OK, maybe the studio master plan isn't exactly playing out as they had hoped. According to an e-mail report from Boxoffice.com, movie ticket sales for 2010 are running 5.3 percent behind those of 2009. Since this 5.3 percent basically represents total cash (rather than actual...
In Hamlet, the moody Dane with an attitude problem observes, "O, woe is me, To have seen what I what I have seen, see what I see!" Obviously the poor chap had just been to the movies. Or maybe he had attended the recent Produced by...
Sex sells movies. Well, sometimes. Actually, it's more like a balancing act, since the right amount can work but other times...
Writing a screenplay is a lonely pursuit. Just the writer and a blank screen trying to conjure something magical from various loose strings of words and ideas. But the first-time screenwriter no longer needs to be alone. A vast army of people are just waiting...
Nobody can pick a winner. That is the age-old wisdom of Hollywood, which is odd coming from a bunch of folks who also insist that they are the only people who can successfully do the one thing they claim can't be done. The sheer absurdity...
You can't spend more than two weeks dealing with movies without hearing numerous references to the infamous William Goldman quote concerning Hollywood: "Nobody knows anything." Goldman was referring to the level of ignorance that he found in the Hollywood system. Or at least that's what I...
Roger Ebert says we should hate 3-D. He says so in a subtle essay slyly entitled Why I Hate 3-D. Ebert blames the process for everything from medical aliments to a disruption in the spatial/dimensional field of the universe (or was that in an episode...
R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes expresses skepticism over the effectiveness of a Senate proposal to establish a clearinghouse for rating complex securities. Read the full article by Karen Brettell, "Franken bill unlikely to make ratings more reliable," Reuters, May 14, 2010....
Rating Agencies have borne much of the blame for the credit crisis, but now they're fighting back with accusations that they were misled by the banks whose securities they rated. R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes provides his insights on the controversy on Business News Network's...
You are a young, first-time filmmaker. By hook or by crook, you actually managed to finish your movie. It's in the can and ready to roll. And suddenly, you sound like Robert Redford at the end of The Candidate as you enter your very own...