This Nicolas Cage spectacle is equal parts art house and grind house
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Director Panos Cosmatos has scored an instant cult hit with Mandy, an ultra-metal revenge thriller set in the early '80s that stars Nicolas Cage in vintage gonzo Cage mode. It's a movie filled with surprises, but perhaps the biggest of them is the adorable, hard-puking ad mascot called Cheddar Goblin.
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Changes in crowdfunding laws are expanding the reach of companies looking to take advantage of this innovative way of raising capital funds. Legion M’s goal is to make and promote content funded by fans.
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Startups like Wattpad and Tongal (for directors and cinematographers), and new financing platforms like Legion M (for producing features) are aiming to elevate new talent and provide what the companies hope will be built-in audiences for successful new programming on platforms like Netflix, Apple, and others — and the hundreds of networks that are vying for attention in an increasingly fragmented media landscape.
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MANDY and the evolution of production companies
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Ruby Que and Varun Belur from The Cornell Daily Sun interview with Legion M cofounder, Paul Scanlan.
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Do you ever use fruits to critique films? You likely don’t use real ones, but you’ve probably used Rotten Tomatoes to check a movie’s overall quality. High Rotten Tomato ratings seem to be few as of late, but “Mandy,” a new film coming to the Tower Theatre on Sept. 14, exceeds expectations.
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Legion M, founded by Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison, claims to be the world’s first fan-owned entertainment company. The pair previously co-founded MobiTV, an entertainment media company that won an Emmy for Technical Achievement in Advancing Television. They’ve used their knowledge and connections to create what they call “a business model with the potential to change Hollywood forever.”
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Coming to theaters for a special advanced screening on Thursday, September 13th is Mandy, a movie being billed as a “wildly phantasmagorical thriller” starring Nicolas Cage. The screening will be followed by a prerecorded Q&A session with Cage and the director of the film, Panos Cosmatos.
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