(TV) "CGBG"/Film Financing/Parker+Apatow

[leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com>]

Re: "People make movies to make money." I wouldn't say it's necessarily so.
Film-making is generally expensive, and may historically -- especially in the
U.S. -- be a commercial enterprise, but history shows that great art can be
created anyway. And to claim that anyone who make a documentary of any kind is
doing that to earn a hefty sum of money is downright silly. I'm sure that
documentary directors and producers hope for good reviews and good festival
exposure and then perhaps a brief theatrical run in majors cities and finally
good enough DVD sales to get their films to -- at best -- break even.

Michael Gramaglia co-directed the Ramones film "End of the Century", which
seems to have been one of the most successful music docs in recent years, as
it earned several hundreds of thousands dollars at the U.S. box-office.
Despite that, he couldn't get this next music doc funded, until he finansed it
through Kickstarter.com, by raising 50,000 dollars by some hundred people who
wanted to see a film about veteran singer Graham Parker. (It should be said
here that Parker is another fave artist of mine, and that he -- contrary to
some other -- has put out records regularly through the years to the delight
of his tiny audience, and some of the albums from this side of the millennium
is clearly among his finest.) When the film was ready, it was rejected by most
film festivals, as they didn't knew who Parker is or what he's done.

I think this story is a bit telling about the reality of this sector of
show-biz. It seems a bit tragic, but as someone on the list may know, there's
a sunshine ending: All of a sudden, comedy director Judd Apatow jumped out and
declared himself a Graham Parker fan, offered GP a part in the sequel to
"Knocked up", got GP to reunite with The Rumour on the set and then in the
studio, and a new record -- their first together in 32 years -- will be
released at the same time as the film. And Gramaglia withdrew *his* film and
will also re-release it later, recut and extended. It's called "Don't As Me
Questions", by the way.



> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:54:22 -0400
> Subject: Re: Now cast. Re: (TV) "CGBG": New talents casted; still no
Verlaine
> From: emilie.t.hsu@gmail.com
> To: tv@obbard.com
>
> 24 Hour Party People was a great movie. It's not about Joy Division or
> Happy Mondays, it's about hubris. And it's entertaining.
>
> Just because someone is making a movie about CBGB doesn't mean that they
> have to make a movie about Television.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Scott Simpson <SSimpson@nyc.rr.com>
wrote:
>
> > Dude, in case you missed it the first time around.
> >
> > People make movies to make money.  It's called show-biz.
> >
> > They (the people who make movies to make money) don't give a shit about
> > your
> > opinion about anything.
> >
> > But thanks for sharing.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Rex
> > Broome
> > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 11:56 PM
> > To: tv@obbard.com
> > Subject: Re: Now cast. Re: (TV) "CGBG": New talents casted; still no
> > Verlaine
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Bob Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > I like
> > > documentaries bettter than
> > > docu-dramas, 'cause the fictionalized ones are virtually certain to be
> > > full distortion, misinformation, & mis-characterization about people &
> > > what  happened.They're typically geared to entertain with drama,
> > > instead of trying to be true to facts. Not that documentaries always
> > > get facts right, but they stand a better chance.
> >
> >
> > Gotta tend to agree.  In a way it's puzzling that docu-dramas keep
getting
> > made because very few of them are either commercially or artistically
> > successful.  The ones that are tend to be about stuff that's well and
truly
> > in the past (I dunno, Patton?  Lawrence of Arabia?)... Is there a single
> > fictionalized rock movie about real events that's generally liked?  The
> > Buddy Holly Story, maybe, and maybe but a little less so, Walk the Line?
> >  Pretty slim pickings.
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