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SCRAMBLE SUITED

There’s a new trailer up for Richard Linklater’s Philip K. Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly. It’s way better than the previous teaser as it highlights the film’s woozy humor as much as its panoptic paranoia. When I interviewed Rick for Filmmaker, the film was slated to come out this spring. It’s been pushed to summer, so this trailer will have to tide you over in the meantime…

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 17, 2006

THE SILENCE IS OVER

Forgive us as we iron out the kinks on the new site design. We just learned that due to an improper setting comments from readers have been going into the ether as opposed to onto our website. We’ve just reinstated those formerly lost comments and have changed our settings so comments are posted immediately.

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 17, 2006

EARTHSHAKER

Chris Gardner in Variety reports today that producer Michael London has launched a new financing and production company, Groundswell Productions. Starting with a capitalization of $55 million, the company plans to raise a total of $100 million and produce five films a year with budgets under $20 million. From the piece: “Groundswell’s business strategy will be a mix of foreign pre-sales for projects with established stars or pure equity investments in filmmaker-driven projects. The company’s slate will mix films from established directors and emerging talent alongside comedies and genre films. London said with Groundswell he will be looking for projects […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 17, 2006

GROUP BLOGGING

Green Cine notes that filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake, who posts on his Filmmaking for the Poor website, has launched a new blog: Indie Features 06. The site allows several filmmakers who are all finishing films this year and screening them in festivals or theaters to post in a “group blog” format their experiences. Filmmakers include Ekanayake, the four Texas-based directors behind the anthology film Deadroom, Chris Hansen (The Care and Feeding of an American Messiah, and filmmaker Rick Schmidt, whose Feature Filmmaking at Used Car Prices was one of the first no-budget film books ever published.

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 15, 2006

SHORTSVILLE APPEARS ON THE MAP

The folks who run Antville, the music site, have just launched Shortsville, a blog consisting solely of links to cool short films and commercial clips. Bookmark it now.

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 15, 2006

GOOGLE GOGGLED

With Google’s stock dropping 27% in the last ten days and Barron’s devoting their cover to “In the Drink,” a merciless dissection of the company’s growth prospects, true value and stock price (readable gratis this week as Barron’s offers a trial freebie to its pay site), I’m going to pile on to the search giant with this link to Cory Doctorow’s piece up at Boing Boing titled “Google Video DRM: Why is Hollywood more important than users?” In a great look at the digital rights management system Google has put in place to “secure” the downloadable media on its new […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 14, 2006

DECADES PLUS TWO

Movie City Indie maestro (and occasional Filmmaker contributing editor) Ray Pride posts a series of short docs entitled 12×5 which he directed with Amy Cargill over at Movie City News. Check out Ray’s deftly edited ruminations on personal futures as remembered from the past.

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 14, 2006

REVITALIZED VON TRIER

Adam Dawtry reports in Variety on the latest in artistic gamesmanship from Lars von Trier, who announces a “Statement of Revitality” on the eve of shooting his new film, The Boss of it All. Reacting against various elements of the financing and publicity machine for arthouse cinema, Von Trier has put the last film of his Brechtian America-set Dogville trilogy on hold and is searching, as he did when he created “Dogma 95,” for a new way of working. Here’s his statment: “In conjunction with the departure of Vibeke Windelov, who has been my producer for ten years, and the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 11, 2006

HEAVY WATER

I wrote a note to myself yesterday: “Get in in touch with Ben Rekhi to find out how Waterborne is doing on the Google Video Store.” (I posted a few weeks ago about director Ben Rekhi’s experiment streaming his video on the Google platform and then proceeding on to selling paid downloads and DVDs.) Well, Ann Thompson has beat me to it. From her Risky Business blog: “Google Video’s distribution experiment on the bio-terrorist thriller Waterborne appears to be a success. According to Google Video, the first independent feature film to be released through the new Google Video Store was […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 10, 2006

DEATH AT 100MPH

Australian stuntman turned commercials and short-film director Nash Edgerton is making a name for himself with intense and expertly executed short films like Lucky. Check it out.

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 8, 2006

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