In Spanish and English, the South Florida entertainment community is cheering, “Hooray for Hispanic Hollywood!” as a marked increase in production drives studio expansion in greater Miami.”
Emmy Magazine has printed an article regarding the growing film industry in Miami. M3 Studios played a huge part in the production of El Capo 2, providing studio space and locking down locations. The article quotes the founder and owner of M3 Studios. Raul Rodriguez stating, “It was a very challenging project, but [Fox Telecolombia] was more than pleased with our work”.
The article investigates the Miami’s current success in the film industry, and how it will soon take off. Miami looks like the next film hub guys! VIVA Magazine
From May 21st- 23rd the Kids from Somerset Academy visited us and painted an amazing mural. We were so glad to host such talented and spirited kids and watch them create something truly spectacular. Many thanks to everyone who made this event possible.
Read more about the event and check out some awesome pictures of the finished product! :
We here at M3 are bringing the kids from Somerset Academy to the studio to paint a mural of their choice! We can’t wait to have them here and see what they create! 🙂
We’ve had an incredible past few weeks here at M3 Studios, being the production home of some of the biggest records out in the music industry.
We had the street smash “Colombia Remix” use M3 Studios as their go to destination for production resources and filming facility.
Young Scooter, Rick Ross, Birdman & Gucci Mane visited M3 Studios to complete the vision to the video, using many of the on location type settings found in the studio. I also had the opportunity of producing a portion of this music video, its always a good time working with my longtime industry friend Gabe.
Check out the video.
Young Scooter – “Colombia” remix feat. Pitbull Rick Ross, Birdman & Gucci Mane
Zach Braff was once an up and coming indie filmaker, who directed and starred in 2004’s hit that nobody saw coming, Garden State. Every studio shark in LA turned down that script, and were it not for a lone angel investor (who happened to be an overzealous Scrubs fan), it would still be in Hollywood purgatory.
Ten years later, Braff is looking to finance a “sequel in tone” titled Wish I was Here. This time, Scrubs is a nationally and internationally syndicated show, his bank account is loaded, and he’s got a name that gets invited to all the right parties. Funding should be easier to accrue this time around, right? So why is he on Kickstarter, a crowd-funding platform resourced by starving artists with t-shirts to offer, who operate out of garages and basements, and use hockey sticks for boom poles? The short answer would be because it only took him two days to reach his goal of two million dollars. But we can’t end it there, not when the internet makes it so easy to criticize.
Critics, like Emmy-award winning screenwriter Ken Levine, have opened the floodgates of hate, accusing Braff of typical Hollywood exploitation. Levine writes on his blog.
“The idea – and it’s a great one – is that Kickstarter allows filmmakers who otherwise would have NO access to Hollywood and NO access to serious investors to scrounge up enough money to make their movies. Zach Braff has contacts. Zach Braff has a name. Zach Braff has a track record. Zach Braff has residuals. He can get in a room with money people. He is represented by a major talent agency. But the poor schmoe in Mobile, Alabama or Walla Walla, Washington has none of those advantages. ”
Braff plays some lockdown defense against his critics (here) and (here). He points out that if it were about making money, he’d go back to doing television, where he made millions.
“This isn’t a money-making endeavor … Making a tiny art film is not where people go to make money. This is a passion project,” he says. “I’m making this movie for you and, ostensibly, with you. You’re coming along on the ride, you’re going to be a little GoPro camera on my shoulder experiencing how an independent movie is made … I owe [the fans] everything.”
Levine fails to recognize that Braff isn’t holding anyone at gunpoint here. Just because he’s a celebrity with a Kickstarter campaign doesn’t mean people lose their autonomy to CHOOSE where they donate their money. These people want what he’s selling. In fact, Braff (who has over a million followers on Twitter) attracted over eighteen thousand first-time investors to Kickstarter. Many will stick around, peruse through other campaigns, and donate accordingly, so in essence, Braff’s celebrity endorsement will trickle down to the more obscure artists and entrepreneurs.
He’ also putting an “ass-ton” of his own money into the project, so the Kickstarter funds would only supplement the film’s budget. It’s not fair to ostracize him for doing what every other entrepreneur does: find ways to avoid spending his own money. Even billionaires get other rich people to fund their projects.
Braff also points out that his “fame” doesn’t necessarily translate to easy funding, particularly because his tenure on Scrubs, doesn’t get factored into the algorithms investors use to predict overseas success. In fact, he’s still at the mercy of the same barriers that confronted him years ago, and then some (such as the time that his “star” bailed on him because his wife didn’t want him working in the summer). Accepting money from the usual suspects would require him to make casting and plot sacrifices that could undermine his vision. Isn’t it worth celebrating that, in an age of remakes and recycled narrative formulas, there are still people in Hollywood who genuinely want to tell the best story they can without compromising their artistic integrity to the hand that feeds?
Who is anyone to impose limits on what crowd funding should be? Kickstarter’s own mission welcomes projects “big and small.” It’s an organic, pliable platform. Saying it should be reserved for the pauper is no different than saying only rich people should play golf.
The newest “Man of Steel” trailer finally puts some meat on the spine of Zack Snyder’s take on America’s most revered superhero. It is now safe to crank up the hype.
The previous trailers were vague and moody, composed of ambiguous cutaways, interlaced voiceovers, and a sulking, bearded Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) drifting Byronically through frozen, dingy landscapes. This three-minute trailer already packs more action than Bryan Singer’s entire melodramatic snooze-fest, Superman Returns and gives the audience a sense of the film’s direction.
One thing is certain: This isn’t your daddy’s Superman. The trailer makes it clear that this is a complete reboot of the franchise, cutting all ties with previous versions. As they did with the Dark Knight Trilogy, Chris Nolan and David S. Goyer are aiming to update the mythology of an American classic within a modern context.
We catch glimpses of Krypton’s destruction as Superman’s father, Jorell, (Russell Crowe) desperately launches him to Earth in what has become an iconic, mythological image within western culture. It’s also revealed that we’ll see young Clark struggle with his identity, and are introduced to the film’s villain, General Zod (Michael Shannon), who passionately vows to “find” Superman in what appears to be a jilted and jealous rage over the fact that Krypton’s last son would choose Earth as his home. There’s probably more to it, but at least it leaves us wondering why he’s so hell-bent on finding him. There’s enough material here to merit a frame by frame dissection and keep the audience talking and speculating all the way to box office in June. At long last, we have another film worthy of a midnight premier.
Team Pitbull & his label Mr. 305 Inc, shot the newest video for their artist Sensato at M3 Studios Miami!
Studio A was used for this music video production which consisted of many props, sets and a large glass structure serving as a focal point of the video.
The production company CreativeSeen made great use of the space and had multiple shoots running through out the facility. Our multiple soundstage’s allows production company’s to make best use of their time and resources while visiting us. Contact me and find out why the music industry prefers shooting their music videos at M3 Studios Miami, from production office space, soundstages, production studio, green screens, editing bays, chroma key and large white cyc walls we have everything you need to produce your multimedia project.
