Back in 2001, four executives of Lionsgate films left the company to form ThinkFilm. In 2008, a ThinkFilm executive will help Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys form Oscilloscope Pictures, a film distribution company that will be an extension of Oscilloscope Laboratories, Yauch’s production company which was responsible for that really awesome concert film, Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That!
This is a pretty ambitious deal for Yauch, but having Fenkel involved should allow things to start in a fairly smooth manner. The plan is to buy up films at festivals in addition to producing their own stuff, but it’s important to note they will have to front their own cash. They’re looking at at least two, but as many as ten, films released theatrically in the first 365 days, with the first coming this summer. Since they will be self-financed, it’s probably a safe bet that most of their early films will be small-money purchases with higher-than-normal back-end incentives.
The most intriguing part of all this comes in the last sentence of the Hollywood Reporter story: “Fenkel said many campaigns will incorporate an indie music label-style, DIY approach in keeping with the Beastie Boys’ style of connecting with fans.” Sounds like they’ll be bringing the “street team” strategy to marketing their films, meaning they’ll have a bunch of random folks doing for their films what folks on the boards here have been doing for good films everywhere for years. The difference being that they’ll get free shit like t-shirts.
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"In 2008, a ThinkFilm executive will help Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys form Oscilloscope Pictures, a film distribution company that will be an extension of Oscilloscope Laboratories, Yauch’s production company which was responsible for that really awesome concert film, Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That!"
What a fucking sentence. Christ. I really reccomend that you read these outloud to yourself.
Kind of a clunky article there Owen. I know you had a lot of interconnected information, but you should have found a way to present it in a better fashion.
I read that article, I just have no idea what it was about.
Awful article. You appear to be a huge fan of run-ons and commas (Fun new game: Re-write Owen's article in your own head. It's quite simple really.) I feel like I have to re-read every sentence just to make sure I got everything. Just a big ol' mess.
I stopped reading after the first "sentence." What the hell is going on here?
Do you really need to pepper every article you write with curse words? Do yourslef a favor and read some of the other writers for CHUD, and see how a singularly placed expletive can have a much better effect than all the cursing in your articles. It's funny, if there's a curse word in the headline, I know it was written by you. It's weak.
Yeah, fuck you man!
"…Yauch’s production company which was responsible for that really awesome concert film…" Like, oh my god, totally! Amirite?
I think you all need to clean the sand from your collective vagina, lest it turn into a pearl of bitter vengeance.
Jesus Christ! I stumbled on the AP Stylebook blog!
OH MY GOD IT WAS A LONG SENTENCE AND HE SWORE.
Seriously, don't you guys have better things to do than dogpile on him?
I always knew that it's basically the same group of people who visit chud and aicn.
So any form of criticism means that we're some type of lower life form from AICN? These critical posts are quite civil in comparison to AICN talkbacks which would have probably called Owen a fag, moron etc. This is just a poorly written article. Better that he gets a critical view point which will help his writing in the long run than be ignored or patted on the back for no reason.
"The plan is to buy up films at festivals in addition to producing their own stuff, but it’s important to note they will have to front their own cash." Who is "they"? Your subjects don't agree …
You post AICN level news, you get AICN level talkbacks.
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