Speaking of videos, the rise in interest in both video and video podcasts on the Internet is playing to the strengths of Los Angeles, in terms of the production talent and actors. There’s enough “latent talent” that has been attracted to Los Angeles, trying to get into Hollywood, that it’s much easier to find folks [...]
As the Writer’s Guild strike continues, one of the issues which has been coming up ishow writers might get paid for content which is re-broadcast on the Internet. Apparently, writers are unhappy that they receive no residuals when shows are re-broadcast on the Internet. Interestingly enough, the whole issue of clearances for new media is [...]
Rafat Ali at Paidcontent has the details here, dug up from an 8K filing. Movielink is the video-on-demand joint venture from MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and WB. The studios have invested an amazing $148M in the venture, and according to the financials they are losing a spectacular $10M on not even $2M in revenues for [...]
I dropped back again to Digital Hollywood in Santa Monica for a few hours Tuesday to sit into a few sessions. Despite the sign below (and a clear lack of parking anywhere within walking distance of the two hotels), I did get a chance to sit in on both a pitch session for companies looking [...]
I spent some time today at Digital Hollywood, which is being held today through Thursday at the Loews Santa Monica and Le Merigot hotel. It’s interesting, as much as there has been talk about a convergence between technology, venture capital, and Hollywood, how different the industries operate; as often as there are conferencing covering the [...]
Rafat Ali has an interesting post (and photo) of George Lucas and Chad Hurley at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad this morning. Apparently George Lucas was telling Chad and Steve of YouTube to donate money to film schools like USC. (George Lucas went to USC, and last year he donated $175M to [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
