Q: I'm in pre-production for a feature film, a large chunk
of which will be shot in my living room. I have various movie posters in
my living room from - movies like Seven,
Aliens, etc.
Cinema
Lounge Roundtable: An Interview with the Filmmakers - August
2010
From a
look at the hip-hop culture in Manila to a secret terror filled phone call, to
an intense rock-paper-scissors competition or the hunt for the perfect nanny;
this month's line up of Cinema Lounge films presents an eclectic mix of short
films from a talented group of filmmakers. We caught up with filmmakers mark Redondo Villegas, Jesse Shapiro, and Theodore Melfi for a pre-screening chat about their
films and what it took to get them made.
Q: I want to
shoot a short film in which a couple is on a date to the movie Casablanca in one of the scenes. I know I can't use it without
permission from Warner Bros. So I
have three questions really:
1. Is it possible that Warner Bros. would
grant me permission to use a few short clips of Casablanca for a small or zero fee? If so, who would I talk to at WB about this?
British filmmaker J
Blakeson knew getting financing to direct his first film would be tough. So he set out to write a tense,
economical, and tight story about a kidnapped girl and the complicated
interaction between the kidnappers and their victim. Starring only three
actors: Gemma Arteton, Martin Compston and Eddie Marsan, the resulting film The
Disappearance of Alice Creed, is set in
one room and was inspired by a scene in Ron Howard's 1996 thriller Ransom.
Q: I wrote a pilot script for a potential TV project plus
two initial scripts. An
established production company bought all the rights in the pilot and scripts
with the idea that it would hire me to write the rest of the series. I started
writing without an agreement and finished several new scripts, but my
negotiations with the production company stalled when they wanted the world for
nothing and no agreement was signed.
