Movies

As the producer behind hits such as The Ring and Mulholland Drive, Neal Edelstein is now trying his hand at experimental new media, kicking off with Haunting Melissa. Co-founded as a ‘next generation production’ company by Edelstein, Hooked Digital Media premiered Haunting Melissa last week, and is striving to “reinvent storytelling” for the digital age. Continue Reading →

The summer blockbusters are already hitting theaters, and if you’re sane, you’re going to go see them in an Imax theater. It’s the big screen, only bigger, and more awesome. Now, you can take the IMAGE MAXIMUM experience home with you—provided you’ve got the guap to buy one of Imax’s new pricey custom installs. If Continue Reading →

This is the time of the year when the TV networks show off the programs they’ll be running next fall, via glitzy invitation-only presentations for advertisers. But you can see what Jeff Bezos has in store for his viewers, right now, over at Amazon.com. And he wants to know what you think. As promised, Amazon Continue Reading →

On Wednesday at Disney’s CinemaCon presentation, the studio announced that beginning in 2015 we’ll see a new Star Wars movie every summer. The plan is to begin with Episode VII, written by Michael Arndt and directed by JJ Abrams, then alternate between standalone “spin-off” movies and new Episodes in the core storyline. We’ve known that Continue Reading →

The core of any good movie service is… good movies. We’re glad to hear, then, that Sky Movies has struck a years-long deal with UK outlet Entertainment Film Distributors to stream a large number of recent and back-catalog titles. The pact gives Sky access to Silver Linings Playbook and a slew of other notable movies Continue Reading →

  It‘s no exaggeration to say that since the heady days of the early 2000s, the rise of social media has forever changed the businesses of music, television, film and funny videos of animals wearing people clothes. Whereas in the past artists had to deal with the pesky vetting of an agent or publisher, now Continue Reading →

Want to buy a new song or video from iTunes even though you’re offline? A new Apple patent envisions a way, at least sometime down the road. Granted to Apple today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, the patent appropriately named “On-device offline purchases using credits” describes a system of using credits to purchase Continue Reading →

We all increasingly rely on non-verbal forms of communication—email, IM, texting—to let people know what’s going on in our lives. That’s great for us, but it’s causing headaches in Hollywood when it comes to creating drama. The problem is that TV and film have to remain topical to keep our attention, but it’s difficult to Continue Reading →

The company behind games ranging from Monkey Island and Grim Fandango to X-wing vs. TIE Fighter and Jedi Knight is effectively no more. Disney announced today that it is shutting down internal development of games through its LucasArts subsidiary. “After evaluating our position in the games market, we’ve decided to shift LucasArts from an internal Continue Reading →

Continuing its quest to sate subscribers’ appetites with a flow of original content, Netflix has announced a new original series, Sense8. Due in late 2014, it’s being developed by the Wachowskis of The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas and Speed Racer fame, as well as J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5. Details are Continue Reading →