Author: Ted Hope

Inside the Writers’ Room: Post #2: So What Exactly Happens in the Room?

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date May 14, 2014
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By Christina Kallas

O_70682 The prevailing idea is that film, like any other art form, is made by a single genius. TV drama is, however, more often than not the result of collaboration between many writers and minds. How is that possible, and what does it mean?

Writers’ rooms already existed back in the 1950s, when three or four of the old comic legends would hang out and try out their jokes and material. The writers’ room concept has evolved through time. In the 1980s and 1990s the rooms grew bigger, you went from having three or four writers in a room to 15 writers. Today, due to budget limitations, the rooms have started getting smaller again.

Tags Christina Kallas, Guest Post, Inside the Writer's Room, screenwriting, television, Writer's Rooms, Writing

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BondIt: The Introduction of a New Financing Service in the Entertainment Space

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date May 12, 2014
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By Matthew Helderman, & Luke Taylor

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The smoke & mirrors of the entertainment business

The entertainment business has long been known for its less then above board dealings. Sharky agents, ridiculous financing structures, limited transparency and faulty business models.

That hasn’t stopped an influx of great content, great talent and hard work to get done — it’s just a reality of the territory. But does it have to be? With technology enabling scalability of information and transparency through widespread communication abilities — the entertainment business stands to benefit greatly at the bottom line level.

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Time To Reinvent The Film Biz

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date May 8, 2014
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I think you know I think we need to reboot the entire film ecosystem. We know it doesn’t work the way it could. We’ve been talking about for awhile, but we can do more. How do we step it up?

If you read my post this morning, I hinted at something new to come. Well…

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Could These Be The Future Of FilmBiz?

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date May 8, 2014
166 Comments on Could These Be The Future Of FilmBiz?

We were promised jet packs. Evolution is too damn slow. We keep telling ourselves a change is going to come, but maybe it is already here. What have you already come across that the rest of us maybe need to climb aboard in a big way? Could any of these be tomorrow’s future today?

Last year I wrote up a bit of future casting on film culture and business, but my predictions were more from the gut and general observation than from what others were doing in the field. Here are over ten additions based on things going on right now, or that those involved in the creations of the next next feel are inevitable.

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Diary of a Film Start-Up: Post #49: 7 Sins That Make Money Movies

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date May 6, 2014
113 Comments on Diary of a Film Start-Up: Post #49: 7 Sins That Make Money Movies

By Roger Jackson

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Ransom Notes

“I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.” So said legendary Madison Avenue ad executive Phil Dusenberry. I think of that quip when I’m asked “What movie subject will make the most money on VOD?” What type of film can you write & shoot quite cheaply – and which can pay out thousands of dollars a month, every month, way into the future? The answer: documentary films that are directly and intensively reflective of the American populace — addressing topics that touch almost everyone.

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Trust Is The Key To Collaboration

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date May 5, 2014
58 Comments on Trust Is The Key To Collaboration

By Sean Durkin

Xcannes2005_08 I started writing this post to ask for help with a kickstarter campaign for our new film, “James White,” but what I began to explore became much more personal to me. I started to reflect on the past 10 years and how my partners and I got to this point. Josh, Antonio and I started Borderline Films in 2003 while students at NYU. Our goal was bold, but simple – we would all be directors and we would each make our first feature films exactly the way we wanted to. And so the journey began with us only knowing one thing for sure: that we couldn’t do it alone.

It was a blind, naive ambition, and 10 years later, almost to the day, we were in principal photography on Josh Mond’s film ‘James White’, our third first feature, following ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’, ’Afterschool’ before that.

Tags Borderline Films, Guest Post, James White, KickStarter, Sean Durkin

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BondIt: Progressive Financial Ventures In the Film Business

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date May 5, 2014
130 Comments on BondIt: Progressive Financial Ventures In the Film Business

By Matthew Helderman, & Luke Taylor

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History of the film business & financial industries

The film business and financial industry have forever gone hand in hand — even though wide spread public knowledge long viewed a separation between the two structures for many years. Regardless of how far the business of Hollywood, the independent sectors and the newly emerging platform may seem, even in the earliest days of Studio production – financing still came from Wall Street.

Tags Bondit, financing, Guest Post, Luke Taylor, Matthew Helderman

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