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The Coen Brothers on Raising Money
Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThe following exchange is from the book My First Movie edited by Stephen Lowenstein: Joel Coen: “(To make Blood Simple) we followed the example of Sam Raimi. Sam had done this trailer, almost like a full-length version of The Evil Dead, but on Super 8. He raised like sixty or ninety thousand dollars that way, essentially by [...]
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