COM-260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Quentin Tarantino, The Hurt Locker, Miramax
10 May 2016
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Colossal flops: ishtar, howard the duck, heaven"s gate. Theatrical > vhs > cable > broadcast/ancillary markets > end results: Multiple opportunity to make money, films reflect making the most money possible. Everytime we show it, it makes that movie more special. You see that movie time and again, you have familiarity with it so they can bring out more chains of that films [jurassic park] Money is going up but actual tickets is going down, charging you extra money. Not as many people are actually going to see it. Reduction of quality fewer words spoken, vocab level. Institute/school started to work on film w/ noted filmmakers. Not only attached to hollywood workshopped; reservoir dogs in sundance. Make movie and send movie into the world, or sell dvds on their own. We don"t need hollywood anymore, things are a little more off the beaten path, more specific. Spike lee"s 1st independent film malcolm x.
