Tag: filmmaking
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AFM: Breaking the Boundaries of Today’s Film Marketplace
We used to have to go out for our entertainment, but today it’s piped into our homes, taken for granted as just another utility. Given that reality, how can we make storytelling special again?
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AFM: What Do Audiences Want?
It used to be said that laughter was the universal language. So what are we to make of the fact that American comedies don’t do well world wide, and that horror appears to be the only genre that consistently performs?
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This Way to Egress: Grit
[This is the second in a series of posts on the shooting of the “This Way to Egress” segment of Nightmare Cinema. You can find the first installment here. The film is available for free on Freevee and Tubi or to rent or own on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu.] Filming “This Way to Egress” began…
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This Way to Egress: Looking Back
Mick Garris’s anthology film Nightmare Cinema was released to theatres four years ago this month, with premiere events held at The Dynasty Typewriter and Arena Cinelounce in LA, the Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, the Parkway Theatre in Pittsburgh, and others. I covered those events in previous blog posts, along with accounts of earlier festival…