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- Gigantic shows films online
indieWIRE reports that Gigantic Releasing has launched a new online distrubution service. Gigantic Digital will charge $2.99 for 3-days of online viewing of feature films day-and-date as well as free content from their library. The films will be ad-free and high quality, and possibly exclusive to this site, at least for some period of time… [more]
- In The Conversation with Ingrid Kopp
The Conversation is taking place in Berkeley, CA and Shooting People‘s Ingrid Kopp (among others) is covering it by blog and Twitter. Not sure how the 2-day discussion on “the future of the entertainment industry” can be streamed or downloaded quite yet- but if that isn’t an element of the event, there would be a fundamental disconnect… [more]
- Sundance drops Mediastile, filmmakers left in the lurch
In the “what can go wrong” department, indieWIRE reports about the end of Sundance’s relationship with Mediastile, Inc., the aggregator that was placing the festival’s licensed digital content on services such as iTunes, Netflix, and XBox LIVE. Mediastile has apparently been neglecting to pay any royalties for the content they’ve sold, which is the reason for Sundance’s dissolution of the partnership. As of now, it doesn’t look like filmmakers whose films were licensed through Mediastile will have much recourse, short of legal action (and unless they can take a class action, it is probably not worth it for… [more]
