Top-side, we are seeking sandy beaches with unrivaled sunrises and sunsets for those magic-hour shots. Our principal topside location is a weathered-looking marina with lots of personality. Our ideal underwater locations have gin clear water, schools of colorful fish, and maybe a shark or two. Ideally, the water should be flat, as swells make filming difficult.

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They are the “Millennial” generation: consumers who’ve been online since childhood, and are highly visual, intolerant of delay, and deeply unimpressed with “typical” internet marketing. For them, the Internet is not merely an information source: it is fundamentally
social.

So, how do you get their attention?

You need to surround them in their areas where they “hang out”. Whether that means posting some “cool” story on digg, having a MySpace profile that allows them to interact with the characters of the film, or having some land in “Second Life”, you need to engage them in a non-intrusive way that they prefer.

Have you gone mobile? Is your site easily viewable on a cell phone?

People consume content in different ways. Some prefer to read, some like to listen to a podcast while they jog or exercise, and of course, movie trailers are always effective - as long as they appear on YouTube as well as the movie’s main site.

This is where that coveted target audience lives, and if you truly want to create buzz for your project, you must be found in these areas.

You can shoot in a water tank and establish a little more control, but the results — unless they are close-ups — are normally less than optimal. Shooting in the ocean under ideal lighting conditions will typically produce the best results.

In order to overcome this challenge and save substantial time and dollars, the Whisper production has designed and will build an innovative 60-foot submersible platform for filming underwater sets. While the platform is topside, the sets and lighting will be placed on it, tested and tweaked. Only when the lighting is correct and everything is in place, will the platform descend to the seafloor for filming. The submersible platform will be brought back to the surface for any major changes in sets or lighting. (more…)

People want information and access to anything instantly. Google feeds this desire by returning blazingly fast results anytime someone enters a query into the site. It’s from this ability to be only one click away from a competitor is what frightens Hollywood so much. (more…)

The most profitable film of 1998 (based upon gross return to budget) was not Titanic, but The Full Monty. This sleepy British comedy/drama with no-name talent, reaped more than $246 million worldwide, while costing approximately $3.5 million to produce.

The most profitable film of 1999 (based upon gross return to budget) was not Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menance, but The Blair Witch Project. This independent film’s global box office was $220 million, while its production cost, including post-production was approximately $1 million. (more…)

You know the drill, that’s how you promote a movie. Spend upwards of 1/3 of the entire production cost, and the viewers will come. It’s just about automatic. (more…)

Nothing could be further from the truth. If stars truly bring a revenue floor to a film, then how does one explain the dismal failure of such star driven vehicles as Robin William’s Hook, Jim Carrey’s The Cable Guy, Sandra Bullock’s Speed II, Robert Redford’s Havana, Bruce Willis’ Hudson Hawk, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Action Hero, Kevin Costner’s The Postman, Tom Cruise’s Born On the Fourth Of July, Sharon Stone’s Basic Instinct II, and Julia Robert’s Mary Reilly. (more…)