Month: February 2010

YouTube’s new rentals service, which launched by offering five Sundance films for $3.99 each, drew just over a thousand paying customers nationally – not enough to shift traditional film distribution paradigms or overshadow Steve Jobs – but this humble beginning masks the opportunity for YouTube and for today’s aspiring independent screenwriters, directors and producers…

https://www.thewrap.com/blog-entry/can-internet-save-indie-film-14461

One by one, Hollywood studios are reluctantly doing business with Red Box and starting partnerships. (Fox and Universal still have lawsuits pending… Paramount and others have made deals.) The latest is Warner Bros…

https://www.deadline.com/hollywood/now-warner-bros-settles-with-redbox/

The ‘Mission: Impossible’ star is the latest actor to see his share of box-office receipts scaled back to reflect the film industry’s new economic realities…

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-cruise15-2010feb15,0,1129206.story

Once again, moviegoers showed that they wanted whatever Hollywood was giving them, no matter what critics were telling them about the 3 very different genre films that opened Friday through Monday. This turned into the highest grossing U.S. Presidents Weekend ever with a 4-day total estimated at $230 million, besting the previous record of $220M set last year.

https://www.deadline.com/hollywood/valentines-day-16-5m-friday-for-60m-weekend-percey-jackson-10-5m50m-wolfman-4-8m24m-dear-john-4-5m19m/

Despite James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ bragging, technique isn’t good for actors…

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35296151/ns/entertainment/

VUDU’s technology, which delivers access to movies and TV shows directly through television, allows customers with broadband access and an Internet ready or Blu-ray player to purchase movies without using a computer or cable/satellite service…

https://www.indiewire.com/article/walmart_to_buy_vudu/

It feels like every time you turn around, someone at Disney is trying to blow up the old model of doing business and replacing it with a snazzy new paradigm…

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/02/disney-still-bullish-on-becoming-hollywoods-biggest-brand-factory.html

Going back to mid-November, every number-one movie not called “Avatar” has been a chick flick

https://www.thewrap.com/article/chick-flix-14076

Pacificor has won the rights to the “Terminator” franchise following a five-hour bankruptcy auction on Monday night,…

https://www.thewrap.com/article/pacificor-buys-terminator-rights-295-million-14034