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The Many Methods of Movie Marketing: Part 6 Film Festivals

2013-05-23T04:38:00.001-07:00

This is the sixth and final (hooray!) part of my many posts on the different methods of movie marketing, this one covering film festivals. This is mainly for my film students who are looking at the relationship between film producers and audiences. First we looked at how producers get information from audiences and now we move on to how producers give information to audiences. You can find part

The Many Methods of Movie Marketing: Part 5 Press Junkets and Preview Screenings

2013-05-23T04:05:00.002-07:00

This is the fifth part of my many posts on the different methods of movie marketing, this one covering press junkets and preview screenings. This is mainly for my film students who are looking at the relationship between film producers and audiences. First we looked at how producers get information from audiences and now we move on to how producers give information to audiences. You can find part

The Many Methods of Movie Marketing: Part 4 Premieres

2013-05-23T03:39:00.000-07:00

This is the fourth part of my many posts on the different methods of movie marketing, this one covering premieres. This is mainly for my film students who are looking at the relationship between film producers and audiences. First we looked at how producers get information from audiences and now we move on to how producers give information to

The Many Methods of Movie Marketing: Part 3 Merchandise

2013-05-23T00:36:00.000-07:00

This is the third part of my many posts on the different methods of movie marketing, this one covering merchandise. This is mainly for my film students who are looking at the relationship between film producers and audiences. First we looked at how producers get information from audiences and now we move on to how producers give information to

Ethan Hawke in The Purge and Before Midnight

2013-05-22T13:49:00.001-07:00

Ethan Hawke is all sorts of awesome and over the next month(ish) there are two films to look forward to featuring the star; The Purge and Before Midnight. The Purge trailer really surprised me a while back. Usually I'm pretty good at guessing the film from the first few frames or at least the first few seconds of a trailer but when I saw this, I had no idea what it was. I hadn't actually

What's going on with The Wolverine?

2013-05-21T13:45:00.001-07:00

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Developing Technologies in TV and Film: Satellite and Cable TV

2013-05-21T13:02:00.002-07:00

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Game of Thrones Hit List

2013-05-21T09:54:00.000-07:00

I've just started Game of Thrones series 2 last night and in amongst all the incest, preparing for war and baby dragons are some absolutely horrendous characters. I don't mean poorly written, I mean despicable, seemingly irredeemable scum of the earth types. As I'm watching, I'm finding myself making mental notes of who I want to die and even how I'd like to see them bite the dust. It's starting

Fast and Furious 6 Review

2013-05-20T07:14:00.000-07:00

Fast and Furious 6 is not the best of the series but it does what the franchise is known for very well; crashing, smashing, jumping, racing and chasing cars. It also adds in a great deal of excellent hand to hand and gun toting combat to the mix with some real punch present in the fight scenes. Fast and Furious 6 continues the supposedly developing mythology of the franchise with the crew all

Box office reports: Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness

2013-05-20T07:01:00.001-07:00

I've been doing some pretty regular box office reports for Tastic Film, particularly on some of the biggest releases of the blockbuster season so far: Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness. I look at what is topping the charts each week and how much money they are making and often compare it to their budgets to see how much profit they are taking. I'm really enjoying writing box office reports

This is England 90 Update from star Vicky McClure

2013-05-18T07:03:00.000-07:00

What is the status with Shane Meadow's long awaited TV sequel and final entry in the This is England saga? This is England 90 is still going ahead and should start swinging into action soon now that Shane Meadows has completed and released his documentary on the reunion of The Stone Roses, Made of Stone. This is England 88 offered the best bit of British TV for years in 2011 with Woody, Lol,

Get ready for Pacific Rim!

2013-05-18T04:30:00.000-07:00

Everything you need to know about Guillermo del Toro's latest, Pacific Rim: The auteur has not directed a film since comic book sequel Hellboy II in 2008. His version of The Hobbit failed to emerge due to scheduling conflicts and then his long-awaited

Fast and Furious 7 news and rumours

2013-05-17T09:37:00.002-07:00

I'm writing fast and furiously for Yahoo Movies on the big, loud, little bit dumb franchise at the moment. My latest articles cover what is actually known about Fast and Furious 7 so far, including Rihanna joining the cast and also details about the cars featured in Fast and Furious 6, out tomorrow! I hope it's not obvious from the second article that I know very little about cars and actually

Trio of Trailers: The World's End, Captain Phillips, The Great Gatsby

2013-05-15T07:10:00.000-07:00

Three trailers have caught my attention today and I thought I would share them just in case you haven't seen any of them. They are The World's End, Captain Phillips and The Great Gatsby. The World's End The hugely anticipated trailer to the Cornetto trilogy closer is finally here. The World's End has possibly one of my favourite casts ever and almost certainly the best British cast in a very

David Goyer rumoured to write and direct Justice League movie

2013-05-14T13:05:00.000-07:00

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Legal Obligations and the BBFC and Ofcom

2013-05-13T06:12:00.001-07:00

The film and TV industries are regulated by Ofcom and the BBFC. In my media classes we already covered contractual issues, employment legislation, ethical obligations and legal obligations.  <!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style

Legal obligations in the TV and Film Industries

2013-05-12T14:23:00.000-07:00

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Blair Witch Book Just Got Really Real

2013-05-12T13:53:00.000-07:00

For the past four and a half months, I've been hard at work on writing my first book to be published by Auteur in their Devil's Advocate series on classic horror films. My entry in this series will be on The Blair Witch Project and though I've been writing it for four and half months and already long ago signed a contract saying when I should be delivering the manuscript, it suddenly just got

The Book of Mormon Review

2013-05-12T03:13:00.001-07:00

From the creators of South Park and Team America comes their first theatre musical, The Book of Mormon. Matt Stone and Trey Parker are the incredibly talented pair behind some of the rudest and best TV and one of my favourite comedy films of the last twenty years. Can you believe South Park is nearly 20 years old? Anyway, the pair have been making musicals since their first days in film

Ruby Sparks Review

2013-05-12T02:25:00.001-07:00

Zoe Kazan is one seriously talented lady. Not only does she star as the lovely Ruby Sparks, this is also her debut screenplay. It is a fantastic script that showcases her wonderful acting and hilarious comic performance alongside Paul Dano who makes a potentially hideous character mostly bearable. Ruby Sparks is about a nebbish novelist struggling with writer's block, as well as failing at

UK Cinema Releases this Weekend: What will you be seeing?

2013-05-09T23:56:00.000-07:00

It's finally Friday and the weekend begins before you know it! If you want to hear me talking about the films that open this weekend in cinemas, then tune in to either Amazing Radio soon after midday or Marlow FM very soon after 5pm. This week there are four releases I'm discussing. The first is the big one for the week; Star Trek Into Darkness. With the beloved Benedict Cumberbatch joining

Becoming a Found Footage Horror Expert: Media Interview

2013-05-09T06:47:00.001-07:00

Have you ever been interviewed for TV or radio? I've done a couple of bits and pieces in the past but never have I been called as an expert to discuss something that I am supposed to know a lot about. As part of my training for my PhD on found footage horror movies, Oxford Brookes University put on a media training workshop. The idea of the workshop is to prepare academic students for being

Fast and Furious Articles at Yahoo Movies

2013-05-08T23:50:00.001-07:00

Fast and Furious 6 is only a week away from release and anticipation is high, especially considering the fact that this franchise seemed to stall years ago. Even the reunion of the original cast failed to boost the fourth film anywhere beyond deeply average. But then the franchise found it's fifth gear, adding the Rock and heading to Rio and suddenly fans of the franchise have re-emerged from the

Who could replace Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man?

2013-05-07T22:56:00.002-07:00

Iron Man 3 has flown into the second biggest opening weekend ever spot right behind The Avengers movie of last year. There have been rumblings about Robert Downey Jr being ready to hang up the helmet and leave Tony Stark in his past but now Kevin Feige has stepped up to claim that there will most certainly be an Iron Man 4 with or without RDJ. People seem to be suggesting that as RDJ's contract

Thoughts on Game of Thrones Series 1

2013-05-04T02:00:00.002-07:00

So I'm way behind everyone on Game of Thrones, as I am with most TV, but I'm doing my best to catch up and am just one single episode away from finishing series 1. It had me gripped from the first episode but I wonder how much of that was the expectation built up by all the great things I've been hearing about it. I'm loving that really it all seems to be about set-up so far. Countless