Ted Hope yesterday finally (and thankfully) posted his reaction in rant form to the pending implosion of our industry as predicted by Spielberg and Lucas. As Ted points out, the belief and proof of our broken industry is all around us. His rant (which should be read in its entirety) can be summed up by the final words of the title [...]
As I’m writing this I’m en route to Los Angeles for the first time in roughly two and a half years. This flight used to be something that I would do every two months, but once I started grad school at NYU Stern I found myself unable to take a week off for west coast [...]
I am feeling so much Indie Film love right now. Today Team Dogfish will be going through the last of the applications for the Dogfish Accelerator program and sending out notifications tomorrow morning. It has been an EXHAUSTING four days of review and re-review and discussions and we are so humbled, touched, and amazed by [...]
This week I received the following question in my inbox: “We want to continue to strengthen and expand out relationship with the few investors that have expressed interest in our work over the years in order to arrive at a point where we can involve them in the growth of our company. We know that [...]
On June 23rd [adult swim] will begin airing episodes of the new Fox sensation Bob’s Burgers. This is now the 6th Fox TV show that TBS (the parent of William Street and Cartoon Network) has picked up for syndication (Family Guy, King of the Hill, Futurama, American Dad!, and The Cleveland Show). As a die [...]
I have one more day until I’m done with classes for my MBA at NYU. As part of my coursework I had to make a commercial for a “fake” company. Exhausted having just came back from the SFIFF A2E program (of which I am preparing a post about, stay tuned) I quickly (and recklessly) whipped up this minute [...]
Prince Avalanche is doing the festival rounds and for the first time ever I have a film at Tribeca. This is an exciting and honorable moment but one that has left me in an interesting pickle: I have no idea whether or not to encourage people to see my own film. Whenever one of my [...]
Read the original article from Deadline HERE This is a HIGHLY offensive notion to me: “NATO Chief Urges Studios To Produce More Family-Friendly Films” In a sustainable community there are leaders and there are feeders. The leaders say what we are going to make and the feeders supply that idea and system with everything and [...]
There are only two factors that I look at when considering a film investment: the script and the producer team. I’ve probably just caused outrage from all my director and/or actor readers. Let me first mention that without a strong filmmaker and cast, your chances of making an extremely powerful film are much, much lower [...]
My first credit for producing a feature film is nowhere to be seen. It’s a horror film called Psychopath that I attempted to produce and direct in 2009 while a senior at Northwestern University. What business did a 22-year-old have directing a feature film for under 10K? Almost none. The film speaks for itself. Or [...]
