New Film and Movie Search Engine

We’ve created a custom Google search to help people search for film and movie news and information.  You can use it at http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=018436150521358100921:fft8th8lcok&hl=en.

You can also get the code to add it to your web page or you can add to your iGoogle page.

Please let us know if you have any suggestions about the websites we should add to it, or would like to volunteer to contribute.

We’ve also incorporated the search into a Google Gadget, that has five feeds, three of which are changable, to bring you the latest film news and release information.  You can preview the Gadget and use the search on our Film Search page.

Contacting Us
There are a number of ways you can contact us.  As well as using the contact form on our website, you can email info@ownafilmcompany.com or text us on +44 7624 80 81 82. Just make sure you start your text with the keyword FILMS.

Newsletter and Press Release

We’ve issued a new Press Release today, visit http://www.ownafilmcompany.com/press-release-new-website to view it.

Our February newsletter also went out today.  Yes we know it’s March, but it is an update of the February happenings on the site.  If you haven’t received it, you can view the full newsletter online, but here’s an extract:

We’ve made it easier for people to register their interest. Previously the only way to let us know you were interested in becoming a paid member, when the time comes, was to register as a free member. Although that is still the best way becuase registered free members receive regular updates, invites to our events, have access to our forums, can vote in our polls and have other benefits, we’ve now made it possible to register your interest without actually registering on the website. We’ve added Google Friend Connect, so people can register their interest in becoming a paid member, and invite friends, using their Google, AIM, Yahoo or OpenID account.

We’ve created an iGoogle tab to make it easier for you to stay updated. When you add the tab to your iGoogle, you will have all our updates in one place. There are six boxes on the tab; latest posts to our homepage, latest articles in the updates section, latest blog posts, latest film news from our blog, latest film reviews from our blog and our latests Twitter updates. Try it now.

Written by Tracey, OwnAFilmCompany.com

Photos From Our Launch Party

If you’ve been to this blog, or visited our website lately, you will know what we had a launch party for our new website, last Thursday.  It’s a bit difficult to write up a launch party – it was a party – there were drinks and food and music and people – but luckily we have photos to do the write up for us.

The party did include an auction of film memorabilia, in aid of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), registered charity number 1050845.  We had planned on a silent auction, but as you can see from the photos, that didn’t really work,  so we held an impromtu normal auction.  Most of the items sold and the four that didn’t, are available for online auction now.

These photos were kindly taken by Tony Halford of Tony Halford Photography.

Last Night’s Launch Party

A big thank you to everyone who came to our party last night, especially those who bid on the auction.  Photos coming soon, but in the meantime here’s the raffle and auction results:

Auction

Autographed In Person 16X20 Photos

• Sean Connery, James Bond – Reserve: £250 Sold for £250
• Robert DeNiro, Raging Bull – Reserve: £225 Unsold – contact us if interested
• Jack Nicholson, The Shining – Reserve: £200 Sold for £235

Autographed In Person 11X14 Photos

• Angelina Jolie – Reserve: £95 Unsold – contact us if interested
• Johnny Depp & Orlando Bloom – Pirates of the Carribean – Reserve: £150 Unsold – contact us if interested

Autographed In Person 8X10 Photos

• Heath Ledger – Reserve: £185 Unsold – contact us if interested
• Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, Men In Black – Reserve: £45 Sold for £50
• Orlando Bloom, Pirates of The Caribbean – Reserve: £35 Sold for £50
• Keanu Reeves, The Matrix – Reserve: £25 Sold for £50
• Kevin Bacon, Death Sentence – Reserve: £20 Sold for £22.50

Autographed In Person Boxing Glove

• Sylvester Stallone, “Rocky” – Reserve: £150 Sold for £170

Raffle Winners

• Two tickets to Thriller Live, donated by Adrian Grant, Producer of Thriller Live.
  Won by Maureen Judge
• Alfred Hitcock DVD Boxset, donated by OwnAFilmCompany.com.
  Won by Matt Evans
• The Audrey Hepburn Collection DVD Boxset, donated by OwnAFilmCompany.com.
  Won by Lee Gibbons
• Alyson Hanigan Autographed In Person Picture, donated by OwnAFilmCompany.com.
  Won by Jayesh Panchmatia
• Drew Barrymore Autographed In Person Picture, donated by OwnAFilmCompany.com.
  Won by Andrew McDonough
• Avon Bond Girl 007 Gift Set, donated by OwnAFilmCompany.com.
  Won by Tony Halford

More Film Memorabilia Announced

As we have already said, to celebrate the launch of our new website, we are having a launch party at Oxygen in London’s Leicester Square, on January 8th 2009. The party will include a silent auction, of film memorabilia, and business card raffle,  in aid of the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), registered charity number 1050845.  Visit www.ownafilmcompany.com/party for full details and free tickets.

We announced the first few auction items, a few days ago.  We have now secured the follwoing items as well:

AUTOGRAPHED 16X20 Photos
Jack Nicholson – The Shining
Sean Connery – James Bond
Robert DeNiro – Raging Bull

AUTOGRAPHED 11X14 Photos
Angelina Jolie
Johnny Depp & Orlando Bloom – Pirates of the Carribean

AUTOGRAPHED 8X10 Photos
Heath Ledger

AUTOGRAPHED BOXING GLOVES
Sylvester Stallone – “Rocky”

Win a Years Free Membership to OwnAFilmCompany.com

OwnAFilmCompany.com are giving free members the opportunity to win a years paid membership. To enter, just register at OwnAFilmCompany.com and recommend it to a friend.

Full details are on http://www.ownafilmcompany.com/film/news.php?item.21.3

Tracey – OwnAFilmCompany.com

Another External Meeting

On Thursday we had another external meeting. This time it was with a mobile phone network. We’re still discussing details, but will hopefully be partnering with them for our upcoming short film competition. More details to follow, so watch this space and start getting your short films ready…

Tracey – OwnAFilmCompany.com

Should We Have a Panel to Shortlist the Best Scripts?

This week, we had our first external meeting since we started this blog. I met Robert Lewis, a Director, at Minibar on Friday 27th June, where Channel 4 presented 4IP, their “new investment fund for innovation.” He said he was interested in meeting up and getting to know more about OwnAFilmCompany.com and we eventually managed to find time to meet on Thursday.

It was an interesting meeting and he had some good suggestions, most of which I can’t blog about. Well we can’t post too much of our business and marketing plans, but I am going to mention two of his suggestions. The first that we post about external meetings in our blog, so I’m taking his advice and doing that right now.

The other was that we have a panal to judge the scripts. Our original plan was to check that the scripts could be made with £2.5m, but not do any quality control. In the interests of democracy, we were going to put all scripts up for the members vote.

Robert pointed out that we could end up with 100s of scripts come in and members won’t have time to read through all the entries, so they either won’t vote at all, or they will only read the first few and just vote on those, making it an unfair vote. He suggest we put together a panel of judges, to shortlist the best few scripts, then just put those up for the members vote.

What do you think? To launch this blog, we’re opening the script judging panel idea up for discussion.

Please add comments letting us know if you think we should have a panel of judges create a short list, or put all scripts up to the members vote. If you like the panel idea, who would you like to see on it?

Tracey – OwnAFilmCompany.com

Welcome to The Film Blog

This blog was set up by OwnAFilmCompany.com. The idea is to bring together all the best film or movie blogs and bloggers in one place. Please email blog@ownafilmcompany.com if you would like to add an rss feed of your blog, to this site, or become one of our blog writers.

OwnAFilmCompany.com was set up to help people get their first break in the Film Industry. Members own the company and vote on the film. Because the film productions are funded by the membership fee, we are under less commercial pressures than most film companies and can make films that may not be made otherwise. Visit OwnAFilmCompany.com to find out more and join.

Tracey – OwnAFilmCompany.com