A great article on how George Lucas has ruined Star Wars (via Kottke). I’ve been talking to a few of my friends about this of late. Not really Lucas-bashing in the same way, but certainly not looking kindly on his attempts at the new franchise. And it …
The first trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is up on Apple. It gives a nice taste of some of the main points from the book, but as GoF is much longer than the preceding novels, it remains to be seen how much they cut out. …
Is it me, or have the number of adverts in movies gone up of late? Product placement has long been a feature in films, a way for studios to help make some extra money to offset the expense of production, but usually it’s done in a very subtle way. …
The Captive Motion Picture Audience of America (CMPAA) is a society dedicated to combatting the growing trend of showing more and more adverts before a movie in cinemas.
They don’t seem to be the only people unhappy about this. There’s the Movie Theater Lawsuit Web Site, the Commercial Alert website …
Kottke has again pointed me in the direction of an interesting article, this time on the money wranglings behind Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore’s acclaimed documentary on the Bush administration’s handling of September 11th.
I don’t know how accurate it is, but it’s interesting if Moore did indeed make $21 million from …
As usual, it shows how little we actually give a toss about the critics and that studios are correct to put their faith in big name fanchises, named actors and lots of publicity. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stormed to top spot in both the UK and US …
The BBC has yet another interesting article on DVD piracy, this time concerning Pakistan. There are some big numbers quoted in this article:
According to the IFPI, Pakistani replication facilities are producing in excess of 230 million copies a year.
Given that the country’s local consumption is only about25 million discs, …
There have been a number of articles about the movie industry reducing the time between a film appearing in the cinema and being available on DVD of late. The reasons given tend to be cost (you spend less on advertising), piracy (it gives pirates less chance to get illegal copies …
