Top 5 Articles on Wired4Film

It’s Saturday morning. You should be watching cartoons, but instead you’re on the internet…or maybe you’re on the web while you’re watching cartoons.  And if you’ve got a box of Fruitloops next to you to munch on…well, then you’re just living a little slice of heaven.

This morning I was interested in finding out what the top stories of the past year were for Wired4Film so I swung by Google Analytics which is pretty much like having your own personal Spock on-call 24/7.  Or maybe it’s Rainman.  ”Yeah, Def’nitely 1450 hits this month, Def’nitely!”

Currently W4F is based on a WordPress CMS which like all things bloggery, it’s not a neat and organized dewey decimal library system.  It’s like the librarian throws the books into one gigantic room.  Old books get covered up by the new batch and so on.  (But hey, free Librarian!)

Sure some adventurous literary divers will take an effort to scuba down into the murky abyss for great historical treasures, but mostly people are just interested in snorkling the top.  So for the newcomers, here’s what you may or may not have missed at Wired4Film:

5. Christian Film Wake-up Call

I put together this article in order to take the temperature of the Christian Film Industry circa Dec. 2008.  Still seems apropos.  Unfortunately.

4. Christian Music Industry is Dying, Will Film Follow?

Got quite a bit of feedback on this one where we checked in with the CCM industry knowing that as it goes with the Christian music industry, so it will be with the Christian film industry

3. Locally Made Film Delves into Faith Issues

This is an article by Chuck Jacobs, a staff writer for the Fayetteville Observer who put together a solid story on our friend Jeremiah McLamb’s film project, MASQUERADE, shot on the RED One Camera with Northwood Academy’s High School Film class.

2. These People Need your Script, Play, Short Story, TV Pilot, Etc

We’ve gotten a-LAWT of emails about writer-hopefuls with scripts to pawn.  Currently Wired4Film is not accepting unsolicited materials, but we’re happy to connect you with someone who is.  Not sure what to do with your amazing, world-changing screenplay for that potential academy/emmy/tony-award winning script of yours?  Read on.

1. This Present Darkness: The Film That Almost Was

John Schafer is currently producing a 3D animated series for CBN.  He began to wonder, like a lot of us had, what had happened to the “This Present Darkness” movie that was rumored all the way through the 80s and dug up a BOAT-load of great pics and updates

Anywho, thanks for the eyeballs folks!  Every click is a vote.

Let’s make a movie!

W4F Tweets the Oscars!

Didn’t get a chance to see the Oscars this year?  Or maybe you watched the Oscars but missed our Wired4Film Oscar Twitter Feed?  Or maybe you TiVo’d the Oscars while at the same time wishing there were some sort of Director’s commentary to go along with the show!  Well, Filmmakers, your wish is our command!

We Tweet’d the Academy Awards this year and re-assembled all that hard work and colorful commentary in all of its raw and undigested fervor right here for your viewing pleasure!  A minute-by-minute, play-by-play for  the 82nd Annual Academy Awards…

The W4F Oscar Tweet-fest

Tweeting the Oscars….but from the couch…not the Kodak theater…Boo! 18 mins to go.
8:11 PM Mar 7th

Clooney needs a haircut….or some hair gel that holds up under rainy/humid conditions. Gyllenhall bro&sis look great! #Red Carpet
8:14 PM Mar 7th

No old blue jeans for Miley…no botox either….good for u! Bucking the system!
8:23 PM Mar 7th

Tina Fey & Steve Carr need to be a real life couple…too cute! They could have a whole batch of little NBC kids and sitcoms!
8:25 PM Mar 7th

The Streep v The Bullock….it’s goin down tonight…the chanel’s gonna hit the fan! #RedCarpet
8:26 PM Mar 7th

Red carpet over…on to the show…still miss Billy Crystal’s opens….and the oscar goes to… #RedCarpet
8:30 PM Mar 7th

“The moment you’ve all been waiting for…?” Being spoonfed a Chargrill shake by Kate Beckinsale? Oh…the opening #…I see…#oscar
8:34 PM Mar 7th

So Doogie is the new Jackman who was the new Billy Crystal. Got it #Oscars
8:34 PM Mar 7th

Coming soon to ElectronicArts: “Precious: The Video Game” RT: Steve Martin #Oscars
8:40 PM Mar 7th

RT@boxofficemojo: Alec Baldwin has only starred in one $100M movie prior to ‘It’s Complicated:’ ‘The Hunt for Red October’ in 1990: http://bit.ly/cfplH8
8:43 PM Mar 7th

Reeeeeally need to see “Invictus”…and “Up In the Air”….and “Hot Tub Time Machine”…but “Invictus” first. #Oscars
8:46 PM Mar 7th

Actor in a supporting role: Kristoff Waltz (Inglorious Basterds)
8:48 PM Mar 7th

RT @boxofficemojo: ‘The Blind Side’ crossed the $250 million mark yesterday, its 107th day of release…http://bit.ly/ctvCpN
8:51 PM Mar 7th

Best Animated Feature film: Up….Pixar…who knew? #Oscars
8:59 PM Mar 7th

One guy on stage for ‘Up’? Shouldn’t there be like 800 people up there? #Oscars
8:59 PM Mar 7th

For those keeping score…that’s Shiney Silver Dresses: 6 #Oscars
9:01 PM Mar 7th

My facebook peeps that are getting auto-updated each tweet think I’ve gone CRAZY with the typing and the updating and the sending…
9:03 PM Mar 7th

Best Song: Ryan Bigham and T-Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)…over Randy Newman? The world has gone mad? #Oscars
9:05 PM Mar 7th

Shout out to District 9…awesome pic…amazing effects….lot of secrets in District 9 #Oscars
9:06 PM Mar 7th

Robert Downey Jr and Tina Fey…I totally wanna write that movie too!!! #Oscars
9:12 PM Mar 7th

Best Original Screenplay: Mark Bowl (Hurt Locker)…right on! #Oscars
9:15 PM Mar 7th

RT @boxofficemojo: Original Screenplay nominated movies had an average gross of $87.7M. http://bit.ly/9Usltr
9:15 PM Mar 7th

My doppelganger has for the longest time been “Ferris Beuhler’s Friend”…Cameron…
9:19 PM Mar 7th

Oscars 80s flashback! Ack! I don’t want my member’s only jacket anymore! #Oscars
9:21 PM Mar 7th

RT @KatzMoney: Hurt Locker screenplay win suggests Best Picture as well.
9:19 PM Mar 7th

W4F Oscar Tweet Feed will be cut reeeeeeal short if person I’m borrowing wireless from shuts off their ‘puter. #Oscar
9:27 PM Mar 7th

Best Animated Short: Nicolas Schmerkin…3000 unofficial sponsors! Funneh. #Oscars
9:32 PM Mar 7th

Best Documentary Short: Music By Prudence #Oscars
9:34 PM Mar 7th

RT@jonmckee: “The tools never make a great film, Its what you do with the tools. Telling a great story, entertaining the audience. ” – John Lasseter
9:33 PM Mar 7th

Live Action Short: The New Tenants #Oscars
9:36 PM Mar 7th

Hahahahaha…Ben Stiller…dressed like an Avatar! #Oscars
9:38 PM Mar 7th

Best Makeup: Star Trek! Spock’s ears get an Oscar. #Oscars
9:42 PM Mar 7th

RT@bittespuhlen: “When you’re a man sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room…just for fun.” – Nacho
9:42 PM Mar 7th

RT@THR: Up next — Best Adapted Screenplay – An Education, In the Loop, Precious, Up In the Air or District 9?
9:45 PM Mar 7th

Who is your “Hollywood Spouse?”….mine is most definitely Rachel McAdams. Lurv her.
9:49 PM Mar 7th

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jeffrey Fletcher for Precious! #Oscars
9:50 PM Mar 7th

…only they should announce it like Gollum…like, my “preciousssssssss” #Oscars
9:51 PM Mar 7th

RT@boxofficemojo: Precious has grossed $47.4 million, middle of the pack among Adapted Screenplay noms. http://bit.ly/cNUYlI
9:51 PM Mar 7th

Lauren Bacall…you know how to whistle don’t you? #Oscars
9:55 PM Mar 7th

Roger Corman is credited with launching sooooo many Hollywood director careers! #Oscars
9:55 PM Mar 7th

Robin Williams is my co-Star from “Patch Adams”…well co-star is a strong word…I definitely graduated two peeps behind him in the film
9:57 PM Mar 7th

Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo’Nique (Precious) ….2nd Precious Win…or “my precioussssssss”…. #Oscars
9:59 PM Mar 7th

Mo’Nique gives a shout-out to Tyler Perry…this is as close as a faith-based film as we’ve got at the Oscars, peeps. #Oscars
10:01 PM Mar 7th

Director John Hughes has quite an impressive resume on IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/
10:05 PM Mar 7th

RT@terracecrawford: “It can be about the performance and not the politics.” – Monique Rocks! (via @nealcampbell) // i agree. that was a great performance.
10:04 PM Mar 7th

Art Direction: Avatar…given by Sigourney Na’vi Weaver #Oscars
10:07 PM Mar 7th

Hope my film students are watching this to see all the OTHER PEOPLE needed to make a film. 10% inspiration….90% perspiration. #Oscars
10:08 PM Mar 7th

Costume Design: The Young Victoria, Sandy Powell…also for Shakespeare in Love and The Aviator….oh she’s gooooooood! #Oscars
10:11 PM Mar 7th

RunPee.Com says best time to go to bathroom is NOW!! During commercial!! #Oscars
10:14 PM Mar 7th

Needs a whiplash warning before we go from National TV to a local car commercial….uuuuurch! My neck! Blah!
10:16 PM Mar 7th

Emo Twilight Kids….so somber…. #Oscars
10:19 PM Mar 7th

RT@kemmeyer: Ima gonna sleep with the lights on after horror tribute @ the #oscars
10:21 PM Mar 7th

Horror montage keeps going and going and going……. #oscars
10:22 PM Mar 7th

Excellent…an education in sound editing…wake up film students…work, I tell ya…movies = work! #Oscars
10:23 PM Mar 7th

Best Sound Editing: Paul N.J. Ottosson (sp?) Hurt Locker #Oscars
10:26 PM Mar 7th

Best Sound Mixing: The Hurt Locker…Cameron’s ex-wife scores another statue #Oscars
10:27 PM Mar 7th

Early odds are that Hurt Locker is winning best picture #Oscars
10:28 PM Mar 7th

And the technical awards for a bunch of people we lumped into a giant category for super grain nano technology #Oscars
10:29 PM Mar 7th

Recap: 8 Silver dresses, 5 cutaways to unsmiling Clooney, 3 Hurt Locker Awards, 2 for my Preciousssssss… #Oscars
10:31 PM Mar 7th

Best Cinematography: Mauro Fiore for Avatar…2nd tonite #Oscars
10:36 PM Mar 7th

Demi looked fabu…not like Madonna with her “gollum arms” #Oscars
10:39 PM Mar 7th

Apparently Brittany Murphy died of ‘natural causes’ on Dec 20, 2009…did not know that… #Oscars
10:44 PM Mar 7th

Totally don’t remember that dance scene in “Hurt Locker”…. #Oscars
10:48 PM Mar 7th

RT@human3rror: “The people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.” – Malcom Gladwell
10:47 PM Mar 7th

Best Original Score: Michael Giachinno (sp?) “Up” #oscars
10:52 PM Mar 7th

“If you wanna be creative, go do it…it’s not a waste of time” Michael Giachinno #Oscars
10:54 PM Mar 7th

Best Visual Effects: Avatar!! $300M here, $300M there, pretty soon you can buy yourself some decent effects! #Oscars
10:55 PM Mar 7th

RT@THR: Avatar 3, The Hurt Locker 3, Precious 2
10:56 PM Mar 7th

Best Documentary Feature Presenter: Matt Damon….he just rocks okay! It’s not a man-crush. He’s just cool! #Oscar
11:02 PM Mar 7th

Best Documentary Feature: The Cove #Oscars
11:04 PM Mar 7th

Best Film Editing: The Hurt Locker ? Hmmm. Not seeing it. #Oscars
11:08 PM Mar 7th

Editors is crazier than writers and composers. #Oscars
11:08 PM Mar 7th

RT@druckenmiller: http://twitpic.com/17aqep – Winners “bag” at Oscar party, those BNC cables? Ehh bunch a production folk..
11:12 PM Mar 7th

Best Foreign Language Film: uhhhh…the secret du rosas…or sus ojos…errrr something foreign….so glad Na’vi doesn’t count #Oscars
11:18 PM Mar 7th

RT@THR: Next up Best Actor– Firth, Bridges, Freeman, Renner or Clooney?
11:18 PM Mar 7th

Not worried about Avatar…Cameron’s crying all the way to the bank. #Oscar
11:24 PM Mar 7th

What’s with the Best Actor campaign speeches? They’ve already voted…let’s see who’s got it… #Oscars
11:28 PM Mar 7th

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges “Crazy Heart” 1st Acad Award, 5th Nom #Oscar
11:33 PM Mar 7th

RT@DaveGrumme: Congratulations Jeff Bridges – 75 films and counting.
11:34 PM Mar 7th

RT @timastevens: I respect celebrities who have stayed married. Way to go Jeff Bridges for your Oscar–but more for 33 yrs of marriage.
11:39 PM Mar 7th

boxofficemojo The Best Actress category had a better box office showing than Best Actor: $408.8M vs. $173.1M http://bit.ly/9Usltr
11:45 PM Mar 7th

Best Actress: Wow! Sandy B! Blindside! #Oscars
11:49 PM Mar 7th

RT@boxofficemojo: Blind Side is Sandra Bullock’s highest-grossing movie at over $250M, folloed by another 2009 release, The Proposal: http://bit.ly/a4r2An
11:50 PM Mar 7th

Best Director: Katherine Bigelow “Hurt Locker” – first female academy award ever in this category #Oscar
11:55 PM Mar 7th

Oscar Subtext = Suck it Tarantino! #Oscars
11:58 PM Mar 7th

Best Motion Picture: The HURT LOCKERRRRRRRRRR…with little fanfare and buildup by Tom Hanks #Oscars
11:59 PM Mar 7th

Alrighty then….go back to work tomorrow….finish those films, people! Got some work to do!
12:03 AM Mar 8th

For Official Oscar Night Winner Info and to View Acceptance Speeches click here.

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Wired4Film Twits or Tweets….

Alrighty then, Wired4Film is not ready to concede we’ve reached W4F 2.0 status yet, but we have taken a gigantic technological leap forward by launching our Twitter campaign.  

Not heard of Twitter yet?  Not sure what it does or how to make it work?  

We don’t either!

But we’re reminded of the time we ventured forth to join a small group in a burgeoning online social network 4 or 5 years ago called FACEBOOK, and we realize…why not?  Could be big one day.  Could be huge.  

Or it could be this generations’ New Coke.  Jury is still out.

Either way, we had some initial questions, but we have been guaranteed the following in joining the Twitterification of America:

1. You can’t blow anything up or be blown up using Twitter

2. A Tweet is not a communicable air-borne virus.  Although it may be contagious.

3. Twittering is not a part of the government bail-out, but nor is it tax deductible.

4. Webster will be revamping modern lexicography (?) again to update old phrases to “A Penny for your Tweet” or “Stop! Or I’ll Tweet!”  and perhaps “What the Twitter is going on here?!?”

5. Bad Tweet puns are punishable by small fines or community service.

6. I’ll be stacking books at the Community library this weekend for #4 violations

Anyway…follow us by going and clicking….er….”Follow”:

http://twitter.com/Wired4Film

…or at the bottom of the home page is a Twitter Widget.  Use it.  Love it as we have loved it!

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Wired4Film Goes LIVE

RALEIGH, NC – Ushering in a new age of faith-based film news and commentary, Wired4Film.com launches today, pulling together hundreds of news bits  from all over into one convenient location.

“It’s like Hollywood Reporter meets Facebook meets Passion of the Christ,” says Editor-in-Chief, S. David Acuff, “only different!”

And he’s only joking a little.  Though the site launches with only the Newswire service in place, the ABOUT US page specs out plans for the site to develop its Social Networking as well; to fill a growing void in Christian filmmaking, to both report the news and to connect an increasing community of artisans.

“With dozens of film and TV projects in the works,” Acuff explains, “it seems a shame that we only hear about 2 or 3 of the biggies.”

Make sure to visit the ARCHIVES early on which detail all the articles by Month and day providing an index for the site.  Also, are you in the middle of a project yourself? From development to Premieres and film debuts, we want to hear about it, so drop us a line using our CONTACT PAGE.

S. David Acuff is an award-winning Writer-Director-Editor in North Carolina with over 15 years of film and video production experience.  He says the idea for the website came in 2000 while attending film school at Regent University’s Graduate program.  It was there he discovered so many more Christians with a call to the Film Industry, but no forum to keep them all networked and talking after graduation.

“It’s imperative that we keep the dialogue lines open as we move forward together to take an active part in this industry.  Because it’s time to stop boycotting and counting swear words in Hollywood films and roll up our sleeves, get in there and become the change we’ve been crying about for years,” Acuff says.

Welcome to Wired4Film.com!   Let’s Make a Movie!