Archive for the 'Business Matters' Category
Thursday, November 29th, 2018
Advertisers may contact us at any time about reserving space in the next issue of C-U Confidential, tentatively slated to street in January 2019. Want to be a pal? Take the info down and pass it around!
Posted in Business Matters, C-U Confidential, Crowdsourcing du C-U, Print Matter du C-U | Comments Off on Help pad CUZine #10 with your ad!
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Just like the headline says, we’ll begin our on-line drive to partly fund the printing of C-U Confidential digest #10 on November 26, 2018, also known as (shudder) Cyber Monday.
Posted in Business Matters, C-U Confidential, Deadline du C-U, Print Matter du C-U | Comments Off on CUZine drive starts Cyber Monday
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
We may also have legitimacy and dependability in our print history, but our budget lifeline has dried up. It’s finally time to beg and grovel publicly for help to put C-U Confidential back on the board.
Posted in Bittersweet Places, Business Matters, C-U Confidential, Deadline du C-U, JP Confidential, Print Matter du C-U, Production Updates | Comments Off on …So we will rock you with CUZine
Friday, September 29th, 2017
The vast amount of avenues for storytelling content can be mind boggling, although the industry experts at the American Film Market can’t stress enough their importance. Robin Christian relates their advice.
Posted in Article du C-U, Business Matters, Gone Hollywood | Comments Off on Content is versatile in AFM views
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
CUBlog correspondent Robin Christian reports on how film production experience can always be augmented by professional advice given at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, CA.
Posted in Article du C-U, Business Matters, Gone Hollywood | Comments Off on AFM advice enhances film output
Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
We had a good thing going, you and we, but the forces of media upheaval, consumer complacency, and altogether reasonable life changes have pried us apart as feared. Don’t you cry, TR. We’ll always have Chambana.
Posted in Article du C-U, Business Matters, Home Videos du C-U, Media Coverage, Sad Places, The Old School, VHS is Best | Comments Off on Veritable vault of video to vanish
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
The professionals spoke their mind on producing films for a worldwide market at last fall’s American Film Market in Santa Monica, CA. Robin Christian took good notes on the nuts and the bolts…
Posted in Article du C-U, Business Matters, Gone Hollywood | Comments Off on Global reach is key for AFM vets
Thursday, February 5th, 2015
The sixth annual New Art Film Festival is … not accepting entries just yet. Read on, MacNAFFs…
Posted in Area Festivals, Business Matters, News du C-U, Public Events, Sad Places | Comments Off on Building NAFF-ticipation no longer
Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Read this, heed this, and then stop paying attention to any electronic screen within your vicinity so you can make it safely to That’s Rentertainment in Campustown. Today is Video Store Day!
Posted in Business Matters, Home Videos du C-U, Preservation, Public Events, The Old School | Comments Off on Will VSD save the video star?
Friday, October 10th, 2014
Our man in Hollywood, Robin Christian, returns to a scene he knows very well – the annual American Film Market in Santa Monica, CA – and provides beginners’ tips for wading those filmy waters!
Posted in Article du C-U, Business Matters, Gone Hollywood | Comments Off on World of film opens wide at AFM
Saturday, September 6th, 2014
Champaign marketing firm Surface 51 is casting far and wide for talent to populate an upcoming television campaign they are producing. Read the casting call right here!
Posted in Business Matters, Job Opportunities, News du C-U | Comments Off on Talent in demand at Surface 51
Saturday, May 17th, 2014
Sometimes it is imperative to discuss the nitty gritty concerning Champaign-Urbana movies, including production costs. Today, we take a brief look at the crowdsource campaigns for LOWLIFES, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 1970s, and THE GARDEN OF CHLOE.
Posted in Business Matters, Production Updates | Comments Off on Projects need green to hit screens
Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
The team behind Dark Maze Studios of Champaign is heading for new pastures with the on-line debut of Neon Harbor this Friday, June 14, 2013!
Posted in Business Matters, Images du C-U, News du C-U | Comments Off on Neon Harbor new home for DMS
Monday, May 20th, 2013
We wish the best of success for every media-making business out there, but sometimes certain good things must end. The Movie Fan of Normal and Prairie Production Group of Champaign, for instance, both quit doing business at the end of April.
Posted in Business Matters, Sad Places | Comments Off on Vid store, prod house put to rest
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we address several developments in media and intellectual property involving restored copyright, Kodak bankruptcy, SOPA/PIPA, and an AMPAS report. Yes, get serious.
Posted in Business Matters, C-U Biz-en-scène, Gone Hollywood, Media Coverage, Preservation, Public Events, Theatres & Venues | Comments Off on C-U Biz-en-scène: 01.22.2012