I love Harrison Ford, he sums up the underated hero, from Han Solo to Indiana Jones, Jack Ryan to Rick Deckard. He’s getting on in years it’s true (64 this year), but no one looks to be threatening his status as he returns in a new movie alongside Paul …
At the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google co-founder, Larry Page, put on a little presentation of what’s new for them. Something he mentioned was Google Video. To use Google’s own words:
Google Video is the world’s first open online video marketplace where you can search for, watch and …
One of the things Father Christmas brought me was a copy of Edward Jay Epstein’s book The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood (review in the not too distant future, hopefully — it’s a big book). I must confess that I’m fascinated with the …
My host has been having a few problems over the last week which has meant that, while the site was still up, I didn’t dare post any new content for fear it would be lost as they replaced faulty components and re-instated the sites from backup. All praise to …
This post comes courtesy of a pointer from Michael. He pointed me in the direction of a Boing Boing entry about the screeners for the BAFTAs. Screeners, for those who don’t know, are the what the studios send out to the people who will cast a deciding vote …
Some of the big guns have been making themselves known in preparation for summer 2006. Some old favourites and a lot of spin-offs flesh out the offerings. Aside from the Superman Returns, there’s the following:
Mission: Impossible III (aka M:I:III)
Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, fighting master criminals no …
Edward Jay Epstein has given his views on what we should see in the movie biz for 2006.
Boiled down they equate to:
Studios will move towards selling content straight to moviegoers online (based on the, as yet unproven, success of Google’s free wi-fi experiement).
Further collapsing video windows, meaning movies make it …
