February 2012
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How Pilot Season Ensures That Great Actors Rarely... →
keithcalder:
Gavin Polone has written a great editorial on the insane casting process for Pilot Season (the three month period where television show pilots are greenlit, cast, shot, and killed).
On a more personal level, Pilot Season makes it almost impossible for an independent producer to cast a film during the months of February and March. Agents are unwilling to let their clients do an...
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Downton Abbey and 'the hook' of a project.
One of the most frustrating things I run into in development and production is a very simple question - ‘what’s the hook?’
You can have great characters, great tension, a killer creative team, but without a hook that distributors, broadcasters or sales agents can SELL, no one is interested in your project.
After finally watching the first episode of Downton Abbey, I’m...
“I was addicted. Not to success. I was addicted to trying my hardest. That’s the...”
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