Movies with really quick post-productions?
10-01-13 | 08:17 AM
#26
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Re: Movies with really quick post-productions?
It'll be tough to beat The Forbidden Dance
Written in 10 days, based on an idea writers John Platt & Roy Langsdon came up with in the car on the drive to producer Menahem Golan's office. The script was commisioned in December of 1989, was in production by the end of January, 1990, and hit theaters on March 17th that same year, all in an attempt to beat rival lamdada flick Lambada to theaters. Both films were eventually released on the very same day!
10-01-13 | 08:20 AM
#27
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Re: Movies with really quick post-productions?
But yeah, with shows like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, The Shield, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, etc; it's kind of hard to explain how they churn out so much quality so quickly as compared to many movie counterparts. However, most times movies are shot and post-produced at a decent rate (a few months), there are always exceptions, and many of them just sit on a shelf until the studio is ready to strategically release the film.
Plus TV Shows work on deadlines, you can't go back and refine, refine, refine like some people try to do with movies.
10-01-13 | 09:13 AM
#28
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Re: Movies with really quick post-productions?
Plus Game of Thrones and other TV shows often shoot on the same sets for multiple episodes and even multiple seasons. It's likely a lot easier to keep shooting the same set every week, with the cast and crew all familiar with it and all the possible set ups in it, than having to scout and/or create new sets every time you start a new film. Plus, TV actors are locked in to multiple season contracts, so once you have a cast you have them for years on end, without having to worry about their schedule.
As RichC2 pointed out, unless the film is a FX-laden spectacle, the actual production and post-production on most films is rather quick. It's typically the pre-production that's long, trying to get the film greenlit, trying to find a cast and crew, then aligning everyone's schedules so that there's a time to actually shoot and produce the film. Then studios may sit on a film for months until there's a hole in their release schedule. For example, studios often sit on "Oscar-bait" films until near the holiday season.
As RichC2 pointed out, unless the film is a FX-laden spectacle, the actual production and post-production on most films is rather quick. It's typically the pre-production that's long, trying to get the film greenlit, trying to find a cast and crew, then aligning everyone's schedules so that there's a time to actually shoot and produce the film. Then studios may sit on a film for months until there's a hole in their release schedule. For example, studios often sit on "Oscar-bait" films until near the holiday season.
10-01-13 | 09:14 AM
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10-01-13 | 05:53 PM
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Re: Movies with really quick post-productions?
[conspiracy theorist]...Or did it?[/conspiracy theorist]
10-01-13 | 08:29 PM
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10-01-13 | 10:29 PM
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