Posted on January 31, 2012 in Selling Your Film | No Comments
Getting a filmmaker to divulge the exact cost of a film is next to impossible. The same goes for distributors when asked about what kind of numbers to expect on the sales end. So at “Distribution X” at Sundance, a panel of distributors were asked to give numbers on wholly imaginary movies.
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Posted on January 18, 2012 in Featured, Internet, Legal & Copyright | 6 Comments
Now that Occupy Wall Street is dead the interwebs are abuzz with a new protest meme denouncing SOPA. This should not be confused with their decades long protest against soap.
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Posted on January 12, 2012 in Financing, Marketing | No Comments
Victoria Westcott shares the five simple lessons from her childhood and how they apply crowdfunding, including raising $20k for her first feature film “Locked in a Garage Band”
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Posted on January 10, 2012 in Marketing | No Comments
“The Devil Inside” topped the box office despite being universally panned by critics and audiences alike. Steven Zeitchik takes a look at this low budget film that had the muscle of Paramount Studios behind it.
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Posted on December 30, 2011 in Featured, Selling Your Film | 3 Comments
When I woke up today it was morning in America, but it wasn’t until the afternoon before I realized I helped create the dawn. That’s when I saw Newt Gingrich’s “Rebuilding the America We Love” ad and noticed those images that all political pundits where dissecting where in part created by me.
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Posted on December 8, 2011 in Internet | No Comments
The folks at ReelSEO share the backend of the new YouTube site including how they organized it to maximize social interaction and drive viewers.
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Posted on November 17, 2011 in Marketing | No Comments
Have you ever noticed that movie posters always seem the same? French film distributor Christophe Courtois painstakingly compiled these hilarious film poster clichés into mosaics.
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Posted on November 17, 2011 in Selling Your Film | No Comments
At the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center indieWIRE Editor in Chief Dana Harris moderates a discussion about the past 15 years of film distribution.
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Posted on November 9, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Financing, Marketing | 1 Comment
In Script Notes, John August and Craig Mason talk about how the money flows in a Hollywood Studio and how a theoretical movie studio can make money even if the last 20 pictures it releases looses money.
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Posted on October 4, 2011 in Internet | No Comments
ReelSEO takes a look at the 10 best tips from the recently released YouTube Creator’s Playbook including regular posting and full use of tags.
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Posted on October 4, 2011 in Film Festivals | No Comments
CJ Perry lays out some of his experiences running through the film festival process.
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Posted on September 27, 2011 in Featured, Marketing | No Comments
If you are feeling nostalgic for the your old classic Star Wars toys, look no further because we rounded up over 50 vintage commercials. If you are too young to be feeling nostalgic, get off my lawn and get a job hipster!
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Posted on September 20, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Marketing | No Comments
ESPN working with creative agency JESS3 created this animated short that explains the TV ratings process reminiscent of “Schoolhouse Rock,” meets “Sesame Street.”
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Posted on September 19, 2011 in Internet | 14 Comments
CEO Reed Hastings has had a public change of heart. Coming on the heels of a rather controversial price increase, Netflix is spinning off the DVD-by-mail division into a separate entity called “Qwikster” and adding video game options.
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Posted on September 16, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Marketing | No Comments
Thomas Mai – film consultant and professional speaker talks about the 10 new rules in 10 minutes for the film industry and all the great possibilities for film makers today.
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