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Katzenberg: ‘Bloom is Off the Rose’ for 3D
Jeffrey Katzenberg may be the Billy Graham of 3D. But not bad 3D. And he’s seen a lot of bad 3D movies recently. The studios’ greed for profit – charging premium prices for poor-quality 3D movies – has dampened the … Continue reading
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Are You Sure You Want to Friend Facebook?
The media business (and yes, since Facebook and Google put content on screens, they are part of it) is entering a Brave New World where marketers are learning with extraordinary specificity your occupation, state of health, social status, hobbies, favorite movies and music, sexual proclivities and practically every other piece of meaningful information about you. We are told that this will improve the rate of return on advertising by orders of magnitude, and I believe it.
But the downsides are potentially enormous, and haven’t been thought through. If information is power, we are handing power on an unprecedented scale to the people who control what we see and hear on those broadband pipes. When Barack Obama joked at Facebook last week that “I’m the guy who got Mark Zuckerberg to put on a coat and tie”, he was a lot closer to the truth of his position in the scheme of things than he realized. Continue reading
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How Not to Run a TV Network
If TV network executives spent as much time and money embracing new technologies as they do on lawyers to protect their turf, maybe they wouldn’t need Time Warner and Netflix to show them how to do their jobs. Continue reading
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Nintendo 3DS, Even If It Flops, is a Game Changer
Whether or not the Nintendo 3DS takes off, it represents a seminal moment for 3D. The game player — rolled out for the U.S. market at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco today — is the first mass market hand-held device that shows 3D images without glasses. A swarm of other 3D devices, mostly phones, is expected to hit the market over the next few years. Continue reading
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From ‘Avatar’ to ‘Tron’: Year 2 at 3D Creative Arts Awards
In an inevitable letdown from last year’s “Avatar”, Disney’s ”Tron: Legacy” took the live action feature film award at the second annual International 3D Society’s 3D Creative Arts Awards, helping Disney dominate this year’s show with five statuettes and a … Continue reading
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Deathly Web Hallows
While I sympathize with Warner Bros.’ concern about the half hour of “Harry Potter” that ended up on the Web, it’s hard to get too exercised about it. Even assuming the entire movie had ended up on the Internet, I seriously doubt that would have stopped anyone (my daughter and myself included) from lining up for the movie last night at midnight. Continue reading
One Vision, Different Conclusions
Microsoft’s James Baldwin and Paramount’s Chris Carey have similar visions for the future of entertainment. But they come to radically different conclusions. Both predict effortless sharing between connected TVs and any device with an Internet connection. Consumers will access anything they want, anytime, anywhere. But where Baldwin sees boundless opportunities for operators and technology providers, Carey sees doom and gloom. Pirates, says Paramount’s EVP for worldwide operations, are already having a field day. And it’s about to get much, much worse. Continue reading
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Porn’s lessons for the L.A. Times
The L.A. Times’ expose (sorry) of porn’s woes capsulizes the dilemma the Internet poses for all content: consumers are willing to settle for less-than-stellar products on the Internet rather than shell out money for higher production values in DVDs, CDs, etc. Continue reading
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This Time, Hollywood Will Get Hurt
This time, Hollywood’s getting hurt by the recession. “Production will fall significantly,” said D. Jeffrey Andrick, Managing Director of Continental Entertainment Capital, which arranged co-financing in September for independent film “Give ‘Em Hell, Malone” starring Thomas Jane and Ving Rhimes. “Deals that looked like they might come together a certain way, that relied on a certain equity source, have been paralyzed.” Continue reading
Real Networks’ DVD Gamble
It’s a measure of how Real Networks’ fortunes have changed in Hollywood that it would be willing to introduce a product today almost certain to attract the legal wrath of the biggest studios. RealDVD, a $30 software program, allows users … Continue reading