Movie Rocker Report

Hollywood is turning the silver screen "green," but cutting waste, energy and costs in an industry known for big budgets and over-the-top productions is not easy, even in the trend setting movie business.

Want a look at what happened to the Star Trek film series? It was through a series of bloated and television style films that barely justified their budgets...

Learn how to shoot a movie on a small budget or even no budget. In Hollywood, budgets have been drawn up on a napkin in a coffee shop. A mentor prepared just such a budget over a coffee somewhere in Hollywood. Four days later, they were in production. The producer was the legendary Roger Corman.

The Golden Globe Awards are the biggest awards for all moving media-form, and gives a good idea of what we might see in the Academy Awards later on. Again, this year, it's nice to see that "smaller" films got the nominations, the ones with lower budgets and not as commercial.

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