People in the News: Nice work if you can get it: $20 mil a film
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The Associated Press reports that Julia Roberts tops The Hollywood Reporter&#39;s annual list of the highest-paid actresses with a $20-million-per-film paycheck.
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Why haggle over writer residuals when fresh content could make you unbelievably rich?
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We have some big news today for FlickrFan users, a major new source of high-def photography for the networked living room. They come from Agence France-Presse, one of the world's great news organizations, and a fantastic source of high-resolution news photography. I met with Agence France-Presse when I was in Paris in December, introduced them to FlickrFan and explained what we were doing with the Associated Press. They got excited, it took a little while to work out the technical details, but now we're ready to go. The updates are all out, here's the howto for FlickrFan users. Change #30: Agence France-Presse photos in FlickrFan. There were unique challenges in this project because their flow is huge. Yesterday we got over 3000 new photos. Because there are so many, I asked my friend Matt Mullenweg, if his company Automattic could help us out with server space and bandwidth, and he said yes. The AFP pictures are hosted on wordpress.com. Many thanks to Matt and his company for helping us out. To the extent we're bootstrapping a new use of the net, which I hope is what we're doing, Matt's company has made the kind of contribution we'd like to see more companies make. Usually the companies are happy to make the money, but not willing to help out with the bootstrap, which often costs money. Matt has always been a great guy and a visionary. I thank him and hope that FlickrFan users find an appropriate way to thank him too. And also, please consider the generosity of Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. We all hope that there's a market here, a way to monetize the flow of high-resolution photography to enrich and inform. Other content companies have been reluctant to take a chance on the Internet, we saw that in the early days of RSS and podcasting. I feel that these two media companies are playing the same pioneering role that the New York Times played with RSS 2.0 and NPR played in podcasting. Associated Press and Agence France-Presse deserve our respect and admiration for steping out, for going first, this is how new Internet activities get going. This is what we call market leadership, the real kind. Bravo!! And this couldn't come at a better time, with tomorrow being Super Tuesday here in the USA. Think of all the great photographs we're going to get in the next few days! Kevin Tofel helped test the feed over the weekend.
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DVD revenue is Hollywood's latest savior, but is there enough money for everybody?
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The road to riches can go through the eye of a needle.
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Description: The Dreamworks studio has had recent success with films like Shark Tale, which took in almost $50 million this weekend.
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One film old. A big film in the kitty. And now, a cool endorsement.
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If you want to make money go to where the people are paying.
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There seem to be enough current and planned movie projects about musicians to fill a jukebox.
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Microsoft, Blizzard lay down the law for people who want to make movies from videogame footage. And that's a good thing.
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Peter Jackson is money in the bank.
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Movie piracy costs the U.S. economy $20.5 billion per year in lost business, jobs, wages and taxes, according to a study released on Friday by the Institute for Policy Innovation, a Texas think tank.
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The logic? By cashiering 20 percent of its work force, the company will be better placed to expand its ad business and make new hires.
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Working for The Man may never have been an overpaid joy, but it has offered a decent way to make a living.
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The potential bid for Sir Richard Bransonâs Virgin Media could be worth more than $20 billion.
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âFierce People,â completed in 2004 and just being released, is the product of a business in which too many movies are vying for too few weekends.
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There is art, and there is money. The twain seldom meet. Or, to steal a line from David Thomson, author of the eminently useful reference work "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" (Knopf, 1,008 pages, &#36;22.95), just out in paperback, there is "Chinatown," and then there are "umpteen possible future 'Mission: Impossibles."'