ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

1 - figure out how to use all the research, experience & info that resulted from the last 10 years of DIY filmmaking & distro in the US to develop profitable small businesses that produce & distribute artist/filmmaker driven films (films that are made & distributed outside of the Hollywood & indiewood, festwood systems) 2 - do it :: ADVERTISEMENT NYC Real Estate Blog 1: http://nycrealestate1.blogspot.com/ By Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Sujewa Ekanayake ::

* * [If there is a problem with the embedded Vanity Fair video above, go check it out here .] * The face of indie films future? (i don't mean literally jonah hill as the face of indie films future, but, bringing together DIY filmmaking approaches & Hollywood $s & stars & distribution as done for the movie "Cyrus" could create a new - & perhaps profitable for the filmmakers & the studios, & good for famous actors looking for interesting work & a paycheck - indiewood genre: the low budget studio movie made in a way similar to DIY filmmakers are used to working but featuring marketable stars & Hollywood supported distribution - could be a nice career place/line of work for some DIY filmmakers down the road). More on "Cyrus" here . Here's the trailer: :: ADVERTISEMENT NYC Real Estate Blog 1: http://nycrealestate1.blogspot.com/ By Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Sujewa Ekanayake ::

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Flick is apparently about a Black Panther coming home: :: ADVERTISEMENT NYC Real Estate Blog 1: http://nycrealestate1.blogspot.com/ By Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Sujewa Ekanayake ::

I liked Puffy, B-Head, Hump, so, Cyrus might also be enjoyable. The video below is part 1 of 2, see both & article related to it at Anne Thompson's blog . Find more videos like this on AnneCam :: ADVERTISEMENT NYC Real Estate Blog 1: http://nycrealestate1.blogspot.com/ By Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Sujewa Ekanayake ::

This page on Amazon will be useful to any filmmaker thinking about creating their own DVDs for sale on or through Amazon. I believe most commercial DVD duplicators offer bar codes for an additional fee, however, if you have DVDs already made w/ out bar codes or you make a whole bunch of DVDs at home & you want to get bar codes for them, the Amazon page should provide some useful info. :: ADVERTISEMENT NYC Real Estate Blog 1: http://nycrealestate1.blogspot.com/ By Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Sujewa Ekanayake ::

Without knowing much about that $ figure, my first reaction is that it sounds way too high. From this New York Times article : "At some point, however, anything is better than nothing. By Mr. Sapan’s estimation, the average production cost of a feature film submitted to Sundance is roughly $1 million, which would put the total cost of films submitted this year at about $3.7 billion. Only about $120 million worth make the schedule, and of those less than $30 million worth will find their way to market through the traditional system." Read the rest at NYT . :: ADVERTISEMENT NYC Real Estate Blog 1: http://nycrealestate1.blogspot.com/ By Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Sujewa Ekanayake ::

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These portable hospitals are pretty awesome, the world needs more of these: :: ADVERTISEMENT NYC Real Estate Blog 1: http://nycrealestate1.blogspot.com/ By Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Sujewa Ekanayake ::

More or less, I think, get the story directly from director Angelo Bell :   :: ADVERTISEMENT NYC Real Estate Blog 1: http://nycrealestate1.blogspot.com/ By Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Sujewa Ekanayake ::

Enjoy, & have a great weekend, see ya next week!   :: ADVERTISEMENT NYC Real Estate Blog 1: http://nycrealestate1.blogspot.com/ By Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Sujewa Ekanayake ::

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So, my latest thought re: race theory is that: 1) it was very useful for the wealth building - ultimately - projects carried out by certain European companies & countries - through colonialism, conquest of new lands, & slavery, however, 2) in a post-colonial, post-slavery world, & one without complete dismantling of race theory (partially because race theory was developed into something like a living entity - a "truth" in the world/something that everyone responded to as if real though it was build on many lies/fiction/un-truths - let's say - from over 600 years of usage & refinement) there exists some very unique, sometimes hilarious, and often sad, unnecessary misery & situations that comes out of these ghosts - the ideas that are still alive even though the projects that the ideas were used to support: conquest of land & people, colonialism & slavery have been shut down for somewhere around a century or more to a little over 50 years in vari