Director Mike Figgis spent longer at LAX airport than intended. He'd arrived in Los Angeles, along with half the acting and directing world, for what is known as 'pilot season', when the big studios try out new scripts, directors and actors in a...
A Fair(y) Use Tale: Disney Characters Explain Copyright
"A Fair(y) Use Tale" mashes up all your Disney favorites to humorously and effectively explain copyright law. The ten minute movie, directed by Eric Faden, came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program. And, well, the...
A third NYC store planned for Apple
During this afternoon's financial conference call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced that a third Big Apple store is being planned. It's been suggested that this building at 401 West 14th Street will be the third store's location. At 52,000...
New York City Film piracy penalty is now a misdemeanor
With the summer blockbuster movie season just ahead, City Hall and the Motion Picture Association of America are warning that secretly videotaping films is now a misdemeanor in New York City. Days before the highly anticipated "Spider-Man 3" opens...
TV news of the future by Dave Winer
I was drinking coffee, watching the morning news when a story about Virginia Tech came on MSNBC. I really wanted to begin this week without more stories about how they're coping. I know this makes me an ogre, but after listening to On The Media...
DVD rental business has rapidly become commoditized as customers shop by price.
That, at least, appears to be the message Netflix's earnings conference call, on which top execs spent a considerable amount of time from the very start talking about the toll Blockbuster's (BBI) new online offering has taken on its business....
Digital media proves problematic for hollywood
Simply put, there's no generally accepted way to store digital "footage" for more than a few months. After that the industry is using a hodgepodge of improvised solutions, some rather costly, others not very reliable.That looked like a small problem...
Modern visual effects technology allows directors to adjust actors facial expressions
At the Visual Effects Societys recent conference, Jeff Okun, the organisations chairman, showed before and after versions of one of the climactic shots in the Oscar-nominated film Blood Diamond.In the before shot Jennifer Connolly, the leading lady,...
25+ Million Americans Pirate Movies
Roughly 18 percent of the U.S. online population has illegally downloaded a full-length movie at some point in the past, according to a telephone and online study of 2,600 Americans. A typical movie downloader is 29 years of age, while 63 percent of...
MySpace announces trailer collaboration with Lions Gate
MySpace is launching a dedicated video community to debut online theatrical releases, MySpace Trailer, which will premiere 3-6 months prior to a film's theatrical release....
Sony Pictures and Aardman Animations set to announce film deal
The Times reports that it has learned that Sony Pictures will announce on Monday, a deal with Aardman Animations, the maker of "Wallace Gromit" and "Chicken Run". According to the Times, the deal comes less than two months after Aardman's five-film...
Bear Stearns analysts: Online video a 'powerful application'
Citing a new survey analyzing the online video consumption habits of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers, analyst Spencer Wang said Friday that online video is "a powerful new application" that is best consumed on a single site with many...
Computational Photography: The next steps in photography could blur reality
When a celebrity appears in a fan-magazine photo, there's no telling whether the person ever wore the clothes depicted or visited that locale. In one new aspect of computational photography, a dome contains hundreds of precisely positioned flash...
Jodie Foster, teenage chanteuse
Here's a 1977 video of a teenage Jodie Foster singing Je T'Attends Depuis La Nuit Des Temps. She recorded the song and several others for the film Moi, fleur bleue. youtube.com [ Contribute: submit link / submit article / submit company ]...
Polymer Vision: Organic based rollable displays
Polymer Vision announced its cooperation with Innos to establish the worlds first production facility for organic semiconductor based rollable displays. Manufacturing will start this year to meet the increasing commercial demand for the unique...
Free Blockbuster rentals for Netflix subscribers
Calling all Netflix subscribers: Don't throw away those red flaps you tear off your DVD mailers. Instead, take them to a Blockbuster store for free rentals. The Blockbuster promotion is an obvious attempt to build a database of potential subscribers...
Pretty Penny
When "Casino Royale" opens in theaters next week, it will have all the trappings of a James Bond flick — minus one key player: Miss Moneypenny, the star-struck secretary of Bond's boss, M. The film's producers announced the elimination of the...
Tom Cruise to control United Artists
Tom Cruise, the film star fired by Paramount Pictures this summer, surprised Hollywood when he struck a deal with MGM to take over running its United Artists studio. Source: Tom Cruise to control United Artists...
Wall Street Woos Film Producers, Skirting Studios
Since the birth of Hollywood, movie studio chiefs have been makers and breakers of careers, arbiters of taste and gatekeepers who decide which movies are made. But as Hollywood power shifts more to Wall Street investors, financiers are starting to...
Google Video Strikes Music Video Distribution Deals
Google's purchase of YouTube isn't the only thing making the news for the Internet giant this week, as they also have entered into an agreement with two major music labels to release music videos through the Google Video service. In fact, the blog...
Not Many Hoorays in Hollywood: DVD Sales Slump, Digital Distribution Looks Like a Bust
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Here’s a good reason for the movie studios to worry: 2007 could be the first year in which consumer spending on DVDs actually declines. Richard Greenfield, an analyst with Pali Research, addressed that issue and a few...
Apple to Sell Disney Films Online, Introduces IPods With Brighter Screens
Apple Computer Inc. said it will start selling full-length Walt Disney Co. films over the Internet today and introduced a bigger iPod player on which to play them....
Lions Gate Pushed Aside By Big Studios in iTunes Movies Launch?
So, whatever happened to Lions Gate (LGF)? The company whose executives leaked weeks ago that it had a distribution deal to be part of iTunes' movie sales was not on the meager list of suppliers announced this week by Apple (AAPL). What happened?...
Open letter from David Brock to ABC/Disney
I'm writing today in response to ABC/Disney's decision to air the miniseries The Path to 9/11 despite its false, partisan representations of actual events and individuals. It seems clear that this miniseries, written by an avowed conservative...
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