The Business of Film: For Love of Money or For the Power of Love (Avatar vs Crazy Heart)

By Mark Monchek − January 25, 2010

Why am I writing about a film in a blog about business? Because this is also a story about the movie business. Lately the film business is more about business than film. As Avatar, a cynical, fake spiritual blockbuster threatens to become the highest grossing movie of all time, Crazy Heart is the underdog movie that almost didn’t get made. Crazy Heart was plucked from the scrap heap by the love of its producers, directors, writers and Bridges, who took a serious pay cut to make the movie. And Jeff Berg, an agent, who’s only supposed to care about money, cared enough to make a small film and make it big.

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Holding to the Vision

By Mark Monchek − January 21, 2010

The most powerful creators have the ability to hold their vision and live with the tension of knowing that what they are creating is not yet complete. We can learn the process of creating and the importance of starting with a blank slate. If we can empty our minds of assumptions and preconceived notions, the vision of what is possible will arise gracefully of its own accord.

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