Completing the casting process is a pivotal milestone in pre-production, and one that will shape the entire project. Just as good acting won’t save a...
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Inspiration can be found in many places. For David Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo,’ it was during a poker game. Both as a 1975 play and a 1996 dramatic film, the logline could easily read ‘betrayal and bitterness collide...
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
Frank Capra
