Archive for March, 2008
CREATESPACE - Film Distribution
You shot your film and now are wondering how to get it picked up. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a six figure deal (and most likely lose the rights to your work). I saw a news excerpt on Variety regarding Amazon’s Createspace.
Internet distribution isn’t entirely a new concept, but backing and support by a major entity like Amazon is a rare one. What caught my attention in particular was the sucess story of Matt Gannon & Michael Sarner
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It seems infathonable that acting masters Robert De Niro and Al Pacino have never shared the screen sans the neglible brief moment in Michael Mann’s Heat; in the same frame for a brief time over coffee, but finally, in director Jon Avnet’s RIGHTEOUS KILL, they co-star together.
Academy Award winners Pacino and De Niro star as a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. Can you imagine the ante that was upped when they called action on set ? I have never even heard of Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes?) prior to this film so one wonders how he handled these two old dogs.
See the teaser trailer on the next page …
QUENTIN TARANTINO - Happy Birthday.
The year was 1992 that an independent film caught fire on the festival circuit; Reservoir Dogs was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Independent Spirit Awards nominated the film for best picture and best director. The debut feature film of Quentin Tarantino portrayed what happened before and after a screwed up jewel heist. The ensemble cast included Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi and Lawrence Tierney. The film became a classic and inspired filmmakers everywhere. The Pulp of violent crime and pop culture was named the “Greatest Independent Film of all Time” by Empire Magazine.
But it was 1994’s Pulp Fiction that exploded into the mainstream.
STEPHEN KING - The best and worst adaptions of his work.
There have been many Stephen King films made into film adaptions and a surprising amount of them have delivered. These are my choices for the best and the worst.
1980 The Shining
Quite literally, one of the scariest films ever made, the film directed by Stanley Kubrick and lensed by John Alcott, fresh off of Barry Lyndon, The Shining brought him the Oscar. Jack Torrance interviews for a job at the isolated Overlook Hotel where he plans to write his novel while working at the hotel but instead, goes completely mad.
The most chilling scene for me is not the legendary “Here’s Johnny!” but when his wife, Wendy, played by Shelley