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Academy Awards® 2010 nominations
The nominees (from movies in 2009) are… Best Picture Avatar The Blind Side District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourous Basterds Precious A Serious Man Up Up In The Air Best Actor In A Leading Role Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart George Clooney – Up In The Air Colin Firth – Single Man Morgan [...]
Continue reading...Do movie trailers work?
20. August 2009
The quality of a movie trailer is often difficult to evaluate. Sometimes you get to see all the best explosions or the best jokes before you see the movie. Then, when you do pay for your ticket, you find you’ve seen everything worthwhile; you feel cheated and wonder why you bothered. Some trailers are completely [...]
Continue reading...Screenplays or novel writing?
3. October 2008
In a recent article we looked at what the top earning screenplay writers achieve for top script sales, including some which don’t get made into movies. Now we can see whether you’d be better off moving your writing skills in to the world of novels. Forbes magazine has just unveiled its top list of novel [...]
Continue reading...Screenplay verses deleted scenes
24. September 2008
I often wonder about deleted scenes. There’s a reason scenes are deleted – usually because they don’t fit in with the flow of the story or they just make the movie too long. Often they’re just not good enough. All screenplay writers should know to write too many scenes as the director is always going [...]
Continue reading...Online distribution
16. September 2008
Stacey Parks wrote the excellent book, ‘The Insider’s Guide to Independent Film Distribution.’ She’s recognized as one of the indie film world’s most knowledgeable people when we talk about distribution, but the MeDeploy plan only surfaced after her last book, so I wonder what she thinks of this new service to aid indie film makers [...]
Continue reading...Sell the script and make the movie
12. March 2008
Some people have the view that you should sell your script before you have it written and sell the package to a distributor before you make the movie. I can see the sense in these plans. It provides you with the money when you need it. If you have the money in the bank (at [...]
Continue reading...2007 The films I saw and those I wanted to see
10. March 2008
A good year for the world of film and movie making; the first ten will make the top two lists; great films and very good movies. 5 stars***** 1. A Mighty Heart – The movie of the year A film that moved you all the way through, made you angry and put you in admiration [...]
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3. February 2010
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