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BLIND AND GREEN

A story going around the N.Y. production community: When an Environmentally Aware Big Name Actor signed on his latest production, he asked that he be driven in a hybrid vehicle. Production informed him that there were no hybrids available to rent from their vendors. “But should we just drive you in a compact or mid-size instead?”, they asked, looking for a fuel-saving alternative. “No way!” he replied, and the production went ahead with the customary — and fuel guzzling — town car.

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 1, 2006

IFP MEMBERSHIP SPECIAL

The Independent Feature Project is offering a membership special offering. In addition to receiving all the usual IFP’s member benefits — and a subscription to Filmmaker, those who join by May 31 will receive the IFP’s 100-page Industry Directory, complete with contact info and bios of 300 different production and distribution companies, and also five hours of audio material, panel discussions on the following topics: Working With First-Time Filmmakers: Michelle Satter (Sundance) and Holly Becker (IFC) What Distributors Look For: Tom Quinn (Magnolia) and John Hodges (Focus Features) Building a Career: Dylan Leiner (Sony Pictures Classics) and Mike Lubin (Paradigm) […]

by Scott Macaulay on May 24, 2006

TOWERING BABEL?

I took a pass on Cannes this year, so I’m here Stateside just like you guys — checking the internet sites a few times a day to see what’s hot. And it appears as if Alejando Gonzalez Innaritu’s Babel may be the film to beat for the Palme’ d’Or. Here’s Jeffrey Welles: “It’s an incredibly shrewd and brilliant film about all of us…about frailty, interconnectedness, aloneness and particularly parents and children. It exudes compassion and acute precision with every frame, shot, edit and line of dialogue. I fucking loved it.” And here’s Ray Bennett in The Hollywood Reporter: “Tense, relentless […]

by Scott Macaulay on May 23, 2006

SPIRITS RISING

In his weekend report, Len Klady over at Movie City News cites the solid box-office performance of Courtney Solomon’s An American Haunting this weekend: The frame’s other national freshmen targeted horror and family fans to varying effect. An American Haunting, based on the historic Bell Witch incident, ranked fourth with good response that should pave the way for very good ancillary exploitation. Depending on who you quote, the film grossed between $5.9 and $6.4 million this weekend, and it opened against Mission Impossible 3. What’s really interesting, though, is that An American Haunting isn’t a studio release but an independent […]

by Scott Macaulay on May 7, 2006

GILL LEAVES WARNER INDEPENDENT

Variety has the surprising news that Mark Gill is leaving his post as president of Warner Independent Pictures. According to the trade paper, Warner exec v.p. of production Polly Cohen is in talks to run the division while Gill is reported to be segueing into a production deal.

by Scott Macaulay on May 3, 2006

GOOD NEWS FOR NEW YORK FILMMAKERS

For those worried about the announcement a few weeks back that New York ran out of money for its successful film tax rebate program, here’s an email from Pat Kaufman that arrived in my inbox this morning: The legislature has approved the Governor’s recommended expansion of the film credit!! We are pleased to confirm that funding for the NY State’s Production tax credit has been expanded and extended through 2011. New York State will continue to offer a fully refundable tax credit of 10% of the below the line budget of qualified feature films, episodic television and pilots. The city […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 27, 2006

SUNDANCE ANNOUNCES JUNE LAB PROJECTS

Indiewire has posted the writers and directors participating in the Sundance June Labs. Here’s the list and the descriptions of the projects: “A Breath Away”/Kit Hui (writer/director), U.S.A./ChinaAs a typhoon approaches Hong Kong, the residents of a high-rise apartment explore their need for human connection, family, and cultural identity in their increasingly isolated worlds.Born and raised in Hong Kong, Kit Hui immigrated to the United States at age 16. She received her MFA from Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program. Her short film “Missing” screened at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, and she was recently […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 26, 2006

SMALL SCREEN WOES

The Wall Street Journal has a piece up by John Jurgensen about declining budgets in the music video industry, a development that has something to do with both music business economics as well as new modes of viewing and distribution. From the article: But music executives also say the big video budgets of the 1990s are generally unnecessary, now that videos are most often watched on small screens like laptops and video iPods. Reality TV programming and the success of amateur “viral” videos that viewers watch and email to friends have changed the expectations of young viewers, says Monte Lipman, […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 23, 2006

LOOMPANICS, RIP

In a time in which plans for building a nuclear bomb or engineering a bio-terrorism attack are scarily available on the internet, let’s take a moment to note the closing of Loompanics, the Washington state publisher run by Mike Hoy whose titles were once deemed downright dangerous. Now, however, as the company announces a going out of business sale, Loompanics’s books seem, paradoxically, like quaint mementos of a more innocent time. I say “paradoxically” because there’s no doubt that the publisher, which experienced its share of First Amendment battles, suffered after passage of the Patriot Act when people reading books […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 22, 2006

CANNES LINEUP

The Cannes lineup is in a bunch of places: here’s the link to Indiewire’s piece. Quick take: Inarritu’s Babel, Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, new films by Bruno Dumont, Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach and Aki Kaurismaki, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (which we have a tiny preview of in the new issue — more when it comes out), and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s follow-up to Distant all in Competition. Andrea Arnold’s Red Road the sole first feature in Competition. (I’m wondering what happened to Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain — Variety reported that it would be the festival “somewhere” just […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 20, 2006

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