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Are Video Rental Stores Breathing Their Last Breath?

By Jonson Roth ⋅ February 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Recently, Apple announced their online movie rental service and I’m guessing a few video rental companies shook in their boots (not to mention, some movie studio execs). Whatever the industry feels about Steve Jobs and Apple stepping into yet another segment of entertainment (after iTunes), the fact is that a few previous video rental services […]

Green With Envy? Kim Cattrall Scores More for Sex+City Movie

By Astin Roth ⋅ November 21, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

While Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon are getting paid $2 mil apiece for their role in the currently-filming Sex and the City movie, Kim Cattrall is getting $6 mil. She was the lone holdout a couple of years ago, when the movie was on hold for various reasons. But Sarah Jessica Parker is taking the […]

Thanks for Stealing My Film

By Astin Roth ⋅ November 17, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

If you’ve ever partaken of a torrent site, you already know that some of the downloads are there illegally, and that technically you’re breaking the law. But guess what? There’s actually a filmmaker, Eric D. Wilkinson, who’s thanking pirates for downloading his film. That’s because the onilne piracy has apparently translated into sales for him. […]

Make Your Own Experimental Film

By Astin Roth ⋅ November 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald has a film called The Tracey Fragments, that showed at the recent TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). And if you decide you don’t like it, you can show McDonald how to make a better one. He’s put all the raw footage of the film up on The Tracey Fragments website [via […]

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