Category Archives: Film

Focus Features In a world where box office hits fill the large majority of theaters across the country, it is interesting to take a deeper look into a specialty film production company. With nine nominations for best picture at the … Continue reading →

Industrial Light and Magic How One VFX Company Does More Than “Stay Afloat” Background While dozens of visual effects companies have gone out of business since the turn of the millennium, post-production company Industrial Light & Magic has doubled its … Continue reading →

Nicole Giordano TRF 235: Principles and Practices 2/24/16 Assignment 1, Final Draft                Paramount Pictures Studio Arches Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA   Production: Paramount Pictures History: Paramount Pictures was originally founded as “Famous … Continue reading →

About BRINK is a company focusing on marketing and promotion. However, “BRINK is not an ad agency. We are storytellers. We build a goals-focused narrative to introduce your brand to new audiences and most importantly, get results” (Brink.com, 2016).

Background In the mid-1990’s, a new trend arrived in the film industry: creating or buying distribution rights for low-budget or independent films, quickly releasing them, and yielding huge profits despite less than blockbuster revenues. Noticing the success of Disney’s independent … Continue reading →

Few filmmakers have successfully written, directed and produced such a vast variety of movies as Joel and Ethan Coen, famously referred to as The Coen Brothers. Their creation and acquisition of intellectual property for film has been characterized as “genre-busting,” … Continue reading →