TV/Film

The Dallas Buyer’s Club: How to monetize a BitTorrent release window

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Dallas Buyer’s Club have launched an innovative new digital business model in Australia that promises to turn around decreasing income for movies caused by declining cinema audiences and low VOD licensing fees. Rather than release their Oscar winning movie at the same time as in the United States the studio decided to wait a few [...]

Gogglebox, get me out of here!

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What’s the best way to capture the fading attention of TV audiences? The obvious answer is to force ‘D’ grade celebrities to eat spiders and swim with snakes and crocodiles in a five week frenzy of reality TV. Show it every night, rinse and repeat, add a generous dose of heightened enthusiasm and Bob’s your [...]

Forget Art Let’s Watch the Footy

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I attended a roundtable session today called ‘Content Crisis and Convergence’ run by QUT’s Centre for Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation. For me it was a blast from the past. Debates I hadn’t heard aired since 2007 seem to be back from the dead. Sadly we don’t seem to have moved on substantially. Self [...]

Tunnel to the Future?

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OK, I admit it, I downloaded a feature film on Bittorrent this week and watched it! Don't worry, I wasn't doing anything illegal. The Tunnel is a new Australian horror feature which was released via Bittorrent on the Vodo portal on May 19. The film has hit the news because of its low budget, the [...]

Age of Stupid

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Remember that amazing pair of documentaries 'McLibel' (1997, 2005) which told the inside story of the UK McDonald's libel trial? McLibel director Franny Armstrong has moved on from McDonalds to take aim at inaction on climate change in her new project 'Age of Stupid'.  It's part film and part internet-fueled activist campaign and will culminate in [...]

Streaming Live from The Reef

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Australian Director Andrew Traucki of Black Water fame is currently shooting his next low budget suspense feature The Reef. The crew have been shooting for 3 weeks on location in deep water and will be web streaming live from the set later this week: Thurs 5th November at 9:30am EST in Australia - put it [...]