Well-known Colombian drama series “El Capo 2” is back for a second season on MundoFox.
The second season, called “El Capo 2”, is the first program on MundoFox to be accessible to English-speaking viewers, as the episodes now feature English subtitles. It is also the most expensive series produced in Colombia at 18 billion Colombian pesos (the equivalent of 10 million U.S. dollars).
Fox Telecolombia, the company who produces “El Capo”, moved the series’ action to Miami for the show’s second season as part of the story elements. Fox Telecolombia utilized M3 Studios Miami production expertise and knowledge of the Miami market while shooting “El Capo 2”.
Production in Miami took place during a two-week time frame. Where crews shot scenes in Biscayne, Downtown Miami, & South Beach.
M3 handled the co-production in Miami, including everything from stunt & rescue coordination to security and police logistics to location scouting and even casting for extras and crew personnel.
Stay tuned to see some exclusive never before seen pictures from the production, we will be posting behind the scenes of the making of “El Capo 2” through our Website,Facebook and Twitter pages.
M3 STUDIOS, MULTI-MEDIA STUDIOS, PROPOSES A SOLUTION TO BURN NOTICE’S 7TH AND FINAL SEASON’S DILEMMA, IN THE HOPES OF MAINTAINING THE SHOW’S PRODUCTION IN SOUTH FLORIDA
M3 Studio’s filming infrastructure is a viable alternative to TVM’s current difficulties of shooting in South Florida
You’ve all seen it. Roommate relationships ending the aggressive way: clothes and expensive equipment flying out the window, pulverized soon after on the pavement below. I’m sure Burn Notice, the veteran USA jam-packed action thriller, might wish there was a better solution to its similar living arrangement conflict with Coconut Grove, than experiencing this scene for the neighborhood to see. Unfortunately for Burn Notice though, it doesn’t have the option of couple’s therapy like in USA’s freshman drama Common Law when dealing with the commissioners. Lucky for TVM productions, M3 Studio’s has a solution. We’re looking for a roommate and we see some good chemistry between us. And trust us, we know how to treat our fellow cohabiters; M3 never opens a door with a sock on the doorknob, never leaves dirty dishes, always calls before having company, and never makes you build your own offices overnight (like some people have had to do.) Interested in us, Burn Notice? Cause we sure are in you.
So what makes M3 your best relocation option? While Marc Sarnoff, Coconut Grove Commissioner, suggested the drama be relocated to the upcoming Miami Entertainment Complex, is just a warehouse with the bare essentials, Fox Entertainment Studio’s Head of Production Robert Lemchen disagrees. Lemchen said in response: “The cost of moving the show to another facility would be around $1 million,” so high because of moving costs associated with electrical wiring installation and a significant amount of necessary upgrades. Though there will still be a cost to rebuild some of its sets, M3 Studios is a professional film facility already electrically wired, air-conditioned and ready to house television and film productions of Burn Notice’s stature.
M3 studios is a one-stop-shop, located 15 minutes from anywhere in Miami, a 122,000 sq. ft. facility that includes seven fully-equipped sound stages and studios, 60,000 square feet of flex-type space, easily transformable into production offices, standing sets, rehearsal space. There are also four on-site parking lots that can be used as backlots for Burn Notice’s production. M3 Studio’s is a fully air-conditioned, soundproofed, sound- conditioned 7-soundstage facility with lightning grids throughout, built in jails, interrogation rooms, un-used raw spaces, elephant doors to all stages, dressing rooms, make-up rooms, green rooms, full support areas, & plenty of backlots. We also have below-the-line capabilities, a convenient on-site transportation/limousine service and an in-house photographic studio with a large CYC wall, passenger elevators with freight elevator. Plus, all amenities are strategically placed to provide one place to shoot, produce, edit, and master the production.
Don’t believe that a fully functioning studio infrastructure already exists in Miami? Just talk to some of our current roommates: Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Productions, Univision’s Al File de La Ley, Telemundo’s Relaciones Peligrosas & MTV’s newest series.
Oh, and Burn Notice, feel free to come tour the house anytime you’d like; M3 is located at 4000 NW 36th Ave Miami Fl, 33142 and we can’t wait to meet you. A beautiful friendship awaits.
The estates of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix are entering an arms race over the possibilities of generating their own holographic concert tours to cash in on the buzz that Tupac’s posthumous revival garnered earlier this summer.
People tend to respond to ghost sightings with psychotic breakdowns, or a neatly plotted series of epiphanies about life and death in the spirit of old Ebenezer Scrooge. But now it seems they are willing to pay cold hard cash to be haunted by the nostalgia of history’s most iconic entertainers.
Tupac wasn’t the first artist to perform from the grave. Who could forget Elvis’ passionate 2007 duet with Celine Dion on American Idol? Of course that was done using a body double and a technique known as “rotoscoping,” not the hologram technology developed by Digital Domain, who will also revive Elvis for his upcoming tours.
Elvis and Celine perform “If I Can Dream.”
There is something unsettling about the lengths people will go to profit from the dead, especially given how “realistic” these holograms are and how they can blur the threshold of reality. Just think of the intuitive way Tupac greeted the crowd: “What the F**** up, Coachella?!” (Coachella wasn’t even around until seven years after his death). Additionally, all of the above mentioned artists have one common denominator: Their deaths captivated the nation with a collective gasp of sorrow and paranoia that still fuels a vortex of conspiracy theories to this day, which likely says something about our obsessions.
Regardless of where you stand on the moral and ethical implications of this technology, there is no doubt that this new meme has the potential to restructure the way the audience consumes entertainment. The verdict is still out on whether this new fad will fizzle like ghost hunting shows, Charlie Sheen, and the Mayan calendar, or if it will create a new ballpark for the artist.
Coachella may have been for thrills, but the hologram technology can very well introduce a whole new generation to the work of deceased artists. But that’s just scratching the surface. Even artists who are still alive can utilize it by producing concerts without leaving their studios. These “micro” concerts can distribute their content at a discounted price for the audience (though it’s probably not financially feasible at this point), and raise the premium on actual live shows.
Eventually, like most technology, it may enter the consumer market and allow individuals to download (at a cost) performances of musicians both dead and living, and host their own concerts from the comfort of home. Think of the traffic your next wine tasting could generate if it’s headlined by the Red Hot Chili Peppers!
Music wouldn’t be the only medium of entertainment to be affected by holograms. Could you imagine Bruce Lee co-starring in the Expendables 3? Or Johnny Depp on the screen with James Dean?
But again, that’s thinking small. Mark Hamill once said that if “there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it,” and this technology might eventually revolutionize the acting profession as we know. It’s reminiscent of Al Pacino’s S1mone, where he plays a film producer desperate for a hit who digitally creates an overnight sensation. Think of a customizable, aesthetically appeasing, skillfully flawless, egoless, triple threat star, who can act,sing, dance, perform his/her own stunts and never age. Sounds like a wet dream for George Lucas.
Of course, much of this is pure speculation, and hologram technology is still in its nascent stage of development. It could very well dissipate and be rendered into a cheap gimmick used to lure gamblers to roadside casinos. Only fools rush in according to Elvis, but money is a smoldering temptress.
Aaron Sorkin has made a career writing on behalf of idealism. His films and shows – including “A Few Good Men,” “The West Wing,” “Moneyball,” and “The Social Network” – often feature heroes or anti-heroes on quixotic journeys to dismantle and remake the status quo. At the tenth annual Wall Street Journal: All Things Digital Conference, he discussed his own quixotic battle with a modern audience of distracted multitaskers who want their news in 140 characters or less while engaging with multiple screens (Laptops, tablets, televisions smartphones) at the same time. He also offered insights into his writing process while discussing two upcoming projects: “Newsroom,” a new HBO drama chronicling the behind the scenes conflicts of a cable news channel, and a Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson’s biography on the late cultural icon.
For a plethora of reasons, television is replacing Hollywood for a lot of the quality cinema being released these days. This change can be viewed through the migration to smaller screens by Hollywood regulars like Dustin Hoffman and Michael Mann (Luck), William H Macy (Shameless), Thomas Jane (Hung), Claire Danes (Homeland), and Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire).
Our appetite for condensed media and instant results has shrunk has evaporated our attention spans from a whopping twelve minutes, to a paltry five, according to this study http://socialtimes.com/attention-spans-have-dropped-from-12-minutes-to-5-seconds-how-social-media-is-ruining-our-minds-infographic_b86479. At one point, it was a whole twenty minutes. This gaping hole in our intellect has created a wide chasm that comprehensive writers like Sorkin must learn to cross. The way his audience watches his work has undergone a facelift. He’d be the first to admit that his material doesn’t make for good “background” music. It requires active participation and concentration, but the medium of television gives home court advantage to other distractions. The living room has become the wild west of digital ADD.
We don’t just watch TV, the way we do when we go to the movies, where we’ve invested (by purchasing a ticket) in the content and where social rules (for the time being) still frown upon using a cell phone in the theater. At home, we sit in front of the screen, check email, order stuff from Amazon, talk on the phone, get NBA, NHL, and MLB updates, while delegating our remaining brain capacity to absorb whatever content is playing on TV.
With millions of potential distractions competing for our attention, how does an old school craftsman like Sorkin change his approach? He doesn’t. He writes the “same way as the guys who wrote I Love Lucy” because “Storytelling is a very old art form, and the important parts of it don’t change at all…I still worship at the altar of intention and obstacle.”
The conversation also covers the accessibility that the digital age offers to aspiring filmmakers, where Sorkin comments on the fact major studios are no longer needed to finance start ups. Anybody can make a movie. But at the end of the day, you still have to “distinguish between what’s good and what’s bad. He also marvels at the intuitive trend of modern technology and cites how many toddlers can pick up a tablet and instinctively know what to do with it. If he could ask Steve Jobs a question, it would be “What’s that magic trick?”
Check out the full interview below for more insights into the mind of one of Hollywood’s smartest screenwriters.
West Coast rapper Mann hit up M3 Studios with T.Pain to shoot part 1 of his newest music video “Get It Girl” Directed by Ali Zamani.
While T.Pain has used M3 Studios for countless videos this was Mann’s first video at our facility. We truly enjoyed having both Ali & Mann on the lot.
The music video features a great party vibe, a hook by T.Pain and of course girls.
Check out the Mann – “Get It Girl” feat. T. Pain music video below, which was just released.
M3 Studios state of the art facility, accommodations, infrastructure, amenities, support areas and with its knowledgeable staff its no wonder its become the top destination for brands, ad agencies, film productions, tv networks, record labels, and world class artist number one choice as the go to place for their production needs.
Another satisfied client and another successful production shot at M3 Studios Miami.
The smartphone is modern man’s new appendage. If you’ve ever left it charging on the counter, as you enter the realm of rush hour traffic, you’ve likely felt handicapped, as if someone chopped off your dominant hand for the day. Smartphones are also the fastest growing, most widely absorbed form of technology in history according to this MIT Study, so it’s no surprise that there is an entire industry devoted to making the phone an extension of the consumer.
This evolutionary climate change has infiltrated the landscape of guerilla cinematography. The quality of viral movies is surging in proportion to their popularity. Check out this short film made entirely on the Iphone.
While smartphone cameras still have their limits, the Olloclip lens kit for the iPhone is the latest tool to bring a professional edge to mobile videos. It connects to your iPhone 4/4S within seconds, and with a simple flip, you can shuffle between fisheye, wide angle, and macro lenses. It will add unique variety to the often stagnant compositions available on most phones, and it fits in the palm of your hand. The storage bag is made of a micro fiber material that doubles as a lens cleaner.
The Ollokit is the perfect companion for anyone who uses the iPhone to chronicle his/her daily escapades, but it’s also a step in the right direction for amateur photographers and videographers who use their creative innovation to compensate for small budgets. At just under seventy dollars, it’s a third of the cost of similar products, and a fraction of the cost of the phone itself!
It’s also an indication of the integrative trend of mobile technology. The future is about efficiency, portability, and customization. Check out some sample videos below.
Young Money Cash Money artist Tyga shot the remix to his hit song “Rack City” directed by Alex Nazari at M3 Studios.
The music video which has garnered over 3 million plays since its release, features a who’s who of hip hop, with Wale, Fabolous, Young Jeezy, Meek Mill, & Ti all adding verses to the record. The set design was crazy for this music video, from the indivual set-ups for each of the artist verses to the gladiator throne looking chair my hat goes off to the Art Director Gogo Manny for pulling off some great custom sets in a shot time span.
For productions shooting at M3 Studios we maintain a large network of relationships with film industry professionals which can assist in providing everything our clients need to produce their project. From choreography, art directions, costume, audio synching, post production, make-up and hair stylist and more our resources can assist your team. Visit our services page to learn more.
Another satisfied client and another successful production shot exclusively at M3 Studios Miami.
