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Your Project is Made Real Launching a campaign brings it into the world. It doesn’t just exist in your head anymore, and you become accountable to supporters, backers, and the reality you’ve created to step into. You Build and Deepen your Community A Kickstarter campaign broadens and deeps the dialogue with any pre-existing audience; it … Read more
In the early 1990s, when screenwriter Richard Curtis and producer Duncan Kenworthy were brought together by Working Title to make a film – a mid-budget comedy to be directed by Mike Newell, something about weddings, strong on morning suits, one-liners, obscenity – Curtis made a suggestion. He told Kenworthy: keep bits. Put aside what mementos … Read more
“You don’t get very long,” says Tim Webber, VFX (visual effects) supervisor on the blockbuster space thriller Gravity. “Five minutes to talk about it, a 10-minute showreel, and then three minutes of question and answer. When you’ve spent three years on a project, that’s not an awful lot of time to get it across.” Webber … Read more
It is widely considered one of the world’s most important film awards ceremonies, one that sits behind only the Oscars and the Golden Globes in terms of public notoriety. But a whistleblower has told the Daily Mail that the winners and nominees for the annual Bafta awards are often chosen by judges who have not … Read more
Perhaps the biggest problem for World War Z’s sequel is what to call it. World War Z 2? World War Zour? World War Z: Zed’s Dead? Then there’s possibilty of the threequel’s name being World War Z 3, which doesn’t even bear thinking about. And yet, it is under consideration, as Brad Pitt revealed to … Read more
The ICO is frequently approached by filmmakers who wish to see their films distributed and screened in cinemas. There is no single route to the cinema screen and with over 300 theatrical distributors of all shapes and sizes, from Warner Brothers to self distribution models, in the UK alone, it can be daunting for filmmakers … Read more
It seems a little unfair to criticise Marvel Studios, given the Disney-owned production unit’s spectacular success over the past decade. And yet in among the remarkable $1bn-plus box-office returns and critical fervour for movies such as Iron Man 3 and The Avengers, there has been the odd rumbling of discontent from those who have worked … Read more
Producers of a planned sequel to the iconic sci-fi movie Blade Runner have taken the highly unusual step of publicly offering the lead role to its original star, Harrison Ford. Alcon Entertainment, which has already convinced Ridley Scott to return for a followup to his futuristic 1982 tale, issued a statement on Thursday extolling the … Read more
Russell Crowe has hit out at critics of his controversial biblical epic Noah, many of whom he says have attacked the film before even seeing it. The New Zealand-born actor praised Pope Francis for agreeing earlier this month to meet a delegation from the film, including Crowe and director Darren Aronofsky, despite the controversies that … Read more
After the success of True Detective, award-winning film-makers are being lured to TV with the promise of more creative control, Does this herald a new golden age for viewers? There was a time when American movie stars and big-ticket directors wouldn’t touch TV. Now, thanks to hit series such as True Detective, not only movie … Read more
Film company Pinewood is to set up a new studio in Cardiff. The deal was announced today by Wales’s First Minister Carwyn Jones and Pinewood Shepperton chief executive Ivan Dunleavy. A new 180,000 sq ft complex will be established at the former Energy Centre building in Wentloog, Cardiff, and will form part of Pinewood’s global … Read more
Once a rising star in films such as American Beauty and Ghost World, Thora Birch says she found herself discarded by the studios when she wouldn’t conform. Hollywood has never been kind to its young. It is an industry that famously venerates youth and, infamously, has casually destroyed so many young people, used them up … Read more
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