How To Sell A Film
by Jill Macnab, May 15 2012, The Insider blog,
Coffee's for closers only.
To follow up from my last post I thought it would be a good idea to write the opposite angle. As opposed to ‘how to buy a film’, perhaps I should write about how to sell a movie. If you’re a producer, director or writer, here are some tips that should help you cut through and get some attention for your project.
Read on
‘Beautiful Machine’ Q&A With Shihad’s Jon Toogood
by Steve Newall, May 15 2012, Amazing Interviews blog,
Not many bands make it past twenty years with any semblance of relevance, much less get the cinematic treatment. That’s especially true here in New Zealand, but since the ’90s we’ve had the pleasure of watching Shihad defy the odds in many different ways. Their music’s been heard all over the country and indeed the world, and now cinemas around the country are gearing up for the band to hit the big screen with Shihad: Beautiful Machine, opening May 17.
Film Critics In Movies
by Dominic Corry, May 9 2012, Eating Movies blog,
There’s a small but fascinating section in Peter Biskind’s legendary book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls that is further explored in the same author’s recent biography of Warren Beatty. It concerns how legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael was lured to Hollywood to be a producer by Beatty and how badly it all went.
Top 20 Ugliest Movie Characters
by Liam Maguren, May 9 2012, Bits & Bobs blog,
There are many physical qualities that contribute to someone’s (or something’s) ugo factor: abnormal traits, facial asymmetry, daring hair styles. Here at Flicks, we like to express our right to be shallow and judgemental towards the fictionally hideous. Thus, we’ve compiled a list of ugly film characters that ain’t got no alibi, and boy are there a lot of ‘em. Read on
Where are the Super Women?
by Liam Maguren, May 8 2012, A Man Of 100 Words blog,
With The Avengers cashing in more moo-lah than a James Cameron-directed Harry Potter film, the movie-going public have been given a comic book feast, and given Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises is only a few month away, the superhero salivation will simply continue.
Marvel and DC aren’t stopping the brigade anytime soon, with Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel and further Avengers-related instalments currently in the works. Now that the genre’s more successful than it has ever been, one question resides in my mind: where are the super women? Read on
How To Buy A Film
by Jill Macnab, May 2 2012, The Insider blog,
It ain't a hostage negotiation
One of the questions I get asked a lot is, how does it actually work? How do you buy a film?
As I’ve said in a previous post, we buy movies for Australia and New Zealand. The rights we buy generally include theatrical, video, VOD (Video on demand), and TV. Sometimes we get airline rights too, but that’s not as common. So this means once we buy a movie, we can then exclusively release it at film festivals, in cinemas, on DVD/ Blu-Ray, VOD and sell to TV channels across Australia and NZ.
Most deals get done at the markets – right now, we’re gearing up for the Cannes film market which starts in two weeks. For the past month or so, emails have started trickling through each day from sales agents (the companies who represent films from lots of different producers) with their line-up, i.e. what films they’re selling. What started as four or five emails a day is now, at this stage before a market, anywhere up to about 80 emails a day. This will continue right up to, and through, the market, getting increasingly more desperate in many cases! Read on
The Screening Room – May 2012
by Ed, Flicks.co.nz, May 1 2012, Bits & Bobs blog,
Paul Campion's sci-fi creature-feature 'Eel Girl'
Kia Ora and welcome to the May edition of the Show Me Shorts Screening Room. My name is Gina Dellabarca, and I am the Festival Director for the Show Me Shorts Film Festival. This month I have chosen some interesting short films to share with you by two of my favourite filmmakers who have a unique way of looking at the world. Read on
Avengers 101: What You Need To Know
by Liam Maguren, April 19 2012, Bits & Bobs blog,
The Avengers is, without a doubt, one of the biggest movie events of the year. Combining four separate superhero licenses into one film on this scale is a first of its kind, and it’s 12 kinds of awesome (yes, we’ve seen it already).
However, we understand the pressure some of you may be feeling. Perhaps you never watched Thor. Or The Incredible Hulk. Or Iron Man 2. Perhaps you never stayed beyond the end credits for any of the films. Some of you may be worried that you’ll go into this colossal beast of a blockbuster without the knowledge of all the films that came before it. Or maybe you’ve just forgotten one or two titbits of info.
Never fear, for we have set up this quick crash-course/memory-refresher on everything and everyone you’ll need to know before going into The Avengers. Read our 4-star review here.