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I did several movies in the late 1990's for a non-union production company that somewhat overlapped the movies at Hallmark Productions, similar crews, similar budgets, locations, etc. At the time, the model was sort of the $700,000 35mm feature made in 18 or 21 days, but that was over a decade ago. Most of these movies were made by Larry Levinson Productions.

As for myself, all I can say is that I did the best I could back then with those budgets and schedules, but to some degree, the style gets tied to the genre and market, which doesn't encourage a lot of experimenting or bold stylistic choices. I remember at the time that I was told that everything had to be sharp, with nothing like lens flares allowed, no diffusion, no smoke, nothing too bright or too dark, all because the main buyer was German television, who would reject low-budget movies over the most minor technical grounds. It was rather limiting artistically, though it was also a good training ground in terms of delivering material of a certain standard, if a somewhat bland standard. Plus you could count on the post being fairly consistent, they couldn't go TOO cheap or else risk failing QC with the buyer.

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I've shot a couple of movies for Lifetime. They were low budget TV movies, where the schedule is tight (15-18 days) and the network doesn't like you to do anything too 'risky'. I was lucky to have a director that trusted me, and so we were able to be darker and more daring than most of their output, but, as David says, generally they don't want any flares or smoke, and everything has to be be fairly flat. One the last one I did, I actually had to protect for 4:3 TVs, something I hadn't been asked to do in about 15 years.

I also supervised the answer printing and transfer to video back then, unpaid of course. Again, you were restricted by the mandate that nothing be too dark or too bright, no clipping or crushing. In my case (and these weren't Hallmark movies though many of them have showed up on Lifetime over the years) they were all in the family thriller genre and allowed me more mood than if they were family comedies/romances/adventures probably, just not as much as I probably would have liked.

I don't want to beat up on those non-union Hallmark movies too much, some of them are well-photographed considering the restrictions, and everyone works very hard on them. Some probably cut corners too much, though that's also been driven by the market today, everyone has to deal with shrinking budgets and shorter schedules.

Southern Ontario, specifically Hamilton, is now the epicentre of where Hallmark movies are shot. Hallmark uses producers here to take advantage of the stable tax credit and to lower their costs. One production company here that turns these things out like sausages has the production schedule down to 12 days, then the crew is recycled to do the next one.

I suspect that many of those Hallmark-Lifetime feature budgets are still just below 1 million even today, but now they are shooting in HD and in fewer days. But they probably also have a range of budgets. If you have a slate of movies to make in a year, sometimes you shift more money to one and take it away from another.

I think it's kind of healthy to have a variety of different budget movies out there, then there can be the lower end stuff where people get their start on things and then proper movies with real budgets. So to this end I think stuff like Hallmark movies are a really positive thing. This thread is actually about how the cheaper movies don't look as good, so you get what you pay for.

I'd like it if there was more variety in movies as I like the movies that aren't superhero mega movies more. I enjoyed watching "The American" and "The Ides of March" lately which are both great movies worth checking out and presently in a bargain in near you! (Probably Tesco's too)

I talked recently with one DP who was working on quite a few of those "late night" cinemax type movies. They kind of operate on the same level as the Hallmark / lifetime sort of films in that it's a small crew and a short schedule and a tight budget.

I've always been sort of fascinated with the genre of bad B-movies. Not indie arthouse films which I've always liked but rather films that are just poorly made intentionally for an audience that doesn't really care. Either the late night or afternoon audience.

Does Hallmark tend to crank out a lot of "talking head" movies shot in three locations? Sure they do. Film is a business first and foremost. Although a lot of people on this forum call themselves "artists" that always makes me laugh.

I've done a few lifetime movies now that I've hit LA. I think, in truth, the biggest issues are time and the need to make a project which will sell. It's a system of if it isn't broke why fix it. That said, I enjoy the work I do on those films, not because of the final project, so much so, but rather because of the people with whom I work and the overall challenge of it.

In this tragedy inspired by true events, 18-year-old Sara (Stefanie Scott) looks forward to the day she can finally escape her controlling father (Judd Nelson, worlds away from his iconic role as Bender in The Breakfast Club), but her plan goes south when he locks her away in the basement of their family home, where he imprisons and tortures her for years.

Lifetime movies have been TV staples for years, and we can never get tired of watching them. The combination of true stories that put you on edge and powerhouse performances makes for a winning combination, and we look forward to seeing whatever intense dramas they bring to the screen next.

You can't fully appreciate the magic of Lifetime movies without watching one of the best Lifetime Christmas movies of all time. This one involves a charming inn, a handsome ghost, and lots of romance.

Hayden Panettiere stars as Amanda Knox, an American exchange student who was accused of killing her roommate in Italy. This dramatization of the real-life case is one of Lifetime's most popular true crime movies for a reason!

I'm on a small team shooting a very small lifetime movie in Northern Arizona. We have a scene in the script featuring a married man and woman climbing and he sadly falls to his death. We will not be showing the actual impact, just the moments leading up to it.

As a climber myself, I told the team the only way I would shoot it is if we have a modicum of realism in the representation of the accident. We are discussing how to do that and how to simplify the scene as much as possible.

We will be shooting this stuff somewhere around the week of March 13th in either the Flagstaff or Sedona area. It would be a single day shoot. We are looking to find experienced local climbers.

We need a woman who can be a double of our actress: roughly 5'9ish, light skin tone but not super pale, brownish hair, altho we can use a wig under a helmet if need be.

We are actually looking to cast a local climber as the husband (character's name is Akil, POC) likely a mixed or darker skintone. Please reach out if you are interested in playing this character!

Background: I was laid off from my job in hospitality management in 2009. My days were spent on the couch with boxes of cookies watching Lifetime movies. I had no motivation, no goals or aspirations, no plan of what I wanted to do or how I wanted to live with this turn my life had taken.

If you don't have cable, you might only think of Lifetime movies when Christmas rolls around and it's time to go visit a relative who does have cable. This is pretty common in the streaming era, and you may catch a handful of Lifetime movies on Netflix without even knowing it.

Lifetime's film library is made up of much more than Christmas movies. The network has a long, winding history that distinguishes their TV movies from others. Now is a good time to watch something new and different, and the catalog of options from Lifetime might just surprise you. Here are ten things you never knew about Lifetime movies and the cable network that created them.

In addition to acquiring syndicated series and creating original series, Lifetime is known for its TV movies. The first Lifetime movie was Memories of a Murder in 1990. The film starred Nancy Allen, who played a woman who gets amnesia and thereby forgets about a psychopath that is out to kill her family.

Lifetime stayed focused on their female viewership behind the scenes, too. They hired female writers or directors for 73 percent of their movies between the years 1994 and 2016 (as noted on their website). That is certainly an achievement, and it shows dedication to empowering women in the television industry. Some female actors have gained notoriety from their starring roles in these movies, too.

It made sense for Lifetime to try to move ahead of the times. They launched Lifetime Online in 1996. In 1998, it was time for an even bigger development: Lifetime Movie Network. Just like it sounds, this is a network with all-day movie marathons. Lifetime's movies proved to be the most successful of their ventures, so it made sense to capitalize on the films' popularity.

As much as some women of the '90s loved Lifetime's movies, the network recognized that they're not necessarily for everyone. In Redesigning Women, Amanda Lotz explains an additional strategy of creating the Lifetime Movie Network. The original Lifetime channel could now "devote less of its daily schedule to replaying older films, while not forfeiting the value of what had developed into an expansive film archive. The main network could then counter-program itself, making space... for content more likely to appeal to women uninterested in the network's films."

Still ahead of their time, Lifetime anticipated the streaming era pretty early on. They launched Lifetime Movie Club in 2015, boasting of 2,000+ titles (some original, some acquired by Lifetime). A quick look at Movie Club website shows that the service only costs $3.99 a month, and the movies are commercial-free. 2351a5e196