New HBO competitor to launch online before cable, satellite
January 28, 2009
Why Hollywood Needs a New Model for Storytelling
January 22, 2009
Brothers and sisters, we are gathered here today to mourn the death of Story. As you may have heard, it’s kaput—or, at the very least, terminally ill, wracked by videogames, wikis, recaps, talkbacks, YouTube, ADD, and the rise of a multiplatform, multipolar, mashup-media culture. Hollywood, vendor of Story in its most denatured form, is most at risk: The film industry is slowly but steadily being forced to part with quaint artifacts like the “hero’s journey,” Joseph Campbell’s so-called Monomyth. (Which is just so … well … mono.) Beginnings, middles, and ends are headed for the attic, next to the box marked VCR Rewinders/Beastmaster Franchise. And Tinseltown can kick this chestnut to the curb. You may remember it from high school English: read more
Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye Socket
December 5, 2008
Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it’s a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move.
The eye he’s considering replacing is not a working one — it’s a prosthetic eye he’s worn for several years. Spence, a 36-year-old Canadian filmmaker, is not content with having one blind eye. He wants a wireless video camera inside his prosthetic, giving him the ability to make movies wherever he is, all the time, just by looking around. read more
Us Now – The Power of Mass Collaboration, Government and the Internet
November 29, 2008
US NOW is a film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet.
Batman: Dark Knight Destroys Box Office Records
July 21, 2008
Biggest Opening Midnight Screening: $18.5 million
Biggest Single Day: $67.87 million
Biggest Opening Weekend: $155.34 million
More after the jump on this record-setting film. read more