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- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+52Coming soon: Google AdSense for movies.
Also coming soon: Google Adsense Blocker for movies. - tonicboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12This is great news. The sooner we can establish alternatives modes of distribution, the sooner we can break the studios' monopoly on movies.
- 12340987, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11how will he get paid? ads in the video file? I can "dig" it.
- pjh3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Unless you subscribe to Rogers and have your Bittorrent "traffic shaped" out of existence.
- JesseJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Maybe he does it for free? Like that Star Trek movie from Finland.
- davdav, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11beelz please do not reply to the top comment when your reply is totally irrelevant
attention whores. - YossarianDent, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@beelz:
If you had read the article before commenting, you'd know that it's a short; it's not going to be a full 20GB HD-DVD. - 12340987, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6another place said it was a short film. No feature length blockbuster that I was thinking. Oh well.
- wonginator1221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ marnaq
encrypted traffic is essentially randomness...
so far, (as we know), this cant be decrypted. Therefore it could also be your bills or passwords or anything else secure. The only way of limiting encrypted bit torrent is to limit everything. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I always hated that Cell Phones usually stay static on shows because of sponsorships. In real life, not everyone carries the same Nokia Whatever phone.
- loveandrockets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It was going to be released the same day on BitTorrent anyways.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Next film? Oh come on, a "short" is not a film as in "movie" as your headline suggests.
- datagod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I always wonder why Jack Bower (sp?) keeps the cell phone on RING mode, even when he is sneaking around in the dark, trying not to be spotteed...isn't that what they make buzz mode for?
If I were an evil marketer, I would make Jack's phone ring with a different ring tone every time....cocacola jingles, macdonald jingles, etc....commercials WITHIN a product placement...hehehe - pjh3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sure Geeks can get arround it with RC4, but what about the majority of internet users?
- happyfundave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I used to work at a movie theater when his movie 'Full Frontal' came out. More people walked out of this movie then i would have ever imagined. The movie would start half full (lets face it, opening day his movies don't fill up) and by the end there would MAYBE be 10 people left.
Then his movie Bubble was out in theaters and DVD on the same day, nobody saw it either way.
Now he is putting his movies out for free cause he hopes this way someone will watch his pretentious art house movies...but they wont - Disodium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2thats great and all but he better have some decent seeds set up to start it, i hate BT as the only way to distribute files
WoW patches can be very annoying, i'm paying these poeple to play and they are using my bandwidth to get their patches out? wtf but thats another story - TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love Ocean's Eleven and Twelve, so hopefully this won't dissapoint. Solaris wasn't too bad either, just very deep and confusing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5And short stories aren't really literature? GTFO.
- collapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Follow the links and you'll see that you've misspelled the title of the DVD Quarterly - it is spelled WHOLPHIN
- bash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wonginator1221: Encryptions CAN be broken; the RC4 cipher used in encrypting BT traffic is one of the weakest encryption ciphers out there. They chose it because it was just so darn fast.
But your point is still valid; because there's just so much encrypted data, ISPs will have a nightmare trying to decrypt and sort out BT traffic. - td4guy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3µTorrent, Azureus and BitComet (and soon KTorrent) have encryption support that will circumvent any BitTorrent traffic shaping.
- boredzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1On the other hand, in real life, nobody changes their phone every week.
- BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do you guys want to see more movies like Solaris and Traffic or more movies like Bubble?
Case closed! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1On a completely unrelated point to the article, Steven Soderbergh is what happens when an art student gets lots and lots of financing. I'm still undecided on whether or not this is a good thing, seeing as I enjoyed the movie Traffic, but don't particularly care for his self-conscious attempts at being rebeliously "artistic".
- datagod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The KEY is "Ad Placement".
Ever wonder why Brad Pitt smokes so much in every movie? Big Tobacco pays big bucks.
In the corner of Jerry Seinfeld's apartment sat a Mac computer. It may not have been placed their as a result of a sponsorship, but the effect is that every time I see a Seinfeld episode, I think of Apple. And that is even after they upgraded it to a PC!!
People will delete advertising from media released on the internet, which I disagree with. If the media companies are going to at least *try* bittorrent, we can meet them halfway and merely skip over the ads like usual....
But nobody is going to delete Jack Bower segments where he casually pulls his brand new 9mm browning out of its holder and s-l-o-w-l-y brings it past the camera....product placement....! Also, how many cellphones can 24 show?? - Genma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not sure about this one but he has other projects getting released through private distribution, maybe he'll be sharing the cost through those. too bad this blog doesn't have any good info. good to finally see someone trying different things, he did a simultaneous theater and dvd full length feature release for Bubble back in Jan. that supposedly took $5 mil the first weekend. couple links with some more info:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70795-0.html?tw=rss.index
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/soderbergh.html - skaughtm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well, if you think about it, CTU probably issues them a cell phone. certain departments might all use the same phone.
- skaughtm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1man, people walking out of movies means nothing (see: test screenings of fight club). and full frontal was an admitted flop. a guy like soderbergh, i would say, is allowed a couple of misses after making films like sex, lies, out of sight and traffic.
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think so. I don't know squat about films but its not easy to forget his name heh.
- skaughtm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i would say with traffic, he was the most "rebelliously artistic" as he flashed the film after each take. something quite dangerous and uncommon.
- redsrule2500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This season it's obvious that Motorola paid the cash on '24'. All I have seen is the Razr/V220
- tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1as long as it's better than Bubble...
- C00001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001752/
- C00001, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2beelz is wrong.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm an independent filmmaker.
Soderbergh is now my GOD. - Quakes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I don't even have the slightest idea who this guy is.
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Great. As soon as a majority uses encrypted BT-traffic, ISPs will start shape that traffic too.
- xodex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why not full on high def? 20gigs isn't alot anymore. alt.binaries.* :D
- kriminalintent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1HD-DVD is a hd disk format, not a type of hd file. Just because something is shot in Hd does not mean it will be release in that format. Short films run anywhere from 5-40 min and sometimes people can get by on just donations alone if they put out a good product people enjoy.
(Any motion picture can be called a film, no matter if its a full length or short.) - Madh2orat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5New from google! Google High Def ads! Complete 1080p picture! Who cares if its just text, it looks good.
- Xevallah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Are you kidding me? Bubble is a modern masterpiece. "Real film making" "Good movies cost money", you obviously have nothing to add to any discussion concerning film.
- screwedcork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0clearly, it's working, because all of you are noticing it.
- Xevallah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You should have articulated yourself better in the first post. You came off as someone who refused to watch anything with a budget under 50 million. Anyway, you're a film student. You should know not to dismiss films based on their Rotten Tomato rating. Bubble is amazing. Easily one of the best "indies" I've seen in a long time. And no, it doesn't involve whimsical Garden State *****. Check out this review: http://ruthlessreviews.com/movies/b/bubble.html
There is a large gap between low budget Soderbergh or Herzog and film student ***** like "Threat". Money helps, but artists will create art and hacks will create ***** no matter how much money you give them. Entertainment wise, I can%u2019t remember the last time I was actually entertained by an indie. Entertainment usually requires lots of guns, explosions, and robots but I%u2019ll save that for another thread.
Soderbergh is just compensating for Oceans 12 anyway. He shouldn%u2019t have to. His remake of Solaris easily bests Tarkovsky%u2019s and is, in my mind, the greatest science fiction ever put to film. I take a lot of slack for that in snobbish circles, but I don%u2019t care. As far as I understand it, the only reason he was able to make Solaris in the first place was for him and Clooney to agree on making Oceans 12.
Pound for point, television has arguably surpassed Hollywood in the past decade. Series vs Movies wise atleast. TV movies do indeed suck balls. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Isn't this guy the same guy who released both theater and DVD simultaneously for the movie "Bubble"? I remember reading many theaters refused to participate based on they thought sales would be low as people would just go out and buy/rent the movie (which is true, for me anyway)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1soderbergh is crap...
- mikesum32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Too bad his movies suck. Well, not all of them.
Anyone see Full Frontal ?
I want my 90 minutes back.
Julia Roberts sucks too. Brad Pitt was good though. - flipzmode, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Good link. Thanks!
- primitive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0soderbergh is at least taking a hit for the team and spending his time and money to test out alternative forms of distribution. this kind of public experimentation helps get industry a little more open to it and can help filmmakers be a little more creative and brave about how they think of their craft and business. this can be better for film fans in terms of breadth of quality films from indie filmmakers and less of that formulaic junk that passes through the studio greenlighting system (i know them, they are a bunch of suits in fancy euro shirts that have no clue what is quality and use spreadsheets to decide) and then into the "top 10 only" strategy of most theatre chains.
2929 Films, Landmark Theatres, and HDnet are all owned by Mark Cuban by the way. The disheveled owner of the Mavericks was also the founder of Broadcast.com. he's still chugging away... - bytemaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Or "Cactuses", from California.
http://www.cactusesmovie.com - marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Why are you watching shows you seemingly hate?
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