Just a brief update from War, Inc., which I recommended last week: their online viral marketing approach is working. They achieved the 2nd highest per screen average in the US (second only to Indiana Jones 4) by raking in over $50,000.00 last weekend at the box office.
This doesn’t totally surprise me – it is the [...]
My fellow geeks will know about Joss Whedon’s new TV show Dollhouse (you gotta be on Facebook to look at this constantly growing group of fans). For those of you who don’t: Joss Whedon, creator of cult show Buffy The Vampire Slayer, spin-off Angel and the sci-fi Western Firefly (the series and the movie) has [...]
Though this blog is a FilmTiki venture, I figured that it is perfectly fine to write about the kinds of films I like and want to spotlight every once in a while. And since we are all cinephiles here, I wanted to share my personal passion for this one with you.
One great thing about going [...]
I attended a panel on The Future of Distribution yesterday at the Canadian Pavilion, which mostly dealt with how distribution will look like in the near future. As we all know, the window system is eroding, and though I am a huge fan of going to the cinema, I am all for a release across [...]
I am almost on my way to Nice Airport to go to Paris tonight. Cannes was great – I almost feel like I am leaving too early because I could really be working around the clock here, meeting people from all aspects of the film industry and getting their insight and ideas to online promotion [...]
I had been to Cannes before, but not during the festival. After a couple of days I got into the rhythm, but it can be daunting for first timers, especially for independent filmmakers.
I talked to three young filmmakers from New Zealand yesterday, Marama, Joe and Josh. We had an inspiring conversation about self-distribution versus the [...]
In this early stage of our development I am talking to lots of filmmakers to get their input, here in Cannes as well as online and via skype – as you probably know. And in this process I keep hearing reoccurring questions about FilmTiki, so I thought we should put up a little bit more [...]
I’m off to Cannes tomorrow for a week, where I will be doing more research and talk to more filmmakers. I will be on my cell phone (+43 650 264 9624) and email as usual, if you are there and you want to get in touch with me.
I am planning to see a lot of [...]
Back from TriBeCa, we are in full development mode again. I met a lot of great filmmakers in New York, who have kindly agreed to help build FilmTiki by contributing to our development wiki. But how are we making use of this wiki and the information we gather? I’ll try to explain a bit…
Everything that [...]
Already! The TriBeCa Film Festival is almost over, and it was really good. I met a lot of new friends, who have so kindly agreed to be part of our development stage – thank you guys!
Today is the last day, and they will be screening the winning films. I am determined to see Let the [...]
On Tuesday I saw a panel discussion about Pangea day. Pangea day is an experiment that TED is organising. They have compiled 4 hours of short films, which they will be showing on May 10th online and via 100+ TV stations around the world. They want to get people to watch them collectively at home [...]
