News that the top three films at the UK and Republic of Ireland Box Offfice ar all British is quite amazing. Check it out… Top 10 biggest films in the UK and Republic of Ireland in 2011 1 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – £73.09 million 2 – The King’s Speech [...]
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RELEASED JUST NOW… Watch Terry Gilliam’s new movie ONLY online… via Distrify
Today is a big day for online distribution pioneers Distrify – film legend Terry Gilliam has made a short and he is releasing on their platform. By now, it should be live and selling. You can rent and watch it right her, right now… That’s one of the GREAT things about Distrify. You can put [...]
DIY distribution nets millions for content creators
In the past few weeks there have been two stories of extraordinary success that should resonate with you as a filmmaker. In both cases, the creators earned in excess of a million dollars using the web as their shopfront. Earn A Million With Kindle Success Amanda Hocking had been writing novels for years, but had [...]
DIY Distribution For Shorts – Distrify, a live experiment…
My good friend and film maker Ed Dark has just launched the ‘Biggest Short Ever Made’ on Distrify. It’s called ‘Chasing Cotards’ and was shot on VistaVision and premiered last year on the MASSIVE Imax screen in Waterloo. I introduced the film at the premiere, and so I am privileged once more to announce the [...]
Will 2012 be the year that EVERYTHING changes for film makers? I think so…
I just sent out an email about my upcoming Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass, and it got me thinking more about 2012. And upon reflection, I am pretty sure that 2012 will be the year that the film business changes forever. Here are a few of my thoughts… Kodak may go bankrupt in 2012 It’s been [...]
iTunes and Shorts International Royalty Report… What’s the deal?
I thought I would share the recent sales report I got from iTunes via Network Ireland for my short Gone Fishing. The report landed on my desk around the same time as VFX expert Russ Wharton emailed me from his iPhone commenting that Gone Fishing is still charting VERY highly on iTunes shorts – when [...]
How to distribute your film… the book. Get it FREE!
We all know distribution is changing, but what is REALLY happening out there, opposed to the hyperbolae of the blogosphere and Twittersphere? My good friends Sheri Candler and Jon Reiss (interview I did here), teamed up with The Film Collaborative, to bring you a fully researched book on how film makers are distributing their films [...]
Distribute Your Film Online With Distrify, your personal VOD tool
A few months back I posted a series of blogs about DynamoPlayer, a cool way for me to rent my films or consumers online. You can read those original posts here and here. Soon after, I was contacted by a dynamic pair of Scotts film makers who had been beavering away at their own solution, [...]
Let Ted Hope and Christine Vachon, producers of over 53 features and over $197m at the US box office since 1986 show you the #1 way to attract financiers, distributors and A-list talent to your project!
Last Sunday was the very first American Independents Day, this year (which sold out) it was with producers and rockstars of American Indie film, Ted Hope and Christine Vachon… and the atmosphere ion the room was electric! Producer Mike Mindel (www.dontlethimin.com) has been good enough to share his extensive and detailed notes with us all [...]
Why Does Anyone NEED To Watch Your Film? DynamoPlayer After One Week… Thoughts, opinions and feedback…
So Gone Fishing has been available for one week on DynamoPlayer (click on stats image to the right for a bigger view). I thought I would share some of the comments that I have received via blog, email and other sites. On my blog and after the first post on Dynamoplayer last Monday, Mike Barnes [...]
Selling Your Film From Your Webpage With DynamoPlayer… How Did We Do In Our First Week?
So how have things played out after my first week with DynamoPlayer? As far as ‘Gone Fishing’, my Oscars shortlisted film goes, I have some actual statistics now. Yes these are skewed because of my blog entry last Monday, but nonetheless, they are real figures. Since Feb 19th when I actually built the site at [...]
Are you ‘selling’ your film or ‘offering’ it? DynamoPlayer, real world case study…
Over the last few days my blog has gone into overdrive with traffic about my post on DynamoPlayer, the new tool that allows film makers to stream and charge for their work. But how does it perform over time? I asked film maker Audrey Ewell to share her experiences. She has been selling her film [...]
More Important than YouTube, Canon 5D MkII and Vimeo..? Get Ready For A Film Makers GAMECHANGER in 2011…
Go on, Click the Play Button above… isn’t that a Game Changer? The last two years have seen more change in Indie film than ever before. There have been THREE major developments, First, the DSLR revolution and the Canon 5D MkII. This put high quality, low cost cameras into the hands of film makers. That [...]
Distribution in the UK
From guest blogger Leilani Holmes at the London Screenwriters Festival 2010 The DISTRIBUTION IN THE UK session with Peter Buckingham and Alex Stolz from the UK Film Council was based upon the factual research the UKFC have done into what motivates audiences to see a film, who watches what, and the things that are most profitable [...]
Sales and distribution are the problem for film makers in 2010
It’s always been the problem, and nothing has changed. When are these guys going to wake up in the 21st century? Of course this is a sweeping statement, not all distributors are the same… but it is largely true. Over the weekend I saw that London was plastered with posters for the ‘new’ season of [...]
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