As the online discourse around Quentin Tarantino’s…
Meet Ben Hard, the Content Production Summer Intern at Latinitas. Ben is a third year Radio, Television, Film…
“You don’t ever disrespect me. FUCKER! YOU NEVER DISRESPECT ME, YOU FUCKER!”
— Boogie Nights (1997), written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Psycho was a masterpiece film that is considered by many to be the “Mother” of the modern horror genre, taking a step towards horror films grounded in reality as opposed to the fantastical monster movies, and birthing a more violent and immediate terror. It was…
And thus, Tarantino’s fantastical fairy tale is summed up in words I just couldn’t find. Indeed, beyond the freedom of space and time to develop or meander that Quentin bestows on…
Quentin Tarantino is an exceptional storyteller, director, and actor. He has a unique way of…
This blog is a part of a series covering the impacts of digital piracy on individual creators…
I don’t know about you, but I feel like I haven’t watched an original movie in months, and I’ve come to believe that we really need to stop and think whether we really need these films or not (and I’m very much inclining for no, we…
Yikes
So you’ve wrote a wonderful full length screenplay. You know the story is awesome and you believe in the project, plus, it’s a hot, current topic that will get all eyes on you. Great. You’ve done about 1% of what needs to be done for that…
I concur. There are so many festivals that are clearly in it for the fee or are vanity projects. Here in LA there are multiply fests run by the same people under different names — i.e.”Golden State", “Silicon Beach", “Burbank", etc. There is a festival every other week at the “Chinese” theaters in Hollywood, but with the exception of AFI, HollyShorts…
Every filmmaker in the world wants one thing and one thing only: to have their project go from “best idea ever” to a “now playing, box office success”, thing is, this might be very hard for most of them, even the most talented and hard…
Scripts are not something people shop around for. Studios and big productions companies get their scripts in house, with either writers for hire for specific projects or payroll writers who write constantly without knowing for sure if the project will happen or not.