Browsing Archive: April, 2015

An Oral History of Mad Men

Posted by Tom Brogan on Wednesday, April 8, 2015,


With the second half of Mad Men's final season having started this week, The Hollywood Reporter have this great oral history of the show.

Christina Hendricks (Joan Holloway) I was up for another pilot, and I chose Mad Men. The [agency I was with] was like, "It's on AMC, it's a period piece, it's never going to go. Are you crazy? You're not going to make money for us …" I thought it was a little impatient of them. So I moved on.
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Mark Duplass Keynote at SXSW

Posted by Tom Brogan on Sunday, April 5, 2015,
This is well worth an hour of your time. At the recent SXSW festival indie filmmaker and actor Mark Duplass gives a keynote speech on how to go about making movies yourself. The first 25 minutes is his step-by-step guide to how you can get short films and low budget features made and seen. The rest of the time is him taking questions and comments from the audience.

   

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