A Filmmaker's Life: Genre Hacks: Amazon Studios: An Interview with Roy Price

Monday, October 10, 2011

Genre Hacks: Amazon Studios: An Interview with Roy Price

Read my friend/collaborator Sean Hood's post about Amazon Studios.

In 2010 Amazon.com launched Amazon Studios and promised to "develop movies in a new way." They had strange new ideas about mass collaboration, a focus on original content from unknown filmmakers, and lots and lots of money to spend on prizes, test movies, and eventual script purchases. So how's that working out for 'em? Read here:

Genre Hacks: Amazon Studios: An Interview with Roy Price

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Sean HoodOctober 12, 2011 at 7:39 PM
Thanks for the link!
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essay writersNovember 9, 2011 at 5:13 AM
And what did they do? I didn't hear anything..
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