Author Archives: Dennis Toth

Film Fund-amentals: The Post-Cinema Future

By Dennis Toth | Published: February 2, 2012

Who goes to the movies anymore? The question has practically become rhetorical as numerous critics, bloggers, entertainment reporters and the usual cranky suspects have loudly proclaimed that they haven’t gone to a theater in the last fifty years. OK, maybe not fifty years but you get the point. The question has garnered a strong sense ... Read more

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Film Fund-amentals: Last One Out, Please Turn Off the Lights

By Dennis Toth | Published: January 26, 2012

It’s not exactly a major movement, but it’s starting to look like a winter of discontent in the film industry. It isn’t exactly a loud howl, but a distinct low rumbling noise is roiling through the cinematic valley, and even a tone deaf studio executive might want to cock an ear in the sound’s direction. ... Read more

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Film Fund-amentals: A Cinema of Exclusion

By Dennis Toth | Published: January 19, 2012

These days, it seems as if almost everybody feels excluded. This is as true in the film industry as it is in the rest of life. Sometimes the exclusion list looks to be as long as the number of conspiracy theories available at a convention of political paranoids. However, truly paranoid people are sometimes right. ... Read more

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Film Fund-amentals: The Wheel Goes Round and Round

By Dennis Toth | Published: January 12, 2012

In the old children’s song, the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round. Sort of the same thing goes on in the film industry. Lots of wheels moving around but nobody seems to be actually going anywhere. Take for example this week’s decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ... Read more

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Film Fund-amentals: The Box Office Report for 2011

By Dennis Toth | Published: January 4, 2012

The great thing about financial figures in the film industry is the way they give any analyst a healthy exercise in fiction. The production figure to most major movies is really just a set of rough averages, and often the count is rounded off (either up or down depending upon the wind direction) to the ... Read more

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Film Fund-amentals: The World According to Hollywood

By Dennis Toth | Published: December 21, 2011

Thank God for Chris Dodd and the Motion Picture Association of America. Without them, I would still be living with the warped illusion that other countries were making movies. But Dodd has set me straight about those durn foreign dumb bunnies. They don’t do squat. At least that seems to be part of his point. ... Read more

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Film Fund-amentals: Yuletide Before the End of Civilization

By Dennis Toth | Published: December 14, 2011

I’m not a big fan on prophesies, so I’m not too concerned about this being the final Christmas season before the end of civilization next year. I try not to be particularly superstitious (though I’m knocking on wood as I say that), and most likely the biggest change next year will be the roman numerals ... Read more

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Film Fund-amentals: So Many People Want to Produce Your Movie

By Dennis Toth | Published: December 8, 2011

There are lots of people out there who want to produce your movie. Almost every social networking site has a growing army of folks who can’t wait to assist you with your movie. They are all very friendly, extremely enthusiastic and exceptionally gung ho about getting your film made. Oh my, if only this were ... Read more

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Film Fund-amentals: Ain’t Like It Used to Be

By Dennis Toth | Published: December 1, 2011

Sometimes news travels slowly. While we were celebrating Thanksgiving with friends, a guest at the table began musing about returning to his major passion, photography. He began thinking out loud about building a dark room. Suddenly it dawned on him. “What am I talking about?” Yep. There’s no dark room. No film. No nothing. This ... Read more

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Film Fund-amentals: A Guide to the End Days

By Dennis Toth | Published: November 23, 2011

George Lucas thinks that the world will end in 2012. So he must be doing pre-production work on the next Indiana Jones movie and the Star Wars TV project as a bit of insurance, just in case the ancient Mayans prove to be as off the mark as Harold Camping. Somehow, the thought of Lucas ... Read more

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