We've been writing about Swedish commercial director Adam Berg's career for years now. Its amazing that its taken this long for Berg to land a Hollywood feature film. A couple years back, Berg was rumored to be in line for Fox's adaptation of Marvel's Deadpool, and today it was revealed that Universal hired Berg to…
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I try to be open-minded about remakes, and maybe, somehow, I'll get around to being slightly more open-minded about this one. But for the time being, the idea of Ehren Kruger scripting a remake of David Cronenberg's Videodrome for commercial director Adam Berg pretty much sucks from every angle. That's the Ehren Kruger who wrote the…
Read MoreLast year, we posted a 2-minute short film/advertisement called Carousel from a little-known Swedish music video director named Adam Berg. The response to it was wildly enthusiastic, and for good reason: it's a stunning piece of filmmaking, beautifully capturing a single frozen moment in time as one continuous tracking shot allows a bank heist narrative…
Read MoreOn /Film, we like to profile commercial filmmakers who might have a future on the big screen. You might remember Adam Berg, as he was the filmmaker behing Philips' 2 minute short film Carousel (the Dark Knight inspired clown robbery shown over one single frozen moment of time). The 139-second advertisement won the prestigious Film Grand…
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Directed by Adam Berg, Carousel is a 2 minute 19 second short film sponsored by Philips. The film offers an exploration into one single frozen moment of time in a robbery gone wrong in one Hard Boiled-inspired continuous tracking shot. The story line is obviously taking a cue from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, featuring…
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