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Over the last year, I have been working with top film financier Phil Hunt to better understand how the world of movie money actually operates. We’ve taken our time, gone deep, and come out the other side with an in-depth understanding of the opaque world of film financing.
One...
In an interview for the book Naked Screenwriting, Tom Schulman, who won an Oscar for writing
This isn’t a new data study. It’s something I’ve been working on for the past few months, and I’m very proud of it.
I’ve made a book with the artist Miriam Elia. It’s called We make a movie, it comes out just befor...
Over the past year, I’ve been digging into the state of the film finance sector, and a quote from the late 1940s keeps coming to mind. British film producers John and Roy Boulting said the film ecosystem protected financiers, but the producers bore the brunt of any failur...
In Die Hard, Holly Gennaro asks Hans Gruber, “What’s going on?”, only to receive the less-than-clear response, “The child is about to touch the stove.”
Poetic thieves aside,