Harvey Weinstein is officially back on top, having steered Meryl Streep to third Oscar win and The Artist to a near-sweep of the top categories at last night’s telecast. Peggy Noonan on the hit maker’s highs and lows—and how he bulldozed his way back to the top.
Wal-Mart is in discussions to provide an in-store service that will assist customers in registering DVDs they already own with the movie industry’s UltraViolet system, according to several people familiar with the matter.
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“Convert or die,” indeed. And that’s from someone representing theater owners.
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Reed Hastings, 51, the C.E.O. of Netflix, is bloody but only slightly bowed. When his company was at the pinnacle of success, just last summer, he refused my repeated requests to discuss his apparent business prowess. He claimed to be reticent about being interviewed, disdaining the limelight and the attention it brings to him and his family.More from Reed Hastings on Netflix’s Recent Rise and Fall | Business | Vanity Fair
A discussion with director David Fincher, title sequence creative director Tim Miller of Blur Studio, and type and poster designer Neil Kellerhouse of Kellerhouse, Inc.
With media splintering more each passing year, movie review aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have grown in popularity, regularly popping up in studio marketing materials and box office reporting.
Will Silicon Valley kill Hollywood? Based on recent developments, it seems much more likely that the two will converge, as professional-quality original programming makes its way onto the Internet.
Given that, and given that Pixar’s short directors are its farm team, I couldn’t pass up the chance to interview Casarosa: Jan Pinkava of Geri’s Game went on to co-direct possible-greatest-animated-film-ever Ratatouille; One Man Band’s Mark Andrews is directing the upcoming femin-epic Brave; Partly Cloudy’s Peter Sohn is codirecting Pixar’s top secret/money-printing dinosaur project; and Presto’s Doug Sweetland is directing The Familiars for Sony Animation.
CRM and video publisher Cinelan are working to bring original content from award-winning filmmakers to audiences via digital distribution.
99 Problems In Film Reinterprets Jay-Z’s Hit With Film Clips
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Will today’s typhoon of ones and zeroes rip away our analog past? Will there ever be a digital Dawson City, a stockpile of files of lost movies? It seems likely that digital projection has, in unintended and unexpected ways, put the history of film in jeopardy.
The Paranormal Activity creator talks about teaming with Steven Spielberg to produce a TV-based freakfest, The River.
