How American movies change when they are exported
Translation has always been interesting to me. It is interesting to me how something like a movies are translated. Even before making it to the theater the movie can be changed dramatically through translation. The name of the movie can reshape the expectation and focus of the movie for example. While not lingual, the movie poster can also be “translated” for a different audience.
Meryl Streep's It’s Complicated is an example of those two things happening at once. The result is that the Read more [...]
Warner Brothers want more people to pirate their new movies
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Warner Brothers will be delaying release on Netflix by four weeks. It is a silly move to try and squeeze more money out of consumers at a time when most consumers don't have lots of extra cash to spare.
From the article:
"Within the home entertainment category, we're creating different times at which a product is available at different prices," said Kevin Tsujihara, Warner Bros.' home entertainment president.
I place my bet on this being a total wash financially. Read more [...]
Should We Keep Letting the MPAA Fib
And an Ars Technica article points out that US box office doing its biggest year of business ever in 2007, growing 5.4 percent over 2006 and bringing in $9.63 billionSo the question is, how much longer are we going to let the MPAA concoct a "truth" that allows them to push new crappy laws that erode our freedoms? Read more [...]
I'm Gonna See This (Darjeeling Limited)
Looks like Wes Anderson is finally gonna remind me why I sometimes really want to go to the movies (even if the theaters treat customers like hardened criminals). The Darjeeling Limited is written by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman, and Anderson is the Director. Read more [...]
Ten Things I Hate About Comandments
The DVD-CCA (the folks is charge of DVD licensing) are trying to make it illegal to copy a DVD in anyway, in fact they don't even want people to playing a DVD movie without the DVD in the drive. Read more [...]
Write Your Movie Script this June
From the folks that brought you the National Novel Writing Month comes Script Frenzy. The import thing here are their five basic rules To be crowned an official Script Frenzy winner, you must write a script of at least 20,000 words and verify this word count on ScriptFrenzy.org. Read more [...]
The MPAA Might Need a Better Public Image
Looking at the news we can see that just recently movie studios came out saying that they want to impose heavier limits on iTunes store movies (there are already some pretty crappy restrictions), people have a good reason to think they are greedy. Read more [...]
