Category: Film
Why Barbie Isn’t the Biggest Movie Marketing Story This Week
This week every marketing publication is talking about the movie marketing for Barbie, celebrating their “dizzying array of partnerships” and all the memes, parodies and brand collabs. Many of them mention, but minimize, the importance of two significant facts: Of course, there are many ways to squander a huge marketing budget, but given the built-in advantages…
Animated Chart: The Smartphone Effect on the Camera Market
Have smartphones fully replaced cameras? This video charts 70 years of camera sales and how smartphones have affected the market. The post Animated Chart: The Smartphone Effect on the Camera Market appeared first on Visual Capitalist.
Splitting Ownership and Display/Consumption
This post is by Fred Wilson from AVC I wrote about NFTs last week and said this in that post: But when a party emerges online that anyone is invited to attend and the 500 person group picks up a punk with a party hat and they all change their social network avatar to this, well that…
An Industry Transformed: Four Emerging Trends in Film & TV
This post is by Sponsored Content from Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by Purely Streamonomics Four Emerging Trends in Film & TV In 2020, the Film & TV industry experienced unprecedented growth. Amidst the global pandemic, audience demand for streaming services surged, production spending grew, and TV series budgets reached all-time highs. The…
Wonder Dynamics raises $2.5M seed to equip indie filmmakers with AI-powered VFX
This post is by Devin Coldewey from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Practically every film production these days needs some kind of visual effects work, but independent creators often lack the cash or expertise to get that top-shelf CG. Wonder Dynamics, founded by VFX engineer Nikola Todorovic and actor Tye Sheridan, aims to use AI…
Funding Friday: Watch Now From Kickstarter
This post is by Fred Wilson from AVC My normal practice on Fridays is to post a Kickstarter project that I have backed that I think is interesting and that others might want to back. But today, I want to talk about Kickstarter’s Watch Now on iTunes offering. If you are like us and have…
Fellini, Scorsese and Me
This post is by Caterina Fake from Caterina.net Film snobs are down on Fellini, so I was glad to see him being defended by Martin Scorsese in Harper’s this month. I first became aware of Fellini-haters in this passage about the predilections of radio show host Madame Psychosis in Infinite Jest, which names the names…