The ARKOFF Formula: Samuel Z. Arkoff's triedāandātrue "ARKOFF Formula" for producing a successful low-budget movie.
A - Action (exciting, entertaining drama)
R - Revolution (novel or controversial, steams and ideas)
K - Killing (modicum of violence)
O - Oratory (notable, dialogue and speeches)
F - Fantasy (acted-out fantasies comment to the audience)
F - F***ication (sex appeal for young adults)
Later, the AIP publicity department devised a strategy called "the Peter Pan syndrome":
1 - A younger child will watch anything that an older child will watch.
2 - An older child will not watch anything that a younger child will watch.
3 - A girl will watch anything a boy will watch.
4 - A boy will not watch anything a girl will watch.
Accordingly, to capture the largest audience, zero in on the 19 year old male.
You are invited to a Watch Party Saturday, April 1, 2023
7 PM PST/10 PM EST
Robert Kurtzmanās āThe Demolitionistā (1995)
https://youtu.be/1N4an8wBzPY
Join famous make-up artist/director Robert Kurtzman, veteran B-movie producer Donald P. Borchers, and surprise cast members in the chat box for a live discussion during the viewing.
āI found that the best way to handle [filmmakers] was to hang medals all over themā¦ If I got them cups and awards theyād kill themselves to produce what I wanted. Thatās why the Academy Award was created.ā
- Louis B. Mayer
"I gave a speech, as one does, as one ages, to a room of students of the theatre, of film, of the performing arts. They shone with ambition, but I soon found myself annotating virtually every sentence I uttered, and this is not terribly comfortable: It badly alters the flow of things. They looked at me blankly when I mentioned Tennessee [Williams], and I had to throw out the play titles, at which they nodded their heads and murmured the names of Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. That was their reference to Tennessee Williams. It seemed not to matter that a man, a person, had written the play that became the film that became something they did in a scene in a class. There was no line of succession. They did not know who Julie Harris was or Bette Davis or Harold Clurman or the Group Theatre and Lee Strasberg was a building where you could take classes. Now it is alarming to be old, and nothing makes a person feel quite so old as to talk of one's influences and of things that he feels are important and to have several hundred blank faces look at you with bewilderment. I don't want to annotate everything, and I think there is a serious lack of investment or intention toward this thing, this art, this craft to which you aspire. I think you have to know more than what is current and 'hot,' to use a loathsome word. I think you have to be familiar with the foundation of the work and understand it's what you're standing on."--Mike Nichols/Interview with James Grissom
Donald P. Borchers' Grave Secrets (1989) will Premiere on October 31, 2022 at 7PM PST/10PM EST
https://youtu.be/OkU0LkL-5no
Angel (1984) will Premiere on August 25, 2022 at 7PM PST/10PM EST
https://youtu.be/o5p5slRA2d0
LITTLE WITCHES (1996) will Premiere on July 7, 2022 at 7PM PST/10PM EST:
https://youtu.be/jAlUdj6Riko
TUFF TURF will Premiere on May 12, 2022 at 7PM PST/10PM EST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coIwe...
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