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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Lots of indie filmmakers are pondering the question: Should we make a short film as part of our effort to get funding for a feature? The overwhelming response from many people experienced in indie production is: Yes! That's the good news. The big question is: Once...