Archive for July, 2008
When The Dark Knight is reaching $ 500 Millions, we remember Following
Less than 10 years ago Following’s budget was equivalent at the amount of money that the entire production of The Dark Knight spent in napkins ($ 7,000) that’s 0,003 % of the new Batman entire budget of $ 185 millions. Guerrilla filmmakers, there’s hope! You just have to do something similar to Following, a Guerrilla [...]
Becoming a Guerrilla Filmmaker
nextPix is a dynamic company that produces and distributes quality media content in both traditional and digital film formats. They also represent producers and filmmakers in the marketplace and assist new filmmakers in financing and marketing their films. One of their mission is provide online resources for filmmakers, their comprehensive guide on How to Become [...]
Creativity, Uniqueness, Vision, Voice and very Low Budget
Reading the post from established screenwriter John August about his experience loosing his virginity, as a Director with the film The Nines: Sundance, The Nines, and the death of independent film make me smile, it was not a traumatic experience, maybe because since a few months ago my mindset as a screenwriter has been changing [...]
Did you miss going to the Drive-in? Create your own Guerrilla one
I really love the experience of watching a movie outdoors, but the amount of Drive-in around the world decrease every year, however, Bryan Kennedy became a Film Vigilante and decided to grab his car, a projector, an inverter and a FM Transmitter to create a Guerrilla Drive-in. Right now this idea evolve in an international [...]
Valdís Óskarsdóttir shot Sveitabrúðkaup (Country Wedding) in 7 Days
Valdís Óskarsdóttir is one, if not the best, film editor from Iceland, having worked on films such as Dogme # 1: Festen (The Celebration), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (for which she won a Bafta award), Julian Donkey Boy and Mongol, she’s now one of the driving forces behind Iceland’s changing cinematic landscape. Definitely [...]
Limited Box Office Weekend for USA 25-27 July 2008
The French film Tell no one remains at the top of the Limited Box Office Chart, the only Guerrilla film on the chart, Baghead managed to get a boost out of its micro expansion to 7 theaters in LA and NY ramping up to the position number 12th. Lw Tw Title [...]
Netflix close down Red Envelope Entertainment, its Theatrical Acquisitions and Production Division
…via indiewire In its short life ( 3 years), Red Envelope acquired 126 films, including the Golden Globe nominated Sherrybaby, co-produced a slate of movies for IFC TV (including Kirby Dick’s This Film is Not Yet Rated) and partnered on theatrical distribution for such micro-hits as 2 Days in Paris with Samuel Goldwyn, No End [...]
BAGHEAD Premieres today in NY and LA
Trailer Last Friday I got the chance to meet the Duplass Brothers, after their success with the The Puffy Chair, my natural question was, Are you living out of this? Their answer; Actually yes dude! Since 2005 they had been working in different projects in development with different studios and they even moved to LA, [...]
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