Film and Video Production Sunset Pictures is a motion picture production company which focuses on a wide range of content, including independent features, shorts, documentaries, commercials, music videos, television, and new media.
Black Panther breaks box office records and shatters the myth that black films don't travel.
It is a common saying in Hollywood that ‘black doesn’t travel,’ that is to say, that ‘black’ films don’t do well in international markets
Film distribution strategies to use when financing your movie
http://rodriqueslaw.com/blog/film-distribution-strategies-use-when-financing-your-movie
As part of understanding the entire process of production and distribution, it is important to understand how film distribution and film financing are linked.
Distributors will front P&A Money. Should You Take It?
http://rodriqueslaw.com/blog/distributors-will-front-money
Just because a distributor offers to front the P&A money doesn’t necessarily mean you should take them up on the offer.
VOD or not, you have to be creative in who you market to.
What You Should Know About New York Film Tax Credit Incentives
http://rodriqueslaw.com/blog/what-you-should-know-about-new-york-film-tax-credit-incentives
New York State offers incentives to film and television producers in the form of a refundable tax credit.
How does one finance film productions nowadays?
What are the best strategies to get your film funded and produced?
How To Know If You Are Plagiarizing Or Violating Copyright
http://rodriqueslaw.com/blog/how-know-if-you-are-plagiarizing-or-violating-copyright
Litigation alleging plagiarism can be based on the appropriation of any form of writing, music, and visual images.
Why You Need A Lawyer To Start A Business? - Rodriques Law
Lawyers, accountants, and other professionals are indispensable when it comes to starting a high-growth company, scaling it and selling it.
BDC-Black Documentary Collective
The Anatomy of a Film Business Plan. Great info from Donovan Rodriques
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anatomy-film-business-plan-donovan-rodriques
The Anatomy of a Film Business Plan
Making an independent film is like starting a company from the ground up: you’re creating a brand, operating a business and selling a product.
Making the Deal – Selling or Buying a Screenplay
The development of a motion picture requires acquisition of rights to a screenplay or an underlying property on which the screenplay will be based.
4 Tools Everyone In The Feature Film Industry Should Be Using
The tools you use to develop, produce, acquire or distribute your feature film will depend on what role you play in the feature film industry.
You need to write a really good script
You love movies, right? And you have been isolated in your tower of creativity tapping away until you hear the two most dreaded words a wannabee screenwriter ever hears: "Honey! Dinner". And you have…
Strategies for Packaging Talent for your Film
Talent packaging is the process of attaching writers, actors, directors, producers, crew or other essential ingredients to a project.
Competition from home entertainment options around Halloween has ramped up significantly, making it even harder to get people into theaters.
Releasing an indie horror film around Halloween can be a nightmare. Here’s why.
Why You Should Watch More Foreign Language Films
“Foreign films teach you a new language, but it’s not the language you think. It’s the language of cinema.”
NYC Initiatives Fund Projects for Women in Film
BY STEVE BARNES | When it comes to the worlds of film and television, New York City has “the richest talent base in the country,” noted Julie Menin, Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Media and…
Incentives to Hollywood to come to China for film production.
Wanda Group Chairman and CEO Wang Jianlin and chief executive of international investments and business developments for the Wanda Cultural Industry Group Jack Gao — flanked by filmmakers, ex…
New York City is in the midst of an unprecedented TV production boom
A production boom has turned New York into a TV town. But how long will it last?
David Shepheard talks his to-do list as Vancouver’s first film commissioner
New film head, who worked previously at Film London, says crews, infrastructure and services eclipse wavering tax credits
A film festival should make people want to come to our shores and invest in projects coming out of the country.
Last year's staging of a national film festival stirred excitement among key industry players and was described by many as the start of great things to come. However, that excitement has quickly…
Chris Rock Returns To Stand-Up In Big Deal With Netflix For 2 Comedy Specials
One of the most popular standup comedians of the last two decades, Chris Rock, is returning to the stage for two new comedy specials at a new TV home. In an extremely competitive situation, the spe…
There’s been no innovation in the movie business in the last 50 years.”
At a New Yorker TechFest conversation today, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told the magazine’s editor David Remnick that “Movie theaters are strangling the movie business. There’s been no innovat…
Jay Z producing Richard Pryor biopic and Lee Daniels is back on board
Jay Z is one busy man and on Thursday he announced his next project.
New York City launches $5-million fund for women in film and theater, a first in the U.S.
New York City has created a $5-million fund for women working in the fields of film and theater, becoming the first municipality in the U.S. to finance such an initiative.
What You Should Know About New York Film Tax Credit Incentives
New York State offers incentives to film and television producers in the form of a refundable tax credit.
Sandra Evers-Manly Launches 'Films With A Purpose' Innovative Fund
The goal of Manley's FWAP project is to support the production, completion and distribution of diverse films that inspire, and educate.
Booming Vancouver film industry short on locations and workers | BC Business
Plus, North Coast First Nation reconsiders LNG, Ivanhoe attracts unsolicited interest, report forecasts mining workers shortage, and Victoria says no to fracking
Producers frequently wonder what their film or project is worth in key territories.
The Relative Popularity of Genres Around the World
Even though the Yarnell Hill Fire happened in northern Arizona, the state couldn't offer the same kind of incentives New Mexico could.
4 Tools Everyone In The Feature Film Industry Should Be Using
The tools you use to develop, produce, acquire or distribute your feature film will depend on what role you play in the feature film industry.
Theater operators favor globalism over nationalism.
Two recent events—the vote for “Brexit” in the United Kingdom and the rise of Donald Trump in the Republican party of the United States—suggest that nationalism may be gaining some
Made In China: The Lucrative Future Of Film In The Middle Kingdom - http://buff.ly/2aQBq0n
Legendary Pictures is Dalian Wanda’s linchpin acquisition toward starting a box-office revolution. Are we entering an age where big-budget ‘Hollywood’ blockbusters will be made in China?
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