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But this time, A-B will do more testing of content with consumers before it greenlights any productions, Ponturo said. "We do that on commercials now. We don't go into production until we really have a very strong feeling that the idea can play out well t
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Fun for lawyers ;)
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The six major motion picture studios have united to invest in accelerating the development of technologies essential to the distribution and use of consumer media. Mo
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In an increasingly rare collaboration with Hollywood, Yahoo has signed a production deal with the company behind reality shows such as Temptation Island and Joe Millionaire. The Web behemoth's nonexclusive first-look pact with Rocket Science Laboratories
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My Damn Channel is an entertainment studio and new media platform created to empower artists to co-produce, distribute and monetize original, episodic video content. Programming is created by artists for the My Damn Channel site and for syndication on tod
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The service will launch with thousands of movies from seven major studios as well as indie distributors, connects directly to your TV and does not require a PC or a cable box. The company, Vudu, Inc., has been quietly engineering the technology and striki
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Obviously the way I'm exposed to media has changed. So now consider a third wave which has a lower amplitude on average but also a super-fast frequency. Sixty million videos uploaded to YouTube every single day. Some of those reach thirty, forty million v
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At the end of the day, what we’re talking about is the emergence of a new medium with its own art form. And whether Hollywood will remain at the epicenter of future cultural production is the big question. For the first time, Hollywood should be conce
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But in the film world, Wal-Mart is the only retailer to offer pics from every major studio for sale, though it is missing many indies. And its library is a relatively paltry 3,000 movies and TV shows.In addition, there still isn't a reliable way for consu
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On March 17, Cobble Hill–based Web prankster Ze Frank will end his daily, year-long Internet video show to go all Hollywood. “The one thing I took away from my meeting with Jeffrey Katzenberg is that the work begins now,” said Mr. Frank, who was acc
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Access control technologies such as DRM create "scarcity" where there is immeasurable abundance, that is, in a world of digital reproduction. The early years saw tech such as CSS tapped to prevent the copying of DVDs, but DRM has become much more than th
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Long Tail markets emerge when the cost of production and distribution fall dramatically. Digital production and distribution did that for music five years ago and they're doing it for amateur video now, thanks to camcorders and YouTube. But what about cl
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Hollywood talent firm United Talent Agency (UTA) said on Wednesday it plans to create a channel on Internet video service Veoh Networks to seek new artists and spotlight its own clients. ADVERTISEMENT if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object(); windo
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It was not the first time. NBC Universal has three employees who troll the site every day looking for studio-owned material, and they send more than 1,000 such requests a month to YouTube.
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The difference is the much higher margin earned via the on-demand channel, and it is likely to transform the market's view of movie producers from volatile, hit-dependent cash cows into above-average growth companies akin to specialty retailers. Lions Gat
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Wal-Mart Stores on Tuesday announced the launch its own video downloads service beginning with an exclusive "Superman Returns" DVD bundle containing a video download option with purchase of the physical DVD.
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Rather than jam the film with product placements, the company looked for fewer brands that would make a larger commitment to the movie: Rather than just paying for screen time, brands like Sony Ford Motor have agreed to help fund the marketing blizzard fo
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DVR-proof way of "getting the message across and associating their name with an established franchise." This is true in general of the $3.07 bil spent yearly on entertainment product placement but even more so in the case of Bond films.
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Brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein are back in the video revenue-sharing game. The Weinstein Co. said Wednesday that it is giving Blockbuster exclusive video rental rights for three years to all of its theatrical and direct-to-video movies beginning Jan. 1
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Hollywood's options: Buy a site; allow fans to remix your content; produce shorter films and do it quickly.
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It's not online yet, but the key stat, from PricewaterhouseCoopers, is that the firm expects just $1 million in movie downloads to be sold in 2006. The number will grow to $400 million by 2010.
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The moral of the marketing story here, is that unlike 'Snakes on a Plane', the Borat movie is good, different, down-to-earth...and funnier than Shabir Shaik's legal team.
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Jetzt wirds interessant: "Microsoft said tonight that it would offer movies and episodes of television shows for download through its Xbox Live online service in the United States, beginning Nov. 22." Die letzen Meter zu TV sind kein Problem für MS!
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Regardless of these Web auteur’s ultimate intentions, major media companies seem to believe that now is the perfect time to mine the space to find new talent. Last week, Yahoo launched Yahoo Talent Show, a contest that promises to reward the winner with
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YouTube isn't the alternative to rampant piracy; it's the enabler of it. If Google isn't successful in the current negotiations, it would be a huge and expensive embarrassment for the company - and, one assumes, could scuttle the YouTube deal entirely.
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through hundreds of thousands of iterations, until it had worked out a formula that did the best possible job of predicting the financial success of every one of the movies in its database.
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The quick cancellation of “Smith” elucidates how television, like the movie industry, has become a business where there is little room for the modest success
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Laut einer detaillierten Studie der Motions Picture Association of America (MPAA), die dem "Hollywood Reporter" vorliegt, musste die Filmindustrie weltweit einen Gewinnrückgang von mehr als 1,8 Milliarden Euro hinnehmen
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Movies and television shows from Paramount Pictures will be available for sale through AOL's new video portal under a deal announced Monday.
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In a poll late last year, 13% of Internet users currently downloading movies using peer-to-peer services said they would pay $20 per film to do it legally; 18% of those downloading TV shows would pay $5. At lower prices the numbers are even larger: 38% of
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AOL Video just announced that they’ve struck a deal to sell movies and television shows from Paramount Pictures. Classics including “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “Chinatown” will be available for a price of $9.99 to $19.99 each.
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YouTube is a hopelessly inefficient way for consumers to steal copyrighted video content off the web. It's well suited to the negligible-attention-span clips that its users post up there, to music videos and to teasers and excerpts from longer (copyrighte
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Target told the studios it was looking for “a level playing field” and would consider pulling back on the DVD business if the studios don’t ensure it pricing that’s equitable with movie-download services.
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Joe Bereta and Luke Barats (aka BaratsAndBereta) have signed a comedy deal with NBC. The six-figure contract will enable the pair to develop low-cost sitcoms and sketches.
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The Walt Disney Co. has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes store in less than a week, generating $1 million, Disney expects revenue of $50 million in the first year from its iTunes partnership
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The studios continue to show an amazing proficiency for finding reasons not to sell or rent digital downloads in ways that customers might value, all for the sake of protecting their existing retail channels.
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make us believe that movie studios do not want legal movie downloading to be terribly successful in the near-intermediate term,” he writes.
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even slimmer payments for ad-supported streaming of TV shows. Die Gewerkschaften erhalten normalerweise das Geld von den Produzenten, aber selbst die bekommen keines von den Streaming Experimenten, weil das ganze als Promotion gesehen wird.
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Universal Pictures could lose as much as $30 Mio on Miami Vice. Aber der Regisseur erhält $6 Mio, plus a percentage of the box-office receipts, before Universal makes a dime. Krankes Geschäftsmodell.
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The production giant is launching Studio 2.0, a venture charged with creating shortform, live-action and animated content for wireless and broadband devices.
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Mehrdimensionale Analyse von SOAP. Besonders interessant sind die verschiedenen Erklärungen, die von Flop bis hin zu Erfolg gehen und warum der Film so und nicht anders abgeschnitten hat. SOAP war ein Experiment und liefert wichtige Erkenntnisse.
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In fact, Snakes on a Plane is the big studios' first - and largely successful experiment - with Snowballs, and the democratization and edge competencies they requires. SNOP wird im Gegensatz zu Blockbustern in Zukunft immer mehr Umsatz generieren.
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Hollywood should take a more flexible approach to pricing as it seeks to combat piracy and protect its intellectual property. Die Studios sollten wieder die Konsumenten respektieren, digital agieren, experimentieren usw.
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Guba macht billig Angebote $10 für neue Filme, $5 Katalog und $0,5 Fernsehserien. Mit Amazon wird der Markt noch weiter Aufgewühlt. Außerderm werden wohl vor allem die guten Aussichten für diesen Markt weitere Player anziehen.
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5 Regeln die versuchen das geschehen um Snakes on a Plane zu erklären. Das Phänomen soll als Beispiel dienen, wie in Zukunft das Marketing funktionieren könnte und die Massen und User in den Dialog miteinbezogen werden.
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2006 rechnen die Kinos mit einem Zuschauerzuwachs von 5-10 Prozent, das wären ungefähr 7-13 Mio zusätzlich verkaufte Kinokarten. Auch mit einem solchen Plus lägen die Besucherzahlen aber immer noch niedriger als in den Jahren von 1999 bis 2004. Gegen
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Warner hat ein schlechtes Jahr hinter sich. 3 Filme sind gefloppt und Superman hinter den Erwartungen zurück geblieben. Besonders Ärgerlich ist das für die privaten Investoren. Neue Strategie: weniger Filme
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Die Hollywood Gewerkschaften halten noch die Füße still, wenn es um die digitalen Distributionsformen über das Internet geht, das könnte sich nächstes jahr bei den Verhandlungen stark ändern.
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ONLINE CAMPAIGNS FOR MOVIE RELEASES perform the best well in advance of opening day--peaking at 21 to 27 days before release, according to new research from Dynamic Logic.
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Kritiker müssen in einem anderen Tempo und zu einer anderen Zeit schreiben. Studien haben gezeigt der effektivste zeitpunkt ist ein Monat vor der veröffentlichung eines Films. Daran sollten sich auch kritiker orientieren danach werden sienicht mehr wahr
