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Digital Media Distribution Opportunities For The Film Industry
White Papers Technology advancements such as those in the upcoming release of the Windows Media platform (code-named 'Corona') are enabling new distribution opportunities for the film industry including online, on CDs and DVDs and in theaters.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Broadband Hollywood: Broadband Is Revolutionizing The Film Industry
White Papers The presenter of this webcast discusses the impact of digital media on filmmaking and the entertainment industry.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Harry Potter And The Interview Of Doom
Blog Would you be interested in talking about the film industry and the Internet? My interrogator decided that he wanted somewhere to record that would have some resonance with the film industry -- he did ask me if I knew anywhere that had some...
[July 4, 2007, 0:40]
UK Sets Up DVD Piracy Task Force
News The British film industry and the government have decided to set up a new body charged with tackling movie piracy, it was announced on Monday. The taskforce will be chaired by UK Film Council director Nigel Green and will include representatives...
[August 19, 2003, 11:20]
Hollywood's Lead Lobbyist Steps Back From Limelight
News Jack Valenti, whose soaring flights of rhetoric have defined Hollywood's voice in Washington, D.C.for two generations, is nearing the end of his post as the film industry's chief lobbyist. So whether you tell it by animation, digital technology or...
[June 23, 2004, 10:40]
Eidos Misses Film Opportunity
News Eidos, the interactive games publisher that owns the rights to Lara Croft, is missing out by not releasing a new game to coincide with the film based on its famous character, according to industry observers.
[June 15, 2001, 13:44]
Games On DVD - 99 Will Be A Good Christmas
News By Christmas high-street retailers' shelves should be bulging with DVD-blessed PCs ready to take on the new games and film titles promised for the fledgling format. The global DVD film market is split into regions: North America, Europe and the...
[May 17, 1999, 10:50]
Gaming Is More Than Child's Play
Leader Yet virtual sin has been good for the UK: according to a report commissioned last year, the interactive entertainment industry is doing better financially than the film and television industries. The organisation wants some of the proposed tax...
[January 27, 2006, 14:10]
Siggraph Audience Takes Sony To Task On DRM
News Your industry's argument for coding is to control the release dates of films from one country to the next, but it's still there on a 20- or 30-year-old film," one Siggraph attendee said. We (the film industry) are not smarter than the music...
[August 2, 2006, 10:10]
Entertainment Execs: Learning To Live With Piracy
News But this town, long a trendsetter in music and film, is still struggling how best to respond to the challenge posed by new Internet technologies that facilitate illegal digital downloads of CDs and movies.
[August 3, 2000, 13:49]
Film Studios Create New Standards Body
News Seven major US film studios said on Tuesday that they have joined forces to promote standards for digital cinema technology. The studios said that unlike traditional film, digital formats are not vulnerable to wear and tear.
[April 3, 2002, 15:32]
Hackers' Video Technology Goes Open Source
News But given the technology's history as a way of swapping copyrighted files online, Project Mayo's ambitions of ubiquity aren't necessarily good news for the film industry. The film industry isn't commenting on the open source project, but warns that...
[January 17, 2001, 9:42]
Photo Standard To Boost Print Options
News This is the kind of effort that needs to happen across the industry to make the consumer digital imaging experience as seamless as film is now," he said. Such a process is much closer to the film-based system consumers are familiar with than...
[June 18, 2002, 7:32]
High Tech Is The Latest Blockbuster
News Film industry executives taking part in another panel spoke in glowing terms of the new digital film editing tools that let them perform previously unimagined feats of technical wizardry, but said they're extremely wary of the potential for online...
[April 27, 1999, 8:25]
Marc Ambasna-Jones's Diary
News Working in IT has come a long way when someone in the film industry takes an interest in what you are doing. He's a film and TV producer and I hadn't seen him for ten years. So after digesting this amusing but slightly lacklustre piece of...
[November 15, 1997, 7:00]
Net Piracy Presents Paradox To Entertainers
News But behind the piracy brouhaha is the sense among some entertainment industry watchers that a little Net buzz -- even if it comes in the form of an entire first-run film being swiped and shown online -- is actually a good thing.
[August 2, 1999, 11:42]
Net Movies: Ready For Prime Time?
News Movielink's chief executive, Jim Ramos, said that the playing field is level for potential competitors: The film licenses are nonexclusive, and each movie studio's relationship with Movielink is publicly undisclosed.
[November 4, 2002, 14:39]
Box Office Hits Pirated Over Web
News MediaForce, a digital copyright enforcement company, said the top-pirated film on the Web for June was "Snatch", followed by "Pearl Harbor", "Traffic", "Tomb Raider", "Shrek", "The Matrix", "Gone in 60 Seconds", "Hannibal", "Gladiator" and "X-Men".
[July 11, 2001, 12:03]
No Return To IT's Ice Age
Leader A consortium of film companies, record labels and music publishers are claiming that peer-to-peer software makers are responsible for copyright infringements by their users. Famously, the same court declared twenty years ago that this was not the...
[March 29, 2005, 13:35]
Trend-spotters Blog To Stay At The Top
News In the last decade, average marketing costs for a Hollywood film have more than doubled to almost $35m m), according to the Motion Picture Association of America, but box-office attendance has continued to decline.
[November 16, 2005, 12:00]
