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You'll enjoy your colorful camera accessory. StealthyGo Perfect for sports, outdoors, and live events Stealthy Easily switch from mode to mode, including full stabilizer StealthyPro Supports greater camera weight with enhanced gimbal. ‘Midnight Rider’ Death: Location Manager’s Story May Prove Crucial. More than a month after the fatal accident on the set of “Midnight Rider,” a key question for the homicide investigation is whether the production had been granted permission to film on the Georgia railroad tracks and trestle where camera assistant Sarah Jones was killed.

‘Midnight Rider’ Death: Location Manager’s Story May Prove Crucial

CSX, the owner of the railroad, has told investigators that producers of the indie film were denied permission to work on the tracks. The search for answers is likely to hinge on the statement of location manager Charley Baxter and the information he gave to director Randall Miller, producer Jody Savin and unit production/manager Jay Sedrish. Baxter’s attorney, Kirk Schroder of Richmond, Va., said that Baxter is “heartbroken” over the tragic accident but could not speak publicly about the circumstances because he signed a standard confidentiality agreement when he joined the production.

“He is absolutely honoring his contractual obligations, and he is fully cooperating with investigators,” Schroder told Variety. Louisiana Is Movie-Making Capital Of The World. America’s next Wal-Mart: The indie film industry. The indie film industry is cannibalizing itself.

America’s next Wal-Mart: The indie film industry

Manohla Dargis is right – there are too many films in the ecosystem. And this oversupply didn’t just happen. John Sloss warned back in 2007 that the industry’s problem was not a shortage of films, but a shortage of eyeballs (Mark Gill issued a related warning in 2008). But the industry’s response to this warning has been to make more films. This is creating an economically valueless cycle where unprecedented “cheap” money is flowing into the industry and films are being made at their highest rate ever. Many in the industry still refuse to acknowledge that film is subject to the economic laws of supply and demand.

While money has continued to flow into production these days, the majority of it goes to feeding crews, renting equipment, securing locations, color-correcting, etc. This is the current state of independent film. Free Stock Footage Downloads - Video Blocks. Ed Asner’s Suit Against SAG-AFTRA Dismissed. THE OUTSIDER. Sony Media Cloud Services. Detroit Is Giving Writers Free Houses in an Effort to Rebuild. December 26, 2013 | Like this article?

Detroit Is Giving Writers Free Houses in an Effort to Rebuild

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Good news for struggling writers: the key to sustaining your lifestyle is to go to a city that’s struggling more. A new nonprofit organization called Write-A-House, located in Detroit, Michigan (which, earlier this year, became the largest city in the United States to file for and enter bankruptcy) has found something creative to do with the city’s seemingly endless blocks of vacant homes—gut them from the inside-out, fix them up, and give them to writers. Sarah Cox, one of the founders of Write-A-House, and an editorial director for the real estate site Curbed, moved to Detroit from New York in 2010 in order to start the site’s Detroit blog. Biblical films' Hollywood comeback. Oscars: The 10 Most Overlooked Films of the Year. For those in the Baton Rouge area, NOW OPEN an exhibit at the State Library of Louisiana - 5th floor (Louisiana Section) on Baton Rouge Film History and Beyond.

Technology Hurting Film Franchises, Says UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer. Spectacle-driven film franchises will decline and there will be renewed interest and investment in story-driven features, United Talent Agency CEO and co-founder Jeremy Zimmer predicted Thursday.

Technology Hurting Film Franchises, Says UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer

“I think a lot of issues conspired to lead us to a place where I think the quality of the studio product has suffered,” said Zimmer. “Part of that is technology. Technology became the opportunity to do things as a filmmaker, digital technology, CGI, 3D, was so exciting. (It was) ‘Wow, we can do anything.’ You create this over-reliance on scale and hoopla and sound effects and special effects and noise, and you become less dependent on the story.” He also said giant opening weekend grosses had misled the studios. He said many factors were to blame for the shift away from story and toward spectacle, including the high cost sof stars and marketing. Premiere Entertainment Group. Film business,film financing,film industry,film producing,film producer,john gaskin. Section 6.

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