The LA Times reports on why some many foreign films get remade by Hollywood:
Of the nearly 1,000 foreign-language films released in the U.S. since 1980, only 22 have grossed more than $10 million, with more than 70% of them taking in less than $1 million, according to boxofficemojo.com.
via Kottke
Hollywood, without doubt, dominates the global film market. It makes the most expensive, most profitable and most seen films. So it’s easy to forget that a lot of Hollywood productions use technical expertise from the UK. This ranges from the regular cast and crew; the actors and cinematographers …
Some researchers have found that Hollywood movies follow a mathematical formula.
He found that the more recent the films were, the more likely they were to obey the 1/f fluctuation, and this did not just apply to fast action movies. Cutting said the significant thing is that shots of similar lengths …
The Guardian has an interesting video interview (and clips) of a fan film called Born of Hope which is based on the prequel story of Lord of the Rings.
It’s fairly unusual, it looks fairly good quality and the contributors seem to have been globally spread and was directed by a …
In a somewhat inevitable turnaround Odeon has decided it will screen Alice in Wonderland after all. It does look like they secured guarantees on the number of films that would be released with a short window though. So I guess they have been placated. It has sparked an airing …
