http://horizononeentertainment.com.au Film acquisition, marketing and distribution Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:22:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Can Indie Movies Survive? http://gawker.com/5465348/can-indie-movies-survive Indie films have become the lost children of Hollywood in recent years. Author Edward Jay Epstein explains why Hollywood is abandoning the indie movie business in favor of merchandisable CGI spectacles like Avatar. If you are a producer of indie movies, the great sucking sound you may ... http://horizononeentertainment.com.au/can-indie-movies-survive Box Office Analysis Week 5 Source: www.boxofficemojo.com AVATAR goes down...!! After writing about AVATAR for the past 7 straight weeks, it feels a little strange writing about another movie being in the #1 spot at the box-office this weekend. Kinda like I'm cheating on James Cameron, you know? Mind you, I don't think ... http://horizononeentertainment.com.au/box-office-analysis-week-5 82ND OSCAR NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED! The Oscars were announced earlier this morning in Los Angeles by Anne Hathaway and Academy President Tom Sherak. As expected, AVATAR got a ton of kudos with 9 total nominations but in a pleasant surprise it was tied with THE HURT LOCKER which also had 9 noms. ... http://horizononeentertainment.com.au/82nd-oscar-nominations-announced Box Office Analysis Week 4 Source: www.boxofficemojo.com His future's so bright, Cameron's gotta wear shades... Alright, let's get all the AVATAR records and talk out of the way first. The film recently became the biggest grossing movie of all-time (worldwide) as it pranced past James Cameron's previous record-holder, TITANIC, which had made $1,840,000,000 around ... http://horizononeentertainment.com.au/box-office-analysis-week-4 Box Office Analysis Week 3 Source: www.boxofficemojo.com I've run out of 'clever titles' for how great AVATAR is doing... It's easy for a lot of people to say NOW that they "always knew" that AVATAR would make so much money, or that it would beat TITANIC's records, but the truth is that nobody ... http://horizononeentertainment.com.au/box-office-analysis-week-3