Sentences with phrase «of film financing»

My entries are certainly not as authoritative as some of the film financing guidebooks out there which are 250 + pages of year - long research.

The basic mechanics of film financing say that if you make a film that loses a ton of money, you're not going to get a sequel.

The vitriol directed at Braff suggests that traditional methods of film financing are somehow more artistically pure, and nothing could be further from the truth.

The Ulster County Executive announced Tuesday the launch of a film finance program to encourage more film, media and television productions to film in the county.

Not exact matches

The U.S. says the money it is seeking to recover was gambled in Las Vegas, used to buy hotels, apartments, a luxury yacht, a jet, diamond jewelry and art works and to finance Hollywood films including the «Wolf of Wall Street» and «Dumb and Dumber To.»

The new entrepreneurs of disruptive finance had diverse backgrounds, but D.J. Paul, a former bond salesman and film producer who became one of the industry's early organizers, says the serious players break roughly into two camps: technologists and financiers.

The three subsequent films in the series grossed more than $ 310 million on a total budget of $ 55 million, according to the movie finance site The Numbers.

Orr's father had a number of business interests, including an antique shop, an import - export business, and a film - financing operation.

But that will still leave to be questioned the small matter of the $ 2.5 million already spent to promote the Canada Job Grant, an ad buy that seems to stretch the definition of advance warning — a bit like the film industry deciding to promote movies that have not yet been financed or cast.

Specialty finance company Versa Media Capital, which provides production loan financing to creators of independent film and TV content, has secured a $ 100 million facility from alternative asset manager Crayhill Capital Management.

«Versa Media Capital intends to become the go - to source of capital and expertise for independent film and TV content creators, and will provide the elements needed to put projects on the solid footing required to complete a permanent financing package,» said Geoffray in a statement.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in Plano, Texas, Eugene received a BA in finance with honors and a minor in film studies from the University of Texas in 2013, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

«Other People's Money» by Justin Cartwright (Bloomsbury, 2011) is to the novel what the wonderful «Margin Call» is to film — a fictionalized but convincing account of high finance and the crisis of 2008.

Braid would be the first feature film fully financed this way, its makers say, potentially opening up film production to a wider world of emerging talents and prospective investors.

It's not hard to see a path where the number of faith - based films financed by major studios increase.

In 1954, encouraged by new scholarship on Jesus» life and by the rising tide of church membership and attendance, the Episcopal Church helped finance a film on the life of Jesus, The Day of Triumph.

(CNN)- Jewish groups are upset that the initial reporting about the anti-Islam movie known as «Innocence of Muslims» depicted the film as being financed by a group of Jewish donors.

After the Jesus film, Heyman helped finance Grease, Home Alone, Saturday Night Fever, Awakenings, the first of the Star Trek movies, and others.

When he was called to talk about his film, he was in the process of moving furniture out of his house, which he sold to help finance the filming of «Blue Like Jazz.»

He got it financed almost exclusively by people in Seattle, went without the perks of his usual TV work and even held political debates around America when the film premiered.

Payoffs to adult film stars likely in violation of campaign finance laws.

Filmmaker Steve Cowan posted full transcripts of his interviews with Cuomo and Maffei on the film's website, which include Maffei's observation he supports public campaign finance «because it means the only people we'll have to worry about in our day are the taxpayers and constituents in our district, and that's what we're supposed to do.»

«The state's film tax credit job claims are a fiction straight out of the Hollywood productions they're forcing New York taxpayers to finance.

Empire State Development Takes Home Emmy Award for Best Corporate Welfare Reclaim New York Initiative offered the following statement in response to Empire State Development's shameless bragging about taxpayer - financed productions winning Emmy awards: «The state's film tax credit job claims are a fiction straight out of the Hollywood productions they're forcing New York taxpayers to finance.

Comprised of interviews with finance types, individuals involved in the escort business, as well as Spitzer himself, Gibney's film traces the former New York Governor's career from his start as an attorney general determined to take down corruption on Wall Street, to his status as a political joke after he was forced to resign for patronizing the Emperor's Club VIP escort service.

One of those gambles involves DOE's award of a $ 535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra Inc. in 2009 to help finance construction of a new plant in Fremont, Calif., to produce the company's cylindrical solar modules that employ thin - film chemical layers to generate electricity.

The professions of my participants were also diverse and included a surgeon, career educators, social justice activists, a FEMA rep (perfectly timed with Hurricane Irma a mere 400 miles away), an international finance expert, a former department of justice employee, lawyers, an actor / film - maker and producer, an occupational therapist, and of course a an actor and yoga teacher.

A decade ago it was unimaginable to make a film without major financing, but now given the nature of new media and available technology, independent filmmakers can tell their stories with a limited budget.

First released as an underground film, it was thanks to John Lennon that the film was acquired by Allen Klein of ABKCO, who bought the rights to «El Topo» and then financed Alejandro Jodorowsky's next film «The Holy Mountain.»

Most of his appearances of the»50s were in Italian or European productions that seldom saw the light of day in English - speaking countries, though he later showed up in a number of Hollywood - financed films which required Italian or Spanish location shoots.

Most of these movies seen like an excuse for Adam Sandler and his friends to go on vacation, and they film a movie and hope to make some money from it to finance it.

Financed, produced, directed and starring Oscar - winner Robert Duvall, this film is a down - home yet very grittty at times story of a disgraced preacher on the run from the police after beating his soon - to - be ex-wife's new boyfriend with a baseball bat at a baseball game.

1) You (and a spread of trolls on here and other sites) keep calling it «Hollywood propaganda» but it isn't even a Hollywood film - it's almost entirely financed by foreign companies (In France, Germany, Italy) was shot for 3.5 million in Italy, directed by an Italian.

Tommy Wiseau was a bizarre man of indeterminate age and background who became a cult figure in Los Angeles in 2003 for The Room — a toe - curlingly awful film he financed, directed, wrote and starred in.

Putting my education to use, I went to work for a company called Bellcore, which pays well enough for me to keep up the mortgage, maintain a home theater, finance film festival trips, and buy the 25 - 30 gallons of gasoline I need each week to attend screenings.

Some of the idiocy that is being poked at for laughs doesn't seem so strange when you look at YouTube comments and E! Many of the things that are wrong with this film stem from the fact that it is very low budgeted and didn't get much financing from its studio.

Graham's father, a wealthy industrialist, bought the paper in 1933 at a bankruptcy auction, a fact not mentioned in the film, curious for a movie that spends a great deal of time talking about the paper's dire finances.

When Braff couldn't secure traditional financing for the film, he appealed to the fan base he'd built up over nine seasons of Scrubs, asking them to donate cash so he could make the movie exactly as he wanted it made.

He then appeared in a number of psychedelic films, including 1967's The Trip and the following year's Monkees feature Head, and earned a new audience among anti-establishment viewers.With friends Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in front of the camera, Hopper decided to direct his own movie, and secured over $ 400,000 in financing to begin filming a screenplay written by novelist Terry Southern.

«This is one of the very few small films that is totally financed by the market because of cast [in Europe],» said Gillibert.

It's a question swirling around the Sundance Film Festival at this tony ski resort this year as the fate of independent films seems to grow dimmer and the money to finance these ventures is as difficult to cobble together as political compromises -LSB-...]

That, combined with the number of companies who helped finance the film through product placement, made this movie a no - brainer.

Heading into the holiday season, executives across distribution and film finance had a strong feeling that this reboot of Jumanji directed by Jake Kasdan would serve as strong counter-programming to Disney's Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Stay past the credits for the best performance in the film... and hope the inevitable success of Iron Man 3 finances Black's next three Kiss Kiss Bang Bangs.

In honor of the film's May 17th limited theatrical release, Chan took the time to run through all her feats from finding and working with Lin to securing financing, ensuring «33 Postcards» is a standout film, and more.

That's even harder to do in finance, because it's not really driven by the same type of intrinsic passion that drives the creative focus of film.

After years of trying to get financing, Marc Forster's film adaptation of World War Z has finally begun shooting on the Mediterranean island of Malta.

With Haywire — his 23rd full length feature — he takes another stylistic left turn this being an independently financed, relatively low budget B - movie style action film of which a large portion was filmed in Dublin back in 2010.

Instead, it is betting more on its self - financed productions, which include the new film by the acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos set in the 18th - century court of Britain's Queen Anne.

Franco earned praise for his portrayal of Wiseau, a Hollywood outsider who self - financed the film he both starred in and wrote.