Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise in a scene from Collateral (2004), photographed by Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron. Dion was born in Brisbane, Australia, and has 47 cinematography credits from a 1989 short to 2019. He is an Oscar winner for Memoirs of a Geisha and was nominated for Chicago.
His other notable credits include two INXS videos, In the Cut, Miami Vice, Gangster Squad, Mary Poppins Returns, and I Am Woman.
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James Corden and Emily Blunt in Into the Woods (Rob Marshall, 2014)
Cast: Anna Kendrick, James Corden, Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Daniel Huttlestone, Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch, Tracey Ullman, Billy Magnussen, Lilla Crawford, Simon Russell Beale, Joanna Riding, Mackenzie Mauzy, Annette Crosbie, Richard Glover, Frances de la Tour. Screenplay: James Lapine, based on the play by James Lapine. Cinematography: Dion Beebe. Production design: Dennis Gassner. Film editing: Wyatt Smith. Music: Stephen Sondheim
Rob Marshall did such a good job transforming Chicago (2002) into a cinematic experience that I had hopes for Into the Woods. Unfortunately the James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim book and lyrics are so droll and cerebral that they tend to get swamped by the special effects and big stars in the movie. Instead of being caught up in the story, I kept wondering "how are they going to top that?" The book is structured to be anticlimactic, with the wedding of Cinderella and the prince as the usual happy ending followed by the dark not-so-happily-ever-after sequel. This works in the theatrical version, when you know that there's another act coming, but in the film version it has the effect of making you look at your watch. Still, there are things to enjoy in the movie, such as watching non-musical stars like Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, and Johnny Depp in a musical setting. But the real star among them for me is Emily Blunt as the baker's wife, demonstrating good comic timing as well as a solid understanding of the character.
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Oh? Polls for Ruby? Very good!
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Miami Vice (2006)
Directed by Michael Mann
Cinematography by Dion Beebe
Starring Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris and Justin Theroux
"Things go wrong. The odds catch up. Probability is like gravity: you cannot negotiate with gravity. One day... one day you should just cash out, you know? Just cash out and get out."
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