| Ask 411 Movies for 1.01.06: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:02:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | I was reading through a few old columns recently and found that I used to be much funnier. To distract you from that here is a picture of the world's luckiest dog. For Christmas swag I got on DVD Ocean's 12, some compilation DVDs of horror and gangster movies and television Christmas specials, "St. Elsewhere" season one, "Quantum Leap" season five, Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell III CD, John Wayne commemorative playing cards, new house slippers, some clothes, a new DVD rack, a new CD rack and I got a new computer as an early Christmas present from my parents back in the summer. My old computer was a Furbee with a lawnmower cord. I also sojourned to Best Buy. They were having a two for one on selected television DVD box sets. You know I couldn't resist. I picked up "The Boondocks" season 1 and "News Radio" seasons 1 and 2.... | |
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| | | The year the Internet called the shots | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:00:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | Twenty-three years after the birth of what became AOL, a decade after Yahoo's IPO, eight years after the dawn of Google, five years after the Time-Warner/AOL merger, a year after the founding of YouTube, all but the most calcified corners of the media world (what's black and white and read all over ... ) awoke to the fact that the Internet was not just at the doorstep, it had unpacked its bag, raided the liquor cabinet and taken the family for a joyride down to Baja. This was the year wishful thinking evaporated, and those media companies still standing began to seek anything that might see them through the deluge. And what a deluge it was. "Snakes on a Plane" In the beginning (that is, about 18 months ago), when Hollywood discovered that this darn Internet might be here to stay, its first reaction was, "What a great place to promote our movies!" Banner ads, promotional sites and the practice of flying bloggers to far-flung sets for up-close-and-personal kayak rides with A-list stars quickly became standard elements of the film marketer's tool kit.... | |
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| | | Orcon plans to deliver TV programmes over internet | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:05:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | Internet and phone company Orcon is planning to deliver programmes over the Internet via super-fast broadband to television sets, once Telecom opens its network to competitors next year. It has secured rights for a range of movies and 52 channels including comedy, sci-fi, music, weather, news and Korean and Japanese foreign language, The New Zealand Herald reported today. The programmes would be sent to a box for IPTV ? high-definition quality television delivered by broadband ? connected to customers' televisions. Orcon planned to price movies at about $1 each and television packages would be split between 25 channels a month for $25 and 52 channels for $30, compared to Sky's satellite entry-level packages of about $15 a week.... | |
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| | | Internet Videos Show Illegal Street Races In Utah | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:19:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | New home videos that have surfaced on the Internet may be proof that illegal street racing is a growing problem in Utah.With a recent surge in video games and movies featuring high-speed street racing, drivers across the country are taking the action to public streets. Some call it a sport. Police call it illegal.New videos, shot on Salt Lake's west side and posted on the Internet, is reason enough for authorities to be worried."It's on a public road, it's daytime so there is other people," Sgt. Randy Maurer of the West Valley Police Department said while watching a video and shaking his head. "It absolutely creates a danger to the public."In the past two weeks, illegal street racing along the Wasatch Front has sent at least three innocent bystanders to the hospital. Now, police are asking the public for help.... | |
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| | | Search Marketing and Social Media | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:04:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Search marketing expert Jim Hedger is one of the most prolific writers in the search sector with columns appearing in most of the SEM trade publications. He is now a Sr. Editor with Jayde-Online news sources SiteProNews and SEO-News.com and publishes on the SiteProNews Blog. Jim started his career in search engine optimization at StepForth Search Engine Placement where he worked until July 2006. In August 2006, Jim launched Markland Media, an Internet Marketing and Communications firm. View all articles by Jim Hedger .... | |
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| | | TVN Delivers MPEG-4 VOD Content | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:10:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | TVN Entertainment, a provider of on-demand programming, introduced an MPEG-4 video-on-demand offering for Internet-protocol-TV service providers Monday. The Burbank, Calif.-based company offers multiple categories of VOD content, including studio and independent movies, adult, and specialty VOD networks such as Kids Unlimited and the Karaoke Channel. .... | |
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| | | Lucas I Dont Want To Make Movies Anymore | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:17:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | Director GEORGE LUCAS wants to quit film-making to concentrate on more lucrative TV projects. The STAR WARS creator says making movies is too risky nowadays, because the average cost of shooting and marketing a blockbuster is now $200 million (GBP111 million), so he's steering his production company Lucasfilm towards TV and low-budget movies. Lucas also believes internet downloading is set to shake up the film industry, reports Empire magazine. He reveals, "We don't want to make movies, we're getting into television. The feature film thing is too expensive and it's too risky. For that same $200 million I can make 50 to 60 two-hour movies." He adds, "I don't think anyone's going to be in the (movie-going habit) anymore. Everything is going to be a matter of choice. I think that's going to be a huge revolution in the medium." However, Lucas isn't giving up his film career just yet - he's currently working on RED TAILS, a low-budget film about America's first black military airmen, and the fourth INDIANA JONES movie.... | |
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| | | (AFX UK Focus) 2006-10-31 10:02 GMT: JumpTV and GloboSat sign internet deal for three Indian channels | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:11:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | LONDON (AFX) - JumpTV Inc, the AIM-listed internet broadcaster of ethnic television, and broadcasting firm GloboSat Entertainment LLC said they have signed a deal on three Indian channels. The Hindi channels Sahara One (general entertainment), Sahara Samay (news), and Sahara Filmy (movies), for which GloboSat owns distribution rights, will be offered in certain territories on JumpTV's online television platform. Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, chief executive officer of JumpTV International, said: "Hindi is the fifth most spoken language in the world. The addition of these channels makes it easier for the millions of Hindi speaking people living outside South Asia to remain connected to the television programming they know and love from home." JumpTV now has 230 channels under license.... | |
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| | | Once upon a time in Montgomery County... | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:59:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | War. Terror. Nuclear proliferation. Dirty politics, potty-mouth movies and a steady stream of sewage on the Internet. As a parent, it can be hard to decide whether to toss the electronics out the window or just dig a head-sized hole in the sand. Unless you happen to believe in fairytales. In which case you’re in good company. Even before Olney Theatre Center rolls out ‘‘Cinderella" in mid-November, even before Round House mounts an adaptation of Saint-Exupery’s ‘‘The Little Prince" around the same time, before the ‘‘Nutcrackers" start their post-Thanksgiving parade of snowflakes and sugarplums, there are fairytales to celebrate right now on the stages of Montgomery County. ‘‘I think this goes along with our mission to do things that are traditional, but in a new way," says Kathryn Chase Bryer, director of ‘‘Sleeping Beauty: The Time Traveler" at Imagination Stage in Bethesda.... | |
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| | | Akamai: In the Broadband Internet Sweet Spot | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:00:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | Travis Johnson submits: As Google set a new all-time high Monday afternoon, my thoughts turned to one of the few companies in my portfolio that has significantly outperfomed Google: Akamai (AKAM), which will report earnings for the quarter on Thursday. (Coincidentally, I have advocated before that Google (GOOG) should buy Akamai. Instead they used part of their big pile of cash to pick up YouTube, which I think makes plenty of sense given the weakness of Google Video.) I don't have any idea whether AKAM or will meet or beat its numbers, though it's been folly to bet against them in the recent past. But I do know that the Street will be watching closely. Akamai is one of those extremely rapid growers that everyone seems simultaneously infatuated with and very nervous about.... | |
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