Back in September, I sat down with filmmaker Jon Reiss to talk about his forthcoming book, Think Outside the Box Office: The Ultimate Guide...Read More
The folks at SXSW did a nice job plucking six minutes of highlights from a really jam-packed panel I moderated this past March. The panel fe...Read More
Wow: two hundred filmmakers made their way to USC on Saturday (braving a walkathon that encircled the campus) to talk about the future of fi...Read More
- Filmmaker Magazine this week published an interview I conducted with Peter Broderick at Sundance this year, talking about new approaches ...Read More
Here is the scary thing about talking about the new landscape of marketing and distribution at a film festival: The panels and presentations...Read More
I worked on a piece for Variety this week that intended to examine why no online destination has emerged specifically to serve up independe...Read More
Any sentient being would agree that you need to make free a part of your strategy these days: a free collection of behind-the-scenes footag...Read More
The NY Times covers the dispute between the studios and Redbox today. (Just to recap, the studios worry that dirt-cheap $1 rentals via kios...Read More
Perusing some reviews of the new Kodak Zi8 pocket video camera, I stumbled across this astonishingly honest one by S. Lakshmi: Got this Cam...Read More
Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times has an interesting take on why Disney paid $4 billion this week for Marvel Entertainment and its stable o...Read More
Lots of people remember this sorta bizarre prediction from Francis Ford Coppola about the democratization of film, when he says that cheap ...Read More
One topic I find myself discussing with all kinds of creative folks these days is how the Internet rewards authenticity. Even when the prod...Read More
One of the biggest questions circulating at DIY Days Philadelphia last Saturday was, how do you spur your fans to actually do something ? O...Read More
- Filmmaker and futurist John Ott has this very thought-provoking post on what would happen if theatrical screenings became the equivalent ...Read More