by Joey Daoud | Mar 3, 2009 | Film School, Movies
This past weekend Geoffrey Gilmore was back with a new film straight from Sundance – 500 Days of Summer, starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and directed by Marc Webb. I loved it. I thought it was the best love story I’ve seen since Eternal...
by Joey Daoud | May 27, 2010 | Marketing, Video Apps
Meetup is a site and tool that allows you to create a group and organize real life meetups (remember those?). Usually these were location based (like Miami Movie Makers) so if you had a company or movement, you couldn’t really enable independent groups to...
by Joey Daoud | Jan 25, 2009 | Marketing
The Cobra: Inside a Movie Marketer’s Playbook – The New Yorker This article from The New Yorker is one of the best things on marketing I’ve ever read. Yes, it’s a bit long, but if you’re interested in the business side of movies...
by Joey Daoud | Jan 16, 2009 | Movies
Finally saw Slumdog. Loved it, probably my favorite movie for 2008, even though I saw it this year. And I’m of course kicking myself for not seeing this in Toronto. Paul saw it and said I looked like Jamal, the lead in the hot seat. My first reaction was,...
by Joey Daoud | Jan 14, 2009 | Distribution, Exhibition, Film Business
Two articles from indieWIRE got me thinking this morning. The first is from the all too familiar Geoffrey Gilmore in ‘Evolution v. Revolution, The State of Independent Film & Festivals.’ A lot of it echoes Mark Gill’s much buzzed ‘The Sky...
