Unless you’ve been in a cave for the past few years, you’ve probably noticed there have been a few remakes of famous movies from the past (and coming soon a remake of Spiderman from like 10 years ago! ugh!). To me this is getting more and more annoying. I understand people have always made remakes of films, songs, art, etc… but when is enough enough? I could go on a whole yellfest about the Spiderman thing alone. I mean why remake a movie that is only 10 years old? What is the future of this trend? Will they remake any movie that made money? So we can expect remakes or re-imaginings of movies like: The Titantic, Gone With The Wind, Jaws(really surprises me no one has remade this one yet), Sparticus, Planet of the Apes…ok, that last one is a joke. Maybe they should just remake movies the next year if it did well.
Any way today I was looking around online and noticed that there is a re-release of Lucio Fulci’s Zombie this October in theaters nationwide (and Canada for all of our friends to the north, eh). This I like. Instead of someone making a new version…they are showing the original movie.
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Part of being a filmmaker is always learning and evolving. So as I find some cool tips, I may as well share them. One place I’ve always gotten really cool tips is from commentary tracks on DVDs of the “Patron Saints of MVP.” We all studied these people. For example, Robert Rodriguez has great commentary tracks on his movies. Grab a journal or a notebook, start the film, but be ready with the pause button because he puts lots of information in his commentaries. I also recommend his book, “Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
.” This book lets you see what it’s like to produce a movie with a very low budget from start to finish.
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GP Tips » Low-budget filmmaking tip #165 It’s easy to think you don’t need a script, or that a script is a pain to deal with, or that writing is easy. None of that is true. Although we sometimes joke that “the script practically writes …
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This is a DVD extra from my film “Songs About Your Girlfriend”. It gives a little insight into how we were able to make a feature film for under $2000. If this interests you, please check out the rest of the film on my main page.
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