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Fill-In-The-Blank: Tuesday, April 11
Filed under: Documentary », Independent », Deals », Podcasts », Distribution », Movie Marketing », Remakes and Sequels », Fill-In-The-Blank », Cinematical Indie »
On today's episode of our brand-new daily news recap: My Space does something about Sex Addicts; Comcast does something *for* horror fanboys; and Hollywood pounces on Terri Sciavo. Remember: we're still looking for your ideas for a name for the show, so do your worst in the comments.
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Hosts
Karina Longworth
Editor
Randall Bennett
Music
Love as Laughter - I'm a
bee
Format
4:48, 40.5 MB, MPEG4 (iPod / PSP compatible)
Program
00:00 - MySpace says 'no' to 'Sex Addict'
01:35 - MovieTickets.com inks
deal with MySpace to sell tickets
01:49 - Comcast and Sony to launch horror flicks on-demand network
02:37 -
DeVito partners with Freeman's 'Clikstar' to run ignored documentaries
03:27 - Schwarzenegger 'won't be back' for
another 'Terminator'
03:54 - Rights to Terri Schiavo movie purchased
DeVito and ClickStar to Showcase Documentaries
Filed under: Documentary », Deals », Distribution », Newsstand »
Though he was hanging around ClickStar's press events as long ago as January, Danny
DeVito has just now signed a deal with the
company to create a documentary-only broadband channel called Jersey Docs. As Karina told us at the beginning of the
year, ClickStar is a Morgan
Freeman-Intel collaboration, dedicated to making "new...films available for download before (or, instead of)
premiering in theaters." In the case of DeVito's project, since his goal is to make documentaries that fail to
score distribution available to to the general public, it's going to be primarily instead of, though he does hope to
offer a few titles after their theatrical runs, as well.Starting this fall, the films chosen (DeVito will "provide artistic direction") by the Jersey Docs team will be available for download to either rent or own, depending on individual licensing agreements, for an as-yet undermined price. Interestingly, DeVito emphasized that the venture has goals beyond altruism, saying "It's not just a labor of love -- ClickStar will be making money for the filmmakers and for themselves." Clearly, his hope is that filmmakers will start to see Jersey Docs as a plausible first option in terms of exposure and profits, rather than a fall-back choice should distribution not work out.
Morgan Freeman, first download star
Filed under: Tech Stuff », Distribution »
Remember Clickstar? Adam told you about it six
months ago – it's Morgan Freeman's joint venture with Intel that proposed to make new, major films available for
download before (or, instead of) premiering in theaters. They announced this week at CES that they'll
distribute Ten Items or Less, directed by Brad Silberling and starring Freeman, online a few weeks after its theatrical release. The film was partially funded by
Intel in exchange for online distribution rights, but has yet to find a theatrical distributor. It's thought that major
studios are itchy about the idea of paying for a theatrical rollout on a film that will be available for legal download
shortly after its release. They better get used to it, because the Ten Items deal is, apparently, just the
beginning: according to Variety, Clickstar is
working on setting up deals with notable Hollywood talent, and as if to prove it, Intel CEO Paul Otellini was
joined on stage during his announcement by Tom Hanks (who has been
EVERYWHERE at CES, inexplicably) and Danny
DeVito.
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