I Love Blogging!!! The article in NY Times was rather simplistic and rang false on the "tipping the concierge" strategy. However, appearing in the NY Times is a great way to elicit a variety of comments and these are more interesting to me than the article itself. I'm commenting on the comments here....Sydney
Mitchell Block
There is still no "there" there. For the most part the small companies don't have the fiscal resources to do PR, advertising, trailers, promotions, viral marketing and the range of digital and film prints needed to cover the Us. The theaters still need decent box office to hold over the titles and few independent films can make $2,000 plus a week.Even if the filmmakers and distributors had the capital to make it work, the films can't attract the audiences. They open small and can't build. The NY Times article was a bit short on the numbers.
Mitchell Block
There is still no "there" there. For the most part the small companies don't have the fiscal resources to do PR, advertising, trailers, promotions, viral marketing and the range of digital and film prints needed to cover the Us. The theaters still need decent box office to hold over the titles and few independent films can make $2,000 plus a week.Even if the filmmakers and distributors had the capital to make it work, the films can't attract the audiences. They open small and can't build. The NY Times article was a bit short on the numbers.
- 8/14/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
A snowy apocalyptic world provides the backdrop for a story lifted straight from a bad spaghetti western in Snowblind, a new low budget pot-boiler from digital effects creators Kalle Max Hofmann and Bastian Schreitling. Fully loaded with your typical tough guys, lots of hard-hitting one liners and the grand spirit of "hey gang, let's make a movie!," Snowblind at least doesn't take itself all that seriously.
Synopsis:
Notorious gunman Clayton Young is given a last minute pardon from death row, only to be sent on an assassination mission for the ruthless Governor Lafort. The target: Matthew Saberneck, a living legend of a mercenary. Saberneck didn't only disobey the gruelling orders of his former employer – he also freed one of his female slaves and married her.
Now Clayton is supposed to make friends with that aging gunslinger, in order to intrude his fortified ranch and strike when the opportunity arises. But...
Synopsis:
Notorious gunman Clayton Young is given a last minute pardon from death row, only to be sent on an assassination mission for the ruthless Governor Lafort. The target: Matthew Saberneck, a living legend of a mercenary. Saberneck didn't only disobey the gruelling orders of his former employer – he also freed one of his female slaves and married her.
Now Clayton is supposed to make friends with that aging gunslinger, in order to intrude his fortified ranch and strike when the opportunity arises. But...
- 8/14/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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