Only 30K And You’re In The 3D Video Business
This new Panasonic 3D Camera is $21K (9K gets you a monitor and Mixer too)
Full HD to an SD card as well.
Due out in the fall.
Jim Cameron should have waited for this link:
Professional 3D Production Systems | Panasonic.
TIVO good for skipping shows to get to commercials
Ad copy from a site selling refurbished TIVOs…
At last, I can watch my favorite commercials without sitting through all those annoying shows.
Concise storytelling. Striking visuals. Hapless, overfed man-children in comical situations. These are the things I love about television – or rather, used to love about television, before it turned into a cheapo cesspool of “reality” freakshows.
Nowadays, the real artistry comes in thirty-second chunks. Turns out that soda companies, breweries, car-insurance firms, and fast-food chains are the only entities left with enough money to make anything worth watching.
How satisfying it is to fast-forward past Bret Michaels and Simon Cowell to get to the latest humorous vignette about that scamp Jack in the Box.
This TiVo’s 250GB hard drive can store approximately a hella-ton of commercials for savoring over and over. I’ve practically worn out the pause button examining the mise-en-scene of that Dr. Pepper commercial with the midget KISS impersonators. Eat your heart out, Fellini.
Even better, this TiVo Series 3 HD DVR doubles as a YouTube player with a home network with Internet access. Have you ever seen how many commercials are on that site? I could literally watch them until the sun expands and engulfs the Earth in flames, without ever repeating one. It also streams Netflix, Blockbuster, and Amazon video, but until they offer more commercials, I’m not interested.
Variety Drops Chief Film and Theater Critics
Wow! I thought Hollywood was doing better than ever!
On the other hand, less major studio titles per year has to mean less ad revenue, etc.
I remeber going to Hamilton News Mart weekly to pick up that huge Variety paper of the 60’s and 70’s.
Variety Drops Chief Film and Theater Critics | The Wrap.
80K Budget Indie tries Financing With Product Placements
And it’s on the local level, too!
Filmmaker gives companies a shot at stardom : Local Business : The Buffalo News.
Even DeNiro can’t buck indie inertia.
But, at least he’s trying!
Tribeca VOD Venture: Folly Or Future? – Deadline.com.
This Guy Never Quits
Interview with Michael Legge, who has just made his 14th film in 20 years. To nit much avail…
Link:
Indie Theatrical outlet in Pittsburgh
Another in the growing list of indie venues.
Pittsburgh Hollywood Theater gives audiences retro films, food | The Pitt News.
Walmart Buys Vudu
Quick! Where’s the “Submit Your Film to VUDU” button?
E-Commerce News: Film: Walmart Buys Vudu to Take Another Stab at Online Movie Distribution.
Unpublished Beatles photos left in a drawer until this year
They’re in nice, bright Kodachrome color too!
Photog looks like Austin Powers before he went into hibernation.
There are 23 shots, article shows six.
John Lennon plays dead in poignant unseen photo| Mail Online.
B-Side Entertainment Shutters
B-Side offered back-end web scheduling and social connection services to film festivals (even Sundance used them). They also distributed films via the “host a screening” method.
They ran out of money before they could sustain themselves. A case of being there too early, perhaps.
Filmmaker Magazine | Filmmaker Blog.
