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Virgin Media wins Film 4 HD exclusive
Bad news for Freeview HD The HD incarnation of “public service broadcaster” Channel 4’s Film 4 offering will only be available to paying Virgin Media customers, it has emerged.…
Continue reading »Avatar DVD Screener Leaks To BitTorrent
Avatar has been an enormous success. The film has broken nearly all records at the box-office, and together with The Hurt Locker it was last night’s big winner raking in nine Academy Award nominations. James Cameron and the rest of the Avatar crew probably cracked open a few bottles of Champagne to celebrate, but today they will wake up with a serious hangover.
Continue reading »Another “Love Guru” Uploader to Plead Guilty
Mischa Wynhausen, 31, of Irvine, CA agrees to plead guilty to one felony count of illegally uploading a screener copy of the comedy “The Love Guru.” Mischa Wynhausen, 31, of Irvine, California has agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of uploading a screener copy of “The Love Guru” to a website operated by a piracy group that made the movie widely available on the Internet. Facing 3 years in prison he decided to cooperate with authorities who then agreed to seek a lower sentence of three years probation instead. Wynhausen is the second person to plead guilty so far in connection with the case, joining Jack Yates, 28yo, of Porter Ranch, CA who last year was sentenced to 6 months in prison for his involvement.
Continue reading »Indie Filmmakers Use P2P to Reach Audience
Economic downturn has left many figuring out a way to cut out the middleman, to reach the audience without having to “spend so much money on advertising and promotion.” With Hollywood box office ticket sales on pace to shatter last year’s all-time record by a mind numbing 9%, it seems appropriate to mention why again P2P isn’t the monster the MPAA claims it is. For Indie filmmakers P2P has been a godsend in the current economic downturn, allowing them to bypass mainstream studios and directly connect with fans. “Releasing it for free is just good marketing,”Finnish filmmaker Timo Vuorensola told Time .
Continue reading »Brief: Science Center sued for rejecting anti-evolution film
Here we go again. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the California Science Center , an organization affiliated with the Smithsonian, is facing a lawsuit from a group called the American Freedom Alliance. The group planned to rent the Center’s IMAX theater in order to show a movie called “Darwin’s Dilemma,” which attacks the theory of evolution and promotes intelligent design.
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