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Many of us get our indie fix via viral rentals. You may soon have more movies available to your queue with Red Envelope Entertainment casting its acquisition net. This is good news for fans AND filmmakers.
Liesl Copland, formerly of Cinetic Media, will head acqusitions.
Early buys include: Saint of 9/11, Sherrybaby, and This Filthy World.
The Netflix website says about it's distrbution wing: "This original content initiative creates a national distribution channel for films and entertainment programming otherwise not available to broad audiences. For more information, visit www.netflix.com."
Maybe this will do away with that negative label: Direct to DVD. Hey, maybe we can replace that label with: Direct to YouTube. Nice!
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These are great! Phone Booth altered self portraits of Michel Gondry (The Science of Sleep) that Jamie Stuart tempted from the busy director during a mid-Spetember meeting in NYC.
Check them out here.
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The technology is new, and so Red One's design is all about its future—ready for upgrades in both hardware and software.
Shooting on film is all about Depth of Field, which the Red One claims to hold with its 12-megapixel Mysterium CMOS sensor—boasting "12,065,000 pixels resolution that can only be called Ultra High Definition."
But the Red One doesn't come cheap at a MSRP of $17,500 with lens upgrade (RED 300mm focal length prime lens is $4,750) adding to that price, but, hey, this is still cheaper than true 35mm film.
I know, I know… there's nothing better than film. But Red One may quiet that proclamation—maybe just a little… and the watch is pretty cool, too.
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A spin off of the American Storage short, the feature will star Steve Carell and, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the story will focus on a man trying to save his failing storage facility business by leasing out the units as low-rent apartments.
I'm just hoping they keep the paintball bits!
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Smells like something big is coming. Buzz is perhaps a movie delivery service a la their successful music store.
My guess is this should launch sometime today.
