One of the main attractions at this year’s Comicpalooza in Houston—in addition to appearances by the likes of Patrick Stewart, Michelle Rodriguez and Danny Trejo—was the three-day Dollar Baby Film Festival organized by Shawn S. Lealos.
What’s a “Dollar Baby?” It’s a short film based on a Stephen King story or novella. For decades, King has allowed people to acquire limited film rights to an available story for one dollar. The resulting movies cannot be released on the internet or shown at for-profit venues, which limits their availability to festivals like this one. The filmmakers can include their movies on clip reels as calling cards. King also gets a copy of the finished product. The quality of these adaptations is all over the map, but the increased availability of affordable digital cameras and video editing software means that the community is growing by leaps and bounds.
What’s a “Dollar Baby?” It’s a short film based on a Stephen King story or novella. For decades, King has allowed people to acquire limited film rights to an available story for one dollar. The resulting movies cannot be released on the internet or shown at for-profit venues, which limits their availability to festivals like this one. The filmmakers can include their movies on clip reels as calling cards. King also gets a copy of the finished product. The quality of these adaptations is all over the map, but the increased availability of affordable digital cameras and video editing software means that the community is growing by leaps and bounds.
- 5/30/2013
- by Bev Vincent
- FEARnet
In the introduction to his 2002 collection, Everything's Eventual, Stephen King admits that writing the stories within it was "not so pleasurable." He goes on to say that most of the stories in that book had taken considerable effort, and that he wrote not for love or money, but "as a kind of dues-paying." Though Everything's Eventual yielded some exciting results – particularly the title story, "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away," and "Autopsy Room 4" – as a collection, the book felt a little soft, not as cohesive as earlier efforts like Night Shift and Skeleton Crew. In 2006, King took on the role of editor for the Best American Short Stories anthology, and...
- 1/4/2012
- FEARnet
Two days ago, I posted up a story about how Children of the Corn is going to be remade because the original just plain wasn't religious enough for the Weinsteins. They demand more creepy children. In corn! And while this prospect doesn't make me all that sad - either because I'm a robot with no feelings or because I've grown desensitized to remake news - it does make me wish that filmmakers would dip a bit further into Stephen King's giant corpus of short stories. Instead of another Children of the Corn, let's see a few of these gems fleshed out into full feature length horror trips. All That You Love Will Be Carried Away The Pitch: Alfie is a traveling salesman who is fascinated by graffiti, seeing it as small messages people can leave behind on walls and bathroom stalls that broadcast out into the rest of the world. He's...
- 9/10/2009
- by Dr. Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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