GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – DID “BATTLESHIP” REALLY SINK? When I was a kid in the mid to late seventies, “playing games” meant we were either playing pick-up baseball on the fields behind Holy Cross church, or we …
GOING BIONIC #114 – Originally Published on July 17, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – CHECKING IN ON YOUR 2012 CHECKLIST Hi everyone. I hope your week was as adventurous as mine. After attending my first Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Kansas City last Tuesday, my flight …
GOING BIONIC #113 – Originally Published July 10, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – THE ALTERNATIVE PLATFORM SOCIETY Hi everyone! I hope all of you had a great week. If you’re reading this column on Tuesday evening, just know that at this very moment, I’m planted in …
GOING BIONIC #112 – INDEPENDENTS DAY! Originally Published on July 3, 2012
GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: INDEPENDENTS DAY! Hi everyone. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I know mine was memorable, because my twin daughters Lena and Zoe turned one. My girls enjoyed an epic birthday party, fully …
Going Bionic #111 – Originally published on June 26, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – SURVIVING THE “HURRY UP AND WAIT” SYNDROME One of the most painful ailments filmmakers will suffer from in their careers is the “Hurry Up and Wait” syndrome. Breaking your neck to finish a …
GOING BIONIC #110 – Originally published on June 19, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – FILMMAKERS VS. DISTRIBUTORS – ROUND 2! Hi everyone! Welcome to the 110th edition of “Going Bionic.” For those of you who are fathers, happy belated Father’s Day! I just experienced my first and I …
GOING BIONIC #109 – Originally Published on June 12, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – FILMMAKERS VS. DISTRIBUTORS, PART 1 Hi Everyone. I hope you had a productive week. Today we’re going to discuss the battle that causes more headaches than most divorces, the fight that trumps all …
Going Bionic #108: Hollywood + Bollywood = a New Era – Originally Published on June 5, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: HOLLYWOOD + BOLLYWOOD = A NEW ERA! One of my core missions with this column is to bring you emerging trends throughout the world of international distribution, especially when those trends trigger major shifts …
GOING BIONIC #107 – Originally published on May 29, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: “THE AVENGERS” AVENGE BOX-OFFICE HISTORY Hi everyone. I hope all of you had a relaxing Memorial Day weekend. I’ve been in relax mode for a week now, ever since I followed up my trip …
GOING BIONIC #106 – Originally Published May 22, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – CANNES TRENDS: DESTINATION UPWARD! Before we dive in today, I’d like to thank each and every one of you for reading this column. “Going Bionic” turned two years old last Friday, May 18th, …
GOING BIONIC #105, Originally published on May 15, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – IMAGINE A FILM’S JOURNEY Hi Everybody! Greetings from Cannes! The last few days have been quite a wild ride, getting here. The whirlwind started for me last Friday at 5:30 AM, when I …
GOING BIONIC #104 – Originally published on May 8, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – PREPPING FOR CANNES 2012 – PART THREE – “INSIDER INSIGHTS” Hi everyone! This time next week I’ll be struggling with jetlag as I set up my company’s booth at the Cannes Film Market. …
GOING BIONIC #103 – Originally Published on May 1, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – OBLITERATING YOUR CAREER ROADBLOCKS! Welcome to “Going Bionic,” #103. Today we’re going to step aside from our series on Cannes and discuss something even more important than the world’s greatest film festival, breaking through …
GOING BIONIC #102 – PREPPING FOR CANNES, PART TWO: “WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING (A SALE) Published April 24, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – PREPPING FOR CANNES 2012 – PART TWO – “WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING (A SALE)” Hi everyone. I hope you had a magical week. Welcome to part two of our series prepping …
GOING BIONIC #101 – Originally published on April 17, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – PREPPING FOR CANNES 2012 – PART 1 Hi everyone. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I know I did, because Lonely Seal Apparel, my new company dedicated to helping to stop the slaughter of …
GOING BIONIC TURNS 100! Originally published on April 10, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – GOING BIONIC TURNS 100! Hi everyone. Welcome to the 100th edition of “Going Bionic!” That’s right, it’s been 100 weeks since Mark Bell published the first “Going Bionic” article on May 18, 2010. …
GOING BIONIC #99 – Published April 2, 2012
GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: 11-YEAR INDIE FILM JOURNEY – PART 3! For those of you who are counting, this is my 99th consecutive weekly column, which means that we hit the century mark next Tuesday. While I’m not …
GOING BIONIC #98 – Originally published on March 27, 2012.
GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: 11-YEAR INDIE FILM JOURNEY – PART 2 168 hours ago (last Tuesday), I discussed the origins of the film that’s taking me 11-years to shoot. Today I’m going to go over the trials …
GOING BIONIC #97 – 11-Year Indie Film Journey – Part 1 – Published on March 20, 2012
GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: 11-YEAR INDIE FILM JOURNEY – PART 1 I’m so damn tired this week, because I just completed a road trip that encompassed 3,458 miles across 10 states in six days. The point of …
GOING BIONIC #96 – ACT OF STARLESS FILMS! Published March 13, 2012
GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – “ACT OF STARLESS FILMS!” Question: What three things do “Act of Valor” (2012) and “Project X” (2012) have in common? I’ll give you the first two: 1) They both enjoyed studio-grade wide releases. …