Explosions and fire get headlines, but the #1 claim in film insurance is auto physical damage. Cars hitting other cars, a PA backing into a mailbox, even a crew member leaning too hard on a hood. Good advice: screen drivers. Pull Motor Vehicle Records (MVRs) before tossing

Shooting abroad isn’t just “business as usual.” Most U.S. liability policies stop at the border. A foreign package policy adds what you didn’t even know you needed: travel accident, sickness coverage, even kidnap and ransom in high-risk countries. For productions conspicuous

Back in the 1980s, horror films were smuggled into living rooms on VHS tapes labeled “video nasties.” They were taboo, almost illicit, passed around with the same energy as contraband. For fans, there was a sense of shame, as if loving horror meant you were outside the

Two decades ago, Indonesia barely made horror films. Today, nearly a quarter of its national cinema is devoted to them. For Stephen Follows, this isn’t just a statistic, it’s a revelation. Horror, he says, always reflects what a society fears. An American remake of The Ring must

When Stephen Follows crunched the data on average shot lengths, he expected action films to be the fastest. That proved true, four seconds per cut. But what stunned him was the other extreme: horror. Sixteen seconds on average between cuts, even longer than drama. At first,

On paper, audiences say they want originality. But box office data tells another story. Even as the number of horror sequels has declined, they now account for more than half of the genre’s global theatrical revenue. Stephen Follows explains why. Studio executives are risk

Some horror films succeed not because of their stars or effects, but because of a single contagious idea. The Purge needs only one sentence—“One day a year, all crime is legal”—to infect your imagination. Final Destination boils down to death coming back for those who escape

We’ve built not just payroll for productions — but the full financial stack. With our new Accounts Payable launch, the back office for entertainment is now an intelligent, integrated system.

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I have been working with my Athena EA for a few years now. It has been an incredible way to offload important but very expensive coordination tasks like scheduling meetings, travel plans, dinner reservations, etc. leaving me room to make better decisions. Highly recommend.

Today we officially welcome Cinapse to the Wrapbook family. For years, scheduling and production finance have lived in separate worlds. By integrating scheduling with payroll and accounting, we’re creating a unified data platform that allows productions to work with more

Thank you to Variety for covering this exciting milestone! With Cinapse joining the Wrapbook family, we’re moving closer to a world where scheduling and production finance finally operate in sync. Read the full article here. 👉 variety.com/2025/biz/news/…

I am so excited about Wrapbook acquiring cinapse. Productions don’t just need better tools. They need a true operating system for entertainment. A single platform where scheduling, budgeting, payroll, and accounting operate in real time, sharing the same data, the same source

What a night! ✨ Thanks to everyone who joined us for Wrapbook’s Production Office Mixer. From panoramic views to great company, it was the perfect way to toast the season with the people who make production possible. A huge shoutout to our production accounting community for

If you're a CEO trying to figure out AI adoption in engineering, here's what 3 months and a 5x increase in tooling spend taught me. 🧵

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