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Now, That's Useful: This iPhone App Can Tell You If a Festival Party is Good or Not
Finding the people you want and avoiding those you don't can make film-festival schmoozing can seem like an Olympic event. Here's the good and bad news: A new iPhone app promises to level the playing field.
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Miramax and Hulu to Bring "Pulp Fiction," "Good Will Hunting" & More to Your Screen
Streaming video site Hulu and Miramax announced a deal that would make hundreds of films from the Miramax library available to screen to the Hulu Plus paid subscription service. The deal will cycle fifteen films through the ad-supported free screening side of Hulu each month. Quentin Tarantino's "...
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Will Digital Distribution Save Foreign-Language Cinema? Depends Who You Ask.
Last week, Fox Home Entertainment gave a big vote of confidence to the digital future of foreign-language movies with the announcement of Fox World Cinema. The studio promises that the label will make available new films from around the world on DVD, video on demand and via digital download.
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Warner Brothers Buys Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has acquired Flixster, the movie application company with over 25 million worldwide users per month. The acquisition additionally includes purchase of review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Under the terms of the deal, both Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes "will continu...
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Weinstein Company Launches Video Game Label
The Weinstein Company has entered the video game world, announcing the launch of TWC Games. The label will work withThe Weinstein Company and Dimension Films' own properties (which include "Scream" and "Hellraiser"), in addition to working with external partners to develop and publish video games fo...
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The Grouponing of Hollywood: indieWIRE Runs The Numbers for "The Lincoln Lawyer"
Last week’s 48-hour Groupon/Fandango deal for Lionsgate Films’ “The Lincoln Lawyer” put Hollywood through a blitzkrieg grief cycle: Denial (Discounts on opening weekend?!), Anger (Lionsgate’s trying to buy the box office!), Bargaining (Maybe it’s really not that big a deal), Depression (“The Lincoln...
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Amazon Offers 5000 Streaming Movies & TV Shows Free to Prime Members
In a deal that will escalate the streaming video wars, Amazon Prime members now have free access to more than 5,000 streaming films and TV shows.
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The Santa Barbara Film Festival's Digital Cinderella Story
The discovery of the 2011 Santa Barbara Film Festival may have taken place before the first screening. It's the Lego-animated musicvideo “Megaphone,” which SBFF director Roger Durling adopted as the event's trailer for the year and illustrates the frustration of standing in line and discovering you ...
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Any movie on VOD: Distribber introduces flat-fee cable VOD
Here's the latest variation on hybrid distribution: cable VOD for a flat fee. Distribber and Brainstorm Media will give your film a cable VOD release and leave you with all rights and all revenue. The release doesn't specify the fee, but we hear it's around $10,000. More to come on how the the distr...
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Updated: SnagFilms gets $10 million in Funding -- and Bingham Ray
SnagFilms has received $10 million in a financing round led by venture capital firm New Enterprises Associates and Comcast Interactive Capital, the investment arm of cable operator Comcast. Joining SnagFIlms is industry veteran Bingham Ray, who will serve as a consultant for the company.
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