Did you know just 1 percent of the thousands of films at the Sundance Festival get distribution deals? That's something Prescreen, a new social movie discovery and viewing platform, is trying to change with a quirky model.READ»
Google TV's about to get a social discovery injection, courtesy of Redux--a website-based content discovery system--that could help transform it into a friendlier, customer-curated place.READ»
Wim Wenders has created some of the moodiest, most visually arresting landscapes in film history -- a tone Pauline Kael described perfectly, referring to Wings of Desire, as “dim whimsy” and “spooky spirituality.” Leave it to ...READ»
A team of animators has hacked Microsoft's Kinect sensor suite to create a motion-replication system that powers CGI characters. Remember Gollum in Lord of The Rings? Yup--kinda like that. (But way cheaper.)READ»
On Sunday, Pixar's animated hit, Toy Story 3, goes for a Best Picture Oscar. And it was an innovative new series of sound channels that let Buzz Lightyear be even buzzier. READ»
Who should get the most credit for a product that brings in high revenue? The team who designed it? The people who marketed it? The sales force who sold it? Logically, we would have to say that the highest paid, most visible, most irreplaceable people are responsible--until we look at the list of Oscar nominees for 2010. READ»
A judge has awarded Disney and Warner Bros damages from a web advertiser that "helped fund" piracy by supplying ads for pirate websites. Google ads are on those sites, too. READ»
The Atlantic got ahold of some of Netflix's internal stats regarding ratings, and the results show something we might have expected: Some Netflix users are insane.READ»
Netflix traded in its right to first-run films in exchange for a larger streaming catalog. But the company hasn't totally given up on first-run films yet.READ»
Fflick (sic, awkwardly) tracks positive and negative feelings about movies by taking a close look at your friends' movie-related tweets. Of course, that assumes your friends know what they're talking about.READ»
Netflix is focusing on streaming video, the company's obvious future. But stories of resistance from movie studios are well known. How is Netflix dealing with this problem?READ»
HBO, Showtime and Starz, consider this a warning. Netflix and Relativity have just announced a deal that will see all first-run theatrical releases from the production company available via streaming to Netflix subscribers, just ...READ»
There are 400 people on the set, 500 more back at the studio counting on you to make a $200 million movie that will excite people enough to buy a ticket at the theater. How do you handle the pressure?READ»
As the distribution systems grow stronger and become more sophisticated, director McG believes a shift will take place that will draw the emphasis away from specific outlets, and toward viewing that is distributed across a whole range ...READ»
Mac users may be more individualistic than PC owners, but new data suggests users of another Apple gizmo--the iPhone--are, on average, much freer with their online spending than their peers. It must be an individualism thing.READ»
Flashback weaves together iconographic images sampled from films to create a kinetic video canvas
- visualizing the spectrum of human emotion and recall using the principles of cognitive psychology.READ»
Everyone’s seen a World War II flick wherein, having touched upon the lowest depths of human misery and the darkest corners in mankind’s soul, you’re so depressed you can hardly enjoy that the good guys won. This is not that ...READ»
Besides the much-celebrated Wall-E, there aren't many quality environmentally-themed children's movies. That could change when Universal Pictures releases a 3-D animated version of The Lorax in theaters. The movie, directed by Chris ...READ»
The boy wizard is back, but these days he's not looking so boyish. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in theaters today, has been called the best Potter film yet, as our formerly pubescent students of sorcery find themselves very ...READ»
