Archive for the ‘movies’ Category

I’ve been working with two entertainment properties and a media start-up the past couple of months and I wanted to share the business models I developed to explain where we’re heading.
Here’s what we already know:  pulling in an audience is tough but pulling in finance is tougher.
The Old Days
In the “old days” – as shown [...]

If you’re setting out on a new cross-media story adventure, in which you’ll explore the possibilities of music, video, gaming, and the web, consider the golden phrase filmmakers and theatre professionals have come to learn and live by …
Mise en scene
Though there is a vast array of various definitions as to what this phrase actually [...]

Paranormal Marketing

27, Oct 2009

A movie that scared Steven Spielberg so badly, he returned it to the office in a garbage bag, claiming it was haunted. Supposedly just after watching it at home, his bedroom door locked itself from the inside and he only escaped after calling a locksmith. Great story, isn’t it? But that’s just [...]

Credit to Culture Hacker friend .tiff for showcasing this flash adaptation of “Cavern of the Evil Wizard”. CotEW, if you don’t know, is the King’s Quest-style adventure game that confounds 12-year old Josh Baskin and his friend, Billy in the 1988 Penny Marshall directed Tom Hanks vehicle, Big. It’s a small detail, but, from a [...]

To celebrate Halloween, Roger Corman is presenting and Joe Dante is directing Splatter, which appears to be a three episode rock-themed horror miniseries where character deaths will be determined by viewer votes. It sure sounds like fun; especially considering the players involved. It’s great to see Dante keeping busy. He’s one of my favorite American [...]


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