Archive for July, 2011

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    Home Media Magazine: Global VOD Revenue to Climb 58%

    July 25th, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Global VOD Revenue to Climb 58% 24 Jul, 2011By: Erik Gruenwedel Web-based TV revenue to overtake digital terrestrial television revenue by 2012 Worldwide revenue from video-on-demand movies and TV programs will reach $5.7 billion in 2016, up 58% from revenue of $3.6 billion in 2010, according to a new research report. The tally does not include [...]

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    How Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Stack Up

    July 25th, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    How Netflix, Hulu And Amazon Stack Up The latest in video on demand: Netflix announced new pricing plans, charging separately for streaming video and DVD/Blu-ray discs. Meanwhile, Amazon Prime Instant Video is adding 2,000 episodes from CBS and Hulu, now talking to prospective buyers, says subscription Hulu Plus is on track to hit one million subscribers this summer. [...]

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    NYT: Hulu, Billed as Tomorrow’s TV, Looks Boxed In

    July 25th, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Hulu, Billed as Tomorrow’s TV, Looks Boxed In By BRIAN STELTER Published: July 23, 2011 PICTURE THIS: TV anyway, anywhere. Every sitcom. Every drama, documentary, reality show. All of it — everything — Right Here Now. This is the radical potential of the Internet. And this is the implicit promise of Hulu, the innovative Web site that [...]

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  • Spotlight: Lou

    Spotlight: Lou

    July 20th, 2011 | Spotlight | jwilka

    1. Introduce yourself and your film. My name is Belinda Chayko and I am the writer/director of Lou. I’m a former journalist and moved into film when I felt that I was more likely to find some kind of essential “truth” in fiction than in journalism. Lou is a film about a young girl who [...]

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  • Lou

    Lou

    July 19th, 2011 | Drama, Films | jwilka

    Eleven-year-old Lou’s life was instantly turned upside down when her father walked out on her mother and two sisters ten months earlier. Feeling abandoned, she copes by building a tough shell around her heart – afraid to let anyone hurt her again. Lou blames her mother for her father’s departure and refuses to let her [...]

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    Variety: Palace in Wonderland

    July 12th, 2011 | Gravitas News, News | jwilka

    Palace in wonderland Worlds of finance, technology, showbiz find common ground By VARIETY STAFF, VARIETY STAFF The worlds of finance, technology and showbiz are working to find a common language because the quickly-evolving digital world is creating multiple opportunities, but few clear business solutions. That was one of the conclusions at Variety’s Venture Capital & New Media [...]

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  • Spotlight: Jens Pulver: Driven

    Spotlight: Jens Pulver: Driven

    July 10th, 2011 | Spotlight | jwilka

    Extended Jens Pulver Interview Post-Screening Q&A Deleted Scene 1 Deleted Scene 2 Q&A with Gregory Bayne 1. Introduce yourself and your film. My name is Gregory Bayne, and I’m a filmmaker living and working in Boise, Idaho. My film, JENS PULVER | DRIVEN, is an intimate feature documentary about the legendary mixed martial arts champion, [...]

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    Variety: VOD distrib taps Miller

    July 1st, 2011 | Gravitas News, News | jwilka

    VOD distrib taps Miller Home entertainment vet to help VOD distrib By Dave McNary Gravitas Ventures, one of the industry’s leading VOD distributors, has hired Chad Miller as director of business development after a six-year stint at AT&T U-verse Television. Gravitas, which distribs more than 400 titles per year on a revenue-sharing basis, announced the [...]

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  • Wretches & Jabberers

    Wretches & Jabberers

    July 1st, 2011 | Documentary, Films | jwilka

    Two men with autism embark on a global quest to change prevailing attitudes about disability and intelligence Growing up, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, were presumed “retarded” and excluded from normal schooling. Now able to communicate by typing, Thresher and Bissonette put a new face on autism as they travel and meet with [...]

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  • Spotlight: Wretches & Jabberers

    Spotlight: Wretches & Jabberers

    July 1st, 2011 | Spotlight | jwilka

    A Filmmaker’s Journey Larry & Tracy On the Music Q&A with Gerardine Wurzburg 1. Introduce yourself and your film. My name is Gerardine Wurzburg and I am the director of Wretches & Jabberers. I am interested in the civil and human rights of people with different abilities (“disablities’), and how our society and other cultures [...]

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  • Jens Pulver: Driven

    Jens Pulver: Driven

    July 1st, 2011 | Documentary, Films | jwilka

    JENS PULVER | DRIVEN takes you behind the scenes for an emotional roller coaster ride that proves equally heartbreaking and inspirational as we follow legendary mixed martial arts champion, Jens Pulver, on his ‘last march’ toward a do or die comeback after suffering four losses in the cage.The result is an unprecedented in depth look [...]

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