Directing a film is a lot like running a business. You have a budget. You have crew. And then you have the biggest H.R. challenge the world has ever known: celebrity egos. Director Joe Carnahan has worked on the low-budget "Narc," the $17 million "Smokin' Aces" and the $180 million...
Byline: MATT KAPKO Verizon Wireless is one of two premiere sponsors behind a new TV show that overtly places brand names and products in budding filmmakers' creative talent. The filmmaking competition, "On the Lot,'' will prominently fea Byline:...
Actor Robert Redford's Sundance Institute is teaming with the GSM Association to promote made-for-mobile video shorts. The organizations unveiled a pilot project designed to "showcase and extend the reach'' of independent short films for Actor Robert Redford's Sundance...
This paper describes about how an AIG subsidiary has been involved in securitizations related to film financings and with Flashpoint. Hollywood Funding 4, Hollywood Funding 5, and Hollywood Funding 6 represent the latest and probably last of six structured transactions that served as a means of film financing for Flashpoint....
PARIS & LAS VEGAS -- Leveraging its ability to touch more points of today's media and entertainment digital workflows than any other company, Thomson (NYSE:TMS)(Euronext Paris:18453) today made a series of announcements related to its ongoing market-expansion efforts. These efforts include new Grass ValleyTM brand products for digital film making,...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Filmmakers to Experience the Latest Desktop HD Digital Intermediate Workflow at Adobe-Sponsored Workshops, Hands-On Classrooms and Digital Forums
Where's a new movie that hit theater screens nationwide this month called The Blair Witch Project. Perhaps you've heard of it. It's been creating quite a buzz both on the Internet and in the filmmaking community for some time now -- buzz that has ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced its sponsorship of the American Pavilion at the Festival de Cannes, the world-renowned international film festival held from May 11-22 in Cannes, France. As part of its continued commitment to the filmmaking community Adobe will host technology presentations and panel...
After two seasons on HB0, MIRAMAX TELEVISION's filmmaking reality show Project Greenlight is moving to NBC-owned BRAVO. The Bravo version, slated for 2005, will focus on horror films. New reality ... After two seasons on HB0, MIRAMAX TELEVISION's filmmaking reality show Project Greenlight is...
LOS ANGELES -- MySpace.com, the leading lifestyle and social networking portal, is teaming with national arts organization, Gen Art, to blend music and filmmaking in an unprecedented competition. MySpace and Gen Art are hosting "No Sleep Till Sundance," a Beastie Boys music video contest, in which aspiring filmmakers from the...