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Jake Seal's Expert Insights on Navigating Film Producing: Budgeting, Financing, and Distribution
Browse Articles » Business » Jake Seal's Expert Insights on Navigating Film... by Tom Carr Learner Film production is a complex and dynamic industry that requires careful planning, strategic budgeting, securing financing, and efficient distribution strategies. In this article, we will delve into the various aspects of the business of film producing, focusing on budgeting, financing, and distribution.
Album: Placebo - Never Let Me Go
Alternative rock icons Placebo make an anticipated return in 2022 with their eighth album Never Let Me Go. Their last release was 2016’s greatest hits collection A Place For Us To Dream, and the wait has been long for the next, proper instalment from vocalist and guitarist Brian Molko and bassist Stefan Osdal. The good news is they return with aplomb.
7 Monks’ Sprouts
Tastemaker By Lynda Wheatley | Jan. 23, 2021 You know what goes unbelievably well with beer? Brussels sprouts. Specifically, the Sprouts starter available for carryout from 7 Monks Tavern in Traverse City. Hear us out.
Very Busy Very Fast
Spectator By Stephen Tuttle | Jan. 23, 2021 This isn't going to be easy. President Joe Biden and his thin congressional majority are walking into troubled times both domestically and internationally. The divisions we now see and must somehow confront, ably abetted by silent or overtly enabling politicians, have spilled into a contentious Congress. Biden's agenda will not even partially succeed unless he can somehow bridge that gap. And that agenda is plenty long.
A Gangland Murder at the Crossroads
The Doherty Hotel By Tom Carr | Jan. 23, 2021 On a Saturday Night in May 1938, Isaiah Leebove strolled into the Hotel Doherty, the four-story brick building in the center of downtown Clare, [Michigan]. Leebove’s wife, Enid, had asked him to go to town and get her some ice cream. Little didLeebove know, a disgruntled former business partner was watching him and had murder on his mind. That former partner was Jack Livingston, known as “Tex” by friends and associates because he grew up in Houston.
Bullies with Badges
Guest Opinion By Amy Kerr Hardin | Jan. 23, 2021 There is a cancer of white supremacy infecting our nation’s law enforcement. Nationalist groups have an agenda of the radicalization of individuals in a position of trust. The Center for Strategic and International Affairs finds that right-wing violence is steeply on the rise in the United States.
He’s Gone, Now What?
Guest Opinion By Grant Parsons | Jan. 23, 2021 Wounded and fearful, America watched the 45th President leave the nation’s capital. On a hastily arranged stage at an enclosed Air Force base, the disgraced president gave an off-the-cuff goodbye to a few hundred family and friends.
Forty Acres’ Spa Day Martini
Bottoms Up By Eric Cox | Jan. 23, 2021 Myriad methods of cocktail creation are on display at bars around the world. There are flaming drinks, compotes laden with almost absurd amounts of fruits and vegetables, and sometimes even aerosolize booze infused with, well … weird stuff. At Boyne Mountain’s slope-side Forty Acres Tavern, the Spa Day Martini ($11) also relies on a bit of a gimmick — but a mighty tasty one — to carry it forward.
The fine line between saving a tourism-based economy and saving lives
Pure Michigan's Plight By Patrick Sullivan | Jan. 23, 2021 After a year-long hiatus, the state’s Pure Michigan campaign re-launched late last month with a $1.2 million effort showcasing Michigan’s winter playgrounds. Its intent: to reinvigorate the state’s moribund tourism economy by luring visitors in and outside the state to visit places like northern Michigan this season.
Cadillac’s Parkview Lanes
A four-generation family classic still going strong By Ross Boissoneau | Jan. 23, 2021 What do you call a business that’s been handed down within a family for more than 75 years until it rests in the hands of the originators’ great-grandchildren — with the possibility of another generation on the way? In Cadillac, you call it Parkview Lanes. “I grew up in the business,” said Dan Williams. He's the great-grandson of Norman W. and Jean Peterson, who purchased Parkview Lanes in 1945 from its founder.
The Million Dollar Con Man Gets Desperate: Kidnapping to Keep a Promise
Petoskey’s Perry Hotel & Traverse City’s Park Place Hotel By Tom Carr | Jan. 23, 2021 Arthur J. Curry came to Petoskey and Traverse City in the mid-1980s and saw promise in a landmark hotel in each city. Both needed sprucing up to bring them back to former glory. Curry was a big player in a Chicago stock brokerage firm, and local leaders saw huge possibilities when speaking with the man in a business suit, who sported a close-cropped beard and glasses.
Thunder Bay Inn
Part of a famous film and novel based on a real-life murder and courtroom trial By Ross Boissoneau | Jan. 23, 2021 Former playground to Henry Ford and part of a famous film and novel based on a real-life murder in the town, the courtroom trial — and a most unusual insanity defense Mark Bevins had a dream. A 30-year employee at General Motors, he longed to fill the role of innkeeper.
What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
2020 celebrations around the North By Ross Boissoneau | Dec. 27, 2019 For many, going out on the town is the only way to ring in the New Year. Champagne at midnight, party favors, music, maybe even fireworks. So where to go and what exactly to do? We gathered a few fun options for adults and families from across the region. Cherry T-Ball The annual downtown Traverse City festivities features a large replica of the unofficial city fruit being dropped to the ground at the stroke of midnight.
Netflix & Change Your Life
Films to motivate and inspire for 2020 By Meg Weichman | Dec. 21, 2019 Now, we’re not saying you need to make a New Year’s resolution. Any kind of growth or personal change should not be based on something as arbitrary as calendar date. Yet as clichéd as it’s become, the end of the year is naturally a good time for some thoughtful introspection and reflection as you look back on the past and look forward to the future.
On Lake Michigan, A Cleaner Coal-Powered Ship Ferries On
A slice of history sails across Lake Michigan, carrying cars between Ludington, Mich., and Manitowoc, Wis. It's the SS Badger: the largest coal-fired passenger ship still operating in the United States. For years, the ship was the focus of environmental scrutiny because of its practice of dumping waste coal ash directly into the lake. The pollution nearly stopped the Badger from steaming again — but now, the ash-dumping has ended.
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