Neil Calloway looks at new guidelines for British films… It’s been a quiet week for film industry news, but it’s entirely possible that you missed the fact that the British Film Institute Film Fund is being revamped to be more inclusive. The Film Fund, which distributes National Lottery money to film projects, is a vital […]
Why 1980s Science Fiction Is Huge Right Now
Neil Calloway looks at why dystopias from thirty years ago are the biggest influence on Hollywood… With a new Blade Runner movie opening to rave reviews, a new (and hopefully decent) Terminator film on the way, it looks like 80s science fiction is the way to go if you want to get a movie made […]
Why Do So Many Sequels Disappoint?
Neil Calloway looks at why so few sequels are better than the films that precede them… With the advance word on Blade Runner 2049 good, with some saying it’s at least the equal of the original (read our review here), it’s got me thinking why so few sequels surpass the first film. In theory, it […]
The Surprising Stats of British Cinema
Neil Calloway looks at a new tool that explores the facts and figures of UK film… This week the British Film Institute released a rather nice online tool that will surely keep you entertained for hours now the nights are drawing in. Or you could use it like I do to confirm all your prejudices […]
The First L.A. Confidential TV Show
Neil Calloway looks at a previous attempt to bring the acclaimed film to the small screen… The news that CBS are developing a TV adaptation of L.A. Confidential is great idea – James Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet is a series of novels that covers over a thousand pages, with characters also appearing in Ellroy’s other books. […]
You Can’t Buy a Franchise, You Have to Build One
Neil Calloway on Disney suffocating Star Wars… After American Graffiti, George Lucas spent a while shoving his Western in space script under the nose of anyone who cared to read it. They gave him suggestions on how to improve it, he took them on, and a few years later he finally shot the film. It […]
Why Brits Will Always Be The Bad Guys
Neil Calloway On Why The English Accent Still Reigns Supreme With Hollywood Villains… I was watching, and enjoying Logan Lucky earlier this week; it’s a well made, fresh, fun film that will make you laugh. One moment, however, had me wincing into the drink I’d snuck into the cinema (if you think I’m paying the […]
Will Artificial Intelligence Save The Franchise Film?
Neil Calloway wonders whether we’ll see the end of actors… James Gunn’s assertion that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will set the stage for the next twenty years of MCU films is intriguing, to say the least. It’s hard to imagine the MCU lasting that long, for a start; I doubt Robert Downey Jr. […]
2017 Has Been A Bad Year For Blockbusters, And That’s No Surprise
If Hollywood had stopped making bad films, they would have made more money… 2017 probably isn’t the year to say that the HL Mencken line about nobody losing money underestimating the public isn’t true, but it certainly looks like it no longer holds for the film industry. Amidst the wailing and gnashing of teeth from […]
Why You Should Avoid All Movie Marketing
Neil Calloway argues that believing the hype only leads to disappointment… I can pinpoint the precise moment the scales fell from my eyes and I stopped believing the hype. It was a morning in 1999, and George Lucas was sitting in a shed not far from where I now live, autographing a pair of boxer […]
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