When “Celebrity” Is Okay in Crowd Funding
By Ron Merk I’ve been ranting against celebrities who are using their visibility to fund “personal projects” on crowd funding sites, and sucking up millions of [...]
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The PC Police Are Back At Work
By Ron Merk A “furor” has recently arisen over the hiring by NBC on a non-paraplegic actor, Blair Underwood, to step into the role of “Ironside,” previously played by [...]
Right or Wrong!
A Rant by Ron Merk This has nothing to do with film, certainly at first glance. But trust me, I’ll get to that! This piece is ostensibly about the breakdown of the [...]
Franco, My Dear, I Don’t Give a Damn
By Ron Merk It would appear that crowd-funding will soon by the sole province of the in-crowd from Hollywood. Yet another star is out there looking to get funding for a [...]
Drama + Draft Beer and Pizza
By Ron Merk I recently read an article about Alamo Draft House and their expansion plans. While food and cinema is not a new concept (we’ve had concessions for most of [...]
File Sharing or File Stealing – More News, More Questions
By Ron Merk With the unveiling of Mega, a new file-sharing service created by Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now defunct Megaupload, the debate over whether file-sharing is [...]
Zach Braff Kickstarter Controversy Rages On
By Ron Merk Some say the manure has hit the wind machine in Hollywood, as Kickstarter takes many hits because of Zach Braff’s three-day blitz of his fans’ wallets [...]
Ohio Movie House Shows Its Last 35mm Film
By Ron Merk On April 30, 2013 Andy Holyoke, Projectionist for more than three decades, ran the last 35mm print that will be screened at the Little Art Theater in Yellow [...]
Notes in the Margins
By Ron Merk When I was thinking about the title for this series of musings on how to get noticed in the entertainment industry, I was a little concerned with the word [...]
The Last Word on the Zach Braff Kickstarter Controversy
By Ron Merk It would appear that no one wants to have the last word on Zach Braff’s grab at indie arts cash on Kickstarter. Today’s Indiewire features yet another [...]
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