We’re living in the golden age of television. Or at least that’s what most people say when asked about the state of current TV shows. Whether it’s the edginess and hard edges of AMC’s original programming (Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Walking Dead, etc.), the popularity of comic book based properties (Arrow, The Flash, Daredevil, etc.), or the epic adult storytelling of HBO (Game of Thrones, True Detective, The Newsroom, etc.), television is often hailed...
The path to big budget blockbuster film-making has both changed drastically, and remained roughly the same during the past few decades. While advances in technology have opened up the cinematic world to a much broader range of filmmakers, many successful directors still use smaller independent films as a way of catching the attention of studio executives. From young directors working in the 1970s to modern filmmakers who took Sundance by storm, there is still a...
Pre-release hype in films is an interesting tool. Its use in the trade has become almost more important than the actual quality of the movie, as most blockbuster releases attempt to build up anticipation to fill as many seats in a theater as possible on opening weekend. The Avengers films, as well as most Marvel movies, rely almost entirely on pre-release hype and buzz as a way to draw in movie-goers, with the most...
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