YouTube earns families thousands

The 2007 YouTube clip that shows Charlie Davies-Carr biting older brother Harry’s finger. Source: Supplied FILM-makers swear by the adage never work with kids or animals. But home videos of giggling babies, adorable kittens and sneezing pandas are earning thousands for families on the internet. A 58-second clip of two young brothers has helped net their family more than $A156,000 after it was watched 386 million times. The unlikely world wide web sensation went viral on YouTube, earning the boys’ ...

Submited at Monday, November 14th, 2011 at 4:00 pm by samantha

Film Industry, Led By Electronic Delivery, Will Grow in Every Category Through 2015: Report (Exclusive)

The film industry domestically and worldwide will grow at a healthy clip through 2015 as Blu-ray and electronic-delivery make up for waning DVD sales and rentals, 3D helps box office revenue grow despite stagnant ticket sales and in-theater advertising comes into its own. In North America, the film industry should generate $40.8 billion in revenue this year and $50.3 billion in 2015. Globally, it should generate $88.8 billion this year and $113.1 billion in 2015, according to PwC.

Submited at Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 at 6:00 am by admin

Webby Awards to Be Streamed Live Monday on Facebook

The 15th annual Webby Awards will be streamed live on Facebook on Monday night. , star of the on-line series Web Therapy, will host the show from the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. She also will be responsible for ensuring the winners stick to the five-word-speech limit. The Webbys honor the ideal of the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising and media, on-line film and video, and mobile and apps. Kudrow herself is being honored with a Webby this year for ...

Submited at Monday, June 13th, 2011 at 6:00 am by Alina

‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ at 30

Image Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd. TM All Rights Reserved In 1975, Steven Spielberg invented the summer blockbuster with Jaws. Only two years later, George Lucas perfected it with Star Wars. And then, the two filmmakers combined their forces and beards to come up with an idea they thought would change movies forever: giant sharks in space. Then they quickly scrapped that idea in favor of Raiders of the Lost Ark, an action-adventure film that would resurrect the spectacle of early film ...

Submited at Sunday, June 12th, 2011 at 9:00 am by jessica

12 ‘As good as its trailer?’ movies

The Hype: Fearful of revealing any of his film’s twists, Alfred Hitchcock did not let Psycho’s stars do any prerelease press. Instead, previews featured Hitchcock himself giving a tour of the set. He also demanded that motion picture theatres follow a policy of disallowing any late admissions to the film. How’d It Rate: 10. Psycho features one of the great plot twists in film history, killing off its apparent heroine 40 minutes into the movie. The film defined a whole ...

Submited at Friday, June 10th, 2011 at 9:00 am by madison

‘CSI’: Laurence Fishburne to exit

Image Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS Another key member of the Las Vegas investigative team is stepping out from behind the yellow tape. EW has confirmed that Laurence Fishburne, who joined the show more than two years ago in an attempt to fill the void left by William Petersen, will not return to CSI this fall. Fishburne’s contract, like many of his co-stars, expired after the season 11 finale in May.

Submited at Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 at 9:00 am by madison

MTV Movie Awards: 2010 moments

In her first televised appearance post Bombshell McGee-gate, Sandra Bullock was characteristically humble while accepting the Generation Award from co-presenters Betty White, Bradley Cooper, and Scarlett Johansson. ”I’d like to thank Bradley for still calling me his friend, given that the only film he is ever been in that bombed was one that I made.” Bullock also declared she will be working again (”No matter what you might have seen or heard or read lately, I love what I do, ...

Submited at Sunday, June 5th, 2011 at 9:00 am by hilman

China on forefront of major film market growth

BEIJING – China is on the cusp of a golden era of growth, which will see it become the world’s second biggest film market and bring with it more market liberalization, a report by the China Film Association Research Center shows.The report is due for release in coming weeks and weighs in at a hefty 560,000 words, divided into an annual report, a special topic section and market research.As well as becoming the second biggest film market in the world, ...

Submited at Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 at 12:00 am by ethan

Book Review: To Be Sung Underwater

Fortysomething L.A. film editor Judith Whitman’s life seems like a model of modern bourgeois comfort. But she finds herself foundering in her work and her marriage — and increasingly drawn back to the formative love affair of her Nebraska youth. McNeal’s writing vacillates between Cormac McCarthy’s muscular, squinty-eyed prose style and a goopier Bridges of Madison County-esque romanticism; the transitions can be jarring. Eventually, though, To Be Sung Underwater finds its stride: Even if its characters are archetypes (the cornpone-wise ...

Submited at Thursday, May 26th, 2011 at 11:00 am by chuck

‘The Mechanic’ Beats Justin Bieber on DVD, Blu-ray Charts

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment scored a triple slam last week, as the R-rated crime actioner The Mechanic, a theatrical underperformer that grossed less than $30 million at the domestic box office, topped all three home video charts. The film bumped Paramount’s Justin Bieber: Never Say Never from the top spot on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart for the week ending May 22, even though Bieber fever remained strong: The concert film slipped to No. 2 but still managed ...

Submited at Thursday, May 26th, 2011 at 6:00 am by samantha