“This year, if Netflix and Sony stick to their plans, there will be early viewers with 4K Ultra HD televisions watching 4K movies on-demand. Meanwhile, movie theaters will still be taking delivery of 2K digital cinema packages (i.e. DCPs) on hard drives shipped by plane and truck. Home theater will have leapfrogged the cinema.”
Category: media
When Is It OK With The FCC To Drop An F-Bomb During Prime Time?
The FCC delivers the news by tweet: When it’s after the Boston bombings.
BitTorrent (Yes, You Heard That Right) Promotes An Indie Movie
“BitTorrent will help promote the film by inviting the 170 million users of its software — which helps facilitate the transfer of large data files — to watch the first seven minutes of the film prior to its theatrical release Friday.”
What Original Content Should Amazon Create? You Decide
“Call it the ‘American Idol’-ization of entertainment programming, but Amazon is letting the people be their own programming execs by putting 14 pilot episodes on its website and then letting the audience choose which should move forward.”
Psy’s Latest Video Banned By South Korean Network (You Won’t Believe Why)
“South Korea’s KBS, a state-funded broadcaster, said Thursday it was banning the video because it shows Psy kicking a traffic cone with a ‘no parking’ sign on it. The TV network says it has a policy prohibiting the showing of videos that abuse public property.”
Filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz: ‘I’m Not Proud To Be French Anymore’
The director of La Haine last year tweeted, “Bugger French cinema. Go f*** yourself with your shi**y films,” and has moved to L.A. He says it’s not because his latest movie got snubbed for César nominations.
Movie Studios, Theatres Bicker About Ticket Split
“Studios and theater owners split ticket sales according to complex formulas. As much as 75 percent of a movie’s opening-weekend revenue may go to the studio, but in later weeks the percentage typically becomes much more favorable to theaters.”
How The Music For Super-Hero Movies Is Changing
Once upon a time, superhero movies demanded big orchestras and heroic musical signatures. The concept dates back to the Max Fleischer “Superman” cartoons of the 1940s, carried on in the “Adventures of Superman” series of the ’50s.
Is Abbas Kiarostami Going To Stop Making Films?
“As I try to approach many of the stories I have in my drawers, I find they are all rejecting me. … In the last six months I’ve gone back to six different screenplays and started working on them and I stopped. I dropped them. This is something quite unheard of for me, but no film for me is worth being made now.”
Why Doesn’t Hollywood Make More Family-Friendly Movies?
“Despite three times as many R-rated movies as PG releases in 2012, the PG releases collectively made almost as much money than their more mature brethren and suggested that “PG-13 represents the sweet spot” in terms of movie profitability.”