Now Playing at Reason.tv: Producer Clay Epstein on Filmmaking During a Recession

March 17, 2009

What happens when guitar legends Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White collaborate on a rock documentary? What's mistake should aspiring filmmakers avoid if they really want to get their movies made? How did longtime adversaries come together to create a better Batman?

Independent producer and consultant Clay Epstein answers these questions and tells reason.tv's Ted Balaker how the the economic crisis will color what moviegoers see on the big screen.

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|3.17.09 @ 7:55PM|#

That's guitar legend. Page.

|3.17.09 @ 8:02PM|#

A Guitar god
A pretentious cod
and a immature fraud

|3.17.09 @ 8:16PM|#

IMO, Bonham was a fair part of Page's godliness.

|3.17.09 @ 8:42PM|#

Do not besmirch the Plant, either.

U2, I acknowledge, but the Edge is not some supremo guitarist, a fact that's generally recognized. Legend--harummph.

|3.17.09 @ 8:53PM|#

Page, Gilmour, SRV, and of course Django. Shades of Django are found in many others.

|3.17.09 @ 10:29PM|#

Gilmour is a mechanic, and Page is not much more. SRV and Django . . . now those are Artistes, my friend.

d|3.18.09 @ 12:19AM|#

Balaker: [monotone mumble, monotone mumble, monotone mumble, monotone mumble, ...]

Epstein: [syntactically incoherent drivel...talks about mother...insults movie goers]

that about sums it up. boring.

Ska|3.18.09 @ 8:47AM|#

I'm not going to call Jack White a guitar legend - but I'm not going to shit on him either. The dude makes good music. His production is better than his guitar skills.

Pedant|3.18.09 @ 10:21AM|#

What's mistake

What mistakes

|3.18.09 @ 2:42PM|#

This guy is wrong. Movies are doing better at the box office than they were a year ago, and Slumdog Millionaire is going to be one of the best selling small budget movies of all time.