Filmmaking articles
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Hollywood's Collapse Is the Opening DIY Filmmakers Need
This critic spends more time watching YouTube than most streaming platforms. Video podcasts? Check. Cooking videos? Check. Sketch comedy? Check and Check. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI6iRxaNagM&t=35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llWTcqtk4vY&t=53s It's often hard for Peacock and co. to compete and the aforementioned clips cost a fraction of what Hollywood produces. That's only one of the many problems facing Tinsel Town in 2024. News that Netflix is getting out of the so-called 'auteur'...
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‘The Jinx’ Filmmakers Revisit That Robert Durst Confession: “We Screamed”
Durst (who died in 2022 following a 2021 conviction) was arrested the day before the riveting finale of HBO's true-crime docuseries. Nine years after that episode aired, the filmmakers return with 'The Jinx — Part Two.'
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Eleanor Coppola, Matriarch of a Filmmaking Family, Dies at 87
Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.