In the saga that is web series production, there is a cycle: creators complain they can’t get financing, financiers say web video isn’t profitable enough, then invariably an entity emerges with a “viable” business model, something that will take the pain of web advertising pennies away and replace it with the joy of real dollars. [...]
Our collective memory is so shallow that although we harbor a vague nostalgia for the days of going to Blockbuster on a Friday or Saturday to rent a “blockbuster” movie, it is so far away that it seems as if the concept never existed. How this could have happened to this once high-flying, formidable brand [...]
It may be of only passing interest you to know that as of this morning, Daniel Radcliffe was trading at $196.94, holding steady as he has for some time now and that Eva Longoria, recently saw a 2% decrease in her value and is now trading at $7.64. But of perhaps real interest is JJ [...]
I met Gregory Bayne on Twitter, which is where I meet the most interesting people in my professional world these days. He recommended my blog on his site This Lovely Machine one day and I thanked him. He responded with the kind of generosity of a person who recognized and honored the fact that those [...]
DIY filmmakers have always inherently understood the idea of microfunding, because in some sense or another, raising a few hundred or thousand from friends and family IS essentially the same idea. And now, with social media providing the kind of community reach that would have been impossible even ten years ago, this model has become [...]
Everyone was excited when Hulu first arrived on the scene in 2007, offering so many of us without cable or satellite subscriptions a chance to watch some of those network shows online for “free”. I certainly was happy to catch up on a great-looking 30 Rock the day after it aired on NBC on that [...]
I was struck by this article in today’s New York Times about 20×200 New York gallery owner Jen Bekman’s online venture. As the piece points out, the world of “high art” may be the last holdout in the broad world of art/media/design/film shift into the online space. It must appear profitable if investors are willing [...]
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