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 [...]
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The YouTube feature film experiment I wrote about last year is finally finished, in time for the intended premiere both at Sundance and on YouTube on January 27th. The experiment, which invited filmmakers to submit films shot on a single day – July 24, 2010 is coming to your laptop screen next week. According to [...]
The facts of the shooting of US Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen other people in a Tuscon, Arizona grocery store are simply horrifying by any account: A man enters a store armed with a gun, targets the Representative, shoots her in the head and begins a seemingly random mass killing spree that results in [...]
The fact that CBS greenlit Sh*t My Dad Says, a sitcom based on a Twitter based meme is notable for a few reasons. First, in terms of the Hollywood machine, I believe this is a first – taking a fictional character from the social media world and creating a series around it. Second, I think [...]
NURSE: @Jess_nurse I’m devistated! What am I gna do? X JULIET: @julietcap16 You need to remember that he didn’t tell you the truth. Do you honestly WANT to be with someone who lies to you? Ok, that exchange between Juliet and Nurse is probably not the Shakespeare verse you remember from your high school English [...]
At Saturday’s conference The Conversation, I moderated a panel called “Product Placement and Marketing Partnerships: Where Content Meets Brand” in which we discussed the various modes of brand-artist collaboration, and the nuts and bolts of seeking and obtaining such partnerships. Time was short but I promised that I would post a followup with video and [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes, marketing and advertising can be brilliant. This is one such occasion.
I recognize how controversial the very idea may seem to book purists. And honestly, I myself dread the thought of reading Don Quixote on my iPhone with a link to a dramatization of the titular literary legend. Whose vision of the oft and uniquely conjured hero do we engage? My first thought as a dedicated [...]
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