Many independent films are made by producers or auteur directors who are, first-and-foremost, driven to tell a particular story. The story may be of their own imaginative devising, or it may be someone else's tale that they have been drawn to and want to develop. It may be something they have adapted personally, or a script that they shoot pretty much verbatim. Either way, very few producers are making films specifically for the current marketplace, and often they have little

I wrote this blog at the beginning of 2016, and surprisingly little has changed since that time. Sadly, the distributor in the blog is now no longer trading, and Metrodome also closed their doors 6 months after this film was released and Koch Media also stopped releasing films a year earlier. in 2018 Icon Films also finally left this space.... Feb 2016: I was eager to see how Bone Tomahawk performed this weekend in UK cinemas as it represented a real shot for The Works, with

Are you elect? Magus Marketing is inspired, in title at least, by my favourite novel, The Magus, by John Fowles, published in 1966, but written, and re-written over several preceding years and later completely revised, and re-published again in 1977. Upon its original publication the London Evening Standard described it as 'very bizarre indeed' but it was also called 'an astonishing achievement' by The Listener and 'brilliantly entertaining' by The Sunday Times. The novel its