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		<title>Green Lighting Movie Scripts: Revenue Forecasting and Risk Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plenty of movie fans think Hollywood fare has become too rote.

Now, some professors at U Penn&#8217;s Wharton School and NYU&#8217;s Stern School present a case for making it even more formulaic.
In their paper &#8220;Green Lighting Movie Scripts: Revenue Forecasting and Risk Management&#8221; Jehoshua Eliashberg, Sam K. Hui, and John Zhang show Hollywood how it&#8217;s done. Never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.filmemerge.com/blog/2010/08/green-lighting-movie-scripts-revenue-forecasting-and-risk-management/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Red Dawn&#8221; remake &#8211; distribution currently hangs in limbo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As with “The Hobbit” films and the Bond movies, the fate of Dan Bradley’s directorial debut, the remake of “Red Dawn” (filmed entirely in the metro-Detroit, MI areas in 2009) currently hangs in limbo, all thanks to MGM’s money woes. Although the film itself has been in production for a while now up North, the current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.filmemerge.com/blog/2010/08/red-dawn-remake-distribution-currently-hangs-in-limbo/</link>
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		<title>International movie audiances changing the landscape of Hollywood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[:: The rising clout of international audiences is a sea change for Hollywood. Decades ago, a movie&#8217;s foreign box office barely registered with studio executives. Now, foreign ticket sales represent nearly 68% of the roughly $32 billion global film market, up from roughly 58% a decade ago, according to Screen Digest Cinema Intelligence Service.

:: The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.filmemerge.com/blog/2010/08/international-movie-audiances-changing-the-landscape-of-hollywood/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Twilight saga Eclipse&#8221; stars Jackson Rathbone and Taylor Lautner both have their Michigan connections.</title>
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Twilight saga &#8220;Eclipse&#8221; stars Jackson Rathbone and Taylor Lautner both have their Michigan connections.  Rathbone went to Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and is close friends with Interlochen buds, Ben Graupner and Ben Johnson.  &#8230;Lautner grew up as a kid in Hudsonville near Grand Rapids, Michigan until his family moved to L.A. to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.filmemerge.com/blog/2010/06/twilight-saga-eclipse-stars-jackson-rathbone-and-taylor-lautner-both-have-their-michigan-connections/</link>
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		<title>2010 Waterfront Film Festival &#8211; Saugatuck, Michigan</title>
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One of the movies we watched was the highly anticipated production by Tic Toc Studios.  Tic Toc Studios is a Holland, Michigan based movie production company headed by Hopwood Dupree.
&#8220;Tug&#8221; was filmed entirely in the Holland area in the summer of 2008.  “Tug” was one of the first movies to start production in West Michigan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.filmemerge.com/blog/2010/06/2010-waterfront-film-festival-saugatuck-michigan/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on the 63rd Cannes Film Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These three major film fests, Sundance, Telluride, Cannes, all take place in small, charming, and typically quiet towns, and I think that&#8217;s what makes them all so special. Maybe it has to do with the idea of getting away from Hollywood and the hustle-bustle of major metropolitan areas for a few weeks and relaxing by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.filmemerge.com/blog/2010/05/thoughts-on-the-63rd-cannes-film-festival/</link>
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		<title>Entrants to Private Equity Finance for Independent Feature Film Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Entrants to Private Equity Finance for Independent Feature Film Funding 
Thoughts on the opportunities and potential returns  for a new private equity film fund .

I would suggest a focus be on three areas namely: 1. Interim financing (aka&#8221;Bridge Financing&#8221;) required by the producers of a film at the point when a project is &#8220;financed&#8221; by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.filmemerge.com/blog/2010/05/entrants-to-private-equity-finance-sector-for-independent-feature-film-funding/</link>
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		<title>Social Media for Film &amp; TV – 2010 Los Angeles Showbiz Expo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Hollywood, CA)  This year’s Los Angeles Showbiz Expo took place last weekend, April 24-25, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. While the actual exposition was smaller than in years past, I found the real value to be the wide range of workshops offering valuable insight by industry veterans. One such workshop I attended and found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.filmemerge.com/blog/2010/04/social-media-for-film-tv-%e2%80%93-2010-los-angeles-showbiz-expo/</link>
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		<title>Spiderman-4 director is consulting with Cameron himself on how best to use 3-D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest  news that &#8216;Spiderman director Mark Webb is consulting with Cameron himself on how best to use  3-D.
Just a month ago,  &#8216;Spider-Man 4&#8242; was going to be a  conventional sequel, with director Sam Raimi and Tobey Maquire  still attached, and that Raimi, inspired by &#8216;Avatar,&#8217; wanted to make  a film with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.filmemerge.com/blog/2010/04/spiderman-4-director-is-consulting-with-cameron-himself-on-how-best-to-use-3-d/</link>
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		<title>Do you think Hollywood is Going Too Crazy with 3D?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last couple weeks, television commercials  for &#8216;Clash&#8217; have been airing that are downright stunning. There&#8217;s just one  problem: The pristine 2D version we&#8217;re catching a glimpse of on TV looks far  better than the dark, choppy 3D version we&#8217;re paying extra cash for in  theaters.
Sure, 3D can be fun, if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.filmemerge.com/blog/2010/04/do-you-think-hollywood-is-going-too-crazy-with-3d/</link>
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