Category Archives: Distribution and Marketing

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What Upstream Color Says About the Future of Indie Filmmaking

This isn't a movie-review blog, but I'd nonetheless like to urge everyone reading to go out and see Upstream Color if you're in New York this weekend, and to catch it when you can if you're not. That's not just … more »

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Skirting the Studio System

It seems everyone wants to make a studio-financed film, but for most of us that isn't working out very well. However, if you can manage to make your own movie that stimulates a lot of interest, you actually could end up … more »

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Sony’s 4K Player? Just a Big Hard Disk

Last week we wrote about a promised 4K playback solution that would be bundled with Sony's new XBR-84X900 4K LED television. This week, the news is official — and it seems to highlight the difficulty of getting 4K content to … more »

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Space Command: Drilling Down

Well, the Kickstarter crowd-sourcing venture to launch Space Command ended last night. The team asked for $75,000 and got $221,267.00 from 2,965 separate backers. I believe it's set several records. Marc Zicree was given Ray Bradbury's Oscar by a Space Command backer.I … more »

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What Your Kindle Knows About You (Also Your Nook, Your iPad, etc.)

The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article last week about the ways information gathered from the habits of e-book readers is being used to generate feedback for retailers, publishers, and authors. Among the data points given up when your … more »

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Tech Advances Haven’t Stamped Out Subpar Pictures at the Multiplex

Even though digital projection seems to promise more uniform standards for exhibitors, there are still plenty of ways for your picture to get screwed up once it reaches the multiplex. Last year, there was a controversy over a story in … more »

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Congress Starts Weighing in on Movie Ratings, R-Rated Bully

UPDATE 03/13/12: AMC Theaters CEO Gerry Lopez comes out against the R rating: “To ‘automatically default’ BULLY is a mistake. Automatic default to a rating, a category, a genre… doesn’t matter, is a mistake. The message, the movie and its … more »