Film Courage: How much did it cost you to start Film Threat?
Chris Gore, Founder/Owner of FilmThreat/Author/Filmmaker: Oh wow…well, it cost me nothing because I wrote a bad check and it bounced. This is when we would write checks for things. So I started Film Threat…I guess the real investment was I bought a book about how to publish a magazine because based on my college education. I kind of felt like I’m paying them all this money to buy really expensive versions of books and then regurgitate the contents of those books in the form of essays or questionnaires when I can just buy the books and read those books recreationally because being filled with knowledge was the thing that was important to me, not proving to a professor that I had read the book.
I bought a book from Folio Magazine, which is the magazine about the magazine business. It’s like Variety for magazines and I bought a book from them about how to publish a magazine and read that book and realized there was no way I was going to be able to do it. The first issue was six pages and I had put it together, I had the logo which I created and sort of a fanzine. I like the title Film Threat, it sounded punk rock and I was a big fan of old school fanzines. They were mostly about music and skateboarding and while I loved music but could not skateboard, I loved movies. I wanted to do a fanzine about movies…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Chris Gore is a writer, comedian, author and television personality who has built a solid reputation as a hilariously outspoken voice in the entertainment world. As a teenager, Chris founded the brutally honest magazine Film Threat, which began as a fanzine while he was a college student in Detroit. As Film Threat evolved into a respected national magazine, he relocated to Los Angeles. The print magazine was retired in 1997 when it was re-launched as a web site. FilmThreat.com found a huge audience online and was named one of the top five movie web sites by the Wall Street Journal. Chris has appeared as a film expert on MSNBC, E!, CNN, Travel Channel, and Reelz Channel. Chis has also hosted shows on FX, Starz, IFC and G4TV’s Attack of the Show as the show’s film expert. His weekly movie review segment DVDuesday was among the most popular on G4. Chris is also an author, having written The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made and The Complete DVD Book. His book The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide is considered the bible of the industry and is required reading at film school. https://www.youtube.com/embed/fhj-C_Z-h6w
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