There’s a lot of noise out there on the internet. Especially in 2016, the year that “fake news” has dominated the headlines (literally), it can be hard to wade through the muck. That’s why every week here on the indieBlog, we do our best to curate news stories and thinkpieces that filmmakers and actors will find worthwhile. Good reads from crazy ol’ 2016 included topics like the continued call for on-screen and on-set diversity, evolving distribution models, general acting and filmmaking advice, and the occasional profile or behind-the-scenes story. With the year wrapping up, we combed through the past 50-odd weeks to highlight some particularly GOOD READS OF 2016.
This Year’s Good Reads
A Hollywood Agent Explains How Negotiations Work and Why Actresses Get Paid Less
by Jen Chaney for Cosmopolitan, February 23
How Senior Citizens Became Independent Film’s Most Powerful Audience
by Jason Bailey for Flavorwire, March 9
How Nina Became A Disaster Movie
by Kate Aurthur for BuzzFeed, April 14
The Kids Are Alright: How YA Stars Have Become The Unlikely Saviors Of American Indie Film
by David Ehrlich for IndieWire, June 28
Fix It in Production: A 1st A.D. Tells You What Mistakes to Avoid when Shooting an Independent Film
by Jim McQuaid for Filmmaker Magazine, July 11
Hollywood Has Ruined Method Acting
by Angelica Jade Bastién for The Atlantic, August 11
How I Learned to Stop Counting on Miracles and Love Self-Distribution
by Ross Putman for ScreenCraft, September 30
A Shocking Suicide, A Long-Lost Friend, And A Movie Trailer
by Carolyn Kormann for The New Yorker, October 18
Getting Financed, The Lowdown: What Works and What Doesn’t, From the Producer of Swiss Army Man
by Miranda Bailey for MovieMaker Magazine, December 13
Videos worth watching
Charlie Rose: The Treasure Chest of First-Class Film Interviews (via Cinephilia & Beyond)
New Releases
Movies from our December Movie Picks that will release in the coming weeks:
- The Bad Kids (December 16, FilmRise)
- Collateral Beauty (December 16, Warner Bros.)
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (December 16, Disney)
- Assassin’s Creed (December 21, 20th Century Fox)
- Passengers (December 21, Columbia Pictures)
- Fences (December 25, Paramount Pictures)
- Hidden Figures (December 25, 20th Century Fox)
- Toni Erdmann (December 25, Sony Pictures Classics)
- Paterson (December 28, Amazon Studios/Bleecker Street Media)
How ’bout you? Read anything good this year?
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