All posts tagged "Paranormal Activity"
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Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror, the Most Profitable Genre of Them All
We’ve all heard the stories. Paranormal Activity, a film with a budget slightly less than a used Honda, made $193 million worldwide... -
The Blair Necessities: Eduardo Sánchez and Simon Barrett Talk Blair Witch, Then and Now, and Changes in Horror
Between Eduardo Sánchez co-directing The Blair Witch Project in 1999 and Simon Barrett writing Blair Witch in 2016, we’ve seen generational shifts: the... -
First Draft: The Ten Commandments of Writing a Great Sequel
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a fortnightly series on everything to do with screenwriting. New articles, written... -
Releasing Your Demons: We Asked Some Pros to Discuss the Nature of the Horror Distribution Beast
Should you release your horror film in theaters before it hits video-on-demand? Or on VOD before theaters? Or do it day-and-date, i.e.... -
The Evils of Franchising Your Horror Film: Should You Attempt World Domination?
To successfully establish a horror franchise is to achieve some level of film industry transcendence. Something you made is granted longevity, validation,... -
The Scariest Scene of All Time: Oren Peli and Jason Blum
For MovieMaker‘s 2016 Guide to Making Horror Movies special edition, we set out to identify what makes some of the scariest scenes of...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...