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Big films and smaller films and New Zealand Movies

BIG FILMS promotional sculpture. Wellington.

Independent cinema Motion pictures are complex products that are difficult to make well; no one knows they like a movie until they see it; movies are “one-off” unique products; their “shelf life” is only a few weeks; movies enter and exit the market on a continuing basis; movies compete against a changing cast of competitors as they play out their theatrical “runs”; most movies have but a week or two to capture the audience’s imagination; a rare handful have “legs” and enjoy long runs; weekly box-office revenues are concentrated on only three or four top ranking films; most movies lose money.

Who is Harvey Weinstein? ( see Lord of the Rings 2001) Example. He Produced [|Pulp Fiction (1994)] and [|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)]

[|The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)]

[|The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)]

Harvey Weinstein is a major contemporary independent film producer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein


 * == What does it mean for society that Peter Jackson is known For Tolkein adaptations made in New Zealand? ==


 * An aspect of film studies is not only appeal of story it is how the films manages to be made at a business negotiation level. ** || Context/Setting

The Developments activity requires you to define an aspect of the media for an investigation. Ranges for aspect might include: The New Zealand Government in support of cinema; Directors who emerge through competitions; Marketing and infra-structure practices; storytelling and it’s impacts on readers(viewers) ||  ||   ||   ||

The smaller movies

==== // ...... BOY (2009) by TAIKA WAITITI and Home by Christmas(2010) by Gaylene Preston. // A film memoir based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston. ====

Read about Gaylene Preston

http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/gaylene-preston http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/35302.html

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 Screen writers and Directors

Narbey, Ward and Campion are here

Who is Duncan Sarkies? see more here

http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Sarkies,%20Duncan