To follow up from my last post I thought it would be a good idea to write the opposite angle. As opposed to ‘how to buy a film’, perhaps I should write about how to sell a movie. If you’re a producer, director or writer, here are some tips that should help you cut through and [...]
Not many bands make it past twenty years with any semblance of relevance, much less get the cinematic treatment. That’s especially true here in New Zealand, but since the ’90s we’ve had the pleasure of watching Shihad defy the odds in many different ways. Their music’s been heard all over the country and indeed the [...]
There’s a small but fascinating section in Peter Biskind’s legendary book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls that is further explored in the same author’s recent biography of Warren Beatty. It concerns how legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael was lured to Hollywood to be a producer by Beatty and how badly it all went.
There are many physical qualities that contribute to someone’s (or something’s) ugo factor: abnormal traits, facial asymmetry, daring hair styles. Here at Flicks, we like to express our right to be shallow and judgemental towards the fictionally hideous. Thus, we’ve compiled a list of ugly film characters that ain’t got no alibi, and boy are there [...]
With The Avengers cashing in more moo-lah than a James Cameron-directed Harry Potter film, the movie-going public have been given a comic book feast, and given Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises is only a few month away, the superhero salivation will simply continue. Marvel and DC aren’t stopping the brigade anytime soon, with Zack Snyder’s [...]
One of the questions I get asked a lot is, how does it actually work? How do you buy a film? As I’ve said in a previous post, we buy movies for Australia and New Zealand. The rights we buy generally include theatrical, video, VOD (Video on demand), and TV. Sometimes we get airline rights [...]
Kia Ora and welcome to the May edition of the Show Me Shorts Screening Room. My name is Gina Dellabarca, and I am the Festival Director for the Show Me Shorts Film Festival. This month I have chosen some interesting short films to share with you by two of my favourite filmmakers who have a [...]
The Avengers is, without a doubt, one of the biggest movie events of the year. Combining four separate superhero licenses into one film on this scale is a first of its kind, and it’s 12 kinds of awesome (yes, we’ve seen it already). However, we understand the pressure some of you may be feeling. Perhaps [...]
