Variety Drops Chief Film and Theater Critics

Wow!  I thought Hollywood was doing better than ever!

On the other hand, less major studio titles per year has to  mean less ad revenue, etc.

I remeber going to Hamilton News Mart weekly to pick up that huge Variety paper of the 60’s and 70’s.

Variety Drops Chief Film and Theater Critics | The Wrap.

Hollywood

80K Budget Indie tries Financing With Product Placements

And it’s on the local level, too!

Filmmaker gives companies a shot at stardom : Local Business : The Buffalo News.

Finance, Funding, Indie Film, Low Budget

Even DeNiro can’t buck indie inertia.

But, at least he’s trying!

Tribeca VOD Venture: Folly Or Future? – Deadline.com.

Festivals, Indie Film, Marketing, Promotion and advertising, VOD

This Guy Never Quits

Interview with Michael Legge, who has just made his 14th film in 20 years.  To nit much avail…

Link:

Film Threat

Film Distribution, Low Budget, Marketing

Indie Theatrical outlet in Pittsburgh

Another in the growing list of indie venues.

Pittsburgh Hollywood Theater gives audiences retro films, food | The Pitt News.

DIY, Digital Cinema, Film Distribution, Low Budget, Theatres, Touring

Walmart Buys Vudu

Quick!  Where’s the “Submit Your Film to VUDU” button?

E-Commerce News: Film: Walmart Buys Vudu to Take Another Stab at Online Movie Distribution.

Film Distribution, Internet Video, Marketing, VOD

Unpublished Beatles photos left in a drawer until this year

They’re in nice, bright Kodachrome color too!

Photog looks like Austin Powers before he went into hibernation.

There are 23 shots, article shows six.

John Lennon plays dead in poignant unseen photo| Mail Online.

Music, Nostalgia

B-Side Entertainment Shutters

B-Side offered back-end web scheduling and social connection services to film festivals (even Sundance used them).  They also distributed films via the “host a screening” method.

They ran out of money before they could sustain themselves.  A case of being there too early, perhaps.

Filmmaker Magazine | Filmmaker Blog.

Festivals, Film Distribution

A Field Guide to Regional Horror Films

This blog is devoted to “local” horror films made in backyards all over the USA.

Is this a great country or what?

The Dead Next Door: A Field Guide to Regional Horror Films.

Film History, Horror and SF, Indie Film

Finding money for your documentary

Common sense advice from a master.

Morrie Warshawski on finding money for your documentary : DocumentaryTech.

Finance