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CRM
December 2011
Eric Barkin |
The Monday Morning Numbers on Movie Marketing How international growth, social media, and a decline in DVD sales are changing the film industry's marketing strategies.   |
Financial Advisor
February 2010
Eric Rasmussen |
Movie Mania A new company called IndieVest hopes it can make independent films turn a profit for investors. Will the model work? |
Fast Company
Dec 2013/Jan 2014
Ari Karpel |
New Films for New Audiences Most blockbusters target a homogenous audience. Denson-Randolph, a vet of Starbucks and Magic Johnson Entertainment, selects smaller movies to draw diverse crowds into the nation's second-largest movie-theater chain. |
Fast Company
Nicole LaPorte |
"The Interview" Is A VOD Perception-Changer, Not A VOD Game-Changer Long regarded as a kind of consolation prize (or dumping ground) for troubled films, or else a platform for small, specialty films that might not resonate with all of America, Video-on-demand suddenly has a new, glitzy glamour. |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
Farnoosh Torabi |
Investor's Cut Get your shot at the silver screen without setting a foot in Hollywood. |
Fast Company
December 2008
Lucas Conley |
IndieVest Attracts Indie-Film Investors With Reduced-Risk Model Investing in independent cinema is usually just for those with money to burn. IndieVest promises both Hollywood-worthy perks and a relatively safe haven. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 17, 2011
Kim Girard |
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood Despite a thriving movie industry in India, Hollywood studios have experienced difficulty making much money there. Researchers discovered a complicated mix of piracy and plagiarism. |
Fast Company
Dec 2013/Jan 2014
Ari Karpel |
A Greater Escape Cinefamily has built a reputation as a place where you might see a movie -- and a zebra. |
Fast Company
February 2011
Malia Wollan |
How Pantelion Films Lures Latinos to the Box Office Lionsgate's Pantelion Films wants to do for Hispanic filmgoers what Tyler Perry has done for African-Americans. Is this progress? |
Fast Company
February 2016
Adam Doster |
Upstart Distributor A24 Is Making Indie Films Exciting Again The four-year-old indie distributor has earned a reputation for putting out unconventional fare that appeals to people whom major studios generally ignore, and employing savvy digital marketing and shrewd release strategies. |
BusinessWeek
October 14, 2010
Grover & White |
Hollywood Looks to China for Movie Money China hopes its investments in Hollywood will help build its own entertainment industry. |
The Motley Fool
July 16, 2007
Steven Mallas |
"Captivity" Couldn't Hold Moviegoers It was a tough weekend for Lions Gate Entertainment and After Dark Films to open their latest exercise in torture-centric horror films, Captivity. |
Reason
December 2007
Radley Balko |
Ganging Up Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff recently introduced legislation to combat gang violence. But a new study by the Justice Policy Institute concludes most efforts aren't working. |
Home Theater
April 2008
Kris Deering |
Juno -- 20th Century Fox (Blu-ray) This Oscar nominated film gives a solid performance, but is not novel or different from many other independent films. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Ronald Grover |
Ryan Kavanaugh Is Ready for His Close-Up Financier Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is using rigorous data analysis, rather than instinct, to select its Hollywood films. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005
Tekla S. Perry |
The Sky Is Falling The intrinsic desirability of using digital technology in 3-D projection gives Disney and Dolby a powerful motive to advance the technology. Once the world's movie theaters go digital, movie studios expect to save about a billion dollars a year. |
Fast Company
Evie Nagy |
Here's The Big Problem With Sony Releasing "The Interview" On Demand After a message from the hackers threatened violent attacks on movie theaters if the film was released, all the major theater chains pulled out of showing it. Many suggested that Sony should immediately release the movie on the Internet. |
Home Theater
June 2008
Kris Deering |
The Dirty Harry Collection--Warner Bros. (Blu-ray) The A/V presentations are everything you'd want from a series like this, and the extras package gives a great insight into the production and legacy of the series. A "must own" for fans. |
Home Theater
June 2008
Kris Deering |
Jumper--20th Century Fox (Blu-ray) The supporting cast and the premise had a lot of promise but overall "Jumper" falls short. |
Home Theater
August 2008
Kris Deering |
Redbelt--Sony Pictures (Blu-ray) Sony has done a great job with its Blu-ray release of "Redbelt." It is recommended for anyone who blinked and missed it in theaters. |
BusinessWeek
January 21, 2010
Charlie Rose |
A Charlie Rose Q&A with James Cameron The Avatar director holds forth on the birth of a blockbuster and the future of film. |
Salon.com
August 27, 2002
Michelle Goldberg |
Where are the female directors? There are women in the Senate, women heading studios and busloads of young women emerging from film school. So why are 96 percent of films directed by men? |
Real Travel Adventures
August 2010
Barbara Singer |
Exciting LABRFF 2010 Stirred Up Recollections of Brazil Just watching a Brazilian film causes your heart to beat faster. LABRIFF was a five-day whirlwind of over 6 films. My own visit to Brazil was quite a whirlwind, and it was set up by my travel agent cousin in Mexico. |
Home Theater
June 2008
Kris Deering |
Signs--Touchstone Pictures (Blu-ray) A solid thriller that delivers great chills but does so with respect to the intimacy of each character. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2009
Eric Bleeker |
Will "Avatar" Change Filmmaking? Will this expensive 3-D extravaganza change the film industry? |
Reason
December 2007
Jesse Walker |
Let the Viewer Decide Indy documentarian Frederick Wiseman on free speech, complexity, and the trouble with Michael Moore. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Ronald Grover |
What's Driving The Box Office Batty Hollywood is pushing movies to DVD and video faster -- and theaters are feeling squeezed. And with the price of cinema tickets skyrocketing, this gives movie fans new clout. Clearly, some big script changes are in store. |
Fast Company
KC Ifeanyi |
You've Seen "Boyhood"--Now It's Time For The Must-Watch "Girlhood" French writer and director Celine Sciamma's new powerhouse film Girlhood is in no way riffing off of Richard Linklater's Oscar-nominated, 12-year saga Boyhood -- and it's not simply a difference in gender. |
Home Theater
June 2008
Kris Deering |
Be Kind Rewind--New Line (Blu-ray) The trailers for Be Kind Rewind made this film out as a bit more inventive than it turned out to be, but it still showcases Gondry's knack for storytelling and imagination. |
Lucire
February 24, 2013 |
Lights on Park City Sundance is a great opportunity for many independent filmmakers to receive recognition for their artistic ideas on the silver screen. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2009
Glenn Kenny |
Finally, Bring Home the Hollywood Classics in HD With HD discs and downloads now widely available, Hollywood is finally tackling the job of turning film classics into digital masterpieces. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2010
David Lee Smith |
Will Studios Nix Cable's Quick Trips for Flicks? Once again, operators want to shrink the time between movies' theatrical and home distribution. |
Fast Company
November 2008
Clay Dillow |
Movie Ratings: Running the Numbers On November 1, 1968, bowing to howls that movies were corrupting youth, the film industry unveiled a voluntary rating system, which told youth what to see to be corrupted. Here's a look at the system and its stats. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Mark Anderson |
The World's Largest Film Festival Is Online With 80 000 submissions, YouTube's "Your Film Festival" is 50 times the size of Sundance |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Erin McCarthy |
The Tech Behind 3D's Big Revival What has convinced Hollywood that 3D is finally ready for its closeup? The short answer may be that technology has caught up with the concept. |
Home Theater
May 2008
Kris Deering |
Bee Movie--Dreamworks Animation (Blu-ray) Although all of the comedy just wasn't really that funny, the animation in "Bee Movie" is still first-rate. |
Lucire
March 15, 2014 |
Star-struck at Sundance Lola Saab looks back at this year's Sundance Film Festival, from the premieres to the celebrity lounges and parties |
Wired
March 24, 2008
James Lee |
Striking Back: Geeks Up in Arms Over Changes to Star Wars Fan Flick A rebel alliance is forming online to protest changes of the upcoming release of Fanboys. |
Fast Company
Ayana Byrd |
How Filmmaker Erik Parker Is Reigniting Nas's Illmatic On Its 20th Anniversary A documentary called Time is Illmatic, which Erik Parker wrote and produced over the course of 10 years, premieres in the coveted position of opening night at the Tribeca Film festival, and the screening will be followed by Nas himself performing the album. |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Comcast Demands Indie Cred The cable giant comes up with an interesting deal for on-demand content. Is the era of the Hollywood blockbuster, with lines around the block on opening weekend, coming to an end? Investors, take note. |
Home Theater
October 14, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Harry Not So Wild About 3D Last Potter film will be released to theaters only in 2D. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2006
Russell Wintner |
Bits on the Big Screen Computer servers and digital projectors are about to replace the canisters of film and spinning sprockets of the world's movie theaters |
Fast Company
June 2012
Evan Hochberg |
How Collectives Help Indie Filmmakers Make Better Movies Beasts of the Southern Wild, which nabbed Sundance's top 2012 prize and comes out June 27, is the product of a new trend in indie films -- collectives, or groups of collaborating artists. Collectives champs explain. |
Home Theater
June 2008
Kris Deering |
Short Circuit--Image Entertainment (Blu-ray) Short Circuit has always been a fun family film and the new high-definition release will please all its fans. |
Home Theater
June 2008
Kris Deering |
Natural Born Killers--Warner Bros. (Blu-ray) Oliver Stone's controversial take on society's obsession with violence and social decay makes a strong debut on Blu-ray. |
Home Theater
June 2008
Kris Deering |
The Spiderwick Chronicles--Nickelodeon/Paramount (Blu-ray) All things considered, this may be one of the better family adventure films of late. |
Home Theater
March 2008
Kris Deering |
Arthur and the Minimoys--Europa (Blu-ray Import) The animation is excellent and the voice work is quite good but it didn't make up for other shortcomings. |
Home Theater
April 2008
Kris Deering |
Alvin and the Chipmunks--20th Century Fox (Blu-ray) "Alvin and the Chipmunks" is solid family fun. |
Popular Mechanics
February 16, 2010
Carl Davis |
Viewtopia 02/16/10: Top 5 DVDs of the Week (With Video!) Law Abiding Citizen... Black Dynamite... Halo: Legends... Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever... Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years... |
IDB America
March 2005
Charo Quesada |
Fresh Thinking About Gangs Experts already understand the factors that lead to Latin American gang-related violence; what eludes them is an effective prevention strategy. |
