Netflix's 'House of Cards' gamble. House of Cards, Netflix’s expensive expansion into original programming, debuted one month ago this week.
I finished watching the 13th and final episode of the first season on Sunday night and I have no idea if that makes me ahead of the curve or hopelessly behind. Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck. Reed Hastings stopped listening, and that's when the trouble started.
In the spring of 2011, Hastings, Netflix's widely admired chief executive, held a meeting with his management team and outlined his blueprint to jettison Netflix's DVD operations. Netflix managers would tell subscribers on July 12 that they planned to do away with a popular subscription that offered access to DVD rentals as well as unlimited on-demand streaming video for $10 per month. DVDs and streaming would be separated and each would cost subscribers $7.99 a month, or $15.98 for both, about a 60 percent hike. The changes would take place in September. If you cancelled your Netflix subscription, have you returned? Jonathan Friedland, the new vice president of global corporate communications who had joined Netflix just a few months earlier, asked whether customers on tight incomes might object to the price hike, according to people at Hastings' meeting. To Russia with amor: Spanish cinema enters the Twilight zone.
Reading this on a mobile? Click here to view video Russia is a secure beachhead for Hollywood at the moment, so it was a surprise to see a small Spanish film twanging The Amazing Spider-Man's web-strings there a few weeks ago. What Does It Mean That Megan Ellison's Annapurna PIctures Picked Up U.S. Distribution Rights to Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers?' Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures made a surprise move Tuesday when it bought U.S. distribution rights to Harmony Korine’s new film “Spring Breakers” ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival Wednesday, September 5.
To date known only as a production and financing entity, Annapurna has no distribution infrastructure and merely states in its news release that “additional distribution information will be revealed at a later date.” During Cannes, Ellison launched an international sales division called Panorama Media, but French outfit Kinology already reps “Spring Breakers” overseas.
READ MORE: TIFF List 2012: A Complete List of All Films at the Toronto International Film Festival The story of four college-age women who get involved with a local thug after their plan to rob a fast-food shack to fund their spring break adventure goes awry, “Spring Breakers” will have its North American premiere in Toronto September 7. Muse Prods.’ Tanzanian VJs. The godfather ...
Out of this world: Secret Cinema conquers all. Comment | Web exclusive Would you buy a cinema ticket without knowing what you were going to see, or where?
Instead of relying on word of mouth, critics or adverts to choose your film, would you happily follow a digital breadcrumb trail of clues via email and website to the surprise venue and film? This odd setup is at the heart of the erstwhile ‘underground’ event that is Secret Cinema. Secrets to Film Distribution Success. Ask independent film producers and directors what causes them the most angst, confusion, headaches-or worse-in the filmmaking journey, and the answer likely will be: Distribution.
Lacking knowledge, training and guidance, most independent filmmakers employ a scattered, piecemeal, and ultimately unsuccessful approach to distribution. Film producer and distribution expert Jerome Courshon says you can't fault them. After all, despite its importance to the filmmaking journey, distribution isn't even taught in film school. And the industry stacks the deck against filmmakers from the beginning with a fear-based mentality where rookies are expected to pay their dues and industry veterans keep their secrets to success to themselves.
Right here. Right now. : Film3Sixty Magazine. Posted by Kathryn on Friday, March 30, 2012 · 0 Comments What does the rise of video on demand mean for the film industry… and film lovers?
Film3Sixty film infographic : Film3Sixty Magazine. Posted by Kathryn on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 · 0 Comments You may have seen in Screen International a feature around a bespoke piece of research carried out by Film3Sixty.
Our survey is the largest single piece of film consumer research ever undertaken in the UK, taking six months to compile and resulting in a project with over 18,000 respondents. These results have included consumer attitudes towards cinema releases, home entertainment, social media and emerging technologies like tablet usage and internet downloads. We have created an infographic with the topline facts for our survey – Click on the image below to see full image. (If you would like to read the article in Screen International, then click here) hosted via. The Media Piracy Report. Film is Dead. Long Live Digital? "Citizen Kane.
" Film is going away. Not films, the pieces of entertainment we watch starring Sandra Bullock or Jim J. Books. Pandora’s Digital Box: Films, Files, and the Future of Movies by David Bordwell237 pages, 5 × 7 inches.
For background on Pandora’s Digital Box, see this blog entry, and read below on this page. Available for download as an Adobe PDF file through PayPal (you can use a debit/credit card, electronic check, or PayPal account). Film festivals: which is top dog? It has been a quiet few months on the film festival front. The last two biggies, Sundance and Berlin, were back in the depths of winter; but now things are suddenly getting interesting. Tribeca, the New York trendoid-magnet, has just started, and Cannes, the swanky Cote d'Azur schmoozathon, has reared its finely contoured head on the horizon. The UK is even getting in on the action, with the much-anticipated arrival next week of Sundance London, an offshoot of Robert Redford's indie-maven event in Park City, Utah. His last picture show: What does the rise of digital film mean for those behind the reels? - Features - Films.
In 2005, the UK Film Council installed digital projectors at 240 UK cinemas. In 2009, as digital 3D was rolled out, the number of digital cinema screens in the UK more than doubled to 1,400. And in 2010, 80 per cent of UK releases were digital prints. Last year, most of the projectionists at the Odeon Leicester Square retired or were made redundant, replaced by automated projection. Odeon confirmed in February that 120 had seen their jobs cut across its cinemas; the other 250 are being "retrained" for different roles: selling popcorn, maybe. How On Demand Is Redefining the Film Festival - Robert Levin - Entertainment. 10 movie poster cliches (with plenty of examples) YouTube teams up with Ridley Scott on new film festival channel. YouTube is launching a new film festival channel in partnership with the Venice Film Festival and film director Ridley Scott, the company announced today.
The new Your Film Fest channel is part of YouTube’s strategy to boost the amount of premium original videos available on the site — and making it more than just a place to watch funny cat videos and viral content. In October, YouTube committed $100 million on channel partnerships to ensure that this strategy succeeds. Some of these channel partnerships include Madonna’s DanceOn, World Wrestling Entertainment’s Fan Nation, and exclusive bits from the Onion News Network. More recently, YouTube forged deals to bring a variety of news-related channels to the site from partners like Reuters, Young Hollywood and Penske Media-Ion TV.
As part of the partnership, YouTube users from around the globe are invited to submit short, story-driven videos (up to 15 minutes in length) to a Your Film Festival contest. On the cutting room floor: a century of film censorship. Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. Censors wanted a 20-second cut, but settled for 10. Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar.