Category: media

Andy Serkis has (a lot of) skin in the game, of course, but he thinks all three films will eventually meld as one in the public’s mind with the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Maybe that little gold man isn’t worth as much as the industry likes to think?

“A 17-week program … will run participants through a series of competitive ‘missions,’ designed to build a following and refine film ideas. By the end of June, one team will emerge with up to $1-million in funding (from private sources and tax credits), six months to make a film, and a release in Cineplex Odeon theatres in January, 2014.”

How Buster Keaton got into the movies while walking on Broadway (yes, literally).

Even if your video gets a billion views, that’s not where the money comes from.

What’s up with The Hobbit‘s supposedly revolutionary film frames thing? And why was film always – well, mostly – 24 FPS before? Follow the money.

“The things that set out to dazzle me merely fry my mind.”

“Canada’s broadcasters are masters at marketing. Imagine what they could do – for themselves, for the CBC, and for a free market – if they got behind the cause of a public broadcaster that is truly publicly funded.”

“Michael Palin has dismissed a suggestion that a film producer was a seventh member of the Monty Python comedy team. Palin – one of six stars of the Monty Python television series – told a high court trial on Thursday that the idea Mark Forstater was a ‘seventh Python’ would not have been accepted.”