Posts Tagged ‘Gentlemen Broncos’

"Bright Star," which was critically acclaimed, hasn't yet earned half its budget due to limited exposure

One of the biggest gripes people have – especially when watching the Academy Awards every year – is that they aren’t able to see many of the limited release films, particularly the ones that get great critical buzz. Even critics get irked about this (as no critic sees every movie that comes out). So how do we go about addressing this issue? My thought is that films that can’t afford widespread distribution to exhibitors (i.e. theaters) might want to start looking at the internet as a solution.

A number of people download movies illegally all the time, which we here at Movie-Thoughts obviously can’t condone, and many people watch streaming movies on Netflix every day; the point being that plenty of people are acclimated to watching movies on their computer, and that number of people continues to grow every day. So, step one of making sure there’s an audience for independent studios on the internet is covered.

Step two is identifying the benefits. What’s in it for these independent studios? Well for starters (and this is huge), exposure. Read the rest of this entry »

Short Take: Delightfully absurd, but probably not for everyone

Director: Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre)

Screenwriters: Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre)

Cast: Michael Angarano (Sky High), Jennifer Coolidge (A Mighty Wind), Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Concords), Sam Rockwell (Choke)

Length: 1h 30m

Synopsis: A teenage boy attends a creative writing camp and submits his sci-fi story in a contest only to have it stolen by one of the judges. Surprisingly, that story is then published and becomes a best-seller, and the boy must try to expose the judge for his plagiarism.

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