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Continuum Pictures Moves to the Paramount Lot
Mid-August 2011 Continuum Pictures Studios under the direction of Danny Torres and James Duval moved to the Paramount Studios lot. The moved came about based on the previous work that the Continuum Pictures team had completed and what was in post. Cider Springs Slaughter (see trailer) along with Taught in cold Blood, Mano a Mano and [...]
Continuum Pictures Danny Torres Links on the Net
Blog Under Constant Update: Danny Torres Writer, Director, Producer, Filmmaker twitter: TheDannyTorres : twitter: ContinuumPics: twitter: FilmplaneFilm Danny Torres produced his first feature “Wrestling Days” when he was 20 years old and attending UC Berkeley. Shortly after wrapping that feature he became a partner and then head of Independent Image Entertainment (IIE). Later in late [...]
Continuum Pictures James Duval Links On The Net
Blog Taken From Continuum Pictures News & Facts James Duval writer/producer James Duval has been heading productions since 1991 when he moved to San Francisco where he attended San Francisco State University. I arrived there and was shortly joined by a friend who shared the same filmmaking dream. At San Francisco State he met Mark [...]
Redemption: The Darkness Descending – Continuum Pictures Goes Underground In New York
The Darkness Descending, a set on Flickr. Blue Dragon Entertainment and Continuum Pictures present: Redemption: The Darkness Descending written/produced by Frank Krueger, Produced by Wylie Small, James Duval, Danny Torres. It was directed by “Break” director Marc Clebanoff. It also starred Frank Krueger, Wylie Small, William Romeo, Daryl Crittenden, Michael Walton and many others. The [...]
Continuum Pictures and Its Project Choices
When I first started this filmmaking journey I was given a bit of advice. It seemed very pessimistic and not very inspiring at the time, but I have come to know it was one of the best things I was ever told. “Make a movie, any movie, its not very important. The process is what [...]
The Making of Mano A Mano: A Thriller in any Language
We began the project Mano a Mano a while back. It seemed at the time that it would be a pretty straightforward project. Well that is until Bruce, the pick up truck, began to behave like Bruce the shark, in Jaws. We went through five tires, a battery, were towed out of the desert nearly [...]
Continuum Pictures/Filmplane Project First Strike Update
Project First Strike Update: Continuum Pictures: Usually when people begin “projects” like Project First Strike, they wish to create an image of neutrality. Being neutral presents an image of professionalism. This image is one of the problems with filmmaking. Rarely do you hear why you did not get the deal, or your script was rejected. [...]
Continuum Pictures Thriller Update: Taught In Cold Blood: Re-Blog
P. David Miller and Danny Torres on The Continuum Pictures thriller Taught in Cold Blood has been a project in development with Darien Harte, writer/producer. Darien Harte brought the project to us mid 2009. Darien wrote the initial script. Danny Torres and Darien handled rewrites up until about November 2009 when it was decided that the [...]
How Continuum Pictures Came Together: A Re-Blog From Continuum Pictures News & Facts
In late 2005 a group of us from the San Francisco Bay area meet in a Cafe in Santa Monica. We met for a purpose, to decide where our film careers were going. Some of us had known and worked with each other since 1991. Others had only known each other since 2004. The one [...]
Wrestling Days Where Continuum Pictures Came Together: Re-Blog
Wrestling Days: Director/Writer: Dan Albracht Producers: Danny Torres, Scott Hayman, Louis Rubio Exec: Prod James Duval, Mark R. Lillig DP: Richard Scott: Editor: Quan Tran Avail: on Amazon Wrestling Days, was a project that the Continuum Pictures team did before it was a team or before it was even called Continuum Pictures. It was a [...]