Over the last two years, I have circled the landscape surrounding the art and business of film in this blog. It was my way of thinking through a transition in the future of a medium I had spent nine years of my life learning, pursuing, loving, hating and finally [...]
On Friday afternoon, YouTube quietly announced its new lineup of “original content” channels – meaning not the kind of channel you create for your skateboarding videos, but the kind of channel YouTube thinks will be able to compete with television. We all knew YouTube was headed into the pro-content biz, but until now the strategy has [...]
In Jeffrey Katzenberg’s recent interview with Fortune (watch the full interview video below) which has garnered some media attention over the last couple of days, he lambasts the “showbiz” for being too much biz and not enough show. He thinks almost every film this year so far “sucks”. While I wouldn’t entirely disagree with the [...]
This TED talk by Jeff Skoll who founded Participant Media is a nice reminder of the folks who are out there using their power for good even in an industry as cynical as entertainment. While I don’t think every project they’ve made is outstanding, we can certainly take a lesson in social entrepreneurship through media [...]
After I wrote my last post about the dearth of innovation in film, I happened to read Anthony Lane’s New Yorker piece on Pixar, “The Fun Factory”. It made me slap my forehead in an “of course!” way. Lane starts out as a skeptic, ready to debunk the myth of Pixar as the den of [...]
I just got back from LA (which is where I both attended film school and spent the majority of my professional life until about a year ago) and something struck me this time that had never occurred to me before: there is no model for innovation in Hollywood. Most of the younger folks in the [...]
At first glance, it seems slightly harder to find a convincing personification of “Evil” on the web. Not general evil, the big “E”–you know, the bad guys, the devils, murderers, predators, and even the cold-hearted snakes. At one time, Bill Gates might have been the closest thing to the devil and now perhaps Steve Jobs [...]
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 [...]
There’s been a lot of chatter over the last month about Disney chief Bob Iger’s ruthless housecleaning over at Disney. Big executive shakeups like Iger’s seem more unusual in Hollywood than perhaps in many other businesses because Hollywood for the most part is a business of predictability, stability and sameness. Ironic, given that they are [...]
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