I can’t help but be aware of a disturbing harmonic buzz in my head when I read two stories on the same day that point to a particular digital age dichotomy. Remember Sarah Jones? You might have helped her story go viral. Sarah was a camera assistant, who was killed when she was struck by a train during filming of ...
I am dying to hear the rationale for this one. According to several stories this morning, Quentin Tarantino is suing Gawker for leaking and promoting access to the full screenplay for a feature in late-stage development called The Hateful Eight. According to the LA Times, the director says he’s depressed over the leak and is shelving the production, but meanwhile, ...
Okay this is pretty cool, and a really interesting example of what can happen when old media meets new media to produce something extraordinary. Filmmaker Casey Neistat was offered $25,000 by 20th Century Fox to make a video to promote the release of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. In considering the themes the studio proposed for the project, Neistat responded ...
In 1982, then president of the MPAA Jack Valenti said something really stupid; and today, pro-piracy pundits, some who weren’t even alive in 1982, rely heavily on the late man’s hyperbole to drive a wedge between creators and fans. Valenti said in testimony before Congress, “The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston ...
Piracy only hurts big corporations, so who cares? That’s how the saying goes, but then I don’t understand why so many corporation-hating “file sharers” insist upon giving Google free money, especially when Google is bigger than all the major Hollywood studios combined. The report conducted by Milward Brown Digital contains this observation in its executive summary: 58% of queries that ...
