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02 Sep 2010 21:21

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Tech: Copyright owners use YouTube ads as a backdoor into ¢A$H

  • 2 billion views of YouTube videos with ads every single week
  • 14% the percentage of total weekly views on YouTube each week ad-supported videos make up – a small chunk, but definitely still a lot
  • 33% of those videos (or more) are clips which are copyright violations that the owners have chosen to make money from source
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25 Aug 2010 14:30

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Culture: Vanity Fair really thinks you should see “Scott Pilgrim” NOW

  • So, if the movies have been so bad — if, as we complain, there’s nothing good playing — why is a good movie having such a hard time finding an audience?
  • Vanity Fair writer John Lopez • Making an over-the-top plea for people to go see “Scott Pilgrim” in the theater. And he’s absolutely right. It’s a great movie that got the budget it deserved and a and it’s doing miser­able at the box office. “Scott Pilgrim was a risk, a gamble, a leap of faith,” Lopez writes. “The sad-but-true fact is that studios and their corpo­rate parents just don’t know how to do that, and when they do, you need to smack them upside the head with box-office success for them to under­stand the lesson.” source
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07 Aug 2010 22:53

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Culture: Will Ferrell: Meet a guy really desperate for another hit

His last movie, the huge-budgeted “Land of the Lost,” got completely upstaged by “The Hangover.” So, he needs “The Other Guys” to kill it at the box office. source
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01 Aug 2010 21:30

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Culture: “Inception” coasting its way into August atop box office

  • $27.5M the amount "Inception" made this weekend alone
  • three the number of new movies that tried to topple it this weekend
  • $193M the amount "Inception" has made in three weekends source
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30 Jul 2010 12:58

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Culture: Disney sells Miramax to someone other than the Weinsteins

  • $660 million to the Weinsteins' least favorite people source
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30 Jul 2010 02:38

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Biz, Tech: Netflix slowly but surely becoming a movie studio cash cow

  • 20
    million     the number of people who use Netflix, which has only been around about 12 years
  • 24
    million     the number of people who use Comcast, which has been around over 40 years
  • $9M the amount Netflix paid studios for streaming films in the second quarter of last year
  • $66M the amount Netflix spent on acquiring movies for its streaming service this past quarter
  • $116M the amount the company paid to movie studios for in the first six months of 2010 source
  • » A win-win relation­ship? While the relation­ship clearly favors the film studios at this point, the success of Netflix’s stream­ing model has proven fruit­ful, especially since it hasn’t come at a higher cost to the consumer. While Netflix has pushed more money into stream­ing distri­b­u­tion, they’ve had to put less into their DVD budgets, meaning that money is shift­ing from one platform to another. Oh, and it helps that they’ve nailed stream­ing movies better than anyone else. (Hat tip to Jeff Greco for finding this.)
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24 Jul 2010 12:04

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Culture: The Yes Men say “Yes, man!” to Bittorrent distribution of their film

  • The Yes Men are being sued over this action, and see P2P as the best and only way this mater­ial will get seen. They’re calling for it to be copied as far and wide as possible …
  • A note from VODO • Regard­ing The Yes Men’s use of their Bittor­rent distri­b­u­tion service to get their latest movie, “The Yes Men Fix the World,” out to the rest of the world. Why the need for Bittor­rent? Because they pretended to be members of the Chamber of Commerce, as per their status as well-known culture jammers. And the lawsuit is creat­ing legal headaches for them – which VODO will help them get around. source
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22 Jul 2010 10:53

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Culture: Disney: We need good ideas, so let borrow some from Pixar

  • If you want to get good ideas, why not talk to the Brain Trust?
  • Disney Presi­dent of Produc­tion Sean Bailey • Regard­ing the company’s increas­ing desire to work with Pixar on their own projects. Most recently, Disney brought Jason Segel and the rest of the cast of the upcom­ing Muppet movie reboot to Pixar headquar­ters for a table read. Disney also did something similar with “Tron: Legacy” a few months ago. Our question: Why didn’t they do this like twelve years ago, when it was already blind­ingly clear that Pixar had better ideas than Disney? (On a side note: A live-action Muppets reboot starring Jason Segel sounds like the smartest idea Disney has had in years.) source
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04 Jul 2010 17:59

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Culture: “Twilight: Eclipse” lures fewer teenage girls than “New Moon”

  • $165M the amount "Twilight: New Moon" took in its first five days
  • $173M the amount studio heads expected "Twilight Eclipse" to get
  • $162M the amount the film earned at the box office instead (tiny violin) source
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01 Jul 2010 10:43

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Culture: “Eclipse” eclipsed the last “Twilight” movie’s midnight showings

  • $30 million in early box office for the latest vampire tale source
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