Calling female comedy writers! Looking for a writer for a short-form comedy series. Please RT and email me at info@chormedia.com with a brief description of your work to date. Pref for those with previously commissioned work. #comedy
Thanks to everyone who has been in contact so far. There's a lot to get through, so please bear with me and I'll try and respond to everyone in the next few days.
Thanks to everyone who got in touch. I'm now closing submissions on this. Lots to get through, so will be responding to people over the next week.
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PRODUCERS - We’re looking for feature film projects to co-produce. Please read this thread carefully as the remit is quite specific. Please RT! #film#ukfilm#filmproducers
1/ Looking for UK producers who have produced at least one feature film above £500k budget.
2/ Projects need to be very clearly identifiable genres: Rom-Coms, Comedies, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thrillers. We are NOT looking for Dramas, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Grey Pound or Art-House at this time.
Random thread of Thoughts on Cannes this year: 1/ First year back here since before COVID and seemed busy if a little more muted than it was. Parties and drinks all felt more restrained (not a bad thing).
2/ Haven't heard of any major deals being struck (many seem to have been done pre-festival) but the sales agents I spoke to said that there was decent business being done, if not spectacular. Seemed to be a good showing from indie distrib buyers.
3/ Some concern over potential SAG strike and how that may affect other markets. Some producers considering moving production schedules back, but no outright panic.
Went down an AI rabbit-hole this week. In under 30 mins, I had an AI create an original idea for a film, write a treatment, suggest a cast list, build a basic pitch deck and create a poster image. Now...
...whilst all of this was fairly basic, it was impressive that it managed to identify the key things needed in each and if I'd been sent these by a person, I'd have had no idea that it was all created via AI.
On the one hand, this is scary as hell. The number of jobs this type of AI will end up replacing is too numerous to count. I have really mixed feelings about applying this to the film and TV industries but it's clear that it's here and we'll start seeing it in use within a year.
I’ve met many filmmakers who over the years have told me “they don’t care about the money” and “you focus too much on the business side of things”. There’s a reason for that. Without a viable system of financing and revenues, you won’t get paid. You won’t do this for a living.
The news about Cineworld is devastating and will likely be followed by more chains. It’s not Bond’s fault. It’s not the studios fault. It’s not the general public’s fault. This pandemic has already decimated the aviation and travel industries. It’s just another casualty.
We live in a world where there is now so much audio-visual content that it’s become hard to justify the cost of going to a cinema anyway. Younger audiences are happy enough to watch 2 hours of free tik tok videos rather than £15 to go watch a film in cinemas.
It’s basic economics. If there’s no product to sell, the business isn’t viable. There’s no way government grants will keep cinemas afloat until Easter. We’re seeing a sea-change in the film business, as models adapt to direct to digital.
It will mean lower budgets as there won’t be the revenues to prop up $200m films. Could also mean digital platforms commission films as opposed to licensing them.
It won’t be the end of cinema, art-house will still be a viable business and perhaps in a few years, after the pandemic, there will be a desire to reopen larger cinemas, but for the immediate future, film won’t be primarily for theatrical.
Any other indie producers interested in banding together to use the new Government Kickstarter scheme to offer 16-24yo’s a 6 month job placement? Would need enough of us to offer a minimum of 30 jobs. Government pay for 25 hrs pw. Reply to this thread and I’ll see if it’s viable.
Thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in the Government Kickstarter scheme. There’s been huge interest and it’s going to take a lot of admin to set up, so we’re working on a coordinated industry approach that will work for everyone.
I’ll be creating a simple google form in which you can register your interest and we can then get in touch as soon as the programme is up and running. It’s great to see so many companies get behind this.