All posts tagged "Netflix"
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How Dolemite Is My Name Writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski Went From Roommates to Masters of the Biopic (Podcast)
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski were USC film students, waiting in line, when they struck up a conversation about horror director Herschell Gordon Lewis. Their...
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Sword of Trust Writer-Director Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron on Gaining One Another’s Trust Over Many Collaborations
Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron were ready to make a feature together. After years of collaborating on TV...
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How They Did It: Learning a New Culture and Creating Painterly Visuals to Make Despite Everything
The biggest challenge of working on my seventh feature film as a director was to do a comedy in another country. Humor changes based on...
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Stefon Bristol’s See You Yesterday Melds Time Travel and the Harsh Realities of African-American Life Seamlessly
Stefon Bristol’s See You Yesterday is full of surprises. Produced by Spike Lee, Bristol’s film takes a whimsical premise—a pair of science geek high school...
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Pictures Worth a Thousand Jobs: Netflix’s Blockbuster Deal with ABQ Studios is Poised to Bring Thousands of Jobs to New Mexico
In a year where Netflix has continued to grow at an astounding rate, the streaming platform’s biggest leap was its deal to open a U.S....
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Small Cities and Towns
“The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe Carnahan reportedly said during a recent press conference. “It’s...
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Working the Crowd: How Indie Crowdfunding Campaigns Have Evolved, and Some Savvy Ways to Keep Up
Why this film? Why you? Why now? Each arm of your crowdfunding campaign—from video, to narrative, to rewards, to backer updates—must work to build the...
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A Sale Unto Oneself: About To Have Your First Market Experience? Here’s Why Self-Distribution Is the Way To Go
Every indie moviemaker has the fantasy of premiering a movie at Sundance, then selling it for millions after an all-night bidding war between leading distributors...
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Novel Ideas: Moviemakers Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair on Adapting a Book for the Screen and Building Atmosphere
In September, director Jeremy Saulnier and screenwriter Macon Blair attended Fantastic Fest 2018 to present Hold the Dark—a fully-immersive cinematic adaptation of William Giraldi’s 2014...
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Singapore Plays Itself: In Sandi Tan’s Shirkers, a Nation (and its Daughter) Come of Age Onscreen
Beautiful Convergence When it opened in 1930, Singapore’s Capitol Theatre was a glittering picture palace, the crown jewel of Southeast Asian cinema, with 1,600 seats...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...