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Online distribution not working for indie filmmakers yet

Posted in Apple, Hulu, Indie filmmaking, Jaman, Metcalf's Law, Red digital cinema, Scott Kirsner, cinema, crowd sourcing, digital distribution, downloads, ecommerce, indie distribution, long tail, online movies, online video, self-distribution, set-top box on Sunday, 4 October 2009, 11:11 am | 1 Comment »

Scott Kirsner (of CinemaTech blog) has a good article in Variety which gives gives the cold hard facts on a frustrating phenomenon: online distribution of indie films isn’t happening in a meaningful or profitable way yet, for indie filmmakers: “…while more success stories are starting to be seen, the indie download business is still having [...]

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Shot-on-Red “Knowing” hits Hong Kong 16 April

Posted in Hong Kong, Red digital cinema, cinema on Sunday, 12 April 2009, 9:06 pm | Leave a Comment »

The first big blockbuster Hollywood movie shot on a Red camera will play in Hong Kong, starting 16 April. I’ll see it at the big screen movie theater in Causeway Bay (presumably on film), where I just saw “Shinjuku Incident”, which I enjoyed and which exceeded my expectations (anyone who spent time in Tokyo in [...]

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Another bit of empirical proof that Carr’s “The Big Switch” is right: Major Film Critic Laid Off

Posted in Anne Thompson, Nicholas Carr, Variety, Web 2.0, World Wide Computer, cinema, cloud computing, crowd sourcing, film criticism, long tail, open sourcing, wisdom of crowds on Friday, 28 March 2008, 10:37 am | 2 Comments »

Ok. So the single book I brought with me to India last week was Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch, which I wrote about 3 weeks ago and now apparently is high on the WSJ Business bestseller list (was high? Oddly, I can’t find it listed there today, so perhaps it just had a hot-selling week. [...]

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Scott Kirsner summarizes his ‘Digital Cinema for Indies’ panel talk at SXSW film fest

Posted in DCI, DCP, Indie filmmaking, NAB, Red digital cinema, cinema, digital cinema, high def projector, high-definition, indie distribution on Sunday, 9 March 2008, 2:38 pm | 1 Comment »

I’d love to get this whole presentation from Scott, but he’s posted the punchlines on his excellent CinemaTech blog (which covers”Digital cinema, democratization, and other trends remaking the movies”). Here’s an excerpt from the post: The big challenge of today’s ‘Digital Cinema for Indies’ panel at SXSW was explaining both the technical intricacies and the [...]

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Variety: nobody making money yet with indie drama/narratives online

Posted in Indie filmmaking, Variety, Web 2.0, cinema, indie distribution, online video, web video on Sunday, 17 February 2008, 11:06 am | Leave a Comment »

A good survey of the state of play, entitled, “Frustrated Indies Seek Web Distribution: But But still face challenging online marketing gap,” by Anne Thompson in Variety . A few good quotes: Of the 100-some features questing for a distributor at January’s Sundance Film Festival, only a handful found the holy grail: worldwide theatrical distribution [...]

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Updated Red delivery schedule + nice Red footage

Posted in 4K, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, cameras, cinema, cinematography, high-definition on Monday, 4 February 2008, 8:37 am | 2 Comments »

Somehow I missed this. But here’s the latest Red One camera delivery schedule, buried in a sticky FAQ post on reduser.net, updated 3 Feb: [Red One cameras with reservation numbers] 101-500 are shipping currently, following final receipt of payment. Reservation holders 501-750 are being contacted this week (week of Feb.4) and reservation holders 751-1000 will [...]

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Powell’s: The long tail. In one long city block…

Posted in Coen Brothers, Final Cut, Off-topic, Portland, Powell's, books, cinema, long tail on Sunday, 16 December 2007, 11:45 am | Leave a Comment »

I had sometime to kill, before watching the late show of the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men at the Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10 theater in Portland last night. So I walked over to Powell’s on Burnside, at 9:15 at night. What a joy. A few million books laid out in a cavernous [...]

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