Intel and Yahoo have partnered in the development of a hardware and software platform designed to meld television and the Internet.
Shane Meadows' new film is entirely funded by Eurostar and comes spiced with a few favourable references to the company's high-speed rail link between London and Paris. At the end of the film, it even takes a trip aboard the train itself and we are treated to a lustrous montage of Montmartre, the Eiffel Tower and the Jardin du Luxembourg. According to its makers, Somers Town is as much a pureblood Shane Meadows film as Dead Man's Shoes or This is England. But CNN describes it as "essentially an advert," while the Wikipedia entry defines it as a "covert advertising campaign."
"People should judge it by the fruits on the tree," Meadows told me when I spoke to him earlier this week. He argues that film-makers should always be prepared to hunt out new avenues of finance and stressing that taking money from a private company is not necessarily any more compromising than taking it from FilmFour or Pathe.
Considering that Azazel Jacobs, the director of Momma's Man, is the offspring of American avant-garde filmmaker extraordinaire Ken Jacobs, one would be forgiven for expecting his film to be more experimental and abstract than the seemingly conventional narrative that plays out. Yet buried beneath the poignant clutter of this occasionally familiar stunted-youth-in-life-transition tale is a surprisingly complex, elegantly detailed meditation on creativity and artistic growth. While Ken Jacobs may work with found footage, purposefully elongating time and reassembling it into tapestries of pointed Americana, his son has constructed a personal fiction film using the detritus of his own life: the downtown Manhattan loft where he grew up, the gadgets and tchotchkes strewn about it like cherished memories, and his parents themselves.
Richard Dutcher (above) didn't set out to become a filmmaking messiah. Before he became known as "the father of modern Latter-day Saint cinema," Dutcher was simply a writer-director-actor hustling for movie work in late '90s Los Angeles. That is, until the devout Mormon took stock of an underserved filmgoing community -- his own.
Beverly Hills is getting its own 3-D conference.
Former Hollywood Reporter topper Bob Dowling is organizing 3D Entertainment Summit, a conference exploring business strategies for the emerging digital 3-D market. Confab is skedded for Dec. 1-2 at the BevHilton.
DreamWorks Animation topper Jeffrey Katzenberg will introduce the event and kick it off with opening comments to attendees.
Conference will have three tracks: Technology, Content Production / Post Production and Playback and Distribution. Sessions will address feature films, vidgames and 3-D homevideo, which is expected to roll out this holiday season.
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