From the Wall Street Journal
Tribeca Film Festival Showcases Shifting Marketplace
As the cost of the theatrical release rises, distributors at the Tribeca Film Festival focused on expanding new distribution platforms, including video-on-demand and the Internet.
By ANTHONY KAUFMAN
Tribeca Film Festival’s status as a movie marketplace appears to be more suited for films destined for a [...]
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Jeremy Walker on Indie Film Publicity
03-May-08Matt Dentler, the out-going director of the SXSW Film Festival, points to a legendary Indie Film Publicist who is taking a break. From the Indiewire article:
Eugene asked me to write something that reflects on my career as an independent film publicist and how the game has changed, something that would, as he put it, [...]
From a Shure Press Release Shure Sets The Wireless Record Straight
The FCC is in the middle of a multi-faceted reorganization of the UHF television band, stimulated by the future transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. The DTV stations will occupy a smaller section of the UHF spectrum (470 – 698 MHz) than is [...]
For the third time in five years, the National Television Academy has honored Hillcrest High School’s student-produced broadcast “HTV Magazine” with a National Student Award For Excellence, often referred to as the “Student Emmy.”
Hillcrest is the only Missouri school to win the national award since the academy began the Award For Excellence program in 2004, [...]
Ben Stein’s “Expelled” Imagines Fair Use
22-Apr-08Sorry, had to do it. Here are a couple of looks at the recent uproar over the use of the John Lennon song “Imagine” in the documentary film “Expelled” that was just released:
Yoko Ono, Filmmakers Caught in ‘Expelled’ Flap
Having ruffled feathers in the scientific community, the filmmakers behind a documentary questioning evolution theory have [...]
SAG Cuts Deal With Indie Film Companies
18-Apr-08From YAHOO News:
LOS ANGELES - The Screen Actors Guild has cut a deal that would let its members work for an independent film company regardless of a future strike against the major studios.
The deal with The Film Department guarantees completion of nine movies that haven’t started filming yet. One of them, a romantic comedy [...]
Interesting confluence today - I was reading Seth Godin’s blog and he was riffing on URL addresses, and how we are slowly moving away from needing to include the www-prefix among other elements. As an example, he noted
We don’t say, “Visit us at http://www.askinosie.com,” we just say, “askinosie.com.”
That’s odd. That couldn’t be the [...]
Screen Actors Guild Internal Turmoil
05-Apr-08Actors Guild Faces Drama In Its Ranks
By PETER SANDERS
April 3, 2008; Page B1 of the Wall Street Journal
As the Screen Actors Guild gets set to begin contract negotiations with the major Hollywood studios — and tries to avert a crippling strike like the recent walkout by writers — the union first must address some strife [...]
Mercedes Peterson is trying out for a reality show but she needs to have people vote her in!
She spent several years in Springfield until a recent move with her husband and now she’s got a national TV opportunity.
Go to the website and cast your vote for a former Springfieldian!!!
Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film
17-Mar-08On Ozarks Public Television this evening at 8:00 pm. The American Experience.
