Makeshift Film Group LLC

31/01/2025

They're was a huge crowd tonight for the Boulder County Film Commission Winter Schmoozer! Great conversations with great people in a cool venue.

25/01/2025

Boulder, Cincinnati and a combined Salt Lake City and Park City are competing to become the new home of the Sundance Film Festival. Here's what we know about their bids.

23/01/2025

//A Luminate report finds the total number of TV episodes produced in 2024 fell by nearly 5,000 compared to just two years earlier as streaming and broadcast networks curb spending.//

A Luminate report finds the total number of TV episodes produced in 2024 fell by nearly 5,000 compared to just two years earlier as streaming and broadcast networks curb spending.

22/01/2025

A great evening in Boulder for the ! Just another stellar chamber event.

20/01/2025

16/01/2025

R.I.P.

The revered director found the macabre inside the mundane with landmark films such as "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive."

31/12/2024

"“If you mention it, you’re f**ked,” Beckinsale added about why it continues to be impossible for women to be heard on sets. “It’s supposed to be, you absorb it and somehow you’re the homie. That has to stop. I am grateful to Blake Lively for highlighting this is not an archaic problem no one is facing. This is continuing. When it does happen a machine goes in place to absolutely destroy you.”"

Kate Beckinsale revealed many instances where she was abused on film sets, including being felt up by a crew member when she was 18 years old.

30/12/2024

"The difference between Blockbuster and Netflix was this: Blockbuster punished customers for being forgetful; Netflix rewarded them for being mindless."

A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer meant fewer shipping costs for Netflix, and fewer DVDs for the company to manage and store. Netflix...

29/12/2024

Who out there is ok with writing “TV you don’t have to pay attention to?”

The streamers' contempt for attention spans is getting harder to ignore

24/12/2024

Happy day to all from Makeshift Film Group!

04/12/2024

//Officials said the merger, approved in late October, will bolster support for the city’s growing film and creative industries while also paving the way for major opportunities — such as, perhaps, attracting the Sundance Film Festival to Boulder.//

By Ella Cobb, Boulder Daily Camera It’s often said that two heads are better than one, and when it comes to Boulder’s creative industry and business community, the same rule applies. With this idiom in mind, the Boulder County Film Commission and the Boulder Area Chamber of Commerce have decided...

18/11/2024

"...since there aren’t many movies or TV shows shot in Colorado, available crews are more experienced with commercials.

“Movies are a really different rhythm,” he says. “We need you for three months. The salary per hour is not what you get if you’re doing a commercial for two days. You can’t take three-day weekends. … You just don’t know who you’re going to be able to get, who has the requisite experience.”

That meant Nolfi had to fly the crew in — “and those people are wildly expensive just because of hotels, flights, per diem, weekends, off days” — as well as equipment." Boulder Weekly

Director George Nolfi filmed his new sci-fi thriller Elevation on location in Boulder and the surrounding region.

15/11/2024

//AGC Studios, Lionsgate, FilmNation, Neon International, Black Bear, WME Independent, The Veterans and Voltage Pictures — which together account for a large portion of the major U.S. sales projects launching at any film market — make up the “informal” group.//

A group of leading U.S. sellers have informed IFTA they won't be returning to Las Vegas after a negative experience with the recently wrapped AFM.

10/11/2024

Last session of the market! Maximizing Impact: Crafting Powerful Films with Limited Budgets

09/11/2024

Killing it at the Box Office: How Cineverse's Horror Sensation Won Opening Weekend .tv

09/11/2024

Pitch Conference: Mastering the Art of Pitching & Live Pitches

09/11/2024

Take us home, indeed.

While the change of location has been a hard adjustment for AFM regulars, there have been positive green shoots in the market.

09/11/2024

The Climate Opportunity: Industry Momentum From Script to Screen at