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This note is personal. I’m a traditional filmmaker who still loves the smell of a DCP and the ritual of lights-down in a theater. But I’m also the person who just spent an entire subway ride watching everyone around me stare, hypnotized, at a six-inch screen. It stings
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Most international filmmakers and screenwriters glance at the vertical-drama boom and assume the platforms are starving for “great…
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How to turn 90 seconds of phone real estate into a binge-worthy roller coaster ← no dash needed at all.
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The global short-form drama boom shows no sign of slowing. From January through June, 257 dedicated apps racked up more than 84.59 million…
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Vertical dramas are series built for phone screens. Every episode runs between sixty and ninety seconds, fills a tall nine by sixteen…
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Streaming on FlickReels since early June, this ninety-second-chapter drama has rocketed into the most-watched carousel on several…
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How an audio-app spin-off just turned India into the next battleground for 90-second series
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How a still-pending New York homicide case became the plot of ReelShort’s new vertical drama The Adjuster.
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What we learned after binge-watching 100+ English and Chinese vertical series To better understand the storytelling difference between film/TV script and Vertical script, we watched more than 100 series, both English and Chinese original, here are our observation about the current english series script characteristic and issues: Unlike a
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From a 20-square-meter dorm office in Beijing to the top of the U.S. App Store. Here’s the cross-border thriller powering your 60-second cliff-hangers. In 2000, a handful of recent grads from Tsinghua (China’s top 1 university) crammed into a broom-closet office in Beijing’s Haidian startup district
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The Market Blows Past $700 Million in a Quarter
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Hollywood is busy licensing your childhood cartoons into billion-dollar IP universes, while millions of Gen Z are paying 30 cents to unlock…