Category: Industry
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New HuffPost Blog – “Horror for Kids” and the Poltergeist Remake
I got thinking about horror aimed at kids over the last week or so, partly due to a discussion I was having of Facebook regarding the original rating of Poltergeist. It prompted me to write this article for Huffington Post, which recycles a paragraph from a blog post I wrote for this site a couple of…
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‘How Not to Make a Horror Movie’ Debuts at Horror-on-Sea
Had a great weekend at Horror-on-Sea, a festival that we’ve supported since day one. It’s fantastic to see it going from strength to strength. Every year, there are fewer and fewer empty chairs (both in the large room where we tend to do the live shows and in the main auditorium), and the atmosphere is…
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TrashHouse – We Have the Rights Back
Weird thing about Jinx Media still being in business after ten years; we’ve got the rights for our first movie back. We signed a seven year distribution deal for Trashhouse back in February 2006. We signed the UK and the US, but the US elements of the deal went wonky when one of the companies…
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Filmmaking is now a Democracy. Maybe we need more obstacles.
As I’ve mentioned before, there’s pretty much only one reason that my shot-on-miniDV first feature ended up getting decent commercial distribution (which, in turn, led to me being considered a ‘proper’ filmmaker albeit one on a very, very low rung of the ladder). I climbed an obstacle. Cutting footage on a home PC was tough…
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Do we need a Champion?
I’ve been trying a bit of a smartphone detox lately, which makes a lot of sense given that we’re deeply involved in the development process for our smartphone horror Evil Apps. I’ve been attempting to stick the iPhone in a box as soon as I’m home, and to only use it when out and about.…
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The Elevator Pitch
My good friend Jim Eaves, (head honcho of Amber Pictures and one of my co-conspirators on the Death Tales movies), once got in a lift with Harvey Weinstein. It’s not something that happens particularly often to low-budget horror filmmakers in the UK. There isn’t a photo of Jim in a lift with Harvey Weinstein, so…
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Death Tales mini-comic: The tenth anniversary begins here!
Jinx Media has been going for ten years. Ten years of horror, rock n roll, killer cheerleaders and death tales. Ten years of celluloid and zeroes & ones. Ten years of staying afloat and staying alive while the entire industry reforms around us. To celebrate ten years of Jinx Media, we’ve got some really awesome…
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Thoughts on running a small production company
I’ve been Googling templates for business plans. There are quite a lot of them out there, with varying levels of complexity and helpfulness. Most of them make me a little uneasy, but the fact is that I want to get some kind of focus as to what my company is going to achieve over the…
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Auditions: from both sides of the table
It’s been a while since we’ve run auditions, but I thought it might be worth writing about the subject. What follows is meant for both low-budget indie filmmakers/producers and also those kind prospective cast members who come along to audition. Sod it, let’s turn this into a game of advice-tennis. Producers: Hire someone pleasant and…
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Shit Rolls Downhill
People often assume that because you’ve got movies on the shelves of mainstream shops, these films will be supplying you (or your company) with a regular supply of money. When they start digging for details of deals that you may have signed in the past, this belief seems to get more deeply ingrained. Let’s take…
Pat Higgins and Jinx Media 