A REBUILDING PHASE FOR INDEPENDENT FILM

Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times

The filming of “East Fifth Bliss” with Michael C. Hall, center. The independent film has a budget of less than $2 million.

NEW YORK TIMES

Published: April 25, 2010

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

Only five years ago, the center of the still thriving independent film universe lay behind the green doors of a converted TriBeCa warehouse from which the Weinstein brothers, Bob and Harvey, ran Miramax Films. (READ MORE)

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"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."

BEASTY BOY ENTERS THE WORLD OF INDEPENDENT FILM

Offstage, a Beastie Boy Enters the World of Independent Film

By MELENA RYZIK

Published: September 8, 2008

"Every day the Beastie Boy known as MCA, who spent years rapping about girls and parties and the five boroughs, goes to work in an office. Sure, it’s a cool one: the former headquarters of the Benjamin Moore paint company, it is a loftlike space filled with surfboards, skateboards, flea market paintings and his fellow Beastie Mike D.’s records; the attitude is dot-com casual. In this atmosphere of dudes, MCA has become the Boss

. . . . Now, despite some formidable odds, he is pursuing his cinematic interests with a new division of his company, Oscilloscope, which acquires, produces and distributes independent movies." (read article)

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"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."