It was a photo-finish and in the end. The initial showings had to be reveversed. It looked like Rainforest’s Takers had narrowly lost the weekend box office battle to The Last Exorcism by a hair (well, if you count 300 Gs as a hair). However, upon further review: http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2903&p=.htm Takers actually took it in [Read More]
Mark Lipsky has pontificated again–if you’ve never read his previous posts on The Wrap, he’s made the claim a few times before–that theaters are destined to be virtually extinct in less than two decades. Technology he argues, along with multiplexes’ lack of personality–i.e. they’re not the opulent movie [Read More]
One of the main reasons I got into the business of film wasn’t to make money or be famous, it was because me and friends saw films like Swingers and Clerks, loved them, quoted them often, and desired to see versions of those films that featured versions of us. It was my friends who pushed [Read More]
Today I came across bechdeltest.com. On it you’ll find a list of films, going back to 1902, that have had the Bechdel Test applied to them. The test has three simple rules: 1. A film has to have at least two women in it 2. Who talk to each other 3. About something besides a [Read More]
What if Snoop Dogg battled Bowser as Mario, or waged one-man intergalactic war in Halo? You’d get this brilliant video. [Read More]
Ugh. Ugh I say. What has rendered me monosyllabic? Before I rant please read the following paragraph pulled from an online piece about Netflix’s stock and revenue performance and why Netflix’s growth is slowing down: Netflix prospects are being hurt by internet delivery of premium content through websites like Hulu, but, people are [Read More]
Coming to Atlanta July 15-18 is the 9th edition of ARGFest, a conference and gaming festival that’s all about Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG) and Transmedia Storytelling. If you think you haven’t heard of, or participated in an ARG, who’d be wrong if you followed on any level of The Dark Knight’s Why So Serious, Halo [Read More]
I guess we need good guys and bad guys in everything…including villains to blame for the less than staggering Summer Movie Season…and oh boy do we feel the need to pile on. [Read More]
PushPush Theater has always been engaged in some interesting projects since their inception. There are few multimedia arts organizations in Atlanta who are as actively experimenting with the integration of film and theater, as well as other mediums, as the Decatur based outfit. For awhile, their Dailies projects–a series of mostly quarterly [Read More]
Some Georgia Filmmakers are catching some viral buzz with their latest short film Carboard Warfare [Read More]
With each Twilight film, Summit has modestly increased the budget (37 to 50 to $68 million). Something you can do when the sequels are pulling in crushing world wide box office numbers. It’s a smart move as the increased budgets have allowed the movies to match the growing frenzy of the series with increased production [Read More]
After you’ve been into this biz for awhile, stumbling to find the best path, you soon learn that there is no best path. There are some set no-no’s, however the can-do’s, considering how many there are, how they can cross ethical lines, how they can contradict previously established guidelines, and how they often defy common [Read More]
Atlanta’s Festival League is back for another round, again bringing their coalition of film events and niche festivals to various venues around the city this August. Eric Panter and crew, to tie into Atlanta’s revitalized and growing film scene, have also designated the dog days of Summer as Independent Film Month here in the A. [Read More]
The June 20th episode of The Boondocks, which airs on Atlanta based Adult Swim, was a blistering, and I do mean blistering, parody of Atlanta based filmmaker Tyler Perry and his Tyler Perry Studios. In comparison to the The Boondock’s “Pause” episode, South Park‘s riffs on Scientology and Tom Cruise seem almost tame. If [Read More]
As it is with most states, South Carolina is dealing with budget shortfalls and one of Governor Mark Sanford’s solutions is to end the state’s film incentive program. The SC House has already voted to 104 to 7 to override Sanford’s veto of the program, and now it’s up to the state’s Senate to complete [Read More]
Just received an interesting press release from the Atlanta Film Festival. It appears that Gabe Wardell is out as the Executive Director at ATLFF365. No word yet, on whether or not it was a mutual decision. [Read More]
Mean Girls 2, which will start filming in Atlanta soon, has found it’s cast. Meaghan will be the main mean girl, taking the place of Rachel McAdams’ Regina. Her character, named Jo, will befriend outcast Abby because Abby’s father offers to pay for Jo’s expensive college education. We aren’t going to question the [Read More]
If you’re into hip-hop and were living in the A in the 1990s, you’ll know how much love folks here had for Outkast. Well, not all folks, with the success of their debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, the expectations were they would just keep doing that. When they dropped ATLiens (still my personal favorite), it threw many [Read More]
In the eight years since the number of states offering incentives to lure film production ballooned from under ten to forty, the incentives have been praised by industry advocates and damned by financial hawks. For many states, it’s been about bad timing, as the incentives for some were enacted just a year or two before [Read More]
North Carolina is keeping busy. The state’s House recently okayed a bill to expand tax breaks aimed at computer simulation games and green-based business parks. The bill will also allow productions to write off actor and director salaries over $1 million. Not sure if the language from this brief piece is the same used in [Read More]