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New digital delivery services are not likely to supplant the DVD business. Instead, they will bring digital entertainment to people by adding either convenience or accessibility that complements what the "packaged goods" can provide.
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Watching a DVD title, you probably notice that the movie doesn't usually play right away.
A Quick Yet Surprisingly Thorough Overview of Desktop Video Editing
Jacques Barreau sees the need for a universal vocabulary that will help actors properly place their voices and attain the perfect voice that is needed for a job.
FROM CONCEPT TO CONTRACT!
While the strategies and specifics of marketing campaigns vary depending on the property, a direct-to-video production always provides several significant promotional benefits.
To make sense of the home entertainment market in the U.S., there were roughly 8,800 DVD titles (live-action and animation) released during 2004:
Nancy Cartwright discusses the most important issue in voice acting – finding your voice.
Scriptwriting is key, especially when writing for animation. Your premise doesn't have to glare out like a neon sign.
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Independent filmmakers will be pleased to learn that JVC has just announced the world’s first professional, affordable high-definition camcorder with true 24p capture and recording.
Shooting HIGH DEFINITION, you can now quickly share your work with others on the Internet. HDVxDV, a new FREE shareware application, will capture and convert high-definition video from an HDV camera (or deck) into any QuickTime video format.
HDTV: Beauty Is Skin-Deep
Published DVD products (including nwer formats) will rake in $76.5 billion worldwide in 2009, up from about $33 billion last year, In-Stat/MDR said Tuesday.
The Martin Scorsese film THE AVIATOR relied on independent visual effects artists using Adobe After Effects and Photoshop for more than 300 shots.
Someone once wrote that the ending was the most important part of any movie.
Q: What makes a great short film?
There’s a revolution underfoot!
Theatrical motion picture film always traveled through the projector at 24 frames per second.
Nearly every major studio now has a facility producing computer-generated feature films.
BERLIN, APRIL 1945: Hitler has retreated to a bunker. The enemy is getting closer. The Russian Army is closing a ring around Berlin.
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In the Spotlight this week is the HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL (HFF), celebrating its 9th anniversary and widely acknowledged as one of Hollywood's most exciting events for both independent and Hollywood film.
Here’s a great idea for a fantastic movie script: Bands of cyberpunks create new technology able to steal all the content ever produced by entertainment moguls.
A producer of over sixty movies and Spielberg's right hand lady, Kathleen Kennedy of the Kennedy Marshall Company is a true legend in the filmmaking world.
Every year thousands of people move to Los Angeles to pursue their dreams.
Independent Shorts are Making the Grade!
The worst cause of video disasters is bad planning -- not just during the Pre-production phase, but right through to the end of Post-production.
This is a short film that was made while teaching a video class. It was done to show the students how to tell a simple, compact story and shoot it efficently.
Making a video dub usedto be a simple thing.
MUSIC can make or break a movie.
Everyone is writing screenplays today and many good screenplay contests are available to the aspiring screenwriter.
When Pfc. Chase McCollough went home on leave in November, he brought a movie made by fellow soldiers in Iraq. He showed the video to his fiancee, family and friends.
THINGS TO COME was H.G. Welles' Sci-Fi classic vision of the future, The great visionary author also gave us "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds" (currently being re-made by Steven Spielberg). SEE Behind the Scenes of "War of the Worlds"
Strong black women at heart of Tyler Perry films
Asia is set to drive global media growth to 2008 and beyond, with China and India filling the two top spots, analysts have predicted.
Most independent filmmakers rely on shooting "on location" and a good location (or a bad one) can enhance or detract from your finished film.
Thanks to his two international hits, Hero and House Of Flying Daggers, Zhang Yimou is one of China's most high-profile directors. The particular style of martial art in these pictures, termed wushu, has cropped up in a number of US movies - most notably in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films.
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New York– March 14th, FANGORIA TV, the first television network aimed squarely at the millions of horror, supernatural and thriller fans in America, introduces the television debut of its first original episode "Ghost Stories EVP", it was announced today by the President of FANGORIA TV, Thomas DeFeo.
The most popular movie franchise in history is in the public domain and making Vampire films has become the most popular of the Horror movie genre.
The Nightmare Collection is set to be a series of DVD's that introduces the horror community to various new voices in the terror industry.
Making a movie, whether it be a :30 second commercial, or 4 hour Lord of the Rings epic, is metaphorically like building a house.
An animated horror show available on the net is in the process of becoming a feature film.
James R. Jaeger II writes that a movie is the best investment one can make for the up-side potential vs the risk. Films are better than real estate, blue chip stocks, gold, silver, gems, income-producing rental properties, futures, international currencies, better than anything, with the possible exception of investing in your own education and spiritual enlightenment.
Microbudget filmmakers should take a look at the films of M. Night Shyamalan: His films could be made for almost no money if you take out the name stars and do a little trimming in the scope of some scenes.
Which is more important to you, getting the movie seen or getting paid?
"Batman Begins" will be released to IMAX and conventional 35mm theatres on June 17, 2005. The film, with an all-star cast, explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham City.
ENTER YOUR SHORT FILM (2 to 7 minutes) IN THE TRIBECCA-AMAZON SHORT FILM CONTEST
StoryPIPE video download site was recently launched to deliver constant indie films and music videos by Internet, ZVUE handheld players, and dvd distribution.
Don't dismiss local Public & Cable Access TV as a means of showing and promoting your films.
A new Auction Offers a Part in an Irish Movie and Top Billing in Credits
Embracing the vast beauty of the world, STRAIGHT LINE is a movie about how lucky we are to be alive. It was directed by Sean Ackerman whose plan has always been to make this a festival film, and use the festival circuit to help establish himself as a talented filmmaker.
