Leslie Sheldon and Donal Bailey of Forrest Motion Pictures will be in Berlin between 11 – 17 February. Forrest has finalized its current film fund (six features). Fund No.2 is in the works as is a film finance service to cash flow tax credits and other products. Our fund and finance service are founded on [...]
Seems like all the blogs on the various groups just go around and around in circles talking about film financing …. but really never answer the simple question people are asking – If you have a “Real” project with solid actors and distribution where can you get the funds to make the film…? Banks will [...]
Japan. I had been there a few times and communicated with a few friends there on occasion, but I’d not ever tried doing an interview without sitting in front of the interviewee which made my request for an interview with Hyoe a little bit of a challenge. The time difference aside, the real challenge was [...]
Ever since the advent of the modern motion picture industry, critics have praised directors as the key to great film. The auteur theory of cinema is idiotic, since writing is truly the key – no director could make a masterpiece out of “The Ugly Truth.” It is one of the great travesties of artistic justice [...]
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last six days:
Chinese entrepreneurs, investors on Google: ‘Just quit. We don’t care.‘ — What does the Chinese tech community think of Google’s controversial plan to uncensor search and possibly leave the country? We talked to several [...]
Now that we have your attention.
Andrew Klavan’s written a terrific piece for City Journal looking at Katherine Bigelow’s “Hurt Locker,” which tanked at the box office, is a frontrunner to win this year’s Best Picture Oscar and has generated debate among conservatives over whether the dynamic action-director’s visceral look at a U.S. Army Bomb Squad is just [...]
What Would Toto Watch?:
And no, that’s not taken out of context.
Entertainment Weekly asked Cameron to respond to some of the criticisms aimed at him regarding “Avatar.” Check out how he responded to this one:
EW: “’Avatar’ is the perfect eco-terrorism recruiting tool.”
JC: “Good, good. I like that one. I consider that a positive review. I believe in [...]
On Sunday, March 7th, 2010, the best picture winner at the Academy Awards will be announced. Although there are ten nominees in that category this year (up from the usual five), they will likely not include the following: “Twilight,” “The Hangover,” “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” “The Proposal,” or “Star Trek.” Undoubtedly, none of the “Twilight” [...]
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