July 3rd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
My 2.5 year old daugher said to me this morning, ‘when I’m a big girl I want chewing gum and pills’.
My fear for her development and the effect she may have on any pre-approved babysitter and the fact my wife is 8 months gone with Untitled 2 means our Saturday nights are spent watching a film and eating sustainably sourced pizza’s from South Africa, or something like that.
Wife, who knows her way around a Google but thinks RSS is a whispered insult has taken it upon herself to subscribe to Love Film. People at the daytime social gatherings we attend also subscribe to Love Film.
3 weeks in and dismayed with Wife’s selection, I have decided to take control and duly logged in as her. Frankly if you’ve sat through The Family Stone you will know why I did this. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 28th 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Josh Catone adds succor to an idea I’ve been touting for a while about releasing a movie simultaneously via a BitTorrent client, on DVD and in the cinemas.
Current movie distribution divides movie watchers into two categories:
Cinema Goers
DVD Buyers/Renters
When in the fact there is a third, much maligned, much neglected but far larger audience mass:
The Digital User
Like the ex-Talent Agent Tech Zealot that I am, I’ve spent the past 4 years researching patterns and distribution volumes in online pirate movie distribution and the era of DVD-Rips.
This is a potential audience conservatively estimated at 80 million, give them an authorised film rather than a recorded cinema rip, give them additional content and charge them a nominal sum, say $5 per download and sit back and let them talk up your movie to their friends, the same friends who will be either Cinema Goers, DVDers, or Digital Users.
As Hulu and the BBC iPlayer record downloads north of 75 million so movie distribution must also face up to the fact ‘event users’ those who make a night of a trip to the cinema and look forward to a Nandos after the main feature, are a distinct user, not the totality.
UPDATE: Mininova will shortly record 5 billion downloads. That’s a big audience.
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