. The cast is really impressive, and J.K. Simmons is probably my favorite character actor working right now. Congrats on the movie. Thanks Patrick. I don't like that it's in flash video though...it seems to have lost a lot of it's warmth and overall saturation in the encoding. I'm eagerly awaiting the Quicktime versions. The studio sent Apple a D5 master and they make all HD and standard quicktimes from it. I just got an email saying JUNO got 1st runner up at Toronto yesterday behind Cronenberg's film. Pretty cool for an "indie dark comedy" in the company of 355 other films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Steelberg ASC Posted September 18, 2007 Author Share Posted September 18, 2007 Just received word there will be digital projection on a few screens... ...very excited about that as the DCI master I saw for the trailer looked amazing. I'll post details of which theaters when I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick McGowan Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 I just watched the HD version of the trailer on apple's website. It looks really good. How was the orange glow to the sunset achieved in the first shot of the trailer? Was that through the D.I. or filters? I am excited to see it. It seems like the film will benefit from a similar sense of humor to that of Thank You For Smoking, which was both clever and honest. -Patrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Steelberg ASC Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 I just watched the HD version of the trailer on apple's website. It looks really good. How was the orange glow to the sunset achieved in the first shot of the trailer? Was that through the D.I. or filters? I am excited to see it. It seems like the film will benefit from a similar sense of humor to that of Thank You For Smoking, which was both clever and honest. -Patrick For some reason the trailer of JUNO on Apple's site it very magenta in the skin tones. Every other version, incuding my dvcam, is fine so I don't know what happened especially since Apple made their quicktimes from a D5, I'm told. We didn't know we were getting a DI until after the film was finished so becasue of that I did everything in camera...so the orange sky was filtered...I think a sunset 3 grad with an 81C or an 812. That shot was also made on the 20mm prime panavision made for us...I think the only shot we used the 20 on that made it into the film. I don't think it is quite the same humor as Thank You for Smoking, but it is very clever amid an honest and sweet story. Very different movies, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Reimer Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 For some reason the trailer of JUNO on Apple's site it very magenta in the skin tones. Every other version, incuding my dvcam, is fine so I don't know what happened especially since Apple made their quicktimes from a D5, I'm told. We didn't know we were getting a DI until after the film was finished so becasue of that I did everything in camera...so the orange sky was filtered...I think a sunset 3 grad with an 81C or an 812. That shot was also made on the 20mm prime panavision made for us...I think the only shot we used the 20 on that made it into the film. I don't think it is quite the same humor as Thank You for Smoking, but it is very clever amid an honest and sweet story. Very different movies, IMO. Eric, I just saw the trailer on the Apple website, and between that and the reviews I read, I think not only is it going to be a great film, but it's probably going to get you some really good work over the next several years. It'll be cool to see what sort of projects come down the pipeline for you next. Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesco Bonomo Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 (edited) Eric, let me be the first on the board to congratulate you, Jason Reitman, the crew and cast of Juno for winning the "best film" award at Rome Cinema Festival. Congratulazioni!!!!! :D Edited October 27, 2007 by Francesco Bonomo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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