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Filmmaking Trends (Film)

This is culturally sad. Blockbuster brains (Salon.com):

[A]ccording to video-store clerks, they're being leaned on more and more by younger and less film-literate producers, development executives and even writers to deliver inspiration for the next remake, the next cash cow, the next "Charlie's Angels." "I can't tell you how often it happens," says Shimabukuro. "Some uninspired film industry person will run in here and pressure me with questions like, 'What should we remake this year?' or 'What are people renting?' or even 'What other movies do you have with big, fat Greeks in them?' They really don't know their stuff."
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Bollywood's Tarantino and his band of outsiders (Salon.com):

Director and producer Ram Gopal Varma (aka "RGV") has revolutionized India's tradition-bound film biz, rejecting classic costume musicals and weepy melodramas for gritty, urban, low-budget realism....

India's Hindi-language film industry, known internationally as Bollywood, produces 150-plus movies a year that are widely popular across South Asia, parts of Southeast Asia and Africa, the Middle East and the large Indian diaspora in the United Kingdom and North America. Varma has been thumbing his nose at Bollywood and its traditions since he entered the industry 12 years ago. In that time he has built up a band of young guerrilla filmmakers, who revere him for being the antithesis of everything Bollywood seems to stand for.