Academy Award Best Achievement in Cinematography Avatar: Mauro Fiore - WTF - Before I slam Mauro Fiore for winning an award for what visual efx artists created, let me say something about Avatar first. I really liked the movie. That's right... I went hoping and expecting to hate Avatar for the spectacle of crap ...
Archive for the ‘Future State of Movies’ Category
A target audience means better box office
February 13th, 2010 by NoName
An interesting trend has developed over the last few months where EVERY #1 film not named Avatar has been a so-called chick-flick. This is unheard of in the history of Hollywood Box-Office. You can find the full details and a very interesting read in the original article at The Wrap. I ...
Sundance Experiments with the Future of Film Festivals
February 5th, 2010 by NoName
A while back, I posted some thoughts on ways to expand the reach of film festivals. One of the examples I pointed to was an announcement that Sundance would be screening films in cities across the country as their festival was happening as something they call Sundance Film Festival USA. On ...
Sony laying off 450 is GOOD news for the Indie Filmmaker
February 2nd, 2010 by NoName
While the news of yet another major studio cutting hundreds of jobs is news, it is the side stories around it that make all these studio cuts, bankruptcies and failures interesting. I could probably point to any number of sources for those who need proof. Take this article at deadline.com. ...
YouTube Enters the Video Rental World
January 26th, 2010 by NoName
I first heard about this from /Film, in this post. YouTube will be jumpimng into the online video rental world, with five Sundance films: The Cove, One Too Many Mornings, Homewrecker, Children of Invention, and Bass Ackwards. This is just the latest step towards making distribution a reality for lower budget ...
Incredible peek at 3d Immersion technology
January 25th, 2010 by NoName
Not sure when movies will incorporate this but I can see video games going here in the very near future: Amazing 3D immersion technology from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.
The Future Film Critic’s Way
December 20th, 2009 by SickOfCrap
It's about time we start getting intelligent critics and with a sense of humor. Below is a link to an article I accidentally came across. But that's not the point, it's the video slam of the movie THE PHANTOM MENACE that has me excited. Any film enthusiast, writer, film maker, ...
New Positions – Director of Distribution & Marketing
December 5th, 2009 by NoName
Just like the director, the producer, the director of photography, all the department heads... filmmakers should be hiring a director of distribution and marketing from day 1. The filmmaker also needs to be involved with the whole process. John Reiss talk from DIY Days. (He calls it a Producer of Distribution ...
Fuzzy math behind ‘Precious’ Box Office numbers
November 14th, 2009 by NoName
Last week, Precious played in 18 theaters and got lots of press for taking $1.8 million, an unbelievable $100,000 per screen. Did I say unbelievable? I should say absolutely impossible, never gonna happen in a million years. Let's do the math... Thanks to this post we dont have to, so here are ...
Opportunity for Indie Film amidst the Collapse of Studio Distribution Windows?
November 7th, 2009 by NoName
Roger Goff, entertainment attorney and a partner at Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin, LLP. posted this article as a response to an article in Variety. Variety reported on the MPAA's efforts to broadcast first run films directly to TV sets in the home using DRM protection and a technology ...
