No longer content to just sell movies, Amazon has started making them. Well, funding them. With Amazon Studios, you can submit your original scripts and pitches, get feedback from the community, and win development money. Screenwriter Alex Greenfield is a veteran of the Amazon Studios system. He started his career at the WWE (sorry folks - it's scripted) then went on to write made-for-tv movies like Street Warrior for Spike and Meteor for NBC. He has found success with Amazon Studios, all with genre projects. His biggest success so far has been The Temple, a Lovecraftian tale about evil in the Afghani desert. With The Temple, Alex won July 2011's overall Best Script Award - then Amazon gave him a bunch of...
- 4/18/2012
- FEARnet
Finally a decent DVD release week with a few things worth checking out. At the top of the list has to be Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, which may not have gotten a lot of love at the Oscars but is still the best movie of last year according to Film Junk. Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon also hits stores today, along with the Notorious B.I.G. biopic, Notorious, and Battlestar Galactica prequel pilot, Caprica. If you're a fan of horror or sci-fi, you might want to look at J.T. Petty's horror-western The Burrowers, Marc Caro's sci-fi flick Dante 01, or the Hellraiser Puzzle Box, and quirky documentary lovers won't want to miss Audience of One. Also out on Blu-ray this week: Sin City and the X-Men trilogy. The Wrestler [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2]) Frost/Nixon [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4]) Notorious [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6]) The Burrowers [7] Dante 01 [8] I Dismember Mama [9] Into The Blue 2: The Reef...
- 4/21/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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