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"Mystery Team" takes on the case of the indie comedy.
Thu, Aug 27 2009 11:15 AM
The case of the indie comedy has been a tough one to crack. Films like "The Foot Fist Way" and "Wet Hot American Summer" struggled in theaters, only to go on to success on DVD and permanent rotation on cable. That's why the "Mystery Team" is coming to the rescue. Tonight, the Derrick Comedy troupe will premiere their Sundance... Read More...
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Getting closer to the world's first $0 movie.
Fri, Aug 21 2009 11:05 AM
There's a history of movies whose low budgets and origin stories are more famous than the films themselves. From his 1992 $7,000 debut "El Mariachi" onward, Robert Rodriguez has practically built a career out of this kind of thing. A decade later, Shane Carruth would make a much better movie -- "Primer" -- for the same number (unadjusted... Read More...
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When Twitter gives you lemons.
Thu, Aug 20 2009 4:55 PM
While no one knows how Twitter will manage to make money for itself, how it is at losing and making it for others has been a hot topic this week. At the Baltimore Sun, Michael Sragow looks into the so-called Twitter effect of instant feedback making or breaking a movie and -- cautiously -- concludes it's mostly baseless. As Gregg Kilday -- film editor for... Read More...
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Selling "Skin" the old-fashioned way.
Mon, Aug 17 2009 2:25 PM
Marketing can make or break an opening weekend -- if no one's heard of your film, no one's going to see it. Sans trailer, TV ads, posters or billboards, the Sophie Okonedo apartheid drama "Skin" was dying in limited release in London. As director Anthony Fabian put it on the film's blog, "It's hard to know, apart from the editorial... Read More...
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